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BLM | 2014
BLM Utah is conducting river shoreline surveys with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Many of the rivers are located in very steep sandstone cliff formations that are hundreds of feet deep…
BLM | 2014
BLM has partnered with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium (MRLC) in a multi-year mapping and monitoring program to better characterize shrubland…
BLM | 2014
In June 2014, photogrammetry personnel from the BLM National Operations Center documented the rock art panels at Castle Gardens in central Wyoming. The panels, etched in sandstone, have…
BLM | 2014
How do you map the historical distribution of Wyoming’s only endangered plant species when nobody even acknowledged the species in Wyoming until 1996? BLM and University of Wyoming researchers …
BLM | 2014
The BLM and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Greater Sage-grouse Monitoring Plan is designed to monitor the implementation and evaluate the effectiveness of actions to conserve the species and its habitat…
BLM | 2014
In 2009, a remarkable new dinosaur tracksite was discovered on lands administered by the Moab Field Office, containing one of the largest multitaxic tracksites in North America. The Mill Canyon…
BLM | 2014
In July 2014, the BLM National Operations Center, BLM Walter Horning Seed Orchard, and the BLM Oregon/Washington State Office explored the use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to map conifer tree…
BLM | 2011
Lidar and aerial photography are valuable tools for preliminary investigations by cadastral surveyors. Boundary disputes are often decided using survey information. Remote sensing data…
BLM | 2011
The Pacific Northwest Hydrography Framework is sponsoring a working group tasked to evaluate the use of lidar-derived DEMs as a principal data source for updating the National Hydrology Database (NHD…
BLM | 2011
The Oregon BLM State Office developed a semi-automated technique to map juniper distribution for specific project areas. The technique uses 0.5 meter color infra-red NAIP imagery to identify…
BLM | 2011
The famous Laetoli footprints were made by a human ancestor 3.56 million years ago in the Rift Valley of Tanzania and are the earliest fossil evidence of bipedalism in our ancestors. The trail…
BLM | 2011
The revised Statue 2477 (RS2477) was enacted by Congress in 1866 to facilitate western settlement. It granted “the right-of-way for the construction of highways across public lands not…