Wildlife Program Highlights

Stephens' Kangaroo Rat eating something in a small hole

Unleashing the Science - BIL funding will benefit Stephens’ kangaroo rat and other species’ habitat in the California desert

The Department of the Interior recently announced a nearly $11 million dollar investment in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funding for ecosystem restoration projects nationwide. The funding supports 29 landscape-scale restoration initiatives spanning 18 states. Some of these projects are managed by the BLM California Desert District, aimed at rehabilitating delicate ecosystems on BLM-managed lands.
ACE interns Matt Jackson and Connor Stamps pose with a Texas horned lizard.

Cross Bar Management Area – Wildlife Survey Week

During the week of June 17, 2024, Oklahoma Field Office Wildlife Biologist Brian Dickerson and American Conservation Experience (ACE) intern Matthew Jackson traveled to the Cross Bar Management Area just north of Amarillo, Texas. It is the only surface management tract within the three-state area covered by the Oklahoma Field Office (OFO).
a pinyon jay atop a pinyon pine tree

Two of a kind: Sage-grouse & Pinyon jay habitats

As the BLM and partners work to reverse decline in greater sage-grouse populations, we also recognize that successful conservation requires thinking about how actions to protect one species may in turn affect others.
A young sage-grouse in mixed sage-steppe vegetation

Empty nests: Sage-grouse in Season

Greater sage-grouse hens and their broods of growing chicks spend the long days of summer on walkabouts, continuing to rely on sagebrush and native grasses for food and shelter.