Eli Fournier

The Bureau of Land Management has a new potential leader: former New Mexico congressman, Steve Pearce. Earlier this month, President Trump appointed Pearce to be the agency director, a role in which he will be responsible for managing the BLM’s 245 million surface acres, and 700-million-acre...

The huntable acreage enrolled in public-private access agreements continues to slip in some western states, new numbers show. As hunters see increased crowding on public lands, they’re turning to alternative avenues for access, including private rangeland and agricultural lands enrolled in state...

One year after four dams were removed on the Klamath River spanning the Oregon-California border, fall Chinook salmon have made it into previously inaccessible spawning grounds. Earlier this month, biologists confirmed that multiple Chinook have made it past the old dam sites and into tributaries of...

Last week, the U.S. Senate voted to overturn three BLM resource management plans (RMPs), paving the way for increased energy development on select public lands. The congressional resolution targeted the Miles City Field Office in eastern Montana, the Alaska Office’s Central Yukon district, and the...