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News releases are posted by the Bureau of Land Management public affairs staff. If you have questions regarding a specific news release, please use the contact information listed on the release. 

Features

Capturing Alaska in Digital: BLM’s Girl Scout photo workshops

When I was a girl growing up in Maine, I learned about photography from Girl Scouts using an Eastman Kodak “Brownie” cardboard box camera. What a miracle that camera was! It took 2 ¼-inch square pictures on 120mm film, and helped me capture the world as I saw it. I earned my second camera and first 35mm by selling vegetable seeds in a city to folks who didn’t have vegetable gardens. Read More>

Before this year's Iditarod Ceremonial Race Start in Anchorage, Alaska, Visual Information Specialist Vanessa Rathbun got a request from a 5th grade teacher from Highland Hills Middle School in Indiana which participated in last year’s tweet-chat. Read more> 

A Hook for a Lifetime: Ice Fishing on 
Silver Lake, Alaska

It is April 6 at the Kids Ice Fishing Clinic. BLM fisheries biologist Tim Sundlov is busy showing the kids and their families how and where an ice hole is drilled, how to set up the ice fishing pole, work the reels, what kind of bait and tackle to use, and how deep to drop a line. After the excitement of catching ... Read more> 

BLM & partners build collaborative education strategy

BLM-Alaska and its education partners from around the state met on March 12 to explore partnership opportunities in the education/interpretation/youth engagement arenas. The team met internally to identify current programs offered, ways to expand certain programs statewide through support of the CCSC, current and possible partners, and... Read more>

 
What's that howl at the BLM Campbell Tract?!

This year a record 4,000+ Iditarod enthusiasts of all ages chose to watch the March 2nd Ceremonial Start of the 41st Iditarod Sled Dog Race from the BLM Campbell Tract.  Find out why...  Read more>  

BLM Connections 

Updates, news and more from our community partners (and local media)

BLM Smokejumpers Receive “Al Dunton Award”

The National Interagency Fire Center announced that BLM firefighters Ben Oakleaf and Chris Swisher were named winners of the “Al Dunton Award,” which honors the late BLM pioneer in fire and aviation management. Read the article at wildfiretoday.com

Red Devil Mine mercury investigation, remediation are on course

BLM Alaska State Director Bud C. Cribley gives an update on BLM's efforts concerning the Red Devil Mine. Read the Alaska Dispatch article>

Bittner is new manager of BLM's Anchorage field office 

The Bureau of Land Management appointed Alan Bittner manager of its Anchorage Field Office. Bittner joins the BLM-Alaska leadership team after previously ... Read the Anchorage Daily News article> 

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News Media Contacts

State Office
Erin Curtis
Office: (907) 271-4418

KJ Mushovic
Office: (907) 271-3322
Cell: (907) 444-7717

Thom Jennings
Office: (907) 271-3335

Anchorage Field Office
Teresa McPherson
Office: (907) 267-1420

Glennallen Field Office
Marnie Graham
Office: (907) 822-3217 

Fairbanks District
Craig McCaa
Office: (907) 474-2231

AFS Newsroom

National Newsroom 

Fire Info

As we progress through fire season, we thought it important to let you know where to find wildland fire information. The Alaska Interagency Coordination Center (AICC) is the primary location to find wildland fire information. The AICC Situation Report and the AICC Morning Highlights are useful documents with which to begin. The link to the Morning Highlights is the same but the design and name has been changed to Wildland Fire Updates. The updates may now occur throughout the day depending on fire activity. There are very useful features and links on the AICC page menu as well: Interagency newsroom, intelligence/reports, maps, fire weather, etc. Email will also be used to provide news releases and other time sensitive information.

In order to provide a wider range of options to present wildland fire information, AICC organizations are using social media:

Information Gathering/Additional References
www.twitter.com
BLM Alaska Fire Service account: @BLM_AFS
Alaska Division of Forestry account: @AK_Forestry
Bureau of Land Management account: @BLMAlaska
National Park Service account: @AlaskaNPS
US Fish and Wildlife Service account: @USFWSAlaska
Alaska Fire Consortium: @AKfirescience

www.facebook.com
BLM Alaska Fire Service account: BLM Alaska Fire Service
Alaska Division of Forestry account: AK.Forestry
Bureau of Land Management account: BLMAlaska
National Park Service account: AlaskaNPS
US Fish and Wildlife Service account: USFWSAlaska

www.youtube.com
Alaska Division of Forestry account: AlaskaDNRDOF
National Park Service account: AlaskaNPS
BLM Alaska account: BLMAlaska

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