BLM Wyoming Newsletter 

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Smokey Bear Night at Casper Ghosts Game On July 30, the BLM Casper Field Office partnered with the Casper Ghosts minor league baseball team to provide a Smokey Bear educational event at the game.   [more...]
High Plains District Honored for 2010 Outstanding Indoor Exhibit Award The BLM Casper Field Office (CFO) was awarded the 2010 Wyoming Hunting and Fishing Heritage Expo Outstanding Indoor Exhibit Award sponsored by the Wyoming Wildlife Federation.   [more...]
Lander Field Office and Cycling Group Improve Popular Trail Volunteers from Lander Cycling and Lander Field Office staff partnered to re-route and improve the Johnny Behind the Rocks Trail south of Lander, Wyo., during a recent workday. Twenty-six volunteers re-routed a ¼ mile section of the trail to provide better ....   [more...]
Lander Field Office and Nordic Group Prepare for Ski Season Volunteers from the Lander Nordic Ski Association (LNSA) and BLM staff improved the BLM loop trail at the Beaver Creek Nordic Ski Area south of Lander in celebration of National Public Lands Day. Twenty-three volunteers made improvements to the Omera Trail that will facilitate early season grooming efforts. The trail was re-routed to be closer to the trees and out of the wind scour zone. A number of the trails were walked and cleared of rocks. Fill material ...   [more...]
Mesa Mule Deer Winter Habitat Improvement Project The northern end of the Pinedale Anticline known as the Mesa has been well documented relative to its importance for approximately 3,000 to 5,000 wintering mule deer from the Sublette Mule Deer Herd.   [more...]
A Partnership in Education and Interpretation Two of the BLM’s premier educational centers – the Anasazi Heritage Center in Colorado, and the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Wyoming – exchanged temporary exhibits that focused on the conservation of BLM lands. Both exhibits are currently on display, and will be showcased through December, 2010.   [more...]
National Historic Trails Interpretive Center "Brought History to Life" with a Reenactment of Frontier History Children laughed as they played traditional pioneer games. Nearby, a Pony Express rider galloped through the sage. The smell of fried chicken, cooked in traditional Dutch ovens, permeated the air.    [more...]
Middle Fork Site Recording I—BLM BFO 2010 Passport in Time Project Eight volunteers from five states came to Outlaw Campground on July 11, 2010, to participate in the Buffalo Field Office's (BFO) first Passport in Time (PIT).   [more...]
Partnership Protects Petroglyphs The Cody Field Office recently partnered with Marathon Oil Company to protect a petroglyph site in the Oregon Basin near Cody. The Oregon Basin petroglyph site has been subject to vandalism for many years. In 2008, the BLM initiated the Wyoming Site Stewardship Program with the State Historic Preservation Office to ...   [more...]
Cody Field Office and Volunteers Clean-Up Red Lake Local volunteers, Marathon Oil and BLM staff cleaned-up both public and private land in the Red Lake area south of Cody on Sept. 18 during a workday to celebrate National Public Lands Day. Approximately 50 volunteers from the Cody area, including 20 members of the Yellowstone Quake hockey team, picked up trash that had been ...  [more...]
Spelunkers Protect Hibernating Bats The Cody Field Office and a group of caving enthusiasts worked together to protect a colony of hibernating bats in a cave near Lovell, Wyo. Spence Cave, used as a hibernation and summer roost site by Townsend's big-eared, big brown and little brown bats, has been subject to habitat disturbances for many years. Bonfires ...   [more...]
Trick-or-Treaters Visit Buffalo Field Office Little ghosts and goblins haunted the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Buffalo Field Office (BFO) this Halloween.   [more...]
BLM & volunteers collect information on antelope trap site in southwest Wyoming On September 18, the Kemmerer Field Office and 35 volunteers from the Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists, Central Wyoming College and the Ute Tribe conducted an intensive on-the-ground inventory of the Bridger Antelope Trap site about 25 miles south of Kemmerer. About a dozen projectile points and fragments ...   [more...]
Warren Bridge Projects Completed With funding of $250,000 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Warren Bridge Public Access Area upgrade project in Sublette County included cottonwood reforestation along the Green River with some exclosure fencing, eight miles of trail construction along the river corridor and a cultural inventory.   [more...]
Involving Community in Public Land Improvements is a  Priority for Worland Ranger When he’s not enforcing off highway vehicle (OHV) regulations or checking backcountry BLM roads, Law Enforcement Ranger Aaron Kania can often be found working with the local community to improve public lands during the summer months. This year alone, Kania organized several cleanups and two road rehabilitation projects ...   [more...]