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Addison Schuette drives wooden post into the streambed using a hydraulic post-pounder with help from Casey Schuder and Gabriel Juarez

Prineville District employees restore creek, teach others to do the same

Over the summer, Prineville District employees jumped into the deep end of creek restoration—hosting a workshop and implementing a stream restoration project at the same time.
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Four people wearing gloves and hardhats stand and kneel around a tree they are about to cut down.

Felling trees for fish habitat

Staff directionally felled encroaching conifers into a creek near Lander, Wyoming, to mimic natural log jams and provide structure to the stream channel. This will improve the habitat for fish, beaver and other wildlife.
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FERC Seminoe Pumped Storage Project site visit

FERC wraps up public scoping meetings and onsite tour for Seminoe Pumped Storage Project

FERC held public scoping meetings and an onsite tour for the Seminoe Pumped Storage Project on Sept. 24-25, 2024. The project, in collaboration with BLM, could power 317,860 homes annually, advancing Wyoming's clean energy goals.
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Personnel from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the BLM, as well as an intern from Conservation Corps New Mexico, conduct a survey for Koster’s springsnail, the Roswell springsnail and Noel’s amphipod at the Rio Hondo Spring Run on the Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Roswell, New Mexico on July 8.

BLM New Mexico, Fish and Wildlife Service team up for springsnail and amphipod surveys

Nearly a year ago, personnel from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and BLM New Mexico worked together to save endangered Koster’s springsnails when a creek at Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge ran dry near the end of a hot summer.
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Malissa carries a backpack electrofisher

Meet Malissa Abraham, fisheries biologist intern at the Safford Field Office

Malissa's internship with the Bureau of Land Management has put her on a path toward her career goal of being a fisheries biologist serving public lands.
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Charles Ebbers
A pickup truck is pointed to look out across the Arctic landscape.

An Arctic eDNA eXTRAVAGANZA

Departing from a cold, snow covered remote airstrip along the Dalton Highway by small, fixed wing aircraft, we were headed to the BLM Arctic District’s Umiat Field Camp on the southeast edge of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
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