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BLM to reduce wildland fire risk for Case Mountain giant sequoias

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to conduct pile burn operations of up to 1,000 piles of downed hazard trees, branches and understory brush at Case Mountain Extensive Recreation Management Area, southeast of Three Rivers, Tulare County.


BLM to oversee Pine Hill Preserve pile burn operations

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Mother Lode Field Office will oversee a prescribed burn of roughly 200 piles of hazardous fuels beginning as soon as next week on approximately 20 acres in the Cameron Park Unit of the Pine Hill Preserve in El Dorado County. Burn operations may continue periodically through the spring depending on weather, air quality and resource availability. Smoke may be visible in Cameron Park, El Dorado Hills, Shingle Springs and along U.S. Highway 50.


BLM announces Blythe Mesa Solar Project is fully operational

The Bureau of Land Management announces that the Blythe Mesa Solar Project, also known as Athos III, is fully operational and anticipated to produce enough electricity to power 94,000 homes.


BLM seeks input on wild horse management in McCullough Peaks

The Bureau of Land Management Cody Field Office requests your input as it begins to analyze future wild horse fertility control and bait trap gathers in the McCullough Peaks Herd Management Area east of Cody. The public scoping period is open Jan. 9–Feb. 7, 2023.


BLM seeks public comment on right-of-way amendment in Duchesne County

The Bureau of Land Management Vernal Field Office invites the public to provide comments during a 30-day scoping period on an application for a right-of-way amendment to reconstruct a portion of the Gate Canyon section of Wells Draw Road (County Road #32)


BLM to host Wild Horse and Burro Event in Elm Grove, Louisiana

The Bureau of Land Management will host a wild horse and burro placement event, offering a limited number of excess animals gathered from western rangelands, on January 19-21, 2023, at the Rocking H Arena located at 1145 Highway 527, Elm Grove, LA 7105.


BLM plans prescribed burns in Yavapai and Maricopa counties

The Bureau of Land Management’s Phoenix District is planning prescribed burning operations to burn cut and piled brush from public lands in Yavapai and Maricopa counties. Burning may occur over multiple days between January and March as conditions allow.


BLM to temporarily close parts of the Red Cliffs Recreation Area public lands for maintenance

The Bureau of Land Management St. George Field Office will temporarily close a portion of Red Cliffs Recreation Area from Jan. 16, 2023, to Feb. 6, 2023, for recreation- and cultural resource-related improvements and maintenance.


Whatcom County levee repair to start Saturday

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District is responding to a levee breach along the Nooksack River near Slater Road in Whatcom County, Washington.


23-001 The Walla Walla District to celebrate its 75th anniversary in November

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District, will be celebrating its 75th anniversary on Nov. 1, 2023.


Chittenden Locks updates large locks extended closure schedule

The upcoming large lock extended closure schedule will close the large lock to all vessel traffic during:


Army Corps of Engineers waives day use fees at recreation areas in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced today that it will waive day use fees at its more than 2,850 USACE-operated recreation areas nationwide in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 16.


Water Resources Development Act of 2022 signed into law, authorizing advancement of Coastal Texas Program

President Biden signed the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 into law on December 23, 2022, which includes authorization of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Coastal Texas Program


Christmas tree fish cover program announced

omplete your gift giving by donating your discarded Christmas tree for fish cover at Bull Shoals and Norfork Lakes.


Freshwater crustacean still found across historical range in Virginia and North Carolina

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that based on a review of the best available science, the Chowanoke crayfish is not in danger of extinction now, or likely to become so within the foreseeable future, and does not warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).


New Lock at the Soo reauthorized in WRDA 2022 at $3.219 billion

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District New Lock at the Soo Project in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan is reauthorized in the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) 2022 on Dec 23, 2022. The project reauthorization amount is $3.219 billion.


Secluded isopod likely to face few population threats in the near future

On December 29, 2022, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will publish a 12-month petition finding that the Rye Cove isopod, an eyeless unpigmented cave invertebrate, does not currently warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).


Notice of Intent published to draft Management Plan for Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have published a Federal Register Notice of Intent (NOI) to draft a Monument Management plan.


Snail Species Columbia Oregonian Found Not Warranted For Listing Under Endangered Species Act

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has completed its review of a petition to list the Columbia Oregonian under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).


U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Critical Habitat for ʻIʻiwi

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing critical habitat for ʻiʻiwi (scarlet honeycreeper) on the Hawaiian Islands of Kauaʻi, Maui, and Hawaiʻi.