On June 20, 2024 the Bureau of Land Management announced its final resource management plan for public lands it manages [final Environmental Impact Statement] within its Grand Junction and Colorado River Valley field offices. The final plan will be published in the Federal Register on June 21. The areas open for new oil and gas …
First Gentleman Marlon Reis, Colorado Department of Transportation Executive Director Shalana Lew, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife Director Jeff Davis spoke and cut the ribbon for the Floyd Hill wildlife I-70 highway crossing underpass on June 20, 2024. It is located between the Lookout Mountain and Genesee exits. More vehicle collisions with wildlife occur there …
Check out the full June 2024 Newsletter here.
Here are the wildlife related bills that have been signed by Governor Polis: SB 24-171 Signed by Governor May 20. Concerning Authorization for Restoration of the North American Wolverine in the State – introduced on March 4. It was heard in the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee on March 21, passed, amended, on a …
Check out the full April 2024 Newsletter here.
The public comment period for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) draft plan for conservation of the greater sage grouse in western states is open until June 13. This important species of the sagebrush ecosystem in Colorado and other western states needs a very good science-based conservation plan on public lands to guide future management …
On April 18, 2024, the Bureau of Land Management announced its final Public Lands Rule. Its purpose is to elevate conservation so that it is fully considered an essential equal element in the agency’s work to balance multiple uses. CWF and NWF issued a lengthy comment letter to the proposed rule in June of 2023. …
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had issued a Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for UtilityScale Solar Energy Development (Solar PEIS). This programmatic process for western states is intended to identify lands suitable for siting utility-scale solar development. It is important to ascertain areas that will be available for this development that pose fewer conflicts …
Today [April 12] the US Department of the Interior issued its awaited ” Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process Rule.” CWF applauds BLM for today’s oil and gas leasing program reforms because it prioritizes balanced management of public lands – a balance that benefits our rural communities, wildlife habitat they need to survive, recreation, grazing, …
On April 3, 2024, Department of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the 20-year mineral withdrawal for the Thompson Divide area of 221,898 acres of public lands managed by the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in Colorado. CWF and NWF, in conjunction with the local communities, ranchers, hunters, anglers, other conservationists, and recreationists …
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