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The Western Solar Plan added five more states, meaning more public land has been identified for future projects. But there are concerns over the effect on hunting and fishing on some of these lands.
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Popular recreation areas across the Mountain West are proposing price hikes for campsites, backcountry permits, parking spots and other amenities. Public land agencies say they’re responding to increased wear and tear on trails and facilities.
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Backcountry Conservation Areas are a relatively new land management tool established by the Department of Interior in 2017 to “support wildlife-dependent recreation and hunting opportunities and facilitate the long-term maintenance of big game wildlife populations.” A major, 120,800-acre BCA was just established near Boise, the largest of the handful created so far.
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Last week, a federal judge in Utah handed the Biden administration a legal win when it dismissed a suit from the state of Utah claiming that the president had overstepped his legal authority when he restored two national monuments.
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Seventy-six wildlife conservation groups have petitioned the Department of the Interior to ban the use of M-44s on Bureau of Land Management lands. The devices, commonly known as “cyanide bombs,” remain a controversial tool for predator mitigation.
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The public comment period for the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed public lands rule closed this week, with well over 200,000 people weighing in. The Center for Western Priorities, which supports the proposal, analyzed those comments and found that an overwhelming majority was supportive.
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Overcrowding and vandalism may be putting Idaho public lands at risk.
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One program is trying to keep trash out of your favorite campsite.
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Tracy Stone-Manning served as Montana's Director of the Department of Environmental Quality and she served with the National Wildlife Federation. Then in 2021, President Biden asked her to become the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. She spends a lot of time on the road, including this week as the guest of the Cecil Andrus Center for Public Policy and the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists in Boise.
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Tracy Stone-Manning, the director of the Bureau of Land Management, loves the travel that her work requires and above all, loves working hard. She says the challenges in front of her and her 10,000 BLM colleagues are met best through hard work.