The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) intends to offer leases on 4,276 acres in Montana and North Dakota.
The leases, on which BLM is seeking final comments through Dec. 4, lie in Montana’s Liberty and Richland counties, and North Dakota’s Bottineau, Burke, Dunn, and McKenzie counties, the agency said in a Nov. 5 notice.
BLM completed scoping on the parcels in July 2025 and held a public comment period that closed in September 2025 on the parcels and the related environmental analysis.
Cathy Landry has worked over 20 years as a journalist, including 17 years as an energy reporter with Platts News Service (now S&P Global) in Washington and London.
She has served as a wire-service reporter, general news and sports reporter for local newspapers and a feature writer for association and company publications.
Cathy has deep public policy experience, having worked 15 years in Washington energy circles.
She earned a master’s degree in government from The Johns Hopkins University and studied newspaper journalism and psychology at Syracuse University.