Connie Jacobs, Director of the Bureau of Land Management’s Missouri Breaks Interpretive Center in Fort Benton, Montana, has been awarded the 2009 Silver Star Award for Excellence in Interpretation by the BLM’s Division of Education, Interpretation & Partnerships.  ]]> http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/loggulch.html http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/loggulch.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:00:00 -0600 Nearly $100,000 has been approved for emergency stabilization of the Bureau of Land Management’s fire-damaged Log Gulch Campground at Holter Lake. ]]> http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/BNICoal.html http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/BNICoal.html Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:00:00 -0600 BNI Coal Ltd. won the lease rights for the BNI coal tract offered at a Bureau of Land Management coal lease sale held October 15.   ]]> http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/3Tier.html http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/3Tier.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:00:00 -0600 The Montana/Dakotas Bureau of Land Management (BLM) implemented a new three-tier organizational structure on September 27, 2009. ]]> http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/storeyditch2.html http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/storeyditch2.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:00:00 -0600 Improvements to the access road at the Storey Ditch Boat Launch, originally scheduled for Oct. 5-9, were delayed by a week, said Bureau of Land Management officials. Work is now planned for Oct. 13-16. ]]> http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/slashburning.html http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/slashburning.html Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:35:40 -0600 The Bureau of Land Management in cooperation with the State of South Dakota will begin burning piles of limbs and branches left over from fire fuel-reduction operations near Lead and Sturgis when weather conditions permit. ]]> http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/hunters.html http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/hunters.html Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:40:00 -0600 The Bureau of Land Management is offering disabled hunters the opportunity to hunt within a road closure in the Garnet Mountain Range. ]]> http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/fenceremoval.html http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/fenceremoval.html Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:30:00 -0600 Wildlife will now have a little more freedom to roam in an area south of Ennis, thanks to volunteers from the Montana Youth Challenge program and members of the Madison River Foundation and the Madison Valley Ranchlands Group who recently helped Bureau of Land Management employees remove nearly three miles of fence at the Palisades Recreation Site. ]]> http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/scratchgravelhills.html http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/october/scratchgravelhills.html Fri, 2 Oct 2009 14:50:00 -0600 The Bureau of Land Management will soon begin vegetation treatment in the Scratchgravel Hills north of Helena to reduce wildfire hazards and to provide for increased public and firefighter safety in areas where development mingles with wildland vegetation. ]]>