Jennifer writes about public lands issues, including access, development and the state land transfer movement. She previously covered campaigns and elections at E&E. Before joining E&E News in 2011, she spent 10 years at the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call where she worked as an investigative reporter writing about ethics, campaign finance and congressional wealth. Her work has also appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Detroit News and on National Public Radio. She has appeared as an expert guest on outlets including C-SPAN, NPR and local television. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines this week dismissed concerns over the Trump administration's decision to put a longtime critic of federal ownership of public lands at the helm of the Bureau of Land Management.
The Interior Department announced today that it finalized an agreement to acquire 13,000 acres of lands for public use in Montana's Lower Blackfoot River corridor.
The Justice Department is pushing back against Nevada landowners who accuse federal land managers of stealing their water and flooding their land, asserting that the plaintiffs themselves have failed to "beneficially use more than one million gallons of water."
Local officials are promoting a long-unfinished office building at the Grand Junction Regional Airport — which could cost as much as $9.5 million to complete — as the new headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management.
The National Park Service endorsed a proposal that would allow cattle ranches to continue operations at Point Reyes National Seashore near San Francisco while culling the tule elk herds in the area.