MONTANA STANDARD
by Susan Dunlap
February 4, 2019
Oil and gas leasing on 12,889 acres in Beaverhead and Madison counties has been deferred indefinitely, a Bureau of Land Management official said Monday.
But that doesn’t mean the leases are dead forever.
Cornelia Hudson, BLM Dillon field office manager, said the agency got so many negative public comments last month on the proposed oil and gas leases that the BLM deferred those parcels. Read more.
