Bureau of Land Management

Bureau of Land Management - Tue August 23, 2022

Solar Project Will Create 750 Union Construction Jobs

The Bureau of Land Management has issued the final approval for construction of the Oberon solar project on approximately 2,600 acres of BLM-managed land near Desert Center in eastern Riverside County, a significant milestone in the Biden-Harris administration's efforts to modernize America's power infrastructure in the West and permit at least 25 gigawatts of solar, wind, and geothermal production on public lands by 2025....

Bureau of Land Management - Wed August 10, 2022

Officials Want to Reconstruct Popular Dino Tracksite Trail

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Moab Field Office (MFO) proposes to rebuild a popular paleontological attraction, the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite Trail. The BLM proposes to rebuild the trail using safer and more durable materials than those utilized in the original raised wooden boardwalk, which was built in 2014....

Bureau of Land Management - Tue May 21, 2019

BLM Signs Record of Decision for Sonoran Valley Parkway

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has signed a Record of Decision (ROD) that will allow the city of Goodyear to build the proposed Sonoran Valley Parkway in Maricopa County largely on public lands. The Parkway will provide a direct route in southern Goodyear connecting Rainbow Valley Road to the community of Mobile and State Route 238, improving emergency response times in the fastest growing county in the nation....

Nicole Foy – Associated Press - Mon July 02, 2018

Sinkholes, Poison Gas, Dynamite: Inside Abandoned Mines

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) A century-old gold mine is a curious place, and that's a problem for those whose job it is to find bats and blasting caps as worrisome as the public finds them to be wondrous. When the 2015 fire in Owyhee County finally burned out, a team of experts from the Bureau of Land Management followed closely behind the wildland firefighters assessing the safety of public land known as the Owyhee Front....

Tue December 27, 2016

Jewell Approves Nevada Solar Project

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell joined leaders of the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians and First Solar to announce approval of the 100-megawatt Aiya Solar Project on tribal trust land in Clark County, Nevada....