Elected Officials Across Colorado Oppose Revocation of BLM’s Public Lands Rule

Elected officials across Colorado oppose revocation of BLM’s Public Lands Rule

Community leaders from Western states, including Colorado, are urging the federal Bureau of Land Management to abandon its push to end the Public Lands Rule. Across the West, 180 elected officials, including state Sen. Dylan Roberts, signed onto a letter opposing the effort to rescind the Public Lands Rule, which puts conservation on equal footing with other land uses like energy development, livestock grazing, and recreation.  “As the largest l…

Colorado Democrats urge Department of Interior to protect Public Lands Rule

A view of oil and gas development on Bureau of Land Management lands in Colorado, on Jan. 3, 2015. (Bob Wick/BLM/Public domain)Colorado Democrats in Congress on Monday asked the U.S. Department of the Interior to keep in place a 2024 rule that allows federal public lands to be leased for environmental protection, which the Trump administration intends to rescind. The Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, commonly referred to as the Public Land…

180 western leaders, including Truckee leaders urge Trump Administration to abandon push to gut BLM Public Lands Rule

DURANGO, Colo. – 180 elected mountain community leaders from across the West are urging the Trump Administration to abandon its shortsighted push to roll back the Public Lands Rule – a critical rule the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized last year that balanced stewardship on public lands by putting conservation on equal footing with other uses of BLM land like energy development, livestock grazing and recreation. In a comment letter, the…

Just hours left to be heard on the future of America’s public lands

Today is the final day to comment on the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule, which shapes how 245 million acres are managed across the West. The proposal’s outcome could influence conservation, mining, and recreation decisions throughout the Moab area.