Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management this week said it had approved and launched a process to conduct a timber sale and salvage process to remove trees killed in a portion of the Tamarack Fire burn area.

Dry conditions and high fire risk have led officials at the Bureau of Land Management to prohibit specific fire-related activities on BLM-managed lands.

New facilities for off-highway vehicle enthusiasts, including boulders donated from Nevada Gold Mines, are now complete at Winnemucca Sand Dunes.

Volunteers are being sought for Saturday, March 19 to help plant 10,000 sagebrush seedlings in the Cedar Fire burn area near Jiggs.

The Bureau of Land Management this week will begin prescribed fire operations on 51 acres on the west portion of Spruce Mountain, about 36 miles south of Wells.

Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV) introduced legislation Tuesday to ban federal helicopter roundups of wild horses.

A reseeding project on nearly 6,000 acres in eastern Nevada wrapped up last month in what officials at the Bureau of Land Management say is an effort to restore watershed health and improve wildlife habitat.

After two weeks of operations the Bureau of Land Management this week said it had finished its wild horse roundup effort in the Desatoya Herd Management area 77 miles east of Fallon.

Wild horse advocates filed a lawsuit Friday in federal court in an attempt to stop what they call cruel, secretive and unjustified round ups of horses conducted by the Bureau of Land Management in central Nevada. 

Officials from Tonopah and Ely Bureau of Land Management offices said they’ll begin a massive wild horse gather starting Monday, Jan. 10 covering four herd areas and more than 1.2 million acres.