Sentences with phrase «of acres of public lands with»

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.

Not exact matches

Jamaica State Park 700 + acres of public land along the West River, with a nature center, campground and hiking trails.

Officials with the Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco - based, non-profit conservation group, announced they have bought a half - acre lot in the 2700 block of West Fullerton Avenue, across the street from Haas Park.

With the support of generous individuals, foundations, families, businesses, communities, and public and private partners, we protected 1,234 acres of important land across Massachusetts.

Park District employees have to put up with all the usual vandalism that goes with running nearly 700 acres of public land.

Lewis County plans to fill a nine - acre parcel of land behind the Public Safety Building in Lowville with enough solar panels to produce two - megawatts of energy.

And Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) has contracted with Abengoa Solar to build a 280 - megawatt solar thermal power plant — dubbed Solana or «sunny place» — 70 miles (110 kilometers) southwest of Phoenix on nearly 2,000 acres (800 hectares) of land.

[n8] The Permanent School Fund, its predecessor established in 1854 with $ 2,000,000 realized from an annexation settlement, [n9] was thereafter endowed with millions of acres of public land set aside to assure a continued source of income for school support.

There are about 3.4 million acres of SITLA - managed land interspersed within and among the 22.9 million acres of public lands throughout Utah, with more than 555,000 acres of SITLA lands impacted by wild horses.

Thanks to a partnership with the City of Santa Fe and the Bureau of Land Management, the main Shelter is housed on a 100 - acre campus complete with walking trails and play yards for daily enrichment for our Shelter residents, as well as single and multi - use public dog parks.

Today, the neighborhood is a hub of economic activity, with at least one notable exception — a plot of public land, no bigger than an acre, where an artist collective known as the Flatbread Society is busy planting seeds and baking bread.

As he suggested in his State of the Union speech, President Obama seems willing to generate electricity for three million homes by blanketing a million acres of public lands with taxpayer - subsidized, bird - killing wind turbines, habitat - smothering solar panels, high - voltage transmission lines, and gas - fired backup units.

America has about 279 million acres of public land and waters with potential oil and gas.

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.

They calculate that within those public lands are 28.9 million acres of national forests, 13.6 million acres of national wildlife refuge, 2.9 million acres of parks and 7 million acres of wilderness overlapping with fossil fuel fields and basins.

Although several large - scale solar projects in California have sputtered (including two from BrightSource) and technical challenges are considerable, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced a move in early July to prioritize more than 300,000 acres of public lands in six Western states for use by utility - scale solar plants, with nearly half of that acreage in California.

Approximately 664 acres of pristine wilderness surrounded by public lands with clean air and water just 20 minutes from downtown Milpitas.