Federal and state mining regulators are investigating the rock slide at the quarry owned by Rocky Mountain Industrials, which is proposing a controversial mine expansion
BLM
Posted inWater
How to buy a San Luis Valley reservoir
A local water district, a federal land agency, a state wildlife group and a national environmental nonprofit partnered on a creative water deal with multiple benefits for the valley
Posted inOutdoors
Colorado ranchers moove into the future with virtual fences that help sustain public grasslands
In the first program its kind, cell towers are helping the BLM repair neglected rangeland by giving land managers unprecedented control over where herds are grazing
Posted inEnvironment, News, Politics and Government
141 wild horses — a third of those captured from the Western Slope — died in country’s deadliest flu outbreak
A third of the wild horses captured from Western Slope rangeland last summer have died in the equine flu outbreak at their holding pens in Cañon City, though federal officials said Wednesday that the outbreak is winding down. Mustang deaths — which numbered more than 20 on the worst days of the outbreak — have […]
Posted inEnvironment, News
Nearly 100 wild horses have died in less than a week as equine flu spreads at federal facility in Cañon City
Veterinarians say a highly contagious equine flu has killed 95 wild horses so far this week at federal Bureau of Land Management holding pens in Cañon City. The mustangs captured from Colorado rangeland and hauled to the federal facility on state prison grounds have been dying at a rapid pace. Federal officials first announced the […]
Posted inNews, Outdoors
Dispersed camping is out of control in Chaffee County. Officials are seeking solutions.
A surge in recreational camping around Buena Vista and Salida is wreaking havoc on natural areas and spurring public lands managers to mull the closure of dozens of dispersed campsites. In the county that’s 82% public land and home to a fifth of the state’s fourteeners, wildlife populations are plunging in the face of habitat […]
Posted inEnvironment, News
Where did the wild horses removed from Sand Wash Basin go? A Colorado state prison.
CAÑON CITY — Hundreds of horses, noses to the dusty ground, nibbled on alfalfa hay spread in thin rows across a wide pasture. In one direction, the Wet Mountains jutted toward a bluebird sky. On the other, guard towers and tops of Colorado state penitentiary buildings, some encircled with loops of razor-tipped wire, loomed above […]
Posted inEnergy, Environment, News, Politics and Government
U.S. Senate approves Tracy Stone-Manning to lead Bureau of Land Management over GOP opposition
By Matthew Daly, The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A bitterly divided Senate late Thursday approved President Joe Biden’s choice to oversee vast government-owned lands in the West, despite Republican complaints that she is an “eco-terrorist.″ Tracy Stone-Manning, Biden’s choice to lead the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, was approved, 50-45, on a party-line vote. […]
Posted inEnergy, Environment, News, Politics and Government
Bureau of Land Management headquarters will head from Colorado back to Washington, Biden administration says
The Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters will move back to Washington, D.C., from Grand Junction, the Biden administration announced Friday in a decision that comes despite objections from Colorado Republicans and Democrats, including the state’s two U.S. senators and its governor. “The Bureau of Land Management is critical to the nation’s efforts to address the […]
Posted inEnvironment, Wildfire
Wild horse roundup in northwest Colorado begins as BLM tries to gather 733 mustangs
SAND WASH BASIN — The silvery-gray wild stallion scaled the metal corral as if it were a ladder, then thrust himself over the top rail and back to freedom. The stud was one of 65 mustangs rounded up by helicopter and herded into a holding pen on the first day of the federal Bureau of […]