Bitner Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) Public Lands Day Event - Surprise Field Office, Bureau of Land Management California

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Bitner Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) National Public Lands Day Event

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Surprise Field Office, hosted a successful National Public Lands Day at historic Bitner Ranch, August 29, 2009.

Some of the volunteers in front of a wooden historical structure at Bitner ACEC. Volunteers creating burn piles away from historical structures. One of the volunteers from the northeast California Resource Advisory Committee helps clean up debris at Bitner ACEC.

Volunteers, friends and family worked together to clean up a unique historial site in northeastern Nevada. BLM employee's along with their children and a northeast California Resource Advisory Committee member joined in the hard but rewarding work. Participants camped on site near beautiful Badger Meadows and enjoyed a delightful BBQ and sunset.

Elisa & Amelia at sunset. Volunteer creating brush piles at Bitners meadows.

Bitner Ranch is located 58 miles east of Cedarville, California in Washoe County, Nevada and is situated on the boundary of the USFWS Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge and the Massacre Rim Wilderness Study Area. The ranch is now part of the Bitner Area of Critical Environmental Concern. The BLM is working towards stabilizing the historic structures and developing the site as an interpretive area.

Before and after photos of the clean up...

BEFORE - Historical structure with debris and garbage in the foreground. AFTER - Historical building after the clean up was complete.

BEFORE - Sagebrush in the foreground, historical structure & blue sky in the background. AFTER - Brush removed from around historical structure and blue sky in the background.

Thanks to Penni Borghi, of the Surprise Field Office, for organizing the event!