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Federal Court Rules Major Wyoming Oil and Gas Lease Sale Illegal for Ignoring Climate Impacts
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Federal Court Rules Major Wyoming Oil and Gas Lease Sale Illegal for ...
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Opinion: Culture wars and an embattled Utah monument: “The elected leaders of Utah have decided that the monument’s integrity and the needs of the state’s ...
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Opinion: Culture wars and an embattled Utah monument
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Roads closed by feds near Moab will stay closed — for now: A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that roads closed by the Bureau of Land Management near Moab will ...
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Roads closed by feds near Moab will stay closed — for now
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Feds protest arrest of firefighter near site of anti-government standoff: A U.S. Forest Service firefighter was arrested when a “prescribed fire” used to prevent ...
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Feds protest arrest of firefighter near site of anti-government standoff
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Wild horse, burro sale scheduled in Palestine: The Bureau of Land Management will hold a two-day wild horse and burro event Friday, March 15 and Saturday ...
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Wild horse, burro sale scheduled in Palestine
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Investing in nature? Utah says no, bans natural asset companies on public land.: This Utah bill requires the Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office to recognize ...
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Investing in nature? Utah says no, bans natural asset companies on public ...
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Tribes and the feds will try to co-manage a national monument for the first time. Here’s what that could look like.
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Tribes and the feds will try to co-manage a national monument for the ...
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Inside Quartzsite, Arizona, a popular town for snowbirds: Business Insider's author visited Quartzsite, Arizona, where she discovered a quirky town with ...
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Inside Quartzsite, Arizona, a popular town for snowbirds
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How a wild corner of southern Utah became the last place to be mapped in the US: With its impenetrable canyons, Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National ...
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How a wild corner of southern Utah became the last place to be mapped in ...
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The combustible mix of right-wing anger coming together in Texas: Trumpism, border defense, rejection of federal authority and armed civilians are all coming ...
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The combustible mix of right-wing anger coming together in Texas
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Phil Lyman, convicted of using a protected trail, wants Utah to ignore federal road closures
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Phil Lyman, convicted of using a protected trail, wants Utah to ignore ...
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Interior Department adds six states to western solar-development plan: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Wednesday announced an update to its 2012 plan for ...
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Interior Department adds six states to western solar-development plan
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Tribes sue Biden administration over permits for high-voltage transmission line: Two Native American tribes and the Center for Biological Diversity sued the ...
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Tribes sue Biden administration over permits for high-voltage transmission ...
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Utah passes bill to make grazing a state right. What do Utahns need to know?: The Utah State Legislature recently passed a bill that would change grazing in the ...
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Utah passes bill to make grazing a state right. What do Utahns need to ...
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Opinion: Off-road advocates are not the oppressed: “Rather than a self-centered focus on their perceived losses, it would go a long way for off-roaders to start ...
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Opinion: Off-road advocates are not the oppressed
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‘It’s painful to be discriminated against’: Moab’s off-road community changes after BLM closes trails
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‘It’s painful to be discriminated against’: Moab’s off-road community ...
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Decadeslong effort to regrow Utah’s vanishing salt flats may have backfired: Pumping groundwater to reflood and regrow the flats may have backfired.
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Decadeslong effort to regrow Utah’s vanishing salt flats may have ...
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Why Utah leaders just rejected a valuable Bears Ears land swap : Utah leaders rejected a previously approved exchange of state lands within Bears Ears National ...
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Why Utah leaders just rejected a valuable Bears Ears land swap
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Opinion: Building the Ambler mining road in Alaska threatens our Indigenous way of life
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Opinion: Building the Ambler mining road in Alaska threatens our ...
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Utah lawmakers eye public lands for housing construction: Utah lawmakers move forward with support of Sen. Mike Lee's HOUSES Act.
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Utah lawmakers eye public lands for housing construction
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New clues may shed light on killings of Mojave Desert wild burros: At least 42 wild burro carcasses with gunshot wounds were found in various states of ...
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New clues may shed light on killings of Mojave Desert wild burros
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Can public lands fix the West’s affordable housing crisis?: As the affordable housing crisis deepens in Utah and across the West, Sen. Mike Lee once again ...
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Can public lands fix the West’s affordable housing crisis?
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BLM proposes major limits to target shooting within Sonoran Desert monument: A new proposal by the BLM may dramatically limit where target shooting can happen in ...
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BLM proposes major limits to target shooting within Sonoran Desert ...
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The US government opens 22 million acres of federal lands to solar: The Biden administration has updated the roadmap for solar development to 22 million acres of ...
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The US government opens 22 million acres of federal lands to solar
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How state leaders are using Utah’s roads to oppose ‘federal overreach’: Utah leaders from the capitol building in Salt Lake City to the one in Washington, D.C ...
