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Montana-Dakotas

Butte BLM to conduct prescribed burn near Townsend

(BUTTE, Mont.) – This spring, the Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office will conduct prescribed burns on just over 400 acres in the Iron Mask area west of Townsend.

Montana-Dakotas

North Central Montana District to hold multiple prescribed burns over 9 months

(LEWISTOWN, Mont.) – The Bureau of Land Management North Central District is planning five prescribed burn operations throughout the field season when fuel conditions and weather permit safe operat

Montana-Dakotas

BLM Billings Field Office schedules spring prescribed fire projects

(BILLINGS, Mont.) –The Bureau of Land Management Billings Field Office will conduct prescribed burns in Musselshell and Yellowstone Counties this spring when fuel and weather permit safe opera

Montana-Dakotas

Springtime prescribed burn projects planned for Meade County

(BELLE FOURCHE, S.D.) – The Bureau of Land Management will be conducting prescribed burns this spring on the Fort Meade Recreation Area near Sturgis as soon as conditions per

Montana-Dakotas

BLM to begin taking online reservations at Axolotl Cabin

(DILLON, Mont.) – Are you already thinking of a relaxing summer getaway to a cabin in the woods?

Montana-Dakotas

Proposed plans to guide federally managed lands in western and central Montana released

(BILLINGS, Mont.) – The proposed plans to guide decisions on how to manage federal lands in western and central Montana for the next two decades were released today by the Montana/Dakotas Stat

Montana-Dakotas

BLM: Fort Meade grazing allotments up for bid

(BELLE FOURCHE, SD.) – The Bureau of Land Management is accepting sealed bids on two Fort Meade Recreation Area grazing allotments during the 2020-2022 grazing season.

Montana-Dakotas

BLM releases sale notice for March 2020 Oil and Gas Lease Sale

(BILLINGS, Mont.) – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s Montana/Dakotas State Office today released the March 2020 Notice of Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale List, which includes 8 parcels tota

Montana-Dakotas

BLM seeks nominations to Resource Advisory Council

(BILLINGS, Mont.) – Have you wanted to become more involved with your public lands?

National Office, Montana-Dakotas

Interior approves Record of Decision for Keystone XL pipeline

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S.

Montana-Dakotas

BLM, Federal Highway Administration to discuss $5 million road project

(MISSOULA, Mont.) – The Missoula Field Office and Federal Highway Administration will hold an open house in Missoula to discuss a proposed $5 million Federal Lands Transportation Project to improve

Montana-Dakotas

BLM announces Livestock Water Pipeline EA scoping period

(BELLE FOURCHE, SD.) – The Bureau of Land Management has opened a public comment period as part of the process to prepare an Environmental Assessment for two livestock water pipelines within the Ft

Montana-Dakotas

BLM to start Travel Management Planning process

(BELLE FOURCHE, S.D.) – If you would like to have input into the travel management plan for the Center of the Nation Travel Management Area, you will get your chance beginning on Jan.

Montana-Dakotas

Some Holter Lake camping reservations to go online in new year

(BUTTE, Mont.) – Good news for “plugged-in” campers hoping to reserve sites at the Bureau of Land Management’s Holter Lake Campground north of Helena: the Butte Field Office will be taking bookings

Montana-Dakotas

Dillon BLM taking public comment on East Pioneers and Madison watersheds

(DILLON, Mont.) – After examining resource conditions in the East Pioneers and Madison watersheds this past summer, the Dillon Field Office has posted those assessment reports online for public com

Montana-Dakotas

Oil and gas lease auction brings in over $190,000

(BILLINGS, Mont.) – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Montana/Dakotas raised $191,912.50 in its quarterly oil and gas lease sale held online December 18.

Montana-Dakotas

Bureau of Land Management plans to burn piles from three active forest management projects this winter in north central Montana

(LEWISTOWN, Mont.) – Prescribed fire is one way the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) actively manages the landscape to promote healthy, resilient forests and rangelands.

Montana-Dakotas

BLM Montana/Dakotas issues policy to reduce wildfire risk around power lines on public lands

(BILLINGS, Mont.) – Building on the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to reduce the threat of wildfires through active management, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Montana/Dakotas State Off

Montana-Dakotas

Dillon BLM reviewing mining plan of operations in Madison County

(DILLON, Mont.) – The Bureau of Land Management’s Dillon Field Office is reviewing a plan of operations to placer mine approximately 3 acres in Madison County.

Montana-Dakotas

Dillon BLM opens public comment period for proposed oil well near Lima

(DILLON, Mont.) – The Bureau of Land Management has opened a public comment period for an exploratory oil well proposal on public lands in southwestern Montana, near Lima.

Montana-Dakotas

BLM releases the Record of Decision and Amendment to the 2015 Miles City Field Office Approved Resource Management Plan

MILES CITY, Mont. – The Bureau of Land Management’s Montana State Office today published a notice of availability of the Record of Decision and Amendment to the 2015 Miles City Field Offi

Montana-Dakotas

BLM Montana expands public access in Lower Blackfoot River Watershed

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Montana-Dakotas

BLM releases sale notice for December 2019 Oil and Gas Lease Sale

(BILLINGS, Mont.) – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s Montana/Dakotas State Office today released the December 2019 Notice of Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale List, which includes 20 parcels

Montana-Dakotas

BLM releases sale notice for December 2019 Oil and Gas Lease Sale

(BILLINGS, Mont.) – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s Montana/Dakotas State Office today released the December 2019 Notice of Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale List, which includes 20 parcels

Montana-Dakotas

North Hills near Helena remain closed during fire rehabilitation project

(BUTTE, Mont.) – Months after a human-caused fire swept through the North Hills near Helena, the area remains closed to the public as work crews from the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S.