Tag: Bureau of Land Management

May 11, 2022

Sage grouse struggle as BLM and states search for answers

This article originally appeared on E&E News Greenwire. The imperiled greater sage grouse, an iconic Western bird that federal and state regulators have been trying to protect for decades, may...

February 25, 2022

Watch: Restoration efforts transform trampled rangeland

Riparian restoration efforts are bringing back rangeland ecosystems that have been damaged by cattle grazing. One successful project is along Dixie Creek, in the Bureau of Land Management’s Elk District...

September 21, 2021

DOI to revisit greater sage-grouse management plans

The U.S. Department of Interior is formally revisiting greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) management plans this fall. Within the next 60 days, the Bureau of Land Management will file a public...

May 11, 2020

BLM honors two wildlife biologists for leadership

The Bureau of Land Management has honored two wildlife biologists for their contributions to conservation. Geoff Walsh received the Linda Seibert Career Achievement Award, which honors outstanding and sustained leadership...

March 24, 2020

Public lands wrestle with COVID-19 response

State and federal public land agencies are wrestling with how to respond to the new coronavirus after initial federal efforts intended to offer “an antidote to cabin fever” were met...

March 20, 2020

‘An antidote to cabin fever’ — with precautions

In response to the new coronavirus, several federal land agencies in the United States and Canada are waiving fees to encourage people to safely visit the outdoors while shutting facilities...

April 12, 2019

Is every year ‘the year of the bird?’

If you follow the lunar new year, the year of the pig has recently begun. But should it really be the year of the bird? OK, the National Geographic Society...

December 4, 2018

BLM engages fourth-graders with BioBlast

Fourth-grade students from a Utah elementary school piled off the bus into the Wasatch National Forest, where different nature learning stations awaited them. These lucky Redwood Elementary School students were...

October 1, 2018

Outdoor rec a major economic driver in the West, study finds

Outdoor recreation on Bureau of Land Management land in the West generates hundreds of millions of tax dollars and accounts for $1 billion in salaries and wages, according to a...

June 14, 2018

Utah desert wetlands abundant with migrating birds

As the water in Utah’s Pariette Wetlands evaporates in the June heat, manager Darren Williams wonders what its future holds. Encompassing 9,204 acres, including 2,529 classified as wetlands or riparian,...