A majority of Colorado voters believe the state should spend more money on protecting and conserving its water resources, but they’re not willing to support new state taxes to fund
Phoenix District helps to translocate owls displaced by development
Feb 25, 2021
Through a partnership with the non-profit organization Wild at Heart and the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the BLM s Phoenix District Office has been working on a burrowing owl augmentation project to translocate owls displaced by development throughout the greater Phoenix area to BLM lands.
Burrowing owls across their range have been in decline in recent years. The owls are a BLM sensitive species which means that actions are needed to alleviate any threats to future declines, including relocation and repatriation projects such as this one.
Most of the owls being displaced are coming from land adjacent to agricultural land, so it s important that the relocation sites are also adjacent to agricultural lands. Four relocation sites were selected within the Phoenix District’s Hassayampa Field Office and neighboring Colorado River District’s Lake Havasu Field Office due to their location adja
BLM to transfer wildland fire engines to three rural fire readiness partners in Arizona
PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be transferring wildland fire engines to three rural wildland firefighting partners in Arizona. The Arizona Strip District to transfer a fire engine to the Colorado City Fire Department; the Colorado River District to transfer a fire engine to the Pinion Pine Fire District; and the Gila District will transfer a fire engine to the Pima Volunteer Fire Department.
The engines will be transferred under BLM’s Rural Fire Readiness (RFR) program, which is designed to provide wildland fire equipment to local wildland firefighting partners at no cost to increase the capability and capacity of local cooperators and increases the safety and effectiveness of the collaborative wildland fire response.
| Updated: Feb. 8, 2021, 5:44 p.m.
Water managers in the Upper Colorado River Basin know the number by heart: 3,525.
It refers to an elevation, a topographic ring around the shores and walls of Lake Powell, and it signals a crisis.
At 3,525 feet above sea level, the federally owned reservoir could only spare another 35-foot drop before reaching the point
where power generation at the Glen Canyon Dam becomes impossible. Below that lies a worst-case scenario known as âdead poolâ where hundreds of billions of gallons of water would be trapped with no easy way to release them into the Grand Canyon below.