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Bats

Bat Week

Welcome to another Record of the Week!
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Montana-Dakotas

Montana/Dakotas Firefighters Complete Annual Fitness Challenge

Submitted by Karly DeMars, State Fire Planner, and Chris Barth, State Fire Mitigation & Education Specialist
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Fire Center
A person in a hard hat and black backpack ignites fire on open grassland with a driptorch

Interagency groups complete prescribed burn in support of big game habitat

Interagency groups completed a prescribed burn in Whitman County, Washington which will support big game habitat restoration along the Rock Creek corridor.
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Fire Center
Weathered logs lie across a flowing stream in a green forest

Fires, forests, and fish

A team of experts in the BLM Oregon Salem District utilized hazard trees from the Beachie Creek Fire as a crucial piece of a salmon habitat restoration project.
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Eastern States
Biscayne National Park

Biscayne National Park

This week's interesting General Land Office record features a survey of an island plat that displays the Biscayne National Park area.
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National Office
Horses standing in a pen

Top 5 things to know about wild horse and burro gathers

When managed at sustainable levels and balanced with other species, wild horses and burros can contribute to thriving and healthy ecological systems on public lands. To achieve this balance, the BLM conducts periodic “gathers” to safely remove excess animals from overpopulated herds.
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Anchorage FO
Man using computer under a tarp

Anchorage Field Office installs permafrost monitoring stations along Iditarod National Historic Trail

BLM Anchorage Field Office staff, assisted by Geo-watersheds Scientific, recently installed two new soil temperature monitoring stations along the Iditarod National Historic Trail (INHT). 
Ben Stratton
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Alaska
Boarded up mine entrance

Podcast: "Lodes" to clean up

When hazards are found on public lands, it's up to people like Mike McCrum to oversee the remediation. He leads BLM Alaska's hazardous materials and remediation program, and he's seen his share of cleanups, big and small
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Northeastern States DO
Dump Story

BLM Special Agents work with the public to resolve dumping case at Meadowood

The BLM and partners cleaned up a large amount of rubbish and household junk that was dumped at Meadowood, a BLM-managed area in Lorton, Virginia.
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Eastern States
Helen Keller

Helen Keller

In observance of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, the General Land Office Record of the Week features Helen Keller.
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Eastern States
Palm Beach Florida

Hidden Smile in Palm Beach County, 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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