Sentences with phrase «of acres of public lands»

BLM will have to go back to the drawing board for at least part of its environmental studies, which affect millions of acres of public lands in the Powder River Basin.

Now a decadelong struggle over the fate of thousands of acres of public land on the Roan has come to a head, and just in time for the hotly contested race for Colorado's open U.S. Senate seat.

October 28, 2016 • The verdict is expected to have sweeping implications on the militia movement and its apparent goal of taking over millions of acres of public lands in the West.

As part of the plan, the BLM, which controls millions of acres of public lands with the Forest Service, will regulate miners, energy developers and ranchers who hold federal leases to work in sage brush wilderness in 10 states.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has opened millions of acres of public lands for development while pursuing policies of protection in his home state.

In a related action, the DOI also cordoned off nearly 10 million of acres of public land as sage grouse habitat and prohibited any economic activity on the land, such as mining or fracking.

There are now thousands of acres of public land «where the federal government doesn't dare tread, because of the threat of violence,» says Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a Birmingham, Alabama - based nonprofit that tracks extremist groups in America.

Surely it would have been jarring simply to describe that plan's instrumental view of nature, with its firm avowal of «American energy dominance» and suggestion that millions of acres of public lands and waters may soon be auctioned off for oil and gas development.

Thousands of acres of public lands are at risk of being industrialized, including critically important headwaters, forests, and landscapes.