Our Stories

“He’s going to outgrow the pony soon, and we just don’t have the money for a Jr. High Rodeo horse,” I whispered to my husband as we looked through the panels at a small bay mare with a big head and even bigger eyes. 

The COVID-19 virus and the strict social distancing guidelines over the last several months has not stopped the BLM Nevada’s contracted wild horse facility, the Northern Nevada Correctional Center (NNCC) Inmate Training Program, from doing what they do – training horses and finding them forever homes!

This General Land Office record of the week takes you on a brief journey of early homesteading in Northern Arizona and how Sedona eventually got it’s name.

Welcome to the GLO Record of the week for June 7, 2020. Wheeling, the first capital of West Virginia, was founded by Ebenezer Zane in 1769.

From visiting residents at nursing homes, rounding up cattle on the Bell Ranch in New Mexico and visiting elementary schools to conducting clinics with adopters and potential adopters, Blue has been my best friend, confidant and companion. He is the reason I currently serve as Chairman of the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. 

This General Land Office Record of the Week story map features Hells Canyon.

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

Story By Josh Chase, North Central Montana District ArchaeologistPhotos by Kirsten Boyle, Natural Resource Specialist, Havre Field Office

By John Heil, U.S. Fish and WildlifeJune 5, 2020 (view original article here)

From the Nevada wilderness to the rolling hills of Iowa, you came to become the beloved mount of a lonesome cowboy. // Always wary of your surroundings, you and the cowboy grew to depend on each other. // Herding cattle, breaking a trail, riding fences.  Oh the stories that were told with pride.

For BLM Alaska surveyor’s, there is no typical day when plotting out sections of America’s vast public lands in the last frontier.