The federal Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the monument, finalized a new resource management plan in early January ...
The sun sets over sagebrush at the Painted Hills, found within the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in central Oregon.
Nada Wolff Culver, BLM’s former principal deputy director and one of the architects of the signature Biden administration ...
The remote landscape of southeastern Oregon is receiving additional protections. The Bureau of Land Management has finalized its resource management plan for the southeast corner of the state and ...
“Northern spotted owls are at a tipping point, and both barred owls and habitat have to be managed to save them,” Barry Bushue, BLM Oregon/Washington state director, said in an emailed statement.
Today, the BLM estimates that population has grown to 40,605. The Oregon corral, expanded in 2013 to hold up to 800 horses, at one time held 1,200. “We’re complete maxed out,” says Rob Sharp ...
The BLM said barred owls moved west due to human activity, which led to that population surpassing the northern spotted owl population across most of Washington, Oregon and California.