In the Spotlight

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National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance the public lands Americans enjoy. BLM will host many volunteer opportunities in celebration of National Public Lands Day.

Volunteers are needed to construct trails, remove trash, build shade ramadas, build fences, plant trees, remove weeds, install drip irrigation systems, remove graffiti, and much more!

Make plans to join us - Saturday, September 27!

Volunteer Jerry Clark of the Back Country Horsemen "takes out the trash" at Bighorn Mountain Wilderness

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  • Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument

Bureau of Land Management in California

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BLM California manages 15.2 million acres of public lands, nearly 15% of the state's land area. The Bureau also administers 47 million acres of subsurface mineral estate underlying federal surface land, 2.5 million acres underlying privately owned land, 592,000 acres of Native American tribal land where BLM has trust responsibility for mineral operations. BLM California also manages 1.6 million acres in northwestern Nevada for cattle grazing, wild horses, recreation and wildlife habitat.

California Desert District

Employee Profile:   Tom Pogacnik

Tom Pogacnik

Tom Pogacnik enjoys the challenge of finding an old house, visualizing its potential, then tearing it apart and rebuilding it. He finds, however, that since becoming the assistant deputy state director for the resources division, he doesn't get to do that as much as he used to. (Tom is also Acting Deputy State Director for the resources division, until that position is filled.)  Read more... 

Meet Advisory Committee Member:  Tom Acuna

Tom Acuna

Tom Acuna represents transportation and rights-of-way interests on the BLM's California Desert District Advisory Council.   Read more...

Environmental Analysis of  Solar Energy Development As part of its ongoing efforts to increase domestic energy production and ensure greater energy security, BLM has initiated a joint programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) with the Department of Energy to assess the environmental, social, and economic impacts associated with solar energy development on BLM-managed public land in six western States.  BLM-California Solar Energy Projects News Release Federal Register Notice Solar PEIS online center