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The Interior Department, BLM and NPS all declined to comment on the lawsuit. While the agencies began drafting a comprehensive management plan after the trail’s 2002 establishment, in 2014 they announced that they would instead follow a “comprehensive administrative strategy” that ...

The Old Spanish Trail is the focus of a new lawsuit issued by the Public Employees for Environment Responsibility (PEER). This trail is among the National Historic Trails. “They are historic routes of national significance,” said John Hiscock, Old Spanish Trail Advocate. The Old ...

The suit points in part to the Bureau of Land Management recently providing for only a 50-meter trail buffer when it comes to surface disturbances related to oil and gas leasing in its amended resource management plan for the Grand Junction Field Office. Plaintiffs in the suit include ...

Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., alleging the federal government has failed to protect the Old Spanish National Historic Trail. The suit alleges that the U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Land Management ...

A Nevada conservation group is among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed on Monday, Dec. 9, that aims to protect the historic Old Spanish Trail as development spreads into remote regions in the Southwest. The lawsuit alleges failure to provide a comprehensive management plan, arguing the ...

But critics point to research that for years has detected PFAS in wastewater. Recent studies have also explored how the chemicals can move from the soil into water and plants, and then to the livestock that feed on them. Regarding Synagro, “it seems crazy to be able to say they’re a ...