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Touren Pope poses for a photo with the fossilized turtle he discovered on BLM with a blue sky

11-year-old Touren Pope discovers ancient turtle fossil on BLM land in Wyoming

Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management–managed public land in southwest Wyoming turned into an extraordinary discovery. While exploring public lands overseen by the BLM Wyoming Rock Springs Field Office, 11-year-old Touren Pope spotted what would later be identified as a fossilized turtle dating back nearly 48 million years.
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Tucson Field Office partner installs new interpretive display in historic Empire Ranch House

Recently, Tucson Field Office partner the Empire Ranch Foundation installed a historic candlestick ringer telephone and crank-magneto in the Bookkeeper’s Office of the Empire Ranch House.
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Record of the Week: Tombstone, Arizona

Notoriously known as the location where the gunfight at the O.K. Corral happened, Tombstone is one of the classic mining boom towns of the American frontier.
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Record of the Week: First Settlers of Sedona, Arizona

This General Land Office record of the week takes you on a brief journey of early homesteading in Northern Arizona and how Sedona eventually got it’s name.
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Record of the Week: Chloride, Arizona

Chloride is an old silver chloride mining town that was established in the early 1860's and is considered the oldest continuously inhabited town in Arizona.
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Record of the Week: Snowflake, AZ

Considered one of the more unusually named towns in the United States, Snowflake only averages about one foot of snow per year, and has a relatively temperate climate for central Arizona.
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