Trump administration plans to remove endangered gray wolf protections by end of year
The Trump administration plans to lift endangered species protections for gray wolves across most of the nation by the end of the year, the director of the Fish and Wildlife…
Read More...EPA office to focus on western lands cleanup, from the West
The EPA announced a new Colorado-based office that will oversee Western land cleanup. The Office of Mountains, Deserts, and Plains will focus especially on mining cleanup and will provide oversight,…
Read More...BLM looks to establish new wild horse and burro corrals in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah
The BLM has taken an additional step forward in implementing a strategy focused on removing excess wild horses and burros from federal rangelands. BLM announced yesterday that it has completed…
Read More...Great American Outdoors Act signed into law
President Trump on Tuesday signed the Great American Outdoors Act, which would provide $900 million annually in oil and gas revenues for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which helps…
Read More...Wildlife agencies float definition of ‘habitat’ in ESA
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service are proposing to define “habitat” in the Endangered Species Act for the first time, in response to a 2018 Supreme Court…
Read More...Wild horses home on the range
As of March 1, approximately 95,000 federally protected wild horses and burros were estimated to roam on BLM-managed public lands in the West — more than three and a half…
Read More...Federal regulators throw wrench into Klamath River dam-demolition plan
Federal regulators have thrown a significant curveball at a coalition that has been planning for years to demolish four massive hydroelectric dams on a river along the Oregon-California border in…
Read More...Service Completes Initial Review of Petition to List Dunes Sagebrush Lizard
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has completed its initial review of a petition to list the dunes sagebrush lizard under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Service has concluded…
Read More...Dems’ tree-planting plan highlights agency’s mixed mission
House Democrats have proposed planting trees on tens of millions of acres of land to help head off climate change. On federal land, though, the goal raises a question: How…
Read More...USDA announces more than 1.2 million acres accepted in recent signup for Conservation Reserve Program Grasslands
The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) today announced the acceptance of more than 1.2 million acres in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grasslands during the recent signup period that began…
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