Interior Department

Go West, Bureau of Land Management

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Land Report Editors

According to the Interior Department, officials are scouting a new location for BLM headquarters nearer the terrain it manages: 388,000 square miles, 99 percent of which can be found in a dozen Western states. Look for an announcement in September…

Tagged with: BLM headquarters, Bureau of Land Management, Interior Department
Posted in Arizona, Colorado, Conservation, Feature, Federal Policy, Idaho, New Mexico, News Desk, Public Land, Utah, West

Land Report August 2018 Newsletter

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Land Report Editors

US farmland takes top billing in our August newsletter as the Department of Agriculture reports in its annual survey that farmland values, including land and structures, moved up for the ninth year in a row and for the thirteenth year…

Tagged with: BLM, David Bernhardt, Department of the Interior, Interior Department, Knorr Ranch, NASS, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Ren Martyn, Ryan Zinke, Summit County, The Colorado Cattlemenâ€™s Agricultural Land Trust
Posted in Newsletter

Trump Orders Review of National Monuments Over Last Two Decades

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Land Report Editors

Secretary of Interior to vet designations since 1996. President Donald Trump directed Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to review national monuments greater than 100,000 acres created by the Antiquities Act since January 1, 1996. The Antiquities Act Executive Order,…

Tagged with: Antiquities Act, Interior Department, national monuments, President Donald Trump, Ryan Zinke
Posted in Feature, Federal Policy, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Midwest, News Desk, Northeast, Pacific, South, Southwest, West

Ashe Takes Oath as Fish & Wildlife Director

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Eric OKeefe

Dan Ashe was sworn in as the 16th director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on June 30. President Obama had nominated Ashe to head up the nation’s principal federal agency dedicated to the conservation of fish and wildlife…

Tagged with: Barack Obama, Daniel Ashe, Fish and Wildlife, Interior Department, Ken Salazar, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Posted in Conservation, Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Public Land, Water

Adults Only – The New Interior Department Reality Show

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Eric OKeefe

Update: In a report to Congress on September 24, the Department of the Interior confirmed that the controversial Royalty in Kind Program will be phased out this Thursday, September 30. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEM)…

Tagged with: BOEM, Chevron, Department of the Interior, Eric O'Keefe, Gary Williams Energy, Hess, Interior Department, Ken Salazar, Michael Bromwich, RIK, RIV, Shell
Posted in Energy, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Federal Policy, Minerals, News Desk, Timber

The Land Report Looks at the Obama Cabinet

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Land Report Editors

While a few of President Obama’s cabinet nominees remain to be confirmed, others – such as Ken Salazar (pictured) – will exert enormous influence on landowners and have been hard at work since hours after the inauguration.

Tagged with: Barack Obama, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, George W. Bush, Interior Department, Ken Salazar, Stephen Chu, Tom Vilsack
Posted in Feature, Joseph Guinto, News Desk

Obama to Nominate Salazar for Interior

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Land Report Editors

Landowners in the West will have one of their own heading up the Interior Department in the new Obama Administration. According to published reports, Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) will be named the 50th Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior…

Tagged with: Barack Obama, Colorado, conservation easements, eminent domain, energy policy, Interior Department, Ken Salazar, Obama Administration, Pinon Canyon
Posted in Conservation, Energy, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Minerals, Public Land, Timber, Water

Interior Department to Allow Firearms in Parks and Refuges

Posted on December 7, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

On Friday the Interior Department ruled that Americans will be able to carry concealed weapons in some federal parks and wildlife refuges. The announcement overturns a decades-old Reagan Administration regulation that required all guns brought into national parks and wildlife…

Tagged with: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Bush Administration, firearms, Interior Department, National Park Service, NPS, U.S. Forest Service, USFS
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Public Land, Recreation, Topics

BLM Makes Push to Buy Western Land

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2007 Under a federal law, the BLM, an arm of the Department of the Interior, has begun buying private properties that carve into federal wildlife refuges, national parks, national forests, and their ilk, making those…