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News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - In mid- to late October, the Bureau of Land Management's Fairbanks District and Alaska Fire Service personnel will burn woody debris piles near the Dalton Highway at Mileposts 62 and 180 to reduce the risk of wildfire to communities and facilities, and to provide a safe space for firefighters to suppress fires in the future.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) West Desert District rescinded fire prevention order UTW002-2022-01 today on BLM-managed lands within Box Elder, Cache, Juab, Millard, Morgan, Rich, Salt Lake, Summit, Tooele, Utah and Wasatch counties. Fire prevention order UTW002-2022-08 went into effect today on BLM-managed lands on West Mountain and Lake Mountains in Utah County.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Spokane District has lifted the fire restrictions on public lands administered by the BLM and the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) in eastern Washington.
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The Bureau of Land Management will host an additional open house public meeting on November 2 to solicit early public involvement for the upcoming Newcastle Resource Management Plan revision.
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Fire restrictions in the Battle Mountain District on public lands are rescinded as of 12:01 a.m. Oct. 12, 2022.
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The Bureau of Land Management will host a free public tour of the Indian Lakes Off-Range Wild Horse and Burro Corral in Fallon, Nevada, on Friday, November 4.
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The Sierra Front Field Office is seeking public input that will be used to prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) to analyze the direct, indirect, and cumulative effects for a proposal from Nevada Division of State Parks (NDSP).
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The Bureau of Land Management is holding a wild horse and burro placement event November 4-5, 2022, offering approximately 60 excess animals gathered from western rangelands at the Civil War Arena, 11838 Civil War Rd., Carthage, Missouri.
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Due to cooler temperatures, the Elko District is rescinding some fire restrictions pursuant to 43 CFR 9212.2 effective October 15, 2022. Fire restrictions reduce the number of wildfires, protect lives and property as well as wildlife and other resources.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Campbell Creek Science Center (CCSC) is introducing a new registration process for fee-based public programs using Recreation.gov.
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The Bureau of Land Management Kingman Field Office has authorized the UniSource Antares to Meadview 69 kV Upgrade Project. The project will improve power quality and reliability for customers in the community of Meadview, Mohave County, Arizona.The decision approves construction of a new approximately 8.3-mile 69-kilovolt transmission line along Pierce Ferry Road, from Antares to Greentree Road.
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The Bureau of Land Management and the Nevada Department of Corrections – Silver State Industries conducted a saddle-started wild horse adoption event at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center on October 8, 2022.
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The Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, are hosting two hiring events to quickly fill 200 wildland firefighter and support positions in California and parts of Nevada, for the 2023 wildland fire year.
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The combined efforts of BLM Wyoming, North Wind Construction Services, and the Hot Springs County Sherriff’s Office led to the conviction of two individuals charged with felony depredation of federal lands.
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House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement on President Joseph R. Biden’s designation of Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in Colorado.
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Over the past week, House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) led two letters requesting critical resources to assist recovery and resiliency efforts in Puerto Rico and Florida after Hurricanes Fiona and Ian
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Oversight is one of Congress’s most important functions. Without robust, regular examinations of government agencies and processes, we run the risk of waste and abuse of taxpayer funding.
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Last month, 35 members introduced the Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2022 with the backing of numerous stakeholder groups and organizations.
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Last month, 35 members introduced the Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2022 with the backing of numerous stakeholder groups and organizations.