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In February, the Bureau of Land Management Arizona transferred three fire engines to three rural wildland partners in Arizona.

The BLM conducted the Land Corral prescribed fire in the St. David Cienega region of the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (SPRNCA). The February 18 fire was planned to be approximately 770 acres; actual consumption of fuel was greater than 90% in wetland regions and estimated at 30-40% in the dry sections.

In honor of Black History Month, the Bureau of Land Management is taking you on a tour of several safe houses along the Underground Railroad.

Alden Shallcross, State Lead - Montana/Dakotas Aquatic Habitat Management Program

Through a partnership with the non-profit organization Wild at Heart and the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the BLM's Phoenix District Office has been working on a burrowing owl augmentation project to translocate owls displaced by development throughout the greater Phoenix area to BLM lands. 

Staff from the BLM’s Yuma Field Office worked with Tom Martin and his wife Hazel Clark who wanted to harvest native tule reed along the Colorado River. These reeds went on to become a raft that successfully floated through the Grand Canyon in January 2021.

On February 12, the staff from the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Lake Havasu Field Office helped decontaminate watercraft at the WON BASS Arizona Open at Lake Havasu tournament. The BLM completed decontaminations with the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) and Woods to Water Wildlife Solutions to stop the spread of aquatic invasive species (AIS) and protect western waters.

By Aaron Richter, Fisheries &amp

You’re caught in sub-zero bad weather in the White Mountains National Recreation Area and whatever equipment you were counting on to travel back to the trailhead broke down – here’s some of what you wish you had with you.

From slave to Oregon Trail traveler to Black landowner, the story of pioneering Oregon homesteader Letitia Carson is an inspiring one—with a BLM connection.