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From Sept. 19 to 24, the Bureau of Land Management’s Northeastern States District Office and partner organization Wilderness Inquiry brought the mission of public lands directly into the Milwaukee community through a week of paddling, outdoor education and exploration.

Twenty-four volunteers, including six youths, gathered at Dean S. Reservoir to mark National Public Lands Day by constructing kiosks, installing culverts, fixing fences and clearing trails.

BLM Arizona marked a milestone on National Public Lands Day with the 30th anniversary California Condor Release at the Condor Viewing Site in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in northern Arizona.

The Bureau of Land Management and the Arizona Game and Fish Department have partnered to reestablish a keystone species and restore natural stream channel function within the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area.

The new K2-Play trail winds three miles along the base of the Book Cliffs and completes the final phase of a roughly 30-mile expansion of the 18 Road trail system.

BLM’s annual Fishing Derby unites families, first‑time anglers, and partners for a day of recreation, stewardship, and community connection across Imperial Valley’s public lands in California.

Learn from these teenagers: don't burn pallets on public land and never leave your campfire unattended until it’s dead and cold.

The U.S. Forest Service hosted the fifth annual event at Triangle Park with help from the BLM and other partners. This was the Kemmerer Field Office’s fourth year participating. Staff brought two tents and two tables filled with local wildlife specimens, fossils and objects that children could examine up close.

National Public Lands Day (NPLD) is largely supported across the United States as a cornerstone celebration centered around volunteerism, outdoor recreation, access, and environmental stewardship.

At the Missouri University of Science and Technology’s (Missouri S&T) fall career fair on September 22, 2026, BLM staff from the Northeastern States District engaged with students to recruit the next generation of public land stewards.

In August, volunteers from Backcountry Hunters & Anglers collaborated with the Bureau of Land Management Rawlins Field Office to remove one mile of obsolete fencing from the Sullivan grazing allotment in the Shirley Basin, improving wildlife movement and habitat while recycling over 3,000 pounds of steel fencing, with plans for further removals and ongoing partnerships to benefit public lands and wildlife such as mule deer, elk, pronghorn, and sage-grouse.