News from April 2022

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
A project to improve the Ruby Beach parking area and access road will begin in May or June of this year.

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing to extend the withdrawal and reservation of land at the Sitka Magnetic Observatory in Sitka, Alaska, for an additional 20-year term for magnetic and seismological observation by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
Prescribed fire planned for Sierrita Mountains

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public input on an application from the U.S.

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
An Environmental Assessment analyzing a proposed continued withdrawal of lands at the Zortman-Landusky Mining Reclamation Area in Phillips County, Montana, has been released by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a 30-day public review and comment period.

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) St. George Field Office hopes to improve public safety by approving the creation of parking and off-highway vehicle staging areas at Sand Mountain Recreation Management Area in Washington County.

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
Bureau of Land Management engineers visited Hult Dam April 4 to conduct a regular safety inspection and shift from winter to summer operations.

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
Beginning this week and lasting through the end of summer, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Roswell Field Office will be closed, as the office will undergo renovations.

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a wild horse and burro adoption event in Conroe, Texas, April 29-30, at the Lone Star Convention and Expo Center.

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management’s Phoenix District is planning a prescribed fire to burn cut and piled brush from about 80 acres of land northeast of Apache Junction, which is being referred to as the “Lost Dutchman Prescribed Fire.

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
The parking area for the North Oak Creek trailhead will be temporarily closed from April 15 to 22, 2022, during a parking area expansion project.

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public input as it begins considering use of certain herbicides to control noxious weeds and invasive species that impact about a third of public lands

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
The California Trail Interpretive Center (CTIC) will resume a five-day operating schedule beginning on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Operating hours will be Wednesday through Sunday from 9:00 a.m.

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
Facilities and beach access managed by the Bureau of Land Management at the Mike Thompson Wildlife Area, South Spit Humboldt Bay, are temporarily restricted to the public, while repairs are underway on the south jetty.

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
Springfield, Missouri-based nonprofit Preferred Family Healthcare will pay more than $8 million in forfeiture and restitution to the federal government and the state of Arkansas under the terms of a non-prosecution agreement announced today, which acknowledges the criminal conduct of its former officers and employees.

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
The Public Lands Foundation presented a Landscape Stewardship Certificate of Appreciation award to Wesley Hipke, manager of the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer (ESPA) recharge program for the Idaho Water Resource Board, during the Board’s regular work session meeting today.

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management Ely District, Bristlecone Field Office is preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) analyzing a proposal to expand the Bald Mountain Mine (BMM) North Operations Area located on private and public lands, about 60 miles southeast of Elko and 60 miles northwest of Ely, Nevada.

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in opposition to H.R. 6833, the so-called Affordable Insulin Now Act, which would bring our country one step closer to a socialist health care system.

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) reacted to the Democrats’ introduction of workforce development legislation:

By Press release submission | Apr 4, 2022
A Chesapeake, Ohio, woman was ordered to pay more than $4.65 million today for stealing federal funds from River Valley Child Development Services (“RVCDS”), a non-profit organization located in Huntington.