Aquatics

FERC wraps up public scoping meetings and onsite tour for Seminoe Pumped Storage Project

FERC held public scoping meetings and an onsite tour for the Seminoe Pumped Storage Project on Sept. 24-25, 2024. The project, in collaboration with BLM, could power 317,860 homes annually, advancing Wyoming's clean energy goals.

BLM New Mexico, Fish and Wildlife Service team up for springsnail and amphipod surveys

Nearly a year ago, personnel from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and BLM New Mexico worked together to save endangered Koster’s springsnails when a creek at Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge ran dry near the end of a hot summer.

Meet Malissa Abraham, fisheries biologist intern at the Safford Field Office

Malissa's internship with the Bureau of Land Management has put her on a path toward her career goal of being a fisheries biologist serving public lands.
Charles Ebbers

An Arctic eDNA eXTRAVAGANZA

Departing from a cold, snow covered remote airstrip along the Dalton Highway by small, fixed wing aircraft, we were headed to the BLM Arctic District’s Umiat Field Camp on the southeast edge of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

Successful mechanical removal of green sunfish from closed systems in southern Arizona

The green sunfish, which is native to eastern North America, was deemed by fish biologists as the most significant threat to native fishes in Aravaipa and Bonita creeks.