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Nevadans will have the opportunity to learn more and weigh in on a proposed public lands rule.

(Colorado Newsline) Memorial Day is the unofficial kickoff to the summer tourism season in Colorado's high country, where cities and counties heavily reliant on outdoor recreation dollars on huge swaths of federally owned land are nervously watching Congress wrangle over the debt ceiling.

Republicans in Congress responded quickly and indignantly to the proposed rule.

(Colorado Newsline) Top officials from the federal Bureau of Land Management visited Colorado Thursday for the first in a series of three in-person meetings to brief the public on a new proposal to broaden the agency's conservation efforts.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is holding a public hearing today in Denver.

A proposed rule from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management could raise conservation up as a priority on the land it manages. 

The Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area and the nonprofit Greater Arkansas River Nature Association are sponsoring a free four-part educational series to train volunteers to help steward the public lands.

Nevada is still waiting for official designation of a new national monument. In late November, President Joe Biden said he is "committed" to protecting Avi Kwa Ame, known by some as Spirit Mountain, an area spanning about 450,000 acres near Laughlin.

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon is again taking the Department of Interior to court. The governor has filed a second federal lawsuit against the Department.

Approximately 63 percent of Utah's public lands is managed by the federal government, according to the latest drafting of the state's resource management plan. But could the oversight for Utah's public lands, along with the revenue they generate, ever be handed over to the state?