Three hikers walking past the sandstone wall riddled with holes in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument.

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New Mexico, Las Cruces DO

Las Cruces District RAC explores Rincon Watershed

National Office
Harbor Seal

Armchair Adventures

America’s public lands offer some of the most spectacular and interesting places you’ll ever see.
National Office
Mount Hayes, Alaska

Armchair Adventures

America’s public lands offer some of the most spectacular and interesting places you’ll ever see.
California, Redding FO

Vernal Pools preserve California's natural landscape

What ecological feature can do all of the following:
Montana-Dakotas

Western Montana Salvage Timber Sale a win for forest health

A member of the Missoula F
Idaho
4-H Trained Wild Horse

Adopt a 4-H Trained Wild Horse on April 11, 2020

Wild horses trained by three Treasure Valley 4-H clubs will be available for adoption virtually on April 11, 2020. Get to know the horses here!
Eastern States
JacksonHotshots

The BLM-ES Fire and Aviation Program Conducts Prescribed Fire in Lathrop Bayou

The Bureau of Land Management Eastern States (BLM-ES) Fire and Aviation Program conducted a prescribed fire on 536 acres of the Lathrop Bayou Ma
Alaska, Alaska Fire Service
Empty room under final stages of construction

BLM dispatch center spreads its wings

Life was easy in 2009 when the Anchorage Interagency Dispatch Center tracked, at most, a daily aviation schedule of four flights written on a whiteboard.
Beth Ipsen
Montana-Dakotas, Eastern Montana/Dakotas DO

Women in Science: South Dakota FO hosts booth at Conference

Story and photos by Brenda Shierts, Archaeologist, South Dakota Field Office
Alaska
Worker gathering seed pods in a field.

Alaska seeds for Alaska needs

He sees forbs and sedges where most would see broad-leaf and grassy, flowering weeds.
James Hart
California, Northern California DO

BLM Redding Prepares for Wildland Fire

Wildland fires have always been a natural component of California's landscape. Fire is crucially important for many ecosystem processes and overall forest health.