Press Releases

The Bureau of Land Management plans to conduct a prescribed burn this fall in the Beartrap Meadow area along Hazelton Road in southwest Johnson County.

The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming State Office held a competitive oil and gas lease sale, offering 4 parcels covering 159.38 acres in Wyoming.

Recreationists will still be able to access the Twin Creek Trail while Wyoming Game and Fish Department replace the siphon on Rock Creek.

The group modified more than 2 miles of barbed wire fence on Y U Bench, southeast of Cody, making it easier for the Carter Mountain pronghorn herd to travel between summer and winter ranges.

BLM initiated a 30-day public scoping period prior to preparing an environmental assessment (EA) regarding a wild horse gentling & adoption partnership held between BLM Wyoming and the Wyoming Department of Corrections.

Kemmerer and Pinedale FOs advise that the water systems at the Fontenelle Creek Campground in Lincoln County, Scab Creek & Warren Bridge Campgrounds in Sublette County will be winterized during the week of Sept. 25-26.

All of the offered wild horses and burros found new homes at the most recent BLM/Wyoming Honor Farm adoption. The highest bid was for 2-year-old Walker, who will be used to teach a college horsemanship course.

The Bureau of Land Management today announced the winners of the 2024 Rangeland Stewardship and Rangeland Innovations awards.

In an early celebration of National Public Lands Day, the Cody Field Office, local volunteers, the Northwest Wyoming OHV Alliance and the Shoshone Trails Coalition cleaned up the popular Red Lake area.

Important work on the Shoshone Lake Road has greatly improved this popular recreational access route west of Lander.

The BLM today announced its proposed roadmap for solar energy development on public lands, designed to expand efficient and environmentally responsible solar project permitting on public lands across the West.

The Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro program is working with Wyoming Mustang Association to sponsor Wyoming Mustang and Burros Days in Wheatland on Aug. 24-25.

The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming state office today released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP) and Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Rock Springs Field Office.

Events will be held September 7, 14, 20 and 28. Trained and untrained animals will be offered to qualified adopters for a $125 minimum fee.

From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, local re-enactment group, The Platte Bridge Company, will be at the Trails Center to showcase life on the frontier.

BLM works on controlling erosion in the Greater LaBarge Restoration Landscape.

In lieu of an in-person meeting, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Pinedale Field Office has made Pinedale Anticline Project Area planning updates available online.

BLM and local weed and pest districts will aerially spray cheatgrass in Bighorn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Park and Washakie counties through mid-September.

BLM utilizes Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) to collect resource information on public lands in Wyoming's two Restoration Landscapes, LaBarge and Muddy Creek.

BLM is seeking public comment on the draft environmental impact statement for the proposed Dry Creek Trona Mine south of Green River in Sweetwater County. The comment period will close September 23, 2024.

The Bureau of Land Management High Desert District (HDD) is requesting public comment on the Vegetation Management using Herbicides on Public Lands Environmental Assessment (DOI-BLM-WY-D000-2024-0001-EA).

BLM is partnering in a collaborative stream restoration project with three youth crews.

Utilizing funds made available by the Inflation Reduction Act, the BLM Wyoming partnered with Trout Unlimited and Wyoming Conservation Corps to restore landscape in the southwestern part of the state.

Visit the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center August 10 and 11 for an exciting weekend featuring blacksmithing demonstrations and a civilian living history encampment

BLM announced fence conversion work at the JO ranch in June. The work has now been completed.