Success Stories

Every day, BLM personnel, partners, and grazing permittees work together to manage rangelands and grazing use for better outcomes.

Read our featured range success stories from the field below:

Innovation in Action

New Mexico, Las Cruces DO
The lower strand of barbed wire was removed and replaced with a solid strand of wire 18” above the ground, designed to protect bighorn sheep.

BLM Las Cruces District employees mend fences in the Bootheel

Last week, BLM Las Cruces District Office employees partnered with the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Association for stewardship event to improve wildlife connectivity on BLM land around the Lordsburg, New Mexico area.
National Office
Two head of cattle stand in a green field with grass and scattered shrubs.

BLM announces 2025 Rangeland Stewardship and Innovations Award winners

The Rangeland Stewardship and Rangeland Innovations awards recognize exemplary management and outstanding accomplishments in restoring and maintaining the health of public rangelands.
Wyoming, High Desert DO, Rawlins FO
BLM WY staff and WY Conservation Corp crew pose for a photo during the restoration project at Muddy Creek in WY.

Partnership drives ongoing habitat restoration in Muddy Creek watershed

BLM, Trout Unlimited, and youth crews installed 98 beaver dam analogs in the Muddy Creek watershed, restoring 14 miles of habitat for native fish, mule deer, sage grouse, and other wildlife.
Arizona, Phoenix DO, Hassayampa FO
a cow wears a collar for the virtual fence

BLM Arizona installs virtual fencing to enhance rangeland management and protect sensitive species

The BLM’s Hassayampa Field Office recently installed an innovative way to manage livestock on public lands and improve rangeland health while reducing staffing and supply costs related to fences on grazing allotments.
Colorado, Northwest DO
a fenced area is shown on a sagebrush and grass landscape with blue skies

Flexible grazing program capitalizes on the art and science of range management

BLM Colorado is participating in a pilot program to explore approaches for authorizing and managing grazing use. Operators adjust herd movement and size based on year-to-year changes in moisture and growing conditions.
Colorado, Upper Colorado River DO, Grand Junction FO
Watering station project team members pose for a photo after a hard day’s work on the Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range Aug. 30, 2024.

BLM, FOM partner to manage vital resource for horses, wildlife

Bureau of Land Management staff and volunteers from the Friends of the Mustangs worked as a team Aug. 30 to overhaul a crumbling watering station with a clogged drain and leaky tanks on the Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range.
Arizona, Phoenix DO, Lower Sonoran FO
Sydney crouches on some rocks.

Meet Sydney Yankee, range technician intern at the Lower Sonoran Field Office

Meet Sydney Yankee, who was a range technician intern at the Lower Sonoran Field Office in Phoenix this summer.
National Office, Oregon-Washington
Photo shows a woman looking through a piece of survey equipment.

Celebrating Women’s Equality Day: BLM’s First Woman Range Con?

Celebrated on August 26 each year, Women’s Equality Day provides an opportunity to reflect on milestones in women’s efforts to gain equality in the workplace. Susan Semenza may have been the BLM’s first woman range conservationist, hired in the 1960's.
National Office
A woman kneels in a field of cheatgrass

New paper shows vegetation trends on BLM allotments across 30 years

Story by Emily Kachergis, Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring (AIM) Coordinator; and Justin Shirley, Range Management Specialist.
Lander FO
Four people are installing wooden posts in the green grass.

Lander Field Office and partners join forces to improve headwaters tributary

Story by Leah Yandow, Lander Field Office Wildlife Biologist; and Chad Mickschl, Hydrologist, Aquatic Resource Management Program Lead, Wyoming State Office.