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

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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
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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.
Eastern States
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E.H Dyer

This week we celebrate national surveyors week, we present our Record of the Week about E.H. Dyer, Deputy Surveyor and founder of the sugar beet industry!
Montana-Dakotas

It’s settled! Jane was a juvenile, not another species

Story by Greg Liggett, Montana State Paleontologist
Eastern States
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BLM exhibits at RootsTech2020

Ancestors from across the world leave behind valuables to their family. Some family members agree that just having the knowledge of who the ancestors were make them feel completely unique.
Eastern States
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The Pandemic of 1918

The Pandemic of 1918 would go on to take more lives than WWI, or any other disease in human history, with some estimates now placing the toll anywhere between 50 and 100 million people.
Utah, Green River DO

Happy anniversary to the Dingell Act!

Exactly one year ago, the John D. Dingell, Jr.
Rachel Wootton
Eastern States
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What a BLM intern can bring to the job

On a cold November night, Sabrina Farmer surveyed the crowd that had gathered in the multi-purpose room of the BLM Campbell Creek Science Center.