U.S. Bureau of Land Management

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this morning deadlocked Thursday on Montanan Tracy Stone-Manning’s nomination to lead the US Bureau of Land Management.

The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will vote on the controversial nomination of Montanan Tracy Stone-Manning to lead the US Bureau of Land Management, the management agency for 245 million acres of federal land out West.

Montana’s U.S. Senators are taking differing positions on President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee met Tuesday to consider the head of the public lands agency.

President Joe Biden has nominated Tracy Stone-Manning of Missoula, Mont., to direct the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management. She will oversee roughly a quarter-billion acres of federally owned land in Western states.

A Montanan is reportedly expected to be President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management. Several news outlets, including E&E...

Gov. Greg Gianforte announced Friday that the state awarded $4.5 million to 14 forest projects meant to bolster the timber industry, restore forest...

Federal officials are postponing Montana’s March oil and gas lease sale, a few weeks after the Biden Administration pushed pause on new leasing to review current policy.

Environmental groups last year won a case that overturned oil and gas lease sales in Montana from 2017 and 2018. Now they’re following up with a lawsuit against sales from 2019 and 2020.

Environmental groups are hopeful that a recent ruling that invalidated land management plans in Montana means the federal government will redraft the documents. Montana's leading oil and gas industry group, meanwhile, says members should have a fair chance at using those lands.

News broke over the weekend that the Trump administration is reportedly pulling its contentious nomination for U.S. Bureau of Land Management director....