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Montana-Dakotas, Eastern Montana/Dakotas DO

Eastern Montana/Dakotas District Engine Crews assist in Arizona

Story by Mark Jacobsen, Public Affairs Specialist, Eastern Montana/Dakotas District
New Mexico, Oklahoma FO

Teens participate in Wild Horse Youth Challenge

The country may be shut down, but 18 teens are making good use of the time to gentle and train wild horses.
New Mexico, Farmington DO

Farmington Law Enforcement Ranger Selected as BLM Ranger of the Year

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Farmington Field Office Law Enforcement Ranger Cole Blevins was recently selected by the BLM Director of Law Enforcement and Security as the 2019 BLM Ranger of the Y
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My Wild Horse Story: Ashley and Chico

My name is Ashley. Back in 2017 I adopted my first mustang, Chico, from the Teens and Oregon Mustang Challenge in Albany Oregon. Chico was from the South Steens herd in Oregon and was once known in the wild as Cypress. 
Eastern States
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Lake Pend Oreile

Welcome to the GLO Record of the Week for the week of May 10, 2020. This week we take a journey to Northern Idaho to learn about Lake Pend Oreille.
Eastern States
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The Dalton Gang

This week's interesting General Land Office record features a land patent that belonged to Adeline Dalton, who was the mother of the ever so notorious brothers called the Dalton Gang.
Eastern States
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The Eruption of Mount St. Helens

On March 27, 1980, a series of phreatic eruptions burst open the peak of Mount St. Helens located in Skamania County, Washington.
Eastern States
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John Cleves Symmes

This week’s record is a patent issued in 1800, but tells a story that started years before.
Eastern States
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The River of No Return

This week we take a look at the historic Salmon River in Idaho, which flows through such treacherous conditions that a stretch of it has been dubbed, "The River of No Return."
Eastern States
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Virginia City, Montana

This week's Record of the Week comes to us from May 1, 1869 and depicts Virginia City, Montana.
Eastern States
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San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

Our record this week is the original survey plat for Township 2 South 5 West of the Mount Diablo Principal Meridian.