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BLM Sending $28M To Utah, Western States Conservation Groups

BLM Sending $28M To Utah, Western States Conservation Groups

(Salt Lake City, UT) — Six conservation groups will receive millions of federal dollars to improve and conserve public lands in Utah and other western states. The Bureau of Land Management said on Tuesday it’s sending 28-million dollars to conservation groups including the Salt Lake City-based Mule Deer Foundation, Backcountry […]

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Fire burns over 11,000 acres along Utah-Arizona border

Fire burns over 11,000 acres along Utah-Arizona border

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A fire burning along the Utah-Arizona border grew over the weekend, burning more than 11,000 acres (4,500 hectares) of grass, brush and woodland habitat, officials said. The Bureau of Land Management offices in Utah and Arizona reported that one house and four outbuildings were threatened […]

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Over 1,700 wild horses in Nevada and Utah removed, relocated

Over 1,700 wild horses in Nevada and Utah removed, relocated

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Land management authorities have completed removing more than a thousand wild horses in Nevada and Utah. The Bureau of Land Management gathered 1,716 horses from herd management areas in Lincoln County in Nevada and Iron and Beaver counties in Utah, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Tuesday. The roundup […]

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Utah lawmaker sues feds for $10M over trespassing conviction

Utah lawmaker sues feds for $10M over trespassing conviction

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former county commissioner has sued a federal land agency after he spent 10 days in jail for trespassing in an illegal ATV protest ride in a southern Utah canyon. Rep. Phil Lyman filed the $10 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court Friday accusing Bureau […]

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Dems in Congress demand update on Interior wild horse plans

Dems in Congress demand update on Interior wild horse plans

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Congressional Democrats are demanding the Interior Department produce an overdue report on plans to manage wild horses roaming federal lands in the West after the head of its public lands agency told reporters it will take $5 billion and 15 years to get overpopulated herds under […]

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Study finds US public land workers facing assaults, threats

Study finds US public land workers facing assaults, threats

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal employees overseeing U.S. public lands were assaulted or threatened at least 360 times over a five-year period marked by heightened tensions with anti-government groups and dwindling ranks of law enforcement officers, a congressional watchdog agency said Monday. The Government Accountability Office in a new report highlights anti-government […]

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Team to study historic inscriptions at New Mexico ruins

Team to study historic inscriptions at New Mexico ruins

AZTEC, N.M. (AP) — A Colorado historian is leading a team to survey inscriptions left by settlers and others on the ceilings of 900-year-old ruins in northwestern New Mexico. Fred Blackburn and his team will study the lengthy messages, or graffiti, left at the Aztec Ruins National Monument to gain […]

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Protests spark over drilling near national monument in Utah

Protests spark over drilling near national monument in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. government has sold drilling rights to about 40 square miles (104 square kilometers) of land near the Utah-Colorado border considered archaeologically sensitive to an energy firm. Environmentalists and tribal organizations are protesting a decision announced Wednesday to allow Ayres Energy LLC to develop […]

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Oil drilling plan near Utah monument draws tribal opposition

Oil drilling plan near Utah monument draws tribal opposition

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Environmentalists and tribal organizations are protesting a lease sale by the U.S. government that would allow oil and gas companies to develop land considered archaeologically sensitive near a national monument stretching across the Utah-Colorado border that houses sacred tribal sites. Documents show about 47 square […]

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US government approves mining of ‘critical’ mineral in Utah

US government approves mining of ‘critical’ mineral in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. government has approved a mining project near a river in central Utah to extract a mineral used in fertilizer under heightened pressure from the Trump administration to increase mining of dozens of minerals on American soil. Bureau of Land Management officials held a […]

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