Our Stories

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

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!

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.

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. 

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.

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

“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. 

The COVID-19 virus and the strict social distancing guidelines over the last several months has not stopped the BLM Nevada’s contracted wild horse facility, the Northern Nevada Correctional Center (NNCC) Inmate Training Program, from doing what they do – training horses and finding them forever homes!

This Bureau of Land Management 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.

From visiting residents at nursing homes, rounding up cattle on the Bell Ranch in New Mexico and visiting elementary schools to conducting clinics with adopters and potential adopters, Blue has been my best friend, confidant and companion. He is the reason I currently serve as Chairman of the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. 

This General Land Office Record of the Week story map features Hells Canyon.