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Happy Wildlife Wednesday from a hawk taking flight in southern Idaho!

Travis Malzahn, BLM Idaho’s Pocatello Field Office seasonal employee, captured this amazing photo of a juvenile hawk in southern Idaho. He was out installing route markers as part of the Curlew/Deep Creek Travel Management Plan when he was able to take this photo with his cell phone

Los más grandes expertos en las enfermedades del #PisoPelvico estaremos en Cartagena de Indias, Colombia reunidos para el V Congreso de #ALAPP.

La Dra Rebeca Kisel y el Dr. Raúl Fonseca en representación de la Clinica del Piso Pélvico de Guadalajara Mexico, participarán activamente durante esta edición 2020.

Happy First Day of Spring!

The ferruginous hawk (Buteo reglis) is the largest buteo in North America. They build large stick nests and their clutch size ranges from 1-8 eggs. These hawks are one of two "booted" hawks in North America which means they have feathers that go down their legs to their toes. The Raft River-Curlew Valley in southern Idaho, where this photo was taken, provides habitat for more than one percent of the world's breeding ferruginous hawk population.

This ferruginous hawk was 5-6 weeks old when the photo was taken by former BLMer Matt Fischer.

Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse

Columbian sharp-tailed grouse are one of six recognized sub-species of sharp-tailed grouse. During their breeding season males dance on “leks” (dancing grounds) to attract females to the site for mating. To see this dance and learn more about these grouse check out this video from the BLM Pocatello Field Office in Idaho: http://bit.ly/1ek2bSY

-Amy Lapp

Public Lands -- A lot to be thankful for! This Thanksgiving holiday season gives me another opportunity to pause and appreciate the vast public lands that are adjacent to the area I live in, near Pocatello, Idaho. The very livelihood of my family is derived from my job as a BLM Minerals Manager regulating phosphate mining on public lands in southeast Idaho. These lands contain large deposits of valuable minerals that are recovered to produce fertilizer and phosphorus based chemicals. This development, part of BLM’s multiple-use mission, is an important basis of our American standard of living and contributes to healthy economies. Mineral development and processing provides employment and livelihood for hundreds of employees and their families.   In my free time, I feel fortunate to be able to take frequent trail runs, bicycle rides, camping trips and participate in a multitude of outdoor activities that the mountainous public lands above my home afford. The recreational activities offered by the public lands have been an important part of our family’s time spent together. Now our kids are grown and gone, but I continue to spend time acquainting my grandchildren with public lands and the special activities and experiences that they offer.