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The Black Mountain herd contains an estimated 1,925 wild burros. BLM officials say that's more than three times the appropriate herd management level of 478.
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Work on a $10 billion l renewable energy project has come to a halt in Arizona. Native American tribes say the government ignored concerns about the effects the SunZia transmission line will have on religious and cultural sites.
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In an effort to safeguard sacred tribal lands, federal authorities announced a plan to protect more than 4,000 acres within the Placitas area in New Mexico’s Sandoval County.
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The Bureau of Land Management is asking the public to weigh in on a proposal to issue a 10-year grazing permit south of Kingman.
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Environmentalists and tribes are urging a U.S. appeals court to overturn a judge’s decision that allowed construction to begin on a huge lithium mine in Nevada, citing concerns over ecosystem health.
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The Biden administration has identified more than 175,000 square miles of old growth and mature forests on U.S. government land and plans to craft a new rule to better protect the nation's woodlands from fires, insects and other side effects of climate change.
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A conservation group says cattle grazing is having negative impacts on a protected river in southern Arizona.
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A federal appeals court says the U.S. government failed to consider the cumulative effects of greenhouse gas emissions that would result from the approval of nearly 200 drilling permits issued in an area surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
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A new report highlights several logging projects in the U.S. that environmental groups say are endangering some of the nation’s oldest forests. Among the threatened areas is a 15,000-acre swath on the Kaibab Plateau near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
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Officials with the Coconino National Forest say firelines held steady Thursday and overnight on both the Pipeline and Haywire fires. Crews are facing Red Flag winds Friday. The Bureau of Reclamation has implemented fire restrictions in Arizona, southern Nevada and southern California in order to support fire operations and local fire restrictions in those areas.