TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KLIX) – Several Magic Valley residents have been appointed or reappointed to positions of the Bureau of Land Management’s Twin Falls District citizen-based Resource Advisory Council.
HAILEY, Idaho (KLIX) – Deep snow and cold temperatures have caused difficulties for deer and elk herds from Carey to Ketchum, according to the Bureau of Land Management.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Bureau of Land Management has authorized the final routes connecting the high-voltage Gateway West transmission line project between southwestern Idaho and central Wyoming.
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and U.S. Bureau of Land Management are both claiming ownership of about 100 acres near the eastern Idaho city of Pocatello.
ELKO, Nev. (AP) — The Bureau of Land Management is planning to remove 1,100 wild horses from a part of northern Nevada that also contains sage grouse habitat.
ELKO, Nev. (AP) — The Bureau of Land Management is holding a competitive geothermal lease sale for tens of thousands of acres of land in Nevada, California and Utah.
Shoshone, Idaho (KLIX) – The Twin Falls District of the Bureau of Land Management is planning two prescribed burns this fall to rid logging slash piles near Bellevue and Fairfield.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The federal government is using a new assessment of mineral resources on 10 million acres in six Western states to decide whether to ban potential mining on the land to protect an imperiled bird.
CHALLIS, Idaho (KLIX) Investigators say they couldn't find any sign of a criminal act after a fire severely damaged the Challis Bureau of Land Management office.
UPDATE, 2 p.m.: The Transfer Station Fire, which started Wednesday near Shoshone, has been found to to human-caused, according to the BLM, but investigators are still determining how the blaze started.
UPDATE: According to information provided by the BLM, due to unfavorable weather conditions in August the prescribed burn in the Cinder Butte area northeast of Hazelton has been rescheduled for Sept. 1-Oct. 15.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two federal firefighters killed in a crash after an apparent tire blow-out on a Nevada highway were roommates for the summer battle against wildfires in the West.
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) The Bureau of Land Management said it is working to contain a fire, which has burned about 12 acres approximately one mile east of Dierkes Lake near Twin Falls.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A wildfire burning through grass and sagebrush in the Boise foothills destroyed a house and an outbuilding Thursday morning but no injuries have been reported.