Blog Archives for BLM

By Bethanie Walder - January 20, 2010    Maybe it’s because I live in Montana and the small town of Libby has been declared a federal superfund site due to asbestos contamination from a nearby vermiculite mine.  With extremely disturbing stories about the Libby, MT asbestos situation a mainstay of state and even national news for practically a decade, Montanans tend to take asbestos seriously.  And one of the prime questions about Libby relates to responsibility…  when did the W.R.

By Adam Rissien - November 19, 2009    Our friends with Kern Co. ORV Watch recently sent us their most recent monitoring results. They write:

By Laurel Hagen - June 2, 2009    The Paria Canyon ATV protest (explanation) has been getting a fair bit of coverage in the Salt Lake Tribune and elsewhere over the past few weeks. Some samples:  

By Laurel Hagen - May 13, 2009    Slideshow

By Laurel Hagen - May 13, 2009    Slideshow

By cathy - May 8, 2009    If you've been following our Related News, you will know that this Saturday, between 500 and 1,000 ATVs, Jeeps, and other off-road vehicles plan to illegally drive up the riverbed of the Paria Canyon in a BLM wilderness study area near Kanab, Utah. They're doing it to protest BLM plans to actually enforce keeping ORVs out of this wilderness area near Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

By adamswitalski - April 27, 2009    This past week, Wildlands CPR assisted The Nature Conservancy in hosting a workshop entitled, “Improving road systems in the context of watershed restoration” in Astoria, OR.  The workshop was attended by a diverse group of about 25 watershed restoration specialists from around the region.  Representatives from the Forest Service, Oregon Department of Forestry, Washington Department of Natural Resources, NGOs, and private consultants exchanged information about planning, prioritizing, and implementing road system treatments including road decommissioning.  

By Sarah Peters - April 14, 2009    Yesterday, the Tenth Circuit upheld a lower court decision that Kane and Garfield Counties were wrong in their assertion of rights to multiple roads within the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. 

By Franklin Seal - November 20, 2008   There’s been a lot of news this week about the Utah Bureau of Land Management’s recently unveiled oil and gas lease sale that includes parcels directly adjacent to Arches National Park (for update on recent developments see post script below). The National Park Service, local residents, regional environmental groups and even the local city and county governments have raised threats of legal protests or serious concerns.

By Laurel Hagen - November 12, 2008    From an article in the Deseret News: *** National Park Service officials worry that if the oil and gas industry is allowed to drill on land next to two national parks and a national monument in Utah, the companies may need new roads that will be unwanted leftovers once the oil and gas are gone. The concern is that those roads will become new entry points into the parks, creating potential access and land-use headaches for park regulators.