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...

 


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

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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.


 

Fast-Track Renewable Energy Projects

 

Employee Profile:  Gary Pritchard-Peterson

Gary Pritchard-Peterson

Gary Pritchard-Peterson

Gary Pritchard-Peterson manages the King Range National Conservation Area -- the first national conservation area.  Gary has been there since 1992.  He'll tell you, that since he has been there, he does pretty much any type of task.
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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.


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Sacramento, CA 95825-1886
Phone: (916) 978-4400
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TDD (916) 978-4419
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