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The Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield Field Office wants to hear your ideas on how to ensure off-highway vehicle trails are safe and well maintained on public lands throughout Central California at a virtual public meeting on Monday, Feb. 27 at 5 p.m.
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In accordance with congressional direction in the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bureau of Land Management New Mexico State Office started a 30-day scoping period to receive public input on 12 parcels totaling 915.59 acres that may be included in an upcoming lease sale.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is pleased to welcome Dave Pals as the new field manager for the Moab Field Office. Pals brings experience in natural resources management, geology, and knowledge of the Moab area to his new role.
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The Friends of Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks and Bureau of Land Management Las Cruces District announce a call to artists to apply for the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument Artist in Residence Program to take place May 1-31.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is planning a prescribed burn at the Dripping Springs Natural Area near Las Cruces, N.M. The Dripping Springs prescribed burn is planned for the week of Feb. 27 through March 3
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News Release: USS Triton Sail Park is located alongside the Columbia River in Richland, Washington. The USS Triton was the first vessel to complete a submerged circumnavigation of the Earth in 1960 powered by nuclear reactor technology developed for the Manhattan Project. Beginning in 1968, the Triton was the first...
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The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Feb. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: BAKER CITY, Ore. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management Baker Field Office opened a 30-day public comment period through March 23, for a proposed placer gold mining operation on about 100 acres of public land in southwestern Baker County.
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The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Feb. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: The Mississippi River corridor is one of North America’s four major flyways. The Audubon Society estimates that more than 325 bird species use this route twice each year, flying between their breeding grounds in Canada and the northern United States and their wintering grounds along the Gulf of Mexico...
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News Release: The North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) began in 1966 in response to concerns raised by Rachel Carson in her book Silent Spring (published four years earlier) regarding the overuse of pesticides. Carson’s emphasis on the effects DDT had on birds led Dr. Chandler Robbins at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to begin the long-term songbird monitoring program.
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News Release: Bineshiiyag (“birds" in Ojibwemowin) are a constant presence along the gichi onigamiing from Lake Superior to the Pigeon River. Indeed, they are the most commonly seen or heard wildlife by visitors to the area. Songbirds give voice to the northern forest. They contribute to nagamowin akiing, the singing land.
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News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comments to inform development of an environmental assessment and regional mitigation strategy for the proposed Dry Lake East Energy Center Solar Project in Clark County, Nevada. The proposed project is located on 1,635 acres of public land 10 miles northeast of Las Vegas in the Dry Lake East Designated Leasing Area. This area was selected as a preferred location for solar energy development in 2020.
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News Release: John Wesley Powell River History Museum Exhibit Audio Description.
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News Release: Among the 240 bird species that have been recorded in the Sleeping Bear Dunes area, about 169 of them (70%) nest and raise young here each year. Birds are perhaps the most visible of all the park’s wildlife. They fill the morning with song and the trees with color. This is the only one of the nine network parks where we find Upland Sandpipers, and it’s one of only two parks in our network with Prairie Warblers.
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News Release: Wellington, New Zealand - This week, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland visited Aotearoa New Zealand at the invitation of Minister of Foreign Affairs Nanaia Mahuta to highlight the United States’ role as a Pacific nation and the importance of international cooperation on addressing climate change ...
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News Release: Located in Santa Fe, the Poeh Cultural Center, preserves and interprets the essence of what it means to be a Tewa person-to be Pueblo. Like all Tewa Pueblos of northern New Mexico, the Pueblo of Pojoaque or its traditional Po’su wae geh name, which translates to “water gathering place", was systematically...
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News Release: REDDING, Calif. - Fire crews from the Bureau of Land Management will be burning piles of branches and brush on public lands in the Cloverdale area of west Redding beginning Thursday, Feb. 23, and continuing through Friday, March 3. Smoke will be visible from the communities of Igo and Ono, and from the Platina Union Elementary School.