Tag: Bureau Of Land Management
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Colorado spots to cut down the perfect Christmas tree
‘Tis the season for hardcore Colorado Christmas revelers to chop down their own tree and haul it home along Interstate 70. Options include Bureau of Land Management land, U.S. Forest Service areas and local business to legally cut down Christmas trees in Colorado until Dec. 25. Metro Denver residents should anticipate at least a 90-minute…
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Trump taps ex-N.M. congressman to head BLM
Steve Pearce, a former Republican congressman from New Mexico and, until last December, the chair of the New Mexico Republican Party, is the latest nominee from the Trump administration to head the federal Bureau of Land Management. The BLM manages public lands, a critical issue for Colorado, where the federal government owns more than a…
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Rescission of Conservation and Landscape Health Rule| Rachel Gabel
The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to rescind the Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, which was issued as a final rule last May. The rule, which puts conservation at the same level as other multiple uses like recreation, mineral extraction, grazing, and energy development, came out of the Joe Biden administration and earned fierce…
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Millions of acres of Colorado public lands could be up for sale in Senate budget bill
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Some of Colorado’s most iconic public lands, including popular recreation areas, could be eligible for sale in the current version of Congress’s budget bill. The newest language requires the sale of 0.5% to 0.75% of U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management holdings in…
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From harsh rituals to hard-earned play, legends grow in this Colorado canyon
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save SAGUACHE COUNTY • Fields of crops and sage sprawl toward the Sangre de Cristo peaks in one direction, the San Juans in another, their wonders seemingly far away on this lonely, dusty stretch of U.S. 285. But here in the San Luis Valley, wonders tend…
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Long-dreamed trails expanding in western Colorado
An ambitious trail system years in the making is closer to complete in western Colorado. Gunnison Trails, the nonprofit spearheading the project, recently reported its latest success by extending South Rim Trail to the farthest reaches of the system around Signal Peak. Starting behind Western Colorado University, the singletrack network now spans east of the…
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Plan calls for more protection of scenic, recreation areas in large swath of Colorado
The Bureau of Land Management has released a plan to manage a vast mosaic of canyonlands, grasslands and mountains in southern, central and eastern Colorado. In the works for close to a decade, the plan is officially called the Eastern Colorado Resource Management Plan. “Eastern” might be deceiving; the focus area spans beyond the plains…
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‘World-class’ trail system breaks ground in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains
Early into Silverton Singletrack Society’s life nine years ago, some of the nonprofit founders gazed upon a mountain looming over their backyard party. That was Boulder Mountain, among the alpine backdrop of the remote town above 9,300 feet in southwest Colorado. Those mountain biking enthusiasts in the backyard envied a mountain facing south to the…
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Colorado has one Wild and Scenic waterway. Could this be the next?
Alongside photographers, Sinjin Eberle once found himself in a rather obscure part of Colorado that seemed to him in every way wild and scenic. The group started from the upper reaches of Deep Creek Canyon, from the same-named lake near 10,400 feet. From there, the stream harshly dropped more than 4,000 feet between soaring limestone…
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Judge weighs whether lawsuit can proceed alleging illegal mining in Garfield County
A federal judge is contemplating whether to allow Garfield County and a group of Glenwood Springs residents to proceed with their lawsuit against the federal agency that manages public lands, which allegedly has allowed illegal mining to occur for years at a quarry near the city. The Glenwood Springs Citizens’ Alliance first filed its complaint…