Public Lands

WASHINGTON – The Bureau of Land Management has started testing a  new fertility control vaccine that could help address the growing overpopulation of wild horses on public rangelands. Researchers believe…

WASHINGTON – The Senate advanced the Great American Outdoors Act this week to address the maintenance backlog on national parks and public lands. However, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA),…

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ (FWP) Public Access Land Agreements (PALA) program seeks to open or improve free public access to isolated parcels of state or federal land for hunting…

Grizzly bears never appear to be very far from a lawsuit. Last week, a lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington by the Center for Biological Diversity and…

A proposal by the Bureau of Land Management to remove more than 1,700 wild horses from a herd management area in Nevada has been upheld in Federal court. Chief Judge…

(BILLINGS, Mont.) – The BLM Montana-Dakotas Region is seeking public nominations for four Resource Advisory Councils (RACs). These citizen-based committees assist in the development of recommendations that address public land management…

WASHINGTON – The Bureau of Land Management has published a Notice of Intent in the Federal Register to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement to consider proposed revisions to the agency’s…

By William Perry Pendley, BLM Deputy Director, Policy and Programs, Exercising the Authority of the Director   Ever since I joined the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in mid-July, things…

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that it reached a significant milestone by placing 7,104 wild horses and burros into private homes nationwide during Fiscal Year 2019 (which ended…

WASHINGTON (Oct. 16, 2019) – Today, Judge B. Lynn Winmill of the U.S. District Court in Idaho, granted a preliminary injunction requested by several wildlife conservation groups to prevent amendments…