Utah State Office
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BLM Seeks Volunteers for Raptor Nest Survey
Salt Lake City, Utah—The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah Salt Lake Field Office is seeking volunteers to assist with the annual Raptor Inventory Nest Survey (RINS) in northern Utah. Participation as a volunteer does not require special experience or education, and the BLM will provide training. In fact, the only prerequisites are a love for the outdoors, especially Utah’s beautiful west desert, and a sincere desire to help the magnificent birds of prey that call our state home.
No science credentials are necessary to be a RINS volunteer. Interested individuals don’t even need to know how to discover a nest or identify a raptor because the BLM will give each volunteer complete training, including map reading and navigation using a GPS, and field safety procedures. To become a volunteer, you must attend one of the training workshops. Training workshops will be held Feb. 23 and March 2 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake Field Office, 2370 South 2300 West, Salt Lake City, Utah.
It is recommended that you own a pair of binoculars, a GPS unit, and have an email address. The time commitment for volunteers is two field days per month from March through July to monitor an assigned area.
For more information, visit www.rins.org, call (801)977-4300, or send an email to info@rins.org.
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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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