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How state leaders are using Utah’s roads to oppose ‘federal overreach’
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Opinion: One of Utah’s outdoor treasures is at risk: “By prioritizing energy development over sustainable recreation or habitat preservation ...
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Opinion: One of Utah’s outdoor treasures is at risk
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Letter: Labyrinth Rim/Gemini Bridges travel management plan represents a balanced approach to access for all
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Letter: Labyrinth Rim/Gemini Bridges travel management plan represents a ...
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Native tribes are getting a slice of their land back — under the condition that they preserve it
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Native tribes are getting a slice of their land back — under the condition ...
Quick Glance: Native Tribes Co-owning Land for Conservation
  • A conservation group aims to create a model for protecting wilderness in the American West by working with tribes on a newly purchased Utah ranch.

  • The deed is expected to include a coalition of five tribes as co-owners and managers with Wildlands to acknowledge the history of the land.

  • Acknowledging tribes on the actual land deed goes beyond symbolic gestures.

  • It is important to prove that co-ownership goes beyond symbolism and has a real impact.
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Record number of eagles counted at Lake Coeur d’Alene: The Bureau of Land Management earlier this month counted the highest number of bald eagles at Lake Coeur ...
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Record number of eagles counted at Lake Coeur d’Alene
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Biden moves to ban most old-growth logging in national forests: The Forest Service is planning to put more protections in place for the very oldest trees ...
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Biden moves to ban most old-growth logging in national forests
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Opinion: Will the tug-of-war over Utah's canyon country ever end?: Utah's anti-Washington politicians keep trying to make our beloved parks ...
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Opinion: Will the tug-of-war over Utah's canyon country ever end?
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Ban on new oil and gas wells approaches for “cherished” Colorado landscape after years of grassroots efforts
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Ban on new oil and gas wells approaches for “cherished” Colorado landscape ...
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Labyrinth Canyon may gain new roads — for exploratory potash drilling: A potash drilling proposal could result in new road construction near Moab and ...
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Labyrinth Canyon may gain new roads — for exploratory potash drilling
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Their water poisoned, Navajo rely on a church well for water: A historic church and its well have long filled gaps left by environmental injustice ...
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Their water poisoned, Navajo rely on a church well for water
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In a ‘sacred’ desert, the U.S. turns away from drilling and mining: Biden faces a backlash in Wyoming and elsewhere as he seeks to put more emphasis on ...
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In a ‘sacred’ desert, the U.S. turns away from drilling and mining
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Biden administration moves to protect old growth forests as climate change threatens their survival
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Biden administration moves to protect old growth forests as climate change ...
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Off-roading advocates challenge Moab road closures in federal court: A coalition of off-road groups filed a lawsuit challenging the Bureau of Land ...
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Off-roading advocates challenge Moab road closures in federal court
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Bureau of Land Management ends use of cyanide bombs on coyotes: The US Bureau of Land Management says it will no longer use traps full of cyanide in a win for ...
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Bureau of Land Management ends use of cyanide bombs on coyotes
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Garfield County commissioner compares environmental group to al-Qaida, calls them ‘scum of the planet’
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Garfield County commissioner compares environmental group to al-Qaida ...
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Biden administration announces 15 new renewable energy projects on public lands: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the advancement of 15 new renewable ...
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Biden administration announces 15 new renewable energy projects on public ...
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$10 billion renewable energy project paused over concerns for Native American historic sites
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$10 billion renewable energy project paused over concerns for Native ...
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Is This Climate Change Measure An Act Of Cultural Erasure?: The Bureau of Land Management is planning to build a wind farm near one of the few remaining sacred ...
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Is This Climate Change Measure An Act Of Cultural Erasure?
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Trump-era oil and gas leases have been voided across the West. The same might happen in Utah.
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Trump-era oil and gas leases have been voided across the West ...
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Silicon Valley investor didn't clean up wedding at Utah landmark: council member: Andrew Chen and former Miss Ireland Emma Waldron tied the knot at the base of ...
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Silicon Valley investor didn't clean up wedding at Utah landmark: council ...
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Three Things I Wish I Had Known Before My Van Road Trip: Our author took a trip in a van. However, there were a few things she would have liked to test ...
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Three Things I Wish I Had Known Before My Van Road Trip
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Would failure to build highway through national conservation area trigger gridlock, damage economy?
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Would failure to build highway through national conservation area trigger ...
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Ruling closes popular off-highway roads near Moab — for now: The Bureau of Land Management will close 317 miles of routes previously open to motorized vehicles ...
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Ruling closes popular off-highway roads near Moab — for now
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East Zion business owners say their development plan is driven by preservation, not profit
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East Zion business owners say their development plan is driven by ...
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Recovering This Destroyed Ram TRX That Fell Off Moab Cliff Took Creativity: As if getting to the Hellcat-powered truck wasn't tricky enough ...
