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Water Canyon Photograph
Water Canyon is an oasis in the high desert. Through the Canyon runs Water Canyon Creek which is loud in the spring from the melting snow from the Sonoma Mountains and quiets to a trickle in the fall after a long, dry summer. The lush plant community surrounding the creek ...
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Buffalo Field Office Photograph
The Buffalo Field Office manages nearly 800,000 acres of public lands within Campbell, Johnson, and Sheridan counties in north-central Wyoming. These three counties are part of the Northern Great Plains and are rich in the history of the "Old West".This area contains vast deposits of oil, gas and coal, in ...
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Mallo Recreation Area Photograph
The Discovery Summer Project is a partnership between the BLM and Upton Middle School and is available to students in grades 6-8. The purpose is to increase the students' natural resource knowledge and expand understanding of GPS/GIS gained through school curriculum. In the preceding spring, there will be in class ...
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Carson City District Office Photograph
The Carson City District Office, located in western Nevada and eastern California, encompasses 5.5 million acres of public land with a varied landscape made up of: coniferous forests of the Eastern Sierra Nevada; pinion-juniper woodlands/sagebrush dominated areas; and salt desert shrub dominated areas. Local ecosystems include: high-altitude montane, sand dunes, ...
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Don't Trash Nevada Photograph
The Don't Trash Nevada program addresses litter and desert dumping issues on the over 7 million acres of public lands in Southern Nevada. The largest wildlife refuge in the lower 48 states is included in the program as is Lake Mead National Recreation Area and the Mt. Charleston Wilderness area.The ...
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Black Ledges Archaeology Camp Photograph
For the next couple of years the project will be located at the Black Ledges. The Black Ledges were created by the uplift of volcanic rock right above a thirsty Great Basin valley floor. The vegetation on this site consists of harshly adapted desert shrubery, such as Big Sagebrush, Rabbitbrush ...
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Trinity County Resource Conservation District Photograph
Nearly 80% of Trinity County is comprised of federal lands, including the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Six Rivers National Forest, and Bureau of Management Lands. The Trinity River runs through it, fed by numerous tributary streams, and it is home to Trinity Alps Wilderness, Chanchelulla Wilderness, and Yolla Bolly Wilderness areas. ...
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GSENM Student Explorations Photograph
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was the last place to be mapped in the lower 48 states, preserving many valuable resources in a vast tract of wild land. Because it has been so well preserved, it is an ideal outdoor laboratory for science and cultural studies and totals 1.9 million acres. ...
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Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge Photograph
Established: May 17, 1937, Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is known as a ''Birder's Paradise''.Located between the Atlantic Ocean and Pamlico Sound, Pea Island NWR offers a chance to slow down and enjoy the natural beauty of the Outer Banks. In addition to providing nesting, resting, and wintering habitat ...
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FIRE Up for Summer Photograph
Physical sites vary from year to year depending on the area that BLM wants fuels inventory in or structural fire assessment. Sites have included high desert sagebrush-steppe environments to ponderosa pine/douglas fir mountain environments. Students do fire hazard analyses in small rural Idaho towns.
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