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Utah
Fuel break with cleared vegetation, blues skies, and clouds.

Partners work together to refresh the Thompson Springs fuel break in Utah

Members of the Thompson Springs community in Utah contacted the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Utah Forestry Fire and State Lands and asked that the two agencies to help strengthen the previous fuel break on the western side of town. 
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Alaska
Wild cranberries displayed in recycled containers

More than survival, the subsistence tradition sustains meaning for rural Alaska Natives and non-native residents alike

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Eastern States, Idaho
Fort Hall, Idaho

Fort Hall, Idaho

This week's interesting General Land Office record features a survey plat that displays the townsite of Fort Hall, Idaho. Fort Hall was originally built as a fur trading post in 1834.
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Eastern States
Pahranagat Wildlife Refuge oasis

Pahranagat Wildlife Refuge

This General Land Office Record of the Week travels to Pahranagat Wildlife Refuge in Alamo, Nevada, roughly 90 miles north of Las Vegas.
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Alaska
A man looks over the shoulder at another man working on a computer.

Peaking behind BLM curtain gives high school grads rare collegiate and career insights

Let new high school grads into the IT department just to see if they like it? Not happening.
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National Office
Successful restoration of native forbs and grasses along the historic Columbia River Highway State Trail between Cascade Locks and Hood River, Oregon.

BLM makes a difference at World Restoration Conference

Story by Amanda (Mandie) Carr, BLM Coordinator of Botanical Communication and Outreach.
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National Office
Bob Wick along the Molalla Wild and Scenic River in Oregon.

Longtime BLM photographer Bob Wick retires, amazing work lives on

For over three decades, BLM photographer Bob Wick captured the beauty and diversity of America’s public lands through thousands of images, depicting remote places on BLM lands that few people are lucky enough to experience.
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Fire Center
Big plastic bags on the tarmac next to a parked airplane

BLM provides support for U.S. Forest Service Boise airtanker base upgrades

Change has been a long time coming for the Boise airtanker base located at the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). In 2021 construction was completed on a new permanent structure and storage cache.
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Eastern States
Jacksonville Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

The GLO website provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than 12 million federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present.
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Montana-Dakotas, North Central DO, Havre FO

Battling Annual Bromes in the Havre Field Office

Story by: Floyd Thompson, Rangeland Management Specialist, Montana/Dakotas State Office; and Jeremy McKellar,&
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Taos FO
Jim Irwin (right) and Dave Scott examine the interior of the Río Grande Gorge from the west rim during their training March 11–12, 1971. Photo by NASA.

When public land in New Mexico stood in for the Moon

Story by Derrick Henry, Public Affairs Specialist. Photos by Derrick Henry and NASA.
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