Feature Stories Archive
Galena Youth Learn how to Inventory Natural Resources & Measure Data
Galena high school students and interested local residents received 16 hours of training recently from Geographic Resource Solutions as part of BLM-Alaska’s $300,000 federal challenge cost-share grant, with matching dollars from the Alaska Energy Authority. The grant is in conjunction with a biomass feasibility study for the Galena school system that may save more than twice the study cost for each year it operates, ... Read more>
Seymour Antelope visits Alaska during the Iditarod Ceremonial Start and Runs with the Reindeer during Fur Rondy 2012
Fellow coworkers, friends and fans – Thank you so much for all of your support in the 2012 Fur Rondy events. What an exciting time it was to be visiting Alaska... Read more>
Coastal Erosion Affects BLM Arctic Lands
Imagine a place where coastal erosion rates are among the highest in the world -- and even that's increasing! The BLM currently manages 1,154 miles of coastline on Alaska's North Slope, a coastline that makes up the northern border of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). Coastal erosion is most noticeable from Drew Point to Cape Halkett, especially near Pogik Bay. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientist Benjamin Jones and his colleagues recently researched the average erosion rates along ... Read more>
Archaeology Family Day at UAF
Thanks to two BLM-Alaska Fairbanks District archaeologists, families attending the University of Alaska Museum Archaeology Family Day on Dec. 10 got their hands dirty and excavated real artifacts. The sandbox dig was part of learning about the ancient history of Alaska, different aspects of archaeology, and how to make ulus and clay pots from archaeologists Robin Mills and Stacie McIntosh. Read more>
Historic Eagle Cannonball Provides Excitement – and a Safety Reminder
It was Eastern Interior Field Office archeologist Robin Mills who received the memorable phone call. An Eagle resident had an old cannonball at her residence, and she was concerned it might still be dangerous. Mills passed the information on to the BLM’s hazardous materials and safety specialists. Read more>
Paleontologist announces discovery of new horned dinosaur species on BLM lands in Alaska
Weighing in at about four tons, standing seven feet high on four legs and about 18 feet long, it’s roughly the size of an elephant, eats plants, and is from the Late Cretaceous, around 70 million years ago. Paleontologist Anthony R. Fiorillo, Ph.D., and his team discovered this new species of ceratopsid (horned) dinosaur Pachyrhinosaurus near the Colville River on BLM-managed lands in Alaska. Fiorillo, from the Museum of Nature & Science in Dallas, Tex., announced the discovery of Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 71st Annual Meeting Nov. 2-5 in Las Vegas, Nev. Read more>
The Copper River Watershed Project wins Public Lands Foundation Landscape Stewardship Award
This year for the first time, the Public Lands Foundation is honoring an Alaska group with its national Landscape Stewardship Award. The Copper River Watershed Project, created in the late 1990’s to benefit communities and promote sustainable development along the Alaska’s vast and sparsely populated Copper River and its tributaries, has made a positive difference promoting stewardship of BLM-managed lands. Read more>
BLM-Alaska Weed Warriors attack moose-killer invasive trees
Last summer, interns working on the BLM’s 730-acre BLM Campbell Tract near its Campbell Airstrip trailhead and Campbell Creek in Anchorage discovered several infestations of a tree that’s poisonous to moose. The invasive European Bird Cherry or Mayday trees can kill moose, in a city where hundreds of moose are found within its limits, especially during the winter. Read more>
