Press Releases

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Idaho

BLM Offers Tips for This Memorial Day Weekend

A wide range of recreational opportunities abounds for individuals of all ages and interests in Idaho.

California

BLM Revises Meeting Locations and Times for Rasor Off-Highway Vehicle Area Tours

MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - Due to anticipated high he

Nevada

Prison Trained Horses for Adoption on June 11

The Bureau of Land Management and the Nevada Department of Corrections - Silver State Industries are hosting a saddle and halter-trained wild horse and burro adoption event on Saturday, June 11 at

Montana-Dakotas

BLM seeks comments on oil and gas lease parcels

The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on eight parcels located in Phillips, Toole, Liberty, Choteau, Hill, Glacier, Valley, Bighorn and Sheridan counties in Montana that are bein

California

Meeting Scheduled for Northwest California Integrated Resource Management Plan

ARCATA, Calif. – Anyone interested in public lands in Humboldt, Mendocino, Shasta, Trinity, Siskiyou, Butte and Tehama counties has an opportunity to share with the Bureau of

California

Northern California District Resource Advisory Council Subgroup Meeting Postponed

REDDING, Calif. – The Bureau of Land Management's Northern California District Resource Advisory Council's June 23rd Video Television Conference subgroup meeting has been post

California

BLM, Partners will host Day of Hiking and Canoeing at Cosumnes River Preserve, Sunday, May 22

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in partnership with Latino Outdoors, –San Joaquin/Central Valley Region and Sacramento Region, Northern Californi

Idaho

BLM Releases Proposed Plan Amendment for Domestic Sheep Grazing and Final Supplemental EIS

COTTONWOOD, ID – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released the Proposed Cottonwood Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment for Domestic Sheep Grazing and Final Supplemental Environmental Im

Idaho

Swinging Bridge over Big Wood River Deemed Unsafe

SHOSHONE, ID – A broken cable has rendered BLM’s historic swinging Sheep Bridge unsafe for both foot and livestock traffic.

California

Agencies Release Study of 'West-Wide' Energy Corridors

WASHINGTON – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S.

Nevada

Paved Road and Contact Station Now Open at Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area

Las Vegas – Today, BLM Southern Nevada District announced the grand opening of Nawghaw Poa Road and the visitor contact station at Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area

California

Lassen County Students Enjoy Fun in the Forest and Day in the Desert

SUSANVILLE, Calif. – The month of April was filled with outdoor fun for fourth and fifth-grade students in Lassen County.

Colorado

BLM seeks comments on parcels offered in November oil and gas lease sale

The Bureau of Land Management is accepting public comments on its proposal to lease 35 parcels totaling 25,000 acres in the Royal Gorge, Grand Junction, Colorado River Valley and Tres Rios field of

California

Public Invited to Comment on Draft Dog Management Plan on Fort Ord National Monument

MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is taking public comments until June 13 on a draft plan that covers dog use on the Fort Ord National Monument.

California

Public Invited to Rasor Off-Highway Vehicle Area Tour and Comment

MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Barstow Field Office, has scheduled three tour rides of the Rasor Road Off-Highway Vehicle Area OHV area to identi

California

BLM Desert Advisory Council to Meet in Barstow

BARSTOW, Calif. - The next field trip and meeting of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) California Desert Advisory Council (DAC) will be held May 20-21, 2016 in Barstow, Ca

National Office

BLM Gathering Public Input on Coal Program at Six Public Meetings

As the next step in the Department of the Interior's comprehensive review of the federal coal program, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will solicit public input at six public meetings starting

Colorado

BLM Grand Junction employee Named BLM Ranger of the Year

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – The Bureau of Land Management Ranger of the Year for 2015 works in the Grand Junction Field Office.

Colorado

BLM oil and gas lease sale nets $5 million

Yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Office sold six parcels totaling 6,960 acres for $5,222,672.50 including rentals and fees at its quarterly oil and gas lease sale.

Idaho

BLM Proposes Ambitious Fuel Break Network in Soda Fire Area

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comment on a plan to build a network of fuel breaks spanning 400 miles in the Soda Fire burn.  Although some of this work has already star

Wyoming

BLM Takes Key Step in Finishing Review of Gateway South Transmission Line

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today released its proposed Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Proposed Land Use Plan Amendments (LUPAs) that analyses the effects of building a plan

Colorado

Groundwater testing to begin at Park County Landfill on May 16

CANON CITY, Colo.

California

BLM Signs Partnership Agreement with Amah Mutsun Land Trust

On Thursday, May 26, 2 p.m.

California

Wild Horses and Burros on Public Rangelands Now 2.5 Times Greater than 1971 when Protection Law Was Passed

BLM seeks to expand initiatives to address problems with new legislative authority