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Each day, the Bureau of Land Management employees, volunteers and partners conserve public lands, build our nation’s energy infrastructure and support local economies, advance scientific discovery and much more.  Read our blog stories about the BLM in your community and learn how to get involved.

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My Wild Horse Story: Lea and Misti

Submitted by Lea Erwood This is the story of how Misti came into my life.

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton was an influential man who helped found and establish the United States.

My Wild Horse Story: Lona and Diablo

I've been an adopter for many years and have a passion for America's Living Legends, in the wild as well as domesticated once-wild horses. I adopted my first two mustangs under my parents in 1977 and have been smitten with mustangs ever since.

Reading the bones: a 43,000-year-old mystery is answering some questions and prompting researchers to ask others

Paddling down a river in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska in summer 2012, the weather was still chilly.
James Hart

Albuquerque, New Mexico

This week, the General Land Office welcomes you to New Mexico's largest city, Albuquerque.

Wild Burros Bring Joy to Assisted Living Facility

Two volunteers for BLM California, Karin Usko and John Auborn, have done some fun things with their adopted burros.  They are TIP trainers, BLM ambassadors at adoptions, parade participants, pack burro racers, founders of the California Breakfast Burritos (a pack burro training group that runs with their burros in the morning before breakfast), and they sometimes take their burros to the local farmers’ market!

My Wild Burro Story: Alicia and Nestor

Gathered as yearling in Arizona's Cibola-Trigo herd management area on September 2010, B61AAAAAR, now known as Nestor, was not readily adopted. For the next seven years, Nestor lived in holding pens in Arizona and Colorado. One day his luck finally changed when a Colorado TIP trainer named Nicki Creasey selected him for her Burro Base Camp program.

Fire Training Opportunity Provides Real-World Experience

Three of the 29 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) fire crew members who recently responded to the front lines of the 129-acre Smoketree fire in Palm Springs are young women who pursued an opportunity in fire management through a partnership that provides training and experience. As a result, the women found a passion and potentially a career within the firefighting community. These Inland Empire Crew 5 members are a positive example of the partnership between the BLM California Desert District and the State of California’s Conservation Corps (CCC), formed to build a crew of diverse young adults to assist with the BLM fire and fuels management mission. 

Jackson Hotshots Fire Crew assists with extinguishing Moon Fish Wildfire in Big Cypress Preserve

A new wildfire reaching over 27,000 acres of land was recognized southeast of the Big Cypress Preserve, near Everglades National park in Ochopee, Florida, May 7, 2020.

Mount Rushmore

This week's GLO record of the week will take you back in time to discover how the world's largest sculpture was created.

My Wild Horse Story: Katie and Marty

“He’s going to outgrow the pony soon, and we just don’t have the money for a Jr. High Rodeo horse,” I whispered to my husband as we looked through the panels at a small bay mare with a big head and even bigger eyes.