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Recovering This Destroyed Ram TRX That Fell Off Moab Cliff Took Creativity
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The unspoken environmental impact of meat: Hogging all the land.: Almost half of the continental US is used for meat production. There’s something better we ...
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The unspoken environmental impact of meat: Hogging all the land.
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“Dead birds walking”: BLM sage-grouse plan draws skepticism, concerns: The Bureau of Land Management’s preferred choice for Gunnison sage-grouse habitat ...
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“Dead birds walking”: BLM sage-grouse plan draws skepticism, concerns
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For many in Wyoming, a Biden plan to protect land is beyond unpopular: The explosive reactions illustrate how President Joe Biden’s aggressive climate policies ...
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For many in Wyoming, a Biden plan to protect land is beyond unpopular
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Letter: Is there anything in Utah grand enough that champions of motorized travel would decline to drive across it?
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Letter: Is there anything in Utah grand enough that champions of motorized ...
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‘You didn’t give me a chance’: Inside federal raid, shooting of Idaho man in wheelchair
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‘You didn’t give me a chance’: Inside federal raid, shooting of Idaho man ...
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Feds Closing 317 Miles of Truck Trails Around Moab, and Off-Roaders Are Livid: After years of debate, the government's decision will permanently close a ...
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Feds Closing 317 Miles of Truck Trails Around Moab, and Off-Roaders Are ...
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Virginia congressional delegation seeks probe of FBI decision: Virginia's congressional delegation has called for an investigation of the federal government's ...
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Virginia congressional delegation seeks probe of FBI decision
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Tiny snail becomes part of battle over lithium mine on the Oregon-Nevada border: The Western Watersheds Project has filed a formal notice of intent to sue the ...
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Tiny snail becomes part of battle over lithium mine on the Oregon-Nevada ...
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Rep. Cliff Bentz opposes Owyhee Canyonlands compromise: The compromise now faces a powerful opponent. The deal would put about 1 million acres into wilderness ...
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Rep. Cliff Bentz opposes Owyhee Canyonlands compromise
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'Outrageous': Va. leaders blast decision on FBI site: Virginia leaders call for an investigation of a federal government decision to choose Maryland over ...
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'Outrageous': Va. leaders blast decision on FBI site
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Wild horses at California's Mono Lake cause issues. Feds have a plan: Wild horses are causing problems near this popular California lake. Now there’s a plan to ...
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Wild horses at California's Mono Lake cause issues. Feds have a plan
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Inside 3 Architecturally Significant Utah Homes From $8.5 Million: The Moccasin Flats development, in southern Utah, will have three bespoke homes ...
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Inside 3 Architecturally Significant Utah Homes From $8.5 Million
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A Christmas tree for $10, if you can do the work: Utahns can cut down their own holiday trees on public land with $10 permits. For most of the state ...
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A Christmas tree for $10, if you can do the work
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Opinion: The BLM was right to close vehicle trails around Labyrinth Canyon: “This is a change, for sure, but one for the better — one that, given some ...
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Opinion: The BLM was right to close vehicle trails around Labyrinth Canyon
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Are ‘Good Samaritans’ a solution to cleaning up abandoned hardrock mines?: "Good Samaritans" like state agencies, local governments and nonprofits ...
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Are ‘Good Samaritans’ a solution to cleaning up abandoned hardrock mines?
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After destructive event, Utah town urges BLM to restrict weddings: Trucks smashed vegetation and crushed delicate soil, according to a Castle Valley town ...
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After destructive event, Utah town urges BLM to restrict weddings
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State of Utah, motorized recreators challenge BLM road closures near Moab: The State of Utah and motorized recreation groups challenged the Bureau of Land ...
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State of Utah, motorized recreators challenge BLM road closures near Moab
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Nevada’s largest – and only second – wind farm just got 70k acres from BLM: The US Bureau of Land Management has set aside 70,000 acres of public land for what ...
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Nevada’s largest – and only second – wind farm just got 70k acres from BLM
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Long-dreamed trails expanding in western Colorado: An ambitious trail system years in the making is closer to complete in western Colorado.
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Long-dreamed trails expanding in western Colorado
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It's not all bad news: Wonderful and wild stories about tackling climate change: As part of our week of coverage focused on climate solutions, we pulled together ...
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It's not all bad news: Wonderful and wild stories about tackling climate ...
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BLM Bans Off-Roaders From Driving In Moab: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has picked a serious fight with off-roaders across America, as it recen...
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BLM Bans Off-Roaders From Driving In Moab
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Celeste Maloy is Ammon Bundy’s cousin. Would that impact her views on public lands in Congress?
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Celeste Maloy is Ammon Bundy’s cousin. Would that impact her views on ...
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Sens. Lee, Romney say BLM’s ‘outrageous land grab’ in Wyoming will hurt Utah’s grazing, energy needs
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Sens. Lee, Romney say BLM’s ‘outrageous land grab’ in Wyoming will hurt ...