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Each day, the Bureau of Land Management employees, volunteers and partners conserve public lands, build our nation’s energy infrastructure and support local economies, advance scientific discovery and much more.  Read our blog stories about the BLM in your community and learn how to get involved.

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National Office
he photo shows a dark brown metal bridge spanning a small canyon with a large sandstone rock formation in the background.

Removing barriers to recreation on public lands

The Bureau of Land Management is working hard to ensure its recreation sites are accessible.
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Montana-Dakotas
An MCC crew installing a structure that mimics a log jam on Box Elder Creek, downstream from Brady and Nowlin’s houses in May 2023.

Restoring Box Elder Creek: A Journey Through Time and Land

Box Elder Creek, a significant water resource in central Montana, is undergoing restoration to increase fish habitat and encourage beaver expansion.
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National Office, Colorado
BLM Colorado State Botanist and BLM Threatened and Endangered Species Program Lead Carol Dawson wearing a brimmed hat oversees a team of people sampling of a Sclerocactus dawsoniae, in Debeque, Colorado.

BLM Botanist Dr. Carol Dawson wins prestigious Society for Conservation Biology award

Carol Dawson, PhD, a plant conservation biologist in the BLM Colorado State Office, is this year’s recipient of the Edward T. LaRoe III Memorial Award from the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) North America.
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National Office, Oregon-Washington
Photo shows a woman looking through a piece of survey equipment.

Celebrating Women’s Equality Day: BLM’s First Woman Range Con?

Celebrated on August 26 each year, Women’s Equality Day provides an opportunity to reflect on milestones in women’s efforts to gain equality in the workplace. Susan Semenza may have been the BLM’s first woman range conservationist, hired in the 1960's.
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Arizona, Safford FO
Malissa carries a backpack electrofisher

Meet Malissa Abraham, fisheries biologist intern at the Safford Field Office

Malissa's internship with the Bureau of Land Management has put her on a path toward her career goal of being a fisheries biologist serving public lands.
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Montana-Dakotas, Havre FO
Photo. Indoor office setting. Seven people stand along a wall with two windows, blinds closed, holding framed, picturesque award certificates.

BLM Employees and Permittee Honored for Quick Action to Prevent Potential Dam Failure

BLM Montana/Dakotas recognized North Central Montana District employees and a grazing permittee Aug. 16 for their actions to prevent a potential dam failure during the unusually high-flow spring runoff season in 2023.
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Montana-Dakotas
rocks sticking up from the river

Partnering to Steward Recreation Opportunities on the Blackfoot River

Montana nonprofit is working with the Bureau of Land Management to shape the future of recreation on the Blackfoot River. 
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National Office, Western Montana DO
a woman smiles at the top of a pine tree

Foresters aim to make Whitebark pine more resistant to insects and diseases in Montana-Dakotas

Whitebark pine is a threatened species of conifer that grows primarily in three states and western Canada.
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National Office
a greater sage-grouse walking in dry grass late summer sun

Step by step: Sage-grouse in Season

By late summer, sagebrush rangelands have dried out after many weeks without significant rainfall, and broods of sage-grouse are venturing farther afield.
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National Office
Hiker hiking amongst trees with a canyon in the distance showing pink, white, and red sandstone layers. McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area

How the BLM relies on the public, computer drawings, and local knowledge to open new lands to recreation

Chris Holmes from BLM Communications speaks with Ashton Johnston, a program manager who helps the bureau conduct its once-every-two-years public outreach under the Dingell Act.  Johnston descr
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Montana-Dakotas
Grasslands on Milton Ranch, pictured here, have been returned to native seed.

Milton Ranch Restoration: A Case Study for Successful Collaboration 

There are many benefits that come from the restoration of prairie systems. Collaboration is key to making it happen.
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