We love our volunteers!

Volunteers are essential for the BLM to achieve its mission of sustaining the health, diversity, and productivity of America’s public lands. Each year almost 30,000 BLM volunteers perform nearly a million hours of service, valued at over $25 million. This year’s extraordinary award winners served thousands of hours across the country. BLM CA congratulates Redding's Lifetime achievement winners, Jan McCullough and Jeff Batterson. (BLM Web)

Making a lasting difference on Public Lands

Members of the Back Country Horsemen of California provided great support this week for an AmeriCorps NCCC Pacific Region crew improving trails on our Bald Mountain network near Susanville. As they have in past years, members of the Horsemen's High Country Unit used a pack string to haul heavy jugs of water, tools and provisions for the crew that camped overnight on the mountain overlooking northeast California's Honey Lake Valley. (BLM CA Facebook)

King Range National Conservation Area is happy to announce the visitor center is open

Open to the public via the Service Window at the front of the building, staff will be available to provide visitors with crucial services such as trip planning advice, up to date conditions information, maps, tide charts, and bear canister rentals. Hours of operation will be 10am-4pm seven days a week through the summer season. (BLM CA Facebook)

Happy retirement to K-9 Officer Eric

Eric, a seven-year-old Belgian Malinois from Holland, who has been working with Ranger Calvin Albright as a K9 in Northern California since April 2015. He has now been retired to Ranger Albright. His skills helped BLM law enforcement professionals identify and confiscate illegal narcotics at the international border in Mexico, Burning Man in Nevada and on many other occasions. (BLM CA Facebook)

America's Great Outdoors

Standing in the immense darkness, surrounded by the white alkali flats of Soda Lake, you can almost hear the silence. Only a few hours from Los Angeles, the Carrizo Plain National Monument offers visitors a rare chance to be alone with nature. A trip here means planning for a backcountry adventure with plenty of water, food, and fuel. (DOI Tumblr)

Prepare for summer heat

Magical views from the King Range

We love this magical shot from California's King Range Conservation Area. Here, you will find a spectacular meeting of land and sea as mountains thrust straight out of the surf with King Peak (4,088 feet) only 3 miles from the ocean. This destination encompasses 68,000 acres along 35 miles of California’s north coast. (BLM Instagram)

BLM #SagebrushEcosystem series continues

The Fringed Sage is called a lot of other names, such as prairie sagebrush, sagewort, pasture sage and northern worm-wood. Their thin, silvery leaves have a fragrant, herbal scent and remain semi-evergreen throughout the year. When a fire moves through their habitat, they are one of the first plants to return if there is not a lot of competition from invasive plants. (BLM Fire Facebook)

BLM California Fire Restrictions

BLM California fire restrictions or temporary public land closures are used to reduce the risk of wildfires and protect the public. Often times these preventative measures focus on human-related activities, such as campfires, off-road driving, equipment use and recreational target shooting, since human-related activities are the number one cause of a wildfires. BLM Arcata, Bakersfield, Bishop, Mother Lode, Redding, and Ukiah field offices have issued seasonal fire restrictions. (BLM CA Web)

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Know Before You Go

It is always important to make sure that you understand if there are any type of restrictions on public lands you are visiting. During critical times this summer, fire restrictions may be implemented that would restrict having a campfire. Check with the local fire agency for specifics. Our partners with Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics encourage us to take those extra steps to help with wildland fire prevention. (BLM Fire Facebook)

Recreate Responsibly

It’s that time of year to enjoy all the opportunities that public lands has to offer BUT please be mindful of your surrounds. Remember to play it safe when it comes to campfires, fireworks, target shooting, or riding your OHV off road. Recreate Responsibly not only during Great Outdoors Month but every time your head outdoors. (BLM Fire Facebook)

A group of lizards is called a:  

A. Sleuth

B. Skulk

C. Lounge

D. Mischief 

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A Proclamation on Juneteenth Day of Observance, 2021

On June 19, 1865 — nearly nine decades after our Nation’s founding, and more than 2 years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation — enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas, finally received word that they were free from bondage.  As those who were formerly enslaved were recognized for the first time as citizens, Black Americans came to commemorate Juneteenth with celebrations across the country, building new lives and a new tradition that we honor today. (Whitehouse.gov)  

Interior's Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Makes Significant Investments in Racial Equity, Civil Rights Movement Preservation

As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s whole-of-government approach to advancing equity and justice, the Department of the Interior’s 2022 budget proposal contains major investments in initiatives that advance racial equity and tell the stories of historically underrepresented communities and the struggle for civil rights. (DOI News Release)