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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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New Mexico
Pronghorn utilizing a pronghorn pass that was installed in 2013.

BLM works to restore migration corridors for pronghorn in southeast New Mexico

Story by Randy Howard, Assistant Field Manager, Pecos District Office. Photo by BLM.
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. 
Alaska
Wild cranberries displayed in recycled containers

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

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.
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.
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.
Eric Tausch
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.
National Office
Bob Wick along the Molalla Wild and Scenic River in Oregon.

Longtime BLM photographer Bob Wick retires, amazing work lives on

Photos by Bob Wick
Eastern States
Jacksonville Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

This week we explore the classic summer vacation spot, Jacksonville, Florida.
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.
Montana-Dakotas, Havre FO

Battling Annual Bromes in the Havre Field Office

Story by: Floyd Thompson, Rangeland Management Specialist, Montana/Dakotas State Office; and Jeremy McKellar,&