WASHINGTON (North Dakota Monitor) — The Trump administration is planning on making more acres of public land available for energy and mineral development in eight Western states, a move worrying environmentalists watching for the declining population of greater sage-grouse. The Bureau of Land Management announced Monday plans to modify its greater sage-grouse land use plan on about 50 million acres…
MEDORA, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – Public lands advocate Walt Dabney joined a group of North Dakota conservationists in the Badlands on Sunday to see how federal funding cuts are affecting public lands in the state — and how members of the public are stepping up in the government’s place. Dabney, a former National Park Service ranger, is in North…
Natural gas is flared from oil and gas facilities at Fort Berthold in August 2021. (Photo provided by Environmental Protection Agency)(North Dakota Monitor) A North Dakota judge’s ruling blocks a federal agency from enforcing new restrictions on natural gas venting and flaring. The preliminary injunction granted Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Traynor temporarily prevents the Bureau of Land…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — U.S. District Judge Daniel Traynor in Bismarck has ordered the Bureau of Land Management to resume quarterly oil and gas lease sales in North Dakota. Attorney General Drew Wrigley says the court’s order directs BLM to comply with federal law and do what Congress commanded it to do. He says the dispute started in 2021 when…
