For the last several years, the Bureau of Land Management has been holding a near perpetual fire sale of public lands in Montana, selling out …
Given its name and remote location, Rattlesnake Coulee may not seem like a place worth buying.
The goal for companies is to lock in drilling rights on oil and gas leases on vast public lands where they make royalty payments on any resources extracted.
Tribes with enduring ties to eastern Wyoming are concerned the development will compromise air and water quality, violate treaty rights and destroy cultural resources.
All nominated parcels included in the sale fall within habitat home to sage grouse, a point of contention for several conservation groups.
BOISE, Idaho — Conservation groups are blasting a Trump administration decision officials said will reduce wildfires by streamlining environme…
Hikers at the Four Dances Recreation Area walk along cliffs overlooking the Yellowstone River and Billings on Sunday.
Since Congress passed full funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund in August, both the U.S. departments of Agriculture and Interior have missed a Nov. 2 deadline to list projects they intend to nominate for the fund’s support.
A federal court will require the Bureau of Land Management to conduct additional environmental reviews on 1.6 million acres of leases in the Equality State.
A bill introduced by Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester Wednesday would bar the U.S. Department of Justice from appealing a Montana judge’s ruling ousting William Perry Pendley from serving as de facto director of the Bureau of Land Management.
The court decision could place similar public land management plans approved in Wyoming on the line.
A month after ousting the Trump administration’s public lands boss for being in the post unlawfully, a Montana judge on Friday blocked three land-use plans that would have opened most U.S.-owned lands in the state to energy development.
The top official at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management said Thursday he's still working despite a federal judge ruling he's illegally holding the position.
"I have not been ousted," said William Perry Pendley, deputy director of policy and programs at the Bureau of Land Management. "That is not true."
The governor contests that all actions undertaken during former Bureau of Land Management head William Pendley's 424 days atop the agency are now subject to legal challenge.
As the Department of Interior braces to defend its appointed Bureau of Land Management director from legal expulsion, pressure mounts to remove the acting National Park Service director.
BLM preps Holter, Hauser recreation sites for winter
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration's leading steward of public lands has been serving unlawfully and has blocked him from continuing in the position.
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Some 95,114 wild horses and burros roam free throughout the United States, according to a March 1 count by the federal Bureau of Land Management.
Fires that sprang up this week caused evacuations and led the governor to declare a fire state of emergency for the first time in three years.
Fire crews continued battling a series of fires Friday in Eastern Montana while preparing for another red flag warning Saturday with higher te…
Citing geopolitical energy security, the U.S. Forest Service plans to “appropriately suspend, revise, or rescind those (federal regulations) that unduly burden the development of domestic energy resources” on public lands.
Several of the nominated parcels for December's competitive sale fall north of Casper and north Rock Springs.
Pendley's continued rein at the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management comes under an unusual arrangement that Pendley himself set up months ago
Pendley, a former oil industry and property rights attorney from Wyoming, has been acting as the director of the agency for more than a year.