Public Lands/Wilderness
Monday, May 6, 2024
New BLM rule could help protect America's national parks
As critics work to roll back new Bureau of Land Management rules, public lands advocates are defending the agency's move to put conservation uses on …
Monday, May 6, 2024
Wyoming leaders push back on new BLM rules
New rules on how the Bureau of Land Management oversees more than 18 million acres of public lands in Wyoming have drawn criticism from Gov. Mark …
Monday, May 6, 2024
New oil and gas mining rules benefit wilderness, rankle companies
The Bureau of Land Management has released a pair of rules that will change how the agency manages 245 million acres of public land. The rules …
Monday, May 6, 2024
National parks in UT benefit from BLM rules
Conservation experts are applauding the Bureau of Land Management for releasing two new rules that recognize conservation as an essential part of publ…
Monday, May 6, 2024
NV's public lands to benefit from BLM's new rules
The Bureau of Land Management recently released two rules that alter how the agency manages its 245 million acres of public lands, 48 million of …
Monday, May 6, 2024
NM's Chaco, Carlsbad parks gain protection from new BLM rule
New Mexico's diverse national parks located adjacent to extraction sites will enjoy greater protections under a new federal rule. Changes to how the …
Friday, May 3, 2024
Public lands groups cheer expansion of two CA national monuments
Conservation groups, tribes and community organizers are praising President Joe Biden's decision Thursday to expand two national monuments in …
NV Tribal Nations push for Bahsahwahbee National Monument
Native American tribes in Nevada are calling for designation of a new national monument within the National Park System in east central Nevada…
Wastewater wetlands in OR, US provide natural filtration option
By Bryn Nelson for Yes! Media.Broadcast version by Eric Tegethoff for Oregon News Service reporting for the YES! Media-Public News Service …
Utah opposes BLM's new Public Lands Rule
The Bureau of Land Management recently released its final Public Lands Rule, which is set to put conservation on equal footing with other multiple …
Report: WV’s Blackwater River among America’s most endangered
The Blackwater River, which flows more than 30 miles through West Virginia's Allegheny Mountains, ranks among the top 10 most endangered rivers in …
Conservation groups celebrate biodiversity of Hawaiian bird species
Conservation groups say the Hawaiian Islands are on the leading edge of the fight to preserve endangered birds, since climate change and habitat loss …