By Derrick Henry, Public Affairs Specialist Deep night and just off a trail, a photographer framed a landscape enrobed in gradients of darkness. Above, the inclined Milky Way’s stars, gas and dust directed attention to the galactic core, orts of incoming light looking fresh at 26,000 years old. The shutter…

By Derrick Henry, BLM Public Affairs Specialist During Native American Heritage Month and throughout the year, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and its partners share history and elevate the legacy of America’s Indigenous peoples, the original pioneers. While it is a celebration of culture and tradition, it is also…

Story and photos by Brooke Wheeler, Management and Program Analyst For the past five years, BLM Arizona has sponsored Native American college students to attend the Native Youth Climate Adaptation Leadership Congress (NYCALC) held at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. …

Story by Karly DeMars, State Fire Planner; and Chris Barth, State Fire Mitigation and Education Specialist. Photos by Karly DeMars; Cody Phillips, Supervisory Range Tech (Fire); and Jessica Race, firefighter. Physical fitness is essential to firefighter performance, mental health, and safety. For example, fatigue has been found to be a…

The below article ran in University of Alaska Fairbanks news on August 12, 2021. Story by Jeff Richardson ​​​​​​​ An international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth, which covered enough of the Alaska landscape during its 28 years to almost circle the Earth…

By Derrick Henry, Public Affairs Specialist One bright summer morning in north-central New Mexico, as voices advertised their presence, dozens of people walked along a blazed path that started as warm-season grass and then descended through low trees, pools of sunlight and weathered rock. Their conversations faded at the end…

For over three decades, BLM photographer Bob Wick captured the beauty and diversity of America’s public lands through thousands of images, depicting remote places on BLM lands that few people are lucky enough to experience. From the red rock canyonland lands of Utah, to the tundra of Alaska, and the…

BLM, Arizona Public Affairs A BLM Arizona Helitack crew is now certified as only one of five crews in the nation with specialized training that improves response time to fires and increases the efficiency and efficacy of inserting and extracting wildland firefighters on incidents. The aerial wildland fire crew “Moki…

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