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Officials of the Bureau of Land Management insist Bunkerville cattle rancher Cliven Bundy “owes the American taxpayers in excess of $1 million” in unpaid grazing fees for the past two […]
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BLM reschedules oil and gas lease sale
The Bureau of Land Management Nevada has rescheduled the Elko/Southern Nevada Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale for September 9, 2014; the sale was originally scheduled for June 24, 2014. […]
Officials confident fracking won’t contaminate lands
Recently the Nevada Division of Minerals held a series of public hearings across the state to obtain comments on its new rules regulating hydraulic fracturing, commonly called fracking, used in […]
Gold Rock Mine Project public input period extended
The Bureau of Land Management has published in the Federal Register a second Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for a proposed open-pit gold mine about 22 […]
Euthanasia needs to be an option for wild horses
Our government masters too often seem downright schizophrenic. Take the raging debates over what to do about two species — sage grouse and wild horses. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]
Eureka Pipeline Project EA released
The Bureau of Land Management, Elko District Office, Tuscarora Field Office released an Environmental Assessment (EA) on a proposed pipeline in northeastern Eureka County for a 15-day public review until […]
Rural counties must protect water
Rural Nevada counties should be careful with whom they form alliances. This past week two federal lawsuits were filed with the same intended purpose and with many of the same […]
BLM seeking comments on Environmental Assessment
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Battle Mountain District is making available for public review an Environmental Assessment (EA) for 139 parcels of public land nominated for lease within the […]
Board of Commissioners discuss variety of topics at meeting
Kenneth Brown of the Western Counties Alliance told the Commission he wished his “update was a little better news” as with the new Congressional year he wonders which “things will […]
Potential mines moving forward
Midway Gold held the first of planned quarterly meetings open to the public to update the community on its major projects going forward. Midway Gold held meetings in Eureka and […]