A seagull flies over the California Coastal National Monument which stretches along the entire coast of California and extends 12 miles into the Pacific Ocean. The Monument includes 20,000 rocks, islands, pinnacles and reefs.
BLM
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Wagon wheel in the Carrizo Plain National Monument Geothermal Well Rock Climbing Wild Horses River Rafters on Cache Creek
California
BLM>California
Print Page

In the Spotlight

Alabama Hills with the Eastern Sierras in the background
The rounded, weathered contours of the Alabama Hills form a sharp contrast between the crisply sculptured ridges of the Sierra Mountains.

Alabama Hills

The outstanding features and environment of the Alabama Hills have attracted movie makers, commercial companies and tourists from all over the world. Since the early 1920's, movie stars such as Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry and the Lone Ranger, have been shooting it out with outlaws. Classics such as Gunga Din, Springfield Rifle, and How the West was Won, were filmed at sites now known as "Movie Flats" and at Movie Flat Road.

 


Volunteers help clean up Alabama Hills

A dog helps out at the Alabama Hills volunteer project.More than two dozen volunteers, including members of the Alabama Hills Stewardship Group and staff from the BLM office in Bishop, cleaned up trash in the Alabama Hills Recreation Area before the annual Lone Pine Film Festival. The cleanup was also a celebration of National Public Lands Day -- a way to give back to your public lands.   Read More...

 

Newsbyte logo - click here to go to News.bytes Archive
For more news about BLM in California... 
subscribe to News.bytes, our
weekly e-newsletter

Arcata Redding Alturas Surprise Ukiah Northern California District Central California District Mother Lode Hollister Bishop Bakersfield Ridgecrest California Desert District Palm Springs/South Coast Barstow Needles El Centro Eagle Lake Map of BLM California Field Offices

How the BLM and other Interior Bureaus are implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Recovery Act Logo

 

Fast-Track Renewable Energy Projects

 

News & Events

RSS News Release Feed
News Release Archive

Employee Profile:  Dr. Charlotte Hunter

Dr. Charlotte Hunter

Dr. Charlotte Hunter

Dr. Charlotte Hunter has been digging in the ground since she was a year old and could hold a spoon.  "I should have known I was an archaeologist from birth, but it took me a while to figure it out,"  she says. She is now the cultural resources program manager for BLM-California.  Read more... 

 

Frequently Requested 


Bureau of Land Management
California State Office
2800 Cottage Way, Suite W-1623
Sacramento, CA 95825-1886
Phone: (916) 978-4400
Fax: (916) 978-4416
For the Hearing Impaired:  TDD (916) 978-4419
Office Hours:  8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., M-F
Contact us by Email

Take it Outside! OHV program identifier. Graphic: BLM

CALLING ALL KIDS!

Visit our new Take it Outside! pages and learn some neat stuff about the dunes! 

With a new season coming up, now's the time to brush up on your dune savvy.

Join Sheila ~ the dune dog ~ as she 

Takes YOU Outside!

Paw prints.

BLM manages 15.2 million acres of public lands in California - nearly 15% of the state's land area - and 1.6 million acres in northwestern Nevada.  BLM California also administers 47 million acres of subsurface mineral estate underlying federal surface land, 2.5 million acres underlying privately owned land, and 592,000 acres of Native American tribal land where BLM has trust responsibility for mineral operations.


   
Last updated: 11-20-2009