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During their 53rd Annual Meeting this week, the Public Land Council honored Idaho rancher and longtime Bureau of Land Management leader John Ruhs with the 2021 Friends of PLC award. Ruhs formerly served as BLM Acting Deputy Director, Assistant Director of Fire and Aviation at the National Interagency Fire Center, and a state director for both Nevada and Idaho. ...

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says the leadership of the Bureau of Land Management will be moving back to Washington, D.C., from Grand Junction, CO. The Trump Administration had moved the office out west. “The bureau must have the appropriate structure and resources to serve the American public,” Haaland said. The Na ...

Idahoans, and others around the Northwest are being reminded that there are livestock guard dogs on the range protecting sheep and those animals need to be left alone. In a video posted by the Idaho Rangeland Resources Commission, Joanna Tjaden, BLM Rangeland Specialist with the Shoshone District says if the dog is not injured, or just looks lost, leave it be. "Thos ...

Last week, Central Washington representative Dan Newhouse, announced that he was introducing the Tree Spiking Mitigation Act. The chair of the Congressional Western Caucus says the act, which is a companion bill to legislation recently introduced in the Senate, came about because of the Administration’s nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management, Tracy Stone-Manning. New ...

On Thursday, Idaho Senator Jim Risch spoke out against the Biden Administration’s nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management, Tracy Stone-Manning. Risch said before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that a good agency, such as BLM and the people that work there deserve better than the President’s nominee. Ris ...

Last week, the Public Lands Council renewed its call for responsible, proactive management of horses and burros managed by the Bureau of Land Management. PLC said recent activist efforts seek to exploit political transitions and undermine progress toward improved management of wild horse and burro populations on federal lands ...

On Friday, a senior adviser in the U.S. Department of Interior rescinded a January Trump administration decision to grant grazing allotments to Hammond Ranches in the Burns, OR area. Steven Hammond and his father Dwight were both convicted of arson for setting fire to rangeland that eventually spilled on to federal property ...

On Tuesday, the Idaho Board of Land Commissioners gave its final approval to exchanging land within the Owyhee Canyonland Wilderness with federal BLM lands. According to the Idaho Department of Lands, the exchange allows the state and the BLM to acquire lands better suited to their missions and objectives ...

On Friday, a federal judge ruled President Trump’s Bureau of Land Management acting director has been serving unlawfully, blocking him from continuing in the position. It’s the latest round of pushback against the administration’s practice of filling key positions without Senate approval. In his ruling ...

Former Oregon Farm Bureau President Barry Bushue has been appointed state director of the Bureau of Land Management for Oregon and Washington. Bushue is currently the State Executive Director of the Oregon Farm Service Agency, where he oversaw the implementation of programs and policies across 23 county offices, the state office, all with a total of 100 employees ...