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Legislation to improve access to public lands and address issues related to rising usage has been introduced in the U.S. House.
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Western Wyoming residents and top state officials oppose selling off hundreds of acres surrounded by Grand Teton National Park.
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Many elected officials in Wyoming are upset at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and are asking the agency to withdraw a proposed resource management plan for 3.6 million federal acres near Rock Springs.
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The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources held a hearing in mid-June about coal leasing on federal lands.
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Several bills that would protect public lands and waters around the Mountain West have recently been reintroduced in Congress, and two in particular seem to have a decent shot at reaching the president's desk.
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A new report shows that if a giant ranch on the North Platte River near Casper becomes public land it might actually boost tourism, and not impact local taxes too much.The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was set to acquire the more than 35,000 acre Marton Ranch almost a year ago, but that quickly came to a halt when the state filed an appeal. Wyoming’s Governor Mark Gordon was concerned that there was not enough public input and about the thoroughness of the environmental review.
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Some politicians in the Mountain West are renewing calls to transfer federal lands to state and local governments as a way to ease the affordable housing crisis. They argue that such transfers could provide much-needed space in fast-growing communities hemmed in by public lands.
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The last time the royalty rate for oil and gas production on federal land changed was in 1920. Proposed legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives…
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President Donald Trump’s push for more energy development on federal lands suffered a setback last week when a federal judge ruled that his...
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This week President Trump pardoned two Oregon ranchers serving five-year prison terms for arson on federal lands. The two men had become a cause celebre...