The proposed Bureau of Land Management rule -- Conservation and Landscape Health -- would put land conservation and restoration on equal footing with other multiple uses of public land.

BLM, which manages 245 million acres, emphasized in the rule that the conservation leases should not disturb existing authorizations or preclude land from being used for other purposes, such as ...

The rule establishes two new categories of leases for what BLM misleadingly called land “use” — mitigation leases and restoration leases, the groups said in the legal complaint.

As a conservationist, I cannot support this effort. Notably, BLM ignores existing law - the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 - that already considers conservation as a public lands use.

BLM and the Corps of Engineers are working on a long-range plan to consolidate federal lands in the goldfields and improve public outdoor recreation opportunities along the Yuba River.

The Bureau of Land Management and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have formalized a partnership with a co-stewardship memorandum.

American Magnesium, an Elephant Butte-based company, proposes to develop a 40-acre site as a dolomite quarry mine on BLM-managed public land and estimates the mine would be operational for 20 years.

The Bureau of Land Management’s proposed Public Lands Rule, which was announced in late March, has drawn more than 150,000 comments, many of which came in at the last minute. The Public Lands Rule ...

A North Dakota conservation group is seeking to join a lawsuit to defend a new federal rule that changes how over 245 million acres of federal lands are managed.