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Hello and welcome to the Record of the Week! In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, this week's record features a land patent issued to Nina Otero-Warren!

This week's GLO Record travels to Dodge City, Kansas, also known as the wild frontier town of the Old West!

The BLM Teachers on the Public Lands (TPL) program provides professional development experiences for K‐12 teachers by placing them as teacher interns at BLM sites during their summer break.

By Derrick Henry, Public Affairs Specialist

Story by Philip Oviatt, acting Central California District's public affairs officer. Photos by BLM, Margaux Blanc, and courtesy of the Cranston family.

In the hottest and driest parts of the Mojave Desert lives the endangered Amargosa vole, a small mouse-like rodent with short ears and a short tail. This rare species only lives in small patches of habitat, about 75 acres spread across 55 patches of bulrush marsh along the Amargosa River near Tecopa, California. Near Tecopa, the Amargosa River rises above ground and creates a green oasis for the vole and other rare plants and animals found nowhere else on earth. The Amargosa vole was thought to be extinct in the early 1900s but was rediscovered in the late 1970s.

Story by Fern Braun, Program and Management Analyst

Story by Azure Hall, Public Affairs Specialist. Photos by Azure Hall and Crystal Cowan, Public Affairs Specialist.

Story by Ardy Hahn, Archaeologist; and Tyson Finnicum, Public Affairs Specialist. Photos by Ardy Hahn.

Hello and welcome to the Record of the Week! This week, the team travels to Michigan to see Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, the first National Lakeshore in America!