The U.S. government received bids for about 70 percent of the land it offered at a large oil and gas lease sale in Wyoming last week, held over the protests of conservationists who argued the area was critical habitat for wildlife, including a threatened bird. High bids added up to over $87 million, according to oil and gas marketplace EnergyNet, which conducted the online sale. The sale took place over five days from Feb. 25 through March 1. A spokeswoman for the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said the agency was in the process of preparing a statement on the sale. The lease sale, covering 757,607.14 acres, was one of the largest conducted on land under the administration of President Donald Trump. It had originally been set for late last year, but a federal judge’s order in September required BLM to provide additional public comment […]