Wildlife Program Highlights

Mule deer peeks around a tree in a previously prescribed burn treated area.

Prescribed burns restore vital habitat in the High Desert District

The Bureau of Land Management’s High Desert District recently completed two spring prescribed burns aimed at improving wildlife habitat and reducing hazardous fuels across southwest Wyoming. Spanning approximately 182 acres, the burns were conducted in the Kemmerer and Pinedale field offices, with about 62 acres treated near Rock Tunp and 120 acres on Deadline Ridge.
Four people wearing gloves and hardhats stand and kneel around a tree they are about to cut down.

Felling trees for fish habitat

Staff directionally felled encroaching conifers into a creek near Lander, Wyoming, to mimic natural log jams and provide structure to the stream channel. This will improve the habitat for fish, beaver and other wildlife.
ACE interns Matt Jackson and Connor Stamps pose with a Texas horned lizard.

Cross Bar Management Area – Wildlife Survey Week

During the week of June 17, 2024, Oklahoma Field Office Wildlife Biologist Brian Dickerson and American Conservation Experience (ACE) intern Matthew Jackson traveled to the Cross Bar Management Area just north of Amarillo, Texas. It is the only surface management tract within the three-state area covered by the Oklahoma Field Office (OFO).
a pinyon jay atop a pinyon pine tree

Two of a kind: Sage-grouse & Pinyon jay habitats

As the BLM and partners work to reverse decline in greater sage-grouse populations, we also recognize that successful conservation requires thinking about how actions to protect one species may in turn affect others.