U.S. Bureau of Land Management

Bureau of Land Management & Cowboy State Daily - Tue May 13, 2025

BLM Approves New $5B Pacific Soda Trona Mine in Wyo.

The federal Bureau of Land Management announced on May 2, 2025, the approval of the Dry Creek Trona Mine Project south of Green River in Sweetwater County, Wyo. Trona is a mineral used to produce soda ash — an essential raw material in baking soda, glass, chemicals, detergents and other key industrial products, including lithium-ion batteries....

Keith Ridler - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue July 10, 2018

Idaho Gears Up to Boost Logging, Restoration on Federal Land

BOISE – Idaho has more than doubled the number of workers assigned to logging and restoration projects on federal lands in the state with the goal of doubling the timber harvest and restoration treatments on by 2025....

Susan Montoya Bryan – The Associated Press - Wed April 25, 2018

New Mexico Considering Approval for $2B SunZia Transmission Project

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) Developers of a $2 billion project that will serve as a path to get renewable energy from New Mexico and Arizona to large markets in the American Southwest are looking to clear another regulatory hurdle as they move toward starting construction on two massive transmission lines and other infrastructure....

Tue March 13, 2018

Feds Approve Expansion of La Sal Mining Complex

Energy Fuels Inc., a producer of uranium in the United States, announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) for the expansion of its 100 percent-owned La Sal Complex of uranium/vanadium mines (the La Sal Complex)....