Abandoned Mine Lands
Workers using a yellow excavator to unload a large metal culvert from a trailer on a forest road.

Reclaiming Land and Eliminating Hazards in Washington State, One Abandoned Mine at a Time

The Border Field Office partnered with Phil Barbarick of the BLM Idaho Mine Closure Team to complete the first phase of an Abandoned Mine Lands project at seven abandoned mines in northern Ferry County, Washington.
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Billings Field Office completes abandoned uranium mine closure work in the Pryor Mountains

The Department of Energy’s Defense Related Uranium Mine (DRUM) program and BLM Montana/Dakotas Billings Field Office and State Office staff completed work to identify and successfully address public safety hazards at several abandoned uranium mine sites.
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Local students continue habitat restoration on public lands in Gas Hills; nearly 7,000 sagebrush seedlings planted to date

Students from Lander and the Wind River Indian Reservation have partnered with the BLM, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and others to plant more than 7,000 sagebrush seedlings on abandoned mine lands.
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PODCAST: Cleaning up abandoned mine lands yields wildlife benefits in southwest New Mexico

"On The Ground": In southwest New Mexico, the Bureau of Land Management is restoring an area to both protect people from dangerous mine shafts, and to improve the habitat for endangered species.
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Podcast: "Lodes" to clean up

When hazards are found on public lands, it's up to people like Mike McCrum to oversee the remediation. He leads BLM Alaska's hazardous materials and remediation program, and he's seen his share of cleanups, big and small
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Completed construction of physical safety closure and bat cupola on abandoned mine.

BLM New Mexico completes mine safeguarding project at Cookes Peak

Story courtesy of Susan Torres, Public Affairs Officer, Energy Minerals and Natural Resources Department. Photos by Chris Teske, BLM Abandoned Mine Land Coordinator.

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