When congressional staffers take a tour of Arches National Park, their agenda always includes a nondescript piece of desert over by Balanced Rock.
“They all want to see where Ed Abbey lived,” said park Superintendent Laura Joss, standing beside her government-issue Chevy Malibu.
Pointing out Abbey’s old trailer site framed pastorally beneath the La Sal Mountains and [...]

Environmentalists and outfitters are asking the Bureau of Land Management to shelve a proposed gas drilling project near the White River in eastern Utah.
A Denver-based firm, Enduring Resources, has proposed drilling more than 50 natural gas wells on federal and state land just south of the river, an area that the BLM identified in 1999 [...]

The federal Bureau of Land Management is about to begin an environmental impact study on a proposed surface coal mine just south of the Kane County town of Alton but also fairly close to Bryce Canyon National Park.
That location is likely to spark a “jobs vs. environmental protection” debate as the [...]

The last U.S. uranium mill ever built, in this parched landscape near Lake Powell, shut down almost as quickly as itstarted operating as nuclear power fell into disfavor about two decades ago.
Keith Larsen, chief executive for U.S. Energy Corp., picked up the mill 10 years later for practically nothing, banking it for better days. His [...]

Oil-and-gas players bid up to $475 an acre for drilling rights on public land Tuesday, but some were still angry over a judge’s decision two weeks ago that they say robbed them of parcels they’d already won in areas of Utah considered worthy of wilderness protection.
At a fast clip, the Bureau of Land Management auctioned [...]

After strong opposition and a procedural error, the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and Sovereign Lands has withdrawn a lease for oil and gas drilling of 17 acres beneath the Green River.
The land is adjacent to Dinosaur National Monument in the northeastern part of the state.
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