The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comments on a proposal to reroute the approved but unbuilt Gateway South transmission line at the Colorado-Utah border. The proposal, submitted by PacifiCorp doing business as Rocky Mountain Power, would reroute approximately three miles of the Gateway South transmission line south[Read More…]
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Town of Rangely meeting higlights–Oct. and Nov.
Oct. 12 and 26 The Town of Rangely’s Board of Trustees heard the first reading of an amended floodplain management ordinance to align with new recommendations from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). FEMA has changed recommendations to provide higher floodplain management standards to help communities prepare and plan for,[Read More…]
BLM HQ heading back to Washington, D.C. Western headquarters in Grand Junction will be ‘expanded’
RBC I Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland outlined steps that the Department plans to take to rebuild and strengthen the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) following years of transition and upheaval among the workforce. These changes, which will be done in coordination with Congress, will improve the function of[Read More…]
BLM to remove some Sand Wash wild horses
CRAIG I The Bureau of Land Management has issued a decision to reduce herd numbers within the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area to appropriate management levels. The decision allows the BLM to gather wild horses to the low end of the appropriate management level, ranging from 163 to 362,[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY: August 19
The Meeker Herald 125 years ago • Syrup of Figs: With a better understanding of the transient nature of the many physical ills… There is comfort in the knowledge that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual disease, but simply to a constipated condition of the[Read More…]
BLM hits the mark with fourth grade archaeology day
RBC | The BLM White River Field Office joined forces with Parkview and Meeker Elementary schools to inform and educate fourth graders about archaeology May 10-13 at Elks Park in Rangely and Paintbrush Park in Meeker. Prior to the field days, BLM Archaeologists Luke Trout and Cody Walton visited classrooms[Read More…]
BLM seeks public comment on wild horse gathers, fertility control for Sand Wash Basin HMA
FAST FACTS WHO: Bureau of Land ManagementWHAT: Public comment on gathers and fertility control in the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management AreaWHEN: Comments sought by May 2WHERE: Submit by mail to: Little Snake Field Office, 455 Emerson St., Craig, CO 81625 or electronically at https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2012689/510 RBC | As part of[Read More…]
LETTER: Colorado Wild Public Lands on Buffalo Horn
Dear Editor:Do you or any community members have questions about the recently published decision by the BLM (see the Jan. 21 Herald Times) to approve a land exchange with Buffalo Horn Properties, LLC? It conveys 14 parcels of Federal lands aggregating 2,652 acres in Rio Blanco and Moffat Counties, to[Read More…]
Buffalo Horn decision issued
RBC | It’s been a lengthy process, but the Bureau of Land Management, White River Field Office, has issued a decision to approve a land exchange with Buffalo Horn Properties, LLC. The parcels are in the Strawberry Creek and Smith Gulch areas in Rio Blanco and Moffat counties. In 2011,[Read More…]
BLM to gather and remove excess wild horses from Sand Wash Basin and Piceance-East Douglas herd management areas
RBC| The Little Snake Field Office plans to gather and remove approximately 50 excess wild horses from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public lands and private lands within and adjacent to the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area (HMA) in Moffat County in response to written requests from private landowners.[Read More…]
BLM Christmas tree permits available online
RBC | Permits for cutting Christmas trees on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands are available from the White River Field Office in Meeker, Colorado and online at forestproducts.blm.gov. Permits cost $10 per tree. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., however, due to changing COVID-19 impacts, office access[Read More…]
BLM hearing on wild horses and burros postponed
MEEKER | The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has postponed an in-person public hearing on its proposal to use helicopter, fixed wing aircraft and other motorized vehicles to track, inventory, gather, and transport wild horse and burro herds throughout Colorado in the coming year. The meeting was originally scheduled to[Read More…]