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The Bureau of Land Management Tres Rios Field Office has designated three areas of critical environmental concern in Montezuma and San Miguel counties. The new amendment to the 2015 Resource...
DATE: Feb. 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources voted Wednesday to give its chairman the power to subpoena the Department of the Interior to obtain documents related to the controversial Bureau of...
DATE: Feb. 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News
The wild horses of the Spring Creek Basin herd are contently grazing through a thin layer of snowpack on their 22,000-acre management area northeast of Dove Creek. To better define and support...
DATE: Feb. 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Have an opinion about how trails and motorized routes should be handled around Silverton? Now is the time to voice it. The Bureau of Land Management has been re-evaluating its system of 45 miles of...
DATE: Jan. 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News
The Bureau of Land Management has cleaned up mine tailings north of Silverton that were leaching heavy metals into the Animas River. Brant Porter, a BLM spokesman, said the contaminated mine waste...
DATE: Dec. 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
A bit of a shakeup could be coming to trails around Durango as land managers try to balance recreation and wildlife. Currently, the Bureau of Land Management is updating what is known as a...
DATE: Nov. 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
The next time you look south toward the Mesa Verde escarpment, imagine prehistoric Pueblo villages from 1,000 years ago with reservoirs, farms, stone dwellings, kivas and perhaps signal fires to...
DATE: Oct. 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
The Bureau of Land Management saw a record-breaking number of wild horse and burro adoptions this year, the agency announced this week, but it is not enough to manage the population growth of the...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Do you support more trails, better parking and roads or have specific concerns about e-bikes, archaeological sites or wildlife on local Bureau of Land Management lands? Now is the chance to...
DATE: Oct. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
A coal mine in La Plata County has been approved for expansion, a move that is expected to extend the life of the mine for at least another 20 years. Preparing for its coal reserves to run out, GCC...
DATE: Oct. 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
FARMINGTON – The Bureau of Land Management is treating roughly 9,000 acres of sagebrush in northwestern New Mexico, the agency announced this week. The program, part of the 2005 Restore New Mexico...
DATE: Oct. 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
A mine spill into the Animas River was reported late Wednesday. Christina Progess, the Environmental Protection Agency’s lead for the Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund site, said the size and...
DATE: Oct. 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
