Our Stories

As we celebrate National Service Dog Month, we celebrate service dogs who enable their handlers to work, go to school, and recreate on public lands in ways they couldn’t otherwise do.

With just under 30 years working with the BLM, Neil Hamada recently accepted a new position as the off-highway vehicle (OHV) travel management lead for the BLM California State Office. Neil has been a champion for OHV management in southern California, serving as the longtime manager of the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area (ISDRA), one of the nation's premier OHV destinations within the El Centro Field Office.

The Bureau of Land Management released its tentative plan for wild horse and burro gather and fertility control operations in Fiscal Year 2025, which outlines the bureau’s planned efforts as it works to protect herd and land health across the West.

In the fall, sagebrush flowers and goes to seed as temperatures drop and daylight hours shorten. Protein-rich seeds and evergreen sage leaves continue to feed and shield greater sage-grouse.

Here are just some of our favorite activities across Arizona's public lands in honor of World Rivers Day, which is on Sunday, September 22.

Meet Sydney Yankee, who was a range technician intern at the Lower Sonoran Field Office in Phoenix this summer.

BLM-Utah's Color Country District received funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to expand its network of recreation trails at Iron Hills near Cedar City, Utah.

An interview with Kiauna Curtis, a first responder who adopted her mustang Cowboy at BLM Eastern States' Hot Springs, Arkansas wild horse and burro placement event.

The search continues for the grave of Mrs. Nash, laundress for the Seventh Cavalry at Fort Meade, South Dakota.

An interview with Lindsey Gabbard, founder and executive director of Branded Equine-Based Therapy Services about her experience working with the BLM's Wild Horse and Burro program.

This year, BLM Colorado has hired two new interns through Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps (ALCC). I sat with one of those interns, Macy Robinson, to discuss what her experience has been like so far.