Small sand dunes dotted with shrubs in front of a mountain.

Cultural Resources Stories

Explore our news and stories that illustrate the deep connection between people and the land they call home – where rich history and tradition bring these landscapes to life.

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Stories

Colorado
Betsy Chapoose talks with a group at Canyon Pintado in September 2023.

Growing a Culture of Co-stewardship with Betsy Chapoose of the Ute Indian Tribe

Betsy Chapoose has worked on many BLM projects as the Director of Cultural Rights and Protection for the Ute Indian Tribe. Years later the Ute Learning Garden still represents a successful co-stewardship effort.
Nevada, Battle Mountain DO, Tonopah FO
A uniformed person stands near an old building with people and a dog wander about.

BLM Archaeologists Tell Ghost Town Story On Nevada Day Weekend

Two Bureau of Land Management archaeologists give a tour in Rhyolite, the ghost town, on Beatty and Nevada Day Weekend.
Central Yukon FO
Team of researchers floating on the South Fork River

Stewarding lands along the South Fork Koyukuk River - Central Yukon Field Office’s Multidisciplinary Team Float Trip

This summer, specialists from the Central Yukon Field Office geared up in mid-July for a six-day float trip conducting inventory on lands along the South Fork Koyukuk River in the remote backcountry of Interior Alaska.
Utah
Graphic with text highlighting "BLM In Belize".

BLM In Belize: Employees Participate in International Assignment Taking Them From Districts of Utah to Caves of Central America

The BLM team found themselves navigating through thick jungle and looking ahead to the prospect of six days of work mapping one of the largest cave systems in the world with the help of international agencies.
Idaho
Two BLM ID archaeologists, one standing and one squatting, are surrounded by trees and are documenting surface artifacts along the Salmon River.

BLM Archaeology in Action

Recently, archaeologists from the BLM ID Salmon and Upper Snake Field Offices as well as Shoshone-Bannock Tribal members and volunteers helped document surface artifacts along the Salmon River.

News

Landscape of the desert Southwest: Green shrubbery growing out of brown dirt with gray mountains in the background.
BLM to invest $2.4 million in cultural study in California and Arizona
BLM will invest nearly $2.4 million in IRA money to develop a cultural landscape study for public lands in California and Arizona.
BLM Wild Horse and Burro Specialist Ben Noyes illustrates the impacts of herd overpopulation through the use of sponge-rubber horses and burros and bite-size candy bars.
BLM specialists share jobs with Duckwater Shoshone Elementary School students

Placing on the table before him an increasing number of toy horses and burros behind a finite number of bite-size candies, Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Specia

Cactus with mountains in the background
BLM invests $2.5 million for cultural landscape study and predictive modeling in California Desert
Prehistoric rock art in the Mt. Irish area of the Basin and Range National Monument.
Lincoln County Archaeological Initiative Round 14 Proposal Period Open

ELY, Nev.

A person practices throwing a spear with an atlatl at an elk target.
BLM celebrates International Archaeology Day at Campbell Creek Science Center

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Campbell Creek Science Center (CCSC) is joining with the National Park Service, Alaska Consortium of