Public Lands in Danger Throughout the United States
Breaking News: Lease Auctions Start for BLM Lands in Colorado Quick on the heels of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" and Secy. of the Interior Burgum's order to increase leasing and sales of public land (see comments), an auction was held on September 9 to turn over nearly 8,000 acres of public land to developers. The largest of these parcels was on a landfill and Superfund site near Aurora Reservoir, slated for about 150 wells to be installed by the Civitas oil and gas giant. The federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oversees about 36 million acres in Colorado alone. Another, larger auction is set for December 2025. Published December 2024 Five Hundred Million Acres of Public Lands at Risk Last month we were alerted to the dangers to old-growth forests from logging interests eyeing our national forests. That danger has grown with a hiring freeze at the National Forest Service and DOGE cuts sure to come. The U.S. Department of Agriculture oversees our ...