Bureau of Land Management

FILE - In this March 2, 2020, file photo, birds take off from a marsh in the Tulelake National Wildlife Refuge in the Klamath Basin along the Oregon-California border. One of the worst droughts in memory in the massive agricultural region straddling the California-Oregon border could mean steep cuts to irrigation water for hundreds of farmers this summer to sustain endangered fish species critical to local tribes. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees water allocations in the federally owned Klamath Project, is expected to announce this week how the season's water will be divvied up after delaying the decision a month. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File)

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IT Modernization

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Meet the federal executive whose career has involved the great outdoors

Workforce

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2018, file photo, Emigrant Peak is seen rising above the Paradise Valley and the Yellowstone River near Emigrant, Mont. The Biden administration has nominated a longtime environmental advocate and Democratic aide, Tracy Stone-Manning, to oversee roughly 250 million acres of public lands as director of the Bureau of Land Management. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

A conservation group is glad the Bureau of Land Management is moving back to D.C.

Agency Oversight

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Agency Oversight

(U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service photo by Lisa Cox)

Practice makes perfect: firefighter Nick Vallardo trains with an engine crew as they prepare for the coming wildfire season. (Lisa Cox, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

CDO Council pilot fights wildfires using interagency data to target fuel sources

All About Data

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Employees at two headquarters offices vote to unionize

Unions

BLM workers elect to join federal employee union

Federal Newscast

In this photo provided by the United States Forest Service, firefighters battle a wildfire, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, near Greenwood Lake in the Superior National Forest of northeastern Minnesota. The fire has burned more than 14 square miles and promoted a new round of evacuations of homes and cabins on Monday. (United States Forest Service via AP)

Forest Service publishes a plan to mitigate the risk of wild forest fires

Management

Senator reimagines federal workforce with plenty of room for cuts

Federal Report

This senior executive has ensured U.S. wildlife species have room to thrive

People

The Montana Mountains loom over Thacker Pass in northern Nevada, July 14, 2021. A federal judge on Friday, July 23, has denied environmentalists' request for a court order temporarily blocking the government from digging trenches for archaeological surveys at a mine planned near the Nevada-Oregon line with the biggest known U.S. deposit of lithium. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP)

How the Bureau of Land Management will transform acres and acres, of paper, that is

The Nevada office of the Bureau of Land Management has so many paper records, they’d probably cover the land the agency manages.

Management

In this Jan. 23, 2015, photo, wild horses are seen during a BLM tour in the Pine Nut Mountains just outside of Dayton, Nev. Under the threat of another legal battle, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has quietly pulled the plug on a public-private partnership in northern Nevada aimed at shrinking the size of a wild horse herd through the use of contraceptives, according to documents The Associated Press obtained on Tuesday, May 10, 2016. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP) NO SALES; NEVADA APPEAL OUT; SOUTH RENO WEEKLY OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

How can BLM manage with many vacancies after headquarters relocation?

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Hiring/Retention

Bureau of Land Management: Two headed brontosaurus

Federal Report

Instead of closing new Grand Junction headquarters, BLM will now have two headquarters.