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Bureau of Land Management shrinks proposed size of controversial Idaho wind farm project

A Bureau of Land Management preferred alternative for a proposed large-scale wind energy farm in southern Idaho would shrink the size by nearly half.

Federal Insights

At Interior, human capital data drives people and mission
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IT Modernization

Five agencies win $50.5M in new IT, cyber, CX investments

Workforce

Meet the federal executive whose career has involved the great outdoors

Agency Oversight

A conservation group is glad the Bureau of Land Management is moving back to D.C.

Agency Oversight

Members of Congress want FDA to develop guidance avoiding animal testing

All About Data

CDO Council pilot fights wildfires using interagency data to target fuel sources

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Unions

Employees at two headquarters offices vote to unionize

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Federal Newscast

BLM workers elect to join federal employee union

In this photo provided by the United States Forest Service, firefighters battle a wildfire, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, near Greenwood Lake in the Superior National Forest of northeastern Minnesota. The fire has burned more than 14 square miles and promoted a new round of evacuations of homes and cabins on Monday. (United States Forest Service via AP)

Management

Forest Service publishes a plan to mitigate the risk of wild forest fires

Rick Scott, Mitch McConnell

Federal Report

Senator reimagines federal workforce with plenty of room for cuts

Steve Guertin

People

This senior executive has ensured U.S. wildlife species have room to thrive

The Montana Mountains loom over Thacker Pass in northern Nevada, July 14, 2021. A federal judge on Friday, July 23, has denied environmentalists' request for a court order temporarily blocking the government from digging trenches for archaeological surveys at a mine planned near the Nevada-Oregon line with the biggest known U.S. deposit of lithium. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP)

Management

How the Bureau of Land Management will transform acres and acres, of paper, that is

In this Jan. 23, 2015, photo, wild horses are seen during a BLM tour in the Pine Nut Mountains just outside of Dayