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Articles: New Mexico
The BLM has released the draft EA for another comment period for the Recreation Area Management Plan for the Gila Lower Box in the Las Cruces District office. The proposals include new parking areas, campfire rings and restricting areas to motorized use. This area was...
In southern New Mexico, near Las Cruces lies the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument containing 496,330 acres. The Bureau of Land Management is updating the resource management plan that will direct the future of all uses throughout the entirety of the...
There is a shift happening on public lands with two main drivers: recreation and renewable energy, solar and wind power. The climate agenda is shifting the priorities of our public lands. There has been a significant increase of solar farms on public land in recent...
Bureau of Land Management in New Mexico has proposed the next step, the environmental assessment (EA) to the Gila Lower Box Special Recreation Management Area. In 2022, BRC and it's members participated in the scoping public comment period. BLM has since reviewed all...
Bureau of Reclamation is accepting public comment for the near term Colorado River Operations. In April of 2023 BOR released its original alternatives and the public provided feedback. Many of our members sent in comments. The BOR ended that public comment period due...
The Bureau of Land Management recently proposed a new rule to FLPMA to prioritize conservation and landscape health on BLM managed lands. This rule proposes prioritizing conservation on BLM land through a new scheme of selling "conservation leases." This is a backdoor...
Just days after the BLM announced their proposed supplementary rule which would prioritize conservation, the US Forest Service released a proposed rule that also has the same deadline, June 20, 2023 for public comment. Please join with BRC and others and submit a...
On January 30, six of the seven Colorado River basin states jointly released a proposal to the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) in response to that agency’s January 31 deadline to avoid facing possible preemptive federal intervention. Technically, it’s a...
UPDATE: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE COMMENT PERIOD EXTENDED UNTIL JANUARY 22, 2023. IMPORTANT: IT IS IMPORTANT TO READ THE FULL BRIEFING BEFORE YOU COMMENT. THIS ACTION ALERT FORM BELOW WILL SEND COMMENTS TO BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, AND MEMBERS OF...
Gordy's Hill is a popular destination for off-roading South of Albuquerque, New Mexico. New Mexico 4 Wheelers, and other groups have been working with BLM for years to develop this into a recreation area that can be a destination for all levels of off-roading...