Wildlife Program Highlights

Little brown bat being held by a hand in a blue medical glove

Friday, January 30, 2026

BLM, Bat Conservation International Monitor Bat Species on Lake Vermilion Islands

In 2025, the BLM Northeastern States District Office teamed up with Bat Conservation International (BCI) to acoustically monitor for threatened and endangered bat species in Lake Vermilion, Minnesota.

A pika with its mouth open making an "eep!" call

Thursday, May 12, 2022

BLM Idaho wildlife biologists use pikas as climate change indicators

Story and photos by Bruce Hallman, Public Affairs Specialist Allow me to introduce myself - I am a North American pika, Ochontona princeps. Although I...

Man wearing a head lamp and holding a sage-grouse fitted with a radio collar.

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

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. In partnership with the University of Idaho...

Two bats in flight at night, one with its nose in a flower

Friday, April 8, 2022

BLM promotes agave restoration to support bat conservation within Las Cienegas National Conservation Area

The Tucson Field Office is collaborating with Bat Conservation International and the Borderland Restoration Network in Patagonia, Arizona, to promote agave restoration through planting nursery grown native agave plants.

Jack Barnitz looking down at a device he is holding in the woods

Friday, April 1, 2022

BLM New Mexico employee Jack Barnitz receives Linda Seibert Career Achievement Award

Jack Barnitz, a retired Supervisory Natural Resource Specialist at the Bureau of Land Management New Mexico Las Cruces District Office, has been selected as a...

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Wildlife Biologist Nancy Herms receives BLM’s Conservation Project Award

Story by Chris Hanefeld, BLM Ely District public affairs specialist. Photos by Nancy Herms, BLM Bristlecone Field Office wildlife biologist. Federally endangered Pahrump poolfish are...