WyoFile wants to hear from you. Losing six positions would be a drop in BLM-Wyoming’s employee bucket — just 1% to 2% of its approximately 400 permanent full-time employees across the state.

The former director of the Bureau of Land Management’s Wyoming office has retired weeks after being placed on administrative leave following an Office of Inspector General investigation that ...

Archuleta was placed on leave in April, BLM Wyoming Deputy State Director for Communications Brad Purdy confirmed Wednesday. Kris Kirby has been named acting state director, Purdy said.

Earlier this month, new Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed Wyoming’s BLM office to review the plan and recommend changes by Tuesday, Feb. 18.

But the “issue” that Roy alludes to is complicated further by the unique checkerboard landscape in Southwest Wyoming, where public and private parcels interlock in a checkerboard pattern, and by the ...

The BLM keeps its fair-market-value figure confidential. However, BTU Western Resources' bid of 90 cents per ton was less than the winning bid of $1.35 per ton at the last Wyoming coal lease sale ...

CHEYENNE — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says it has nearly finished clearing a more than two-year-old backlog of 1,501 unissued federal oil and gas leases in Wyoming, although ...