Lewistown Field Office
| Contacts: | Mike Barrick 406-538-1920 |
Flea Beetle Public Collection Day Cancelled
The Bureau of Land Management’s Lewistown Field Office announced today that saturated fields, washed out culverts and impassable road conditions have forced the cancelation of this year’s flea beetle public collection day.
In recent years the public collection day has become a popular event with area landowners eager to capture flea beetles and introduce them on their property as a biological means of controlling the spread of leafy spurge on their property.
For several consecutive years the Schultz and Miller families near Grass Range, have hosted the flee beetle public collection day on their property and the BLM has advertised and organized the event.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most of any Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, recreational and other activities on BLM-managed land contributed more than $130 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 600,000 American jobs. The Bureau is also one of a handful of agencies that collects more revenue than it spends. In FY 2012, nearly $5.7 billion will be generated on lands managed by the BLM, which operates on a $1.1 billion budget. The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands.
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