Tag: Bureau Of Land Management
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White House proposes mineral withdrawal at Thompson Divide
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced plans to shield roughly 225,000 acres of public land in western Colorado from new mining leases for 20 years. The proposal places Thompson Divide, which boasts of prodigious elk herds and headwaters to some of the best fishing grounds in Colorado, under a hiatus on new mining and drilling…
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Oil & gas leasing practice eliminated by Hickenlooper bill
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal-lands leasing practice critics say allows oil and gas companies to unfairly gain control of publicly owned mineral resources was eliminated by a bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper that was included in President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act that became law Tuesday.…
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Son of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack appointed as BLM Colorado State Director
Doug Vilsack, son of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, was appointed as the new Colorado State Director of the Bureau of Land Management Wednesday. Vilsack, the current assistant director for Colorado parks, wildlife and lands with the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, will begin work Aug. 14 at the state BLM offices in Lakewood.…
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Added land a ‘treasure’ in western Colorado red rock country
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Conservationists are celebrating land recently acquired in red-rock country of western Colorado. The 160-acre addition to Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area is small in the grand scope of the 209,000-plus preserve spanning the Uncompahgre Plateau between…
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Wild and Free: Where to see wild horses in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As a child in upstate New York in the 1950s, Marty Felix relished Sunday drives through the country with her dad. “Take us by some horses,” went her request. “I was a horse-loving girl,” she says. And so she remained, all the way through college…
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Colorado’s Paradise Cove getting new payment option
Fees will be accepted in a new way this summer at Guffey Gorge, the popular swimming hole in Park County also known as Paradise Cove. While the drop box option will remain, “we’ve gotten a lot of feedback over the years that not everyone carries $6 cash anymore,” said Kalem Lenard, who oversees the scenic…
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5,276 acres in Colorado to be leased for oil, gas extraction
The Bureau of Land Management is opening up 5,276 acres of federal land for oil and gas extraction in Colorado. The nine parcels lie in Jackson, Moffat, Rio Blanco and Weld counties. Other than a 120-acre parcel 14 miles east of Eaton in Weld County, they are all in northwest Colorado in areas where drillers…
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INSIGHTS | BLM lost diversity coming to Colorado, others shouldn’t follow
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Diversity was never Grand Junction’s long suit. We knew that two years ago, but nobody wanted to say anything when the Trump administration moved the headquarters for the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado. That was a daisy. The agency controls more than 245 million…
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Evacuations lifted for Vosburg Pike Fire near Durango; fire 75% contained
A wildfire sparked just east of Durango on Wednesday evening, burning 70 acres as of Thursday morning. The fire is 75% contained. The Vosburg Pike Fire was first reported on Rabbit Mountain on Bureau of Land Management property between Durango and Bayfield, according to the bureau. It is burning in La Plata County between County…
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Long-sought mountain biking trail opens in Colorado
Colorado mountain bikers are getting a taste of the state’s most anticipated trail in years. The first section of Palisade Plunge has opened — a 17-mile stretch of singletrack traversing the wooded flanks of the Grand Mesa to the town of Palisade. Final work continues on the upper portion of the trail; a Bureau of…