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Spring 2009
A Montana BLM employee received the Department of the Interior’s Valor Award May 6 for his role in rescuing a family of four from an approaching wildland fire in southern Utah two years ago. George Johnson Jr., fuels program manager for the Dillon Field Office, accepted his award from Interior Secretary Salazar during a ceremony in Washington, D.C. [Read full story]
by Ann Boucher, MSO “When would you ever use this in real life?” What teacher or parent hasn’t heard the protests of a student struggling to grasp a new concept? And how refreshing when the answer can be demonstrated by someone whose career is built on that skill. For the last 21 years, Montana BLM surveyors have done just that through Trig-Star, a high school competition based on the practical application of trigonometry. [Read full story]
Payola Reservoir covers a little over three surface acres of public land in a deep coulee about eight miles northwest of Winnett, Mont. It’s a welcome oasis for recreationists in an otherwise dry, wind-swept, sage brush environment -- a landscape that lends itself mostly to critters like cattle, antelope, sage grouse, and sharp-tailed grouse. [Read full story]
Two Montana/Dakotas BLM employees got out of their normal range last summer through the DOI’s International Technical Assistance Program (ITAP). In August 2008, Mitch Iverson (South Dakota Field Office) and Lou Hagener(retired, Havre Field Station) spent nearly a month in Tajikistan working with Tajik officials on rangeland management issues. [Read full story]Outdoor Education Day in Miles City The annual event drew 175 third and fourth graders to Matthews Recreation Area on May 6. [See more pictures]
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