Three hikers walking past the sandstone wall riddled with holes in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument.

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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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Montana-Dakotas

Partnering to Steward Recreation Opportunities on the Blackfoot River

Montana nonprofit is working with the Bureau of Land Management to shape the future of recreation on the Blackfoot River. 
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National Office

Step by step: Sage-grouse in Season

By late summer, sagebrush rangelands have dried out after many weeks without significant rainfall, and broods of sage-grouse are venturing farther afield.
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National Office

How the BLM relies on the public, computer drawings, and local knowledge to open new lands to recreation

Chris Holmes from BLM Communications speaks with Ashton Johnston, a program manager who helps the bureau conduct its once-every-two-years public outreach under the Dingell Act.  Johnston descr
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Montana-Dakotas

Milton Ranch Restoration: A Case Study for Successful Collaboration 

There are many benefits that come from the restoration of prairie systems. Collaboration is key to making it happen.
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Fire Center

BLM’s Operational Medical Support program collaborates with Yosemite National Park

Leaders from BLM Fire's Operational Medical Support program completed an assignment at the Yosemite National Park medical clinic, a valuable interagency partnership opportunity for cross training and skill sharing.
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National Office

Two of a kind: Sage-grouse & Pinyon jay habitats

As the BLM and partners work to reverse decline in greater sage-grouse populations, we also recognize that successful conservation requires thinking about how actions to protect one species may in turn affect others.
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Utah

BLM In Belize: Employees Participate in International Assignment Taking Them From Districts of Utah to Caves of Central America

The BLM team found themselves navigating through thick jungle and looking ahead to the prospect of six days of work mapping one of the largest cave systems in the world with the help of international agencies.
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Idaho, Boise DO

In Idaho, protecting and growing sagebrush ecosystems requires an “All Hands, All Lands” approach

In Southern Idaho, BLM has been working with state and federal agencies and private landowners to treat and strengthen sagebrush habitat.
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Colorado, San Luis Valley FO

BLM, Volunteers Restore Habitat for Threatened Species

Government agencies and volunteers hand-built stone terrain features to improve habitat conditions for the Gunnison sage-grouse, a federally listed threatened species.
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Colorado, Upper Colorado River DO

BLM Director Talks Workforce Equality with Western Colorado Fire Crew

BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning met with a Western Colorado interagency wildland fire crew, which includes women and non-binary individuals, at the Grand Junction Air Center, Colorado, July 22.
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New Mexico

BLM Las Cruces Uses Great American Outdoors Act Money to Repair Apache Dam

The Bureau of Land Management Las Cruces District continues to make progress toward the completion of a water and utilities project at Apache Dam through money received via the Great American Outdoors Act.
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