Wildlife Program Highlights

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

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

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.

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 NCA

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...