Wildlife Program Highlights

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Exploring the Campbell Tract Special Recreation Management Area: Flora, fauna, and volunteer opportunities

A guide to the flora and fauna at Cambell Tract

Jack Barnitz looking down at a device he is holding in the woods

Friday, April 1, 2022

BLM New Mexico employee Jack Barnitz receives Linda Seibert Career Achievement Award

Jack Barnitz, a retired Supervisory Natural Resource Specialist at the Bureau of Land Management New Mexico Las Cruces District Office, has been selected as a...

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Wildlife Biologist Nancy Herms receives BLM’s Conservation Project Award

Story by Chris Hanefeld, BLM Ely District public affairs specialist. Photos by Nancy Herms, BLM Bristlecone Field Office wildlife biologist. Federally endangered Pahrump poolfish are...

Workers assembling a rock structure with a mountain in the background.

Friday, December 10, 2021

Dillon Field Office improves wet and mesic meadow areas in priority sage-grouse habitat

Story by Alden Shallcross, State Lead - Montana/Dakotas Aquatic Habitat Management Program. Photos by BLM. Keystone Gulch (Priority Sage Grouse Habitat) contains a series of...

Pronghorn utilizing a pronghorn pass that was installed in 2013.

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

BLM works to restore migration corridors for pronghorn in southeast New Mexico

Story by Randy Howard, Assistant Field Manager, Pecos District Office. Photo by BLM. In 1820, Major Stephen Harriman Long was appointed by Congress under President...