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BLM, Bat Conservation International Monitor Bat Species on Lake Vermilion Islands

In 2025, the BLM Northeastern States District Office teamed up with Bat Conservation International (BCI) to acoustically monitor for threatened and endangered bat species in Lake Vermilion, Minnesota.
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Signs of Collaboration: Protecting Tortoises on Arizona Public Lands

The Bureau of Land Management and partners used science, data, and staff expertise to identify locations where signage can help protect desert tortoises while supporting responsible, motorized recreation.
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BLM Arizona and Arizona Association of Conservation Districts: A Model Partnership for Landscape Conservation

For more than 15 years, the BLM’s Arizona State Office and the Arizona Association of Conservation Districts built a robust partnership, improving conservation efforts across Arizona’s diverse rangelands.
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A small child standing in a yard, wearing overalls and a wide-brimmed hat, holding a garden hose that sprays water across the grass near a house.

What a BLM Natural Resource Specialist Does: An Interview with Nikki Carter

Nikki’s work is central to the stewardship of public lands, blending environmental protection with practical fieldwork across challenging Midwestern landscapes.
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Kids handle fossils at a story time event in Pinedale WY with BLM staff member

Dino-Mite Story Time in Pinedale

On a June morning at the Sublette County Public Library in Pinedale, Wyoming, about 150 kids settled in for story time. What they did not know was that the story that day would reach back millions of years into prehistoric time.
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Reel Partners: BLM and Wyoming Game and Fish Cast a Line for Kemmerer’s Next Generation

The morning air still carried a cool bite when the first young anglers arrived at the Kemmerer Community Fishing Pond on June 13. By 7 a.m., the banks were alive with the sound of reels spinning, lines sailing through the air, and the kind of barely contained excitement that only a kid with a fishing rod can produce.
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