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Public Lands Foundation Honors Kemmerer Field Office Partners
The Public Lands Foundation (PLF) recognized the Willow Creek Coordinated Resource Management Plan Team (Team) Tuesday with a Landscape Stewardship Award which honors private citizens and organizations that work to advance and sustain community-based stewardship on landscapes that include public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management.
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 Carson Hughes accepts his certificate from Don Schramm. |
Team resource projects have improved habitat for pronghorn, elk, deer, moose, beaver, Sage-Grouse, and Colorado River cutthroat trout. In addition, the Team has fostered years of community involvement, including educational events such as grade school students planting willow cuttings and aspen and conducting water quality tests, and provided educational tours and programs.
The PLF also presented Landscape Stewardship Certificates of Appreciation to Bill Sears and George Collins for their work on the Albert Creek Allotment and to Carson Hughes for his volunteer work with archeological, paleontological, rangeland and riparian monitoring, native seed collecting and recreation.
The ceremony was held at the BLM Kemmerer Field Office with PLF member Don Schramm presenting the award and certificates. “The Public Lands Foundation is pleased to recognize the Willow Creek Coordinated Resource Management Plan Team, Bill Sears, George Collins and Carson Hughes for their invaluable contributions and for maintaining the tradition of public stewardship of America’s lands,” stated Schramm.
"The Kemmerer Field Office is very grateful for the hard work of these groups and individuals and their significant accomplishments toward the stewardship of public land," concluded Kemmerer Field Manager Jeromy Caldwell.
The Public Lands Foundation is a national nonprofit organization, which is made up predominately of retired Bureau of Land Management employees, that advocates and works for the retention of the National System of Public Lands in public hands, professionally and sustainably managed for the responsible common use and enjoyment of the American people.
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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