Tag: bureau of land management
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10 prescribed pile burns planned for southeast Colorado to ignite over 500 acres
The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management has planned prescribed pile burns at 10 locations from December to April depending on weather and fuel moisture conditions, according to a news release by the agency on Wednesday. The total acreage of the burns is around 576 acres, mostly occurring across two locations managed by…
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341 acres prescribed to burn in the Blanca Wetlands outside Alamosa
The Bureau of Land Management has scheduled 341 acres of the Blanca Wetlands for prescribed burns from November to March, according to a news release by the agency Monday. The acreage, approximately 11 miles northeast of Alamosa, will be treated across two units to improve nesting habitats and migratory waterfowl. Fire treatments will be completed…
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Millions of acres of Colorado public lands could be up for sale in Senate budget bill
Some of Colorado’s most iconic public lands, including popular recreation areas, could be eligible for sale in the current version of Congress’s budget bill. The newest language requires the sale of 0.5% to 0.75% of U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management holdings in 11 Western states over the next five years — a percentage…
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From harsh rituals to hard-earned play, legends grow in this Colorado canyon
SAGUACHE COUNTY • Fields of crops and sage sprawl toward the Sangre de Cristo peaks in one direction, the San Juans in another, their wonders seemingly far away on this lonely, dusty stretch of U.S. 285. But here in the San Luis Valley, wonders tend to appear out of nowhere. There was Bob D’Antonio in…
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PHOTOS: Bureau of Land Management conducts prescribed burn
Like crayons along outlines of shapes on a page, firefighters used drip torches to draw fiery lines along the perimeter of a prescribed burn area in Deer Haven, 25 miles northwest of Cañon City. As the wind blows, fueling the fire forward, the triangle — an area of about 69 acres in size — is…
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Battle over Bureau of Land Management’s Grand Junction headquarters on tap for visit by Secretary of Interior
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will be in Colorado later this week, and part of that visit could include a look at the Bureau of Land Management headquarters in Grand Junction. The agency relocated to the city two years ago at the behest of…
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Battle over Bureau of Land Management’s Grand Junction headquarters on tap for visit by Secretary of Interior
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will be in Colorado later this week, and part of that visit could include a look at the Bureau of Land Management headquarters in Grand Junction. The agency relocated to the city two years ago at the behest of then-Secretary David Bernhardt, as part of a move to put…
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Wild horses can’t be broken as a Western crisis looms | Joey Bunch
The galloping pony with its mane flowing like a banner in the prairie wind is the enduring expression of the unbridled American West. If not for its flaming eyes and garish color, the rearing mustang outside Denver International Airport would be the unofficial ambassador to Colorado. Maybe it is, anyway. Yet, managing wild horses, like…
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Ancient petroglyphs permanently damaged by Colorado Springs man
Last Friday evening, Darrin Reay left his home in southwest Colorado to meet friends at a remote camping spot he loved surrounded by sandstone cliffs in the desert beyond Moab, Utah. When he arrived, he was alarmed to hear the suggestion of climbing a bolted route. Reay knew of no drilling on this certain slab,…
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Pendley: BLM move to Grand Junction could be ‘traumatic’ for some employees
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The acting director of the Bureau of Land management reaffirmed on Thursday the agency’s decision to move its headquarters to Grand Junction, despite the unhappiness of some employees. “We are being as compassionate as we possibly can, but at the same time, we have a…