Press Releases

The Bureau of Land Management is now offering permits to cut Christmas trees on specified public lands across Colorado until Dec. 24 either online or at most BLM field offices. 

The Bureau of Land Management and Mesa County are working with the Federal Highway Administration on a project to reconstruct and pave about six miles of 18 Road to improve public safety and access to the North Fruita Desert Special Recreation Management Area.

The BLM has approved a business plan to assess an expanded amenity fee at developed campgrounds in the Uncompahgre Field Office beginning May 21, 2025.

The Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Office today opened a 30-day public scoping period to receive public input on 13 oil and gas parcels totaling 12,115 acres that may be included in a September 2025 lease sale.

BLM plans to burn slash piles across northwest Colorado this winter

The BLM has finalized a supplementary rule to protect public health and safety, prevent resource damage, and address recreational sporting activities, camping, travel management, and collecting of geological and biological materials in Canyons of the Ancients National Monument.

The Department of the Interior announced today that the Bureau of Land Management has published proposed updates to strengthen conservation and management of greater sage-grouse habitat on public lands.

Fire managers with the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit are planning to begin burning slash piles in the coming weeks on White River National Forest and Bureau of Land Management-administered lands in Eagle, Garfield, and Summit counties.

The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to conduct pile burns in seven locations within the Royal Gorge Field Office and in three locations within the San Luis Valley Field Office.

The Southwest Resource Advisory Council will meet on November 14 at the Tres Rios Field Office in Dolores, CO.

The BLM released Records of Decision for the Big Game Resource Management Plan Amendment, the Gunnison Sage-Grouse RMPA, and resource management plans for the Grand Junction and Colorado River Valley Field Offices.

The Bureau of Land Management is seeking nominations for a new Federal advisory committee that will help inform how the Bureau implements the Public Lands Rule.

The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public nominations for existing and upcoming member vacancies in nine Resource Advisory Councils.

BLM Colorado is preparing to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area and Wilderness, established through Public Law 160-76 on October 21, 1999.

The Bureau of Land Management Grand Junction Field Office will restrict access to the Third Flats Trailhead and Bangs Canyon Trailhead located off Little Park Road southwest of Grand Junction Oct. 7-11 to maintain trailhead access roads and parking lots.

The Colorado River Valley Field Office will restrict access to JQS Road, located northwest of Rifle, to conduct annual road maintenance Oct. 1-11.

Fire managers with the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit plan to conduct a prescribed fire treatment Sept. 30-Oct. 19 about 18 miles south of Grand Junction.

The Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Office held a competitive oil and gas lease sale, offering one parcel covering 120 acres in Colorado.

Fire crews prepare two sites northwest of Cañon City. The Bureau of Land Management is preparing three prescribed burns, scheduled to take place between late September 2024 and April 2025.

The BLM Grand Junction Field Office concluded wild horse gather operations on the Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range today. The gather operations began Sept. 11 and approximately 140 horses from four areas of the horse range were gathered during the eight days.

The BLM has finalized a supplementary rule implementing decisions approved in travel management plans for the Dry Creek, Ridgway, and Norwood-Burn Canyon travel management areas in the Uncompahgre Field Office, Colorado.

BLM Colorado hires Brian St. George as Associate State Director

The Grand Junction Field Office will begin a wild horse gather on or around Sept. 11 on the Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range near De Beque, Colorado. The purpose of the gather is to ensure safe and humane fertility control will be effective in maintaining a healthy herd in Little Book Cliffs for many years to come.

Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area earns International Dark Sky Park certification from DarkSky International.

The Bureau of Land Management’s Royal Gorge Field Office has issued a decision on the expansion of the Hard Rock Paving and Redi-Mix sand and gravel pit in Salida.