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

Cody FO
Nine people pose for a group photo.

BLM and wild horse advocacy group improve habitat for all creatures

Story and photos by Sarah Beckwith, Wind River/Bighorn Basin District public affairs specialist
Burley FO
pygmy rabbit in the snow

BLM Wildlife Biologist Lindsey Rush studies pygmy rabbit habitat in Idaho

Story by Sara Morelli, Public Affairs Specialist (Detail), Idaho State Office. Photos by BLM Idaho.
Idaho
Man wearing a head lamp and holding a sage-grouse fitted with a radio collar.

University of Idaho project provides insights about grazing’s impact on sage-grouse habitat

Story by Sara Morelli, Public Affairs Specialist (detail), Idaho State Office. Photos courtesy of the University of Idaho.
Price FO
Katherine Fenton Nutter profile

Utah's cowbelle: Katherine Fenton Nutter

Story by Angela Hawkins, Public Affairs Specialist. Photo courtesy of the Utah Historical Society.
Jarbidge FO
An exclosure fence strung across the creek with golden trees in the background

BLM Idaho’s fence repairs at Clover Creek manage grazing to protect stream health

In fall 2021, a little hiking and a lot of hauling went a long way toward improving stream health, water quality, and fish and wildlife habitat at Clover Creek, a major tributary to the Bruneau River in southwest Idaho. The BLM Idaho project to repair exclosure fences along the stream will help to manage livestock grazing in order to protect the riparian areas.
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.
Montana-Dakotas
photo of people listening to someone in a field

BLM Montana-Dakotas Hosts Rangeland Health Training

Rangeland health was the topic of a recent class hosted by the BLM Montana-Dakotas for about 60 students from several agencies and various backgrounds. Students learned about the three attributes of rangeland health –
New Mexico, Las Cruces DO

Southern New Mexico couple receives 2018 Rangeland Stewardship Award

Making the Red Mountain lease into a viable and productive ranch has been a life-long endeavor for Larry and Pennie Hooper from Deming, New Mexico. Their labor of love began in 1991 when they
California
Jennifer Wheeler from the BLM’s Arcata Field Office on California’s North Coast uses a Weed Wrench to pull invasive bright yellow Scotch broom.

 BLM Eradicates Invasive Weeds to Sustain Lands 

Meet Jennifer Wheeler from the BLM’s Arcata Field Office on California’s North Coast.
Wyoming
Workers working on the range for grazing

Interns Help With Monitoring

The Buffalo Field Office (BFO) rangeland management staff administers over 400 grazing leases. Grazing allotments vary in size from less than 40 acres to over 26,000 acres.