Scientists fret potential loss of landscape-scale protections as oil, gas projects advance on habitat.
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Experts: Zinke’s sage grouse review plan a flop
Conservation participants criticize call for bird farming, claims of unheard western voices.
Posted inEnvironment
Bill would sell 694,200 acres of public land
H.R.621 introduced by Rep Jason Chaffetz targets about 4 percent of the BLM’s 17-million-acre holdings in the Equality State.
Posted inEnvironment
Cheney bill hits at heart of Western land battle
Her resolution would kill a federal land management rule and preserve the influence local communities have on Western federal lands.
Posted inEnvironment, Featured, Natural Resources, Policy, This Week, Uncategorized
Counties: Move on wilderness study areas
The state’s county commissioners plan to give Congress a Wyoming blueprint on whether more than 750,000 acres of roadless federal wilderness study areas should be preserved or reclassified, possibly for development. Commissioners are focused on making “long-term, locally driven decisions” about Wyoming’s 45 federal wilderness study areas, the director of the state commissioners’ association said. […]
