October 19, 2017 BLM offers ‘flexible’ grazing permits, hoping to improve range conditions The Bureau of Land Management is taking applications from Western states to test outcome-based grazing, which enables ranchers to manage according to current conditions…
October 18, 2017 This Colorado wild horse herd enjoys great prospects, but is an exception to the rule Decades ago, ranchers with allotments in the area voluntarily withdrew their herds so the horses would have no feeding competition from cattle or sheep….
October 9, 2017 Video: Wild horses suffer and starve without effective management Heartbreaking, painful to watch, but real and getting worse, the suffering of wild horses in some BLM management areas is at crisis levels, and…
October 6, 2017 BLM reverses Obama-era mineral leasing ban on 10 million acres in West “The proposal to withdraw 10 million acres to prevent (only) 10,000 from potential mineral development was a complete overreach.” ~Acting BLM Director, Mike Nedd…
September 30, 2017 Growing wild horse population may imperil Utah’s sage grouse Those declining numbers, says BLM spokeswoman Lisa Reid, put the agency in conflict with its own sage grouse management directives intended to boost the…
September 27, 2017 Interior official cites Dan Love firing in cautionary memo to senior personnel “We will hold people accountable when we are informed that they have failed in their duties and obligations,” Bernhardt wrote. “Although the law in…
September 27, 2017 Wild Horses in Crisis: Photos from the Rangeland Many special interest groups lay blame on the presence of other livestock on the range for its depletion. But in some of the cases…
September 18, 2017 Key BLM figure in Bundy Ranch raid, Dan Love, fired for corruption, theft Although the firing comes as no surprise to those who have followed reports of Love’s overreaching, corrupt, and often criminal conduct during his years…
September 15, 2017 New Mexico county suffers while BLM stalls drilling permits The BLM had 2,802 such applications pending as of Jan. 31, 152 in the Farmington office. Each applicant paid a nonrefundable $9,610 processing fee…
August 29, 2017 Synopsis of Dan Love’s criminal activities laid out in OIG report The subordinate told us he felt morally wrong about deleting the emails, but he did not discuss his feelings with the senior manager. He…
