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BLM Las Cruces District announces blasting at Community Pit #1
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BLM oil and gas lease sale in North Dakota nets $7,703,153

Billings, Mont. – The Bureau of Land Management Montana-Dakotas State Office today conducted a competitive oil and gas lease sale offering 12 parcels covering 3,650

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Bureau of Land Management is hiring 100 student interns

UPDATE: Watch a presentation on how to build fe

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BLM Emerald Mountain Special Recreation Area seasonal closure

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Bureau of Land Management plans pile burns southwest of Meeker

Rawlins Gen-Tie Line
BLM seeks public comment for proposed gen-tie electric line project

RAWLINS, Wyo.

A blue truck drives through the dirt.
BLM accepting permit applications for off-highway races on the Parker Racecourse
The Bureau of Land Management is accepting proposals for the available Special Recreation Permits for two competitive off-highway races on the Parker Racecourse.
Smoke plume from a controlled burn performed by the Pocatello Field Office staff (Cindy McClellan, BLM).
BLM to conduct pile burns near Malad City to complete a wildlife habitat project

Nevada State Office
BLM oil and gas lease sale in Nevada nets $10,595.00

A deer standing in deep snow
BLM Kemmerer and Pinedale Field Offices announce big game winter range closures

Group of wild horses on the Nevada Wild Horse Range
Bureau of Land Management to begin the FY2024 Nevada Wild Horse Range Herd Management Area Wild Horse Gather

LAS VEGAS – On or about Dec.

Photo of Signing Ceremony between BLM, USFS, and Ohkay Owingeh
Historic Co-stewardship Agreement Signed Between Ohkay Owingeh Tribe, Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management
Log benches and a metal picnic table sit on the bank of a river.
The Bureau of Land Management invites the public to comment on recreation fees along the Madison River Corridor

DILLON, Montana -- The Bureau of Land Management Dillon Field Office is proposing to increase and begin collection of fees at BLM recreation sites along the Madison River

Model trains in foreground with replica town in background.
Trails Center hosts annual holiday model train display

Williams Hill with wildflower blooms
The BLM Central Coast Field Office lifts seasonal fire restrictions
A river meanders through the golden-colored boreal forest on a clear autumn day. The mountains are visible in the distance.
BLM announces additional public meetings for supplemental analysis of Ambler Road Proposal
Throughout the year, dead wood is collected into piles. Those piles are then burned under optimal conditions in the winter months.
BLM plans two pile burns in San Luis Valley

MONTE VISTA, Colo.

Pinedale Mountains
Pinedale Anticline Project Office sets deadline for 2024 project applications

PINEDALE, Wyo. - The Pinedale Anticline Project Office (PAPO) is soliciting project applications for potential 2024 funding.

Crop Jet Aviation, LLC, is pictured seeding the Becky Peak Fire.
Government agencies and a nonprofit work together to restore Nevada public lands

Federal and state agencies, and a non-profit conservation organization recently partnered to seed 26,000-plus acres of eastern Nevada’s burned public lands to enhance natural r

A fire pit and picnic table in the forest
BLM has openings for volunteer camp hosts in Northern California
Fires billow smoke on a snow-covered landscape during a prescribed pile burn near Stinking Springs in the Whistler Mountains, north of Eureka, Nevada, Jan. 1, 2022.
BLM to Conduct Pile Burning Activities from December to March

Battle Mountain, Nev.

Artist in Residence Poster
Black Rock Desert Artist-in-Residence Program Exhibits in Winnemucca and Elko, Nevada

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Winter weather closes Steens Mountain Loop Road for the season

HINES, Oregon – Winter weather has officially landed on Steens Mountain, closing all sections of its Loop Road for the season.

A transmission line at sunset in southern New Mexico.
BLM to Analyze Potential Changes to West-wide Energy Corridors as Part of President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda
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Skull Creek and Horton Mill area roads temporarily closed for winter

Hines, Ore.