Mar 20, 2026 | Look West Newsletter
As a private attorney, Karen Budd-Falen represented numerous ranching interests in fights against environmental regulations and public land management agencies. When Budd-Falen joined the Interior department in 2018 during the first Trump administration as a... 
Aug 22, 2023 | Look West Newsletter
A veteran Bureau of Land Management employee in the San Luis Valley has filed a whistleblower complaint, claiming illegal grazing is harming the Rio Grande River. Melissa Shawcroft, who has been a BLM rangeland management specialist since 1992, told the Denver...