bureau of land management
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Son of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack appointed as BLM Colorado State Director
Doug Vilsack, son of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, was appointed as the new Colorado State Director of the Bureau of Land Management Wednesday. Vilsack, the current assistant director for Colorado parks, wildlife and lands with the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, will begin work Aug. 14 at the state BLM offices in Lakewood.…
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5,276 acres in Colorado to be leased for oil, gas extraction
The Bureau of Land Management is opening up 5,276 acres of federal land for oil and gas extraction in Colorado. The nine parcels lie in Jackson, Moffat, Rio Blanco and Weld counties. Other than a 120-acre parcel 14 miles east of Eaton in Weld County, they are all in northwest Colorado in areas where drillers…
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INSIGHTS | BLM lost diversity coming to Colorado, others shouldn’t follow
Diversity was never Grand Junction’s long suit. We knew that two years ago, but nobody wanted to say anything when the Trump administration moved the headquarters for the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado. That was a daisy. The agency controls more than 245 million acres in 12 states, including 8.3 million acres on Colorado’s…
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COLORADO ROUNDUP | Scaled-back Colorado oil and gas lease sale makes $1M
GRAND JUNCTION Scaled-back Colorado oil and gas lease sale makes $1M A federal oil and gas lease sale in Colorado netted nearly $1 million in revenue. The Bureau of Land Management says 20 parcels totaling about 12.3 square miles were sold Dec. 13 for $981,143, including rentals and fees, in its quarterly Colorado lease sale.…
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Scaled-back Colorado oil and gas lease sale makes $1M
GRAND JUNCTION – A federal oil and gas lease sale in Colorado netted nearly $1 million in revenue. The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports the Bureau of Land Management says 20 parcels totaling about 12.3 square miles were sold Thursday for $981,143, including rentals and fees, in its quarterly Colorado lease sale. The parcels included…
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Trump rolls back methane rules for drilling on US lands
The Trump administration on Tuesday rolled back an Obama-era rule that forced energy companies to capture methane – a key contributor to climate change that’s released in huge amounts during drilling on U.S. and tribal lands. A replacement rule from the Interior Department rescinds mandates for companies to reduce gas pollution, which Trump administration officials…