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10 Most Recent BLM Related Posts

Making the Rules - exclude grazing permits & oil and gas exploration from NEPA review

Enviros decry BLM proposal to categorically exclude grazing permits & oil and gas exploration from NEPA review - Otero Mesa could be impacted by proposed BLM changes
3/8/2006

BLM delays new rules, will conduct supplemental EIS

The Bureau of Land Management said yesterday it would prepare a supplemental environmental impact study before releasing a final rule affecting 160 million acres of grazing land
8/10/2005

BLM to waste time and taxpayers dollars on Supplemental EIS for New Regulation that ignore science

Today Forest Guardians decried the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) announcement “that it will prepare a supplement to the final Environmental Impact Statement on proposed changes to its grazing regulations.”
8/9/2005

Forest Guardians wins Lawsuit to Obtain Data on BLM Grazing Permits used as Collateral for Bank Loans -10th Circuit Court of Appeals reverses lower Court Ruling Denying FOIA Fee Waiver

Forest Guardians claims the lienholder policy has made banks a silent player in the subsidized destruction of western public lands, and is calling on the BLM to cancel the policy.
7/27/2005

BLM Agrees to Resolve Drilling Issues on Otero Mesa - New Lease Schedule Comes as Sen. Bingaman Asks for Further Study of Grassland’s Extensive Groundwater

The new leasing schedule, and the potential for further study of the aquifer, mean Otero Mesa might yet receive adequate protection..
7/20/2005

BLM’s Green Rhetoric Meaningless in Otero Mesa Leasing - Agency Disregards New Mexicans’ Call to Halt Oil and Gas Development

The New Mexico Bureau of Land Management's drilling plan for Otero Mesa inadequately addresses potential environmental impacts and pending litigation, ignores public input, and directly contradicts BLM's commitment to best practices
7/13/2005

Multiple Use Conflict Resolution Act of 2005 - HR3166

This bill provides compensation to livestock operators who voluntarily relinquish a grazing permit or lease on Federal lands where conflicts with other multiple uses render livestock grazing impractical, and for other purposes.
6/30/2005

Editorial - Faked grazing report should outrage Republicans

No one should be surprised at this administration’s mendacious tactics for erasing rules against the overgrazing of the American West
6/26/2005

The Bush administration altered critical portions of a scientific analysis of the environmental impact of cattle grazing on public lands

The original draft of the environmental analysis warned that the new rules would have a "significant adverse impact" on wildlife, but that phrase was removed. The bureau now concludes that the grazing regulations are "beneficial to animals."
6/18/2005

New BLM Grazing Rules Released

They've basically stacked the deck in favor of ranchers - new rules limit public comment on grazing permit decisions and delay action for up to eight years when range managers suspect grazing is harming the land
6/17/2005

Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for New Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Regulations

On June 17, 2005, the Bush administration released their version of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for new Bureau of Land Management (BLM) regulations. There are some amazing omissions
6/17/2005

 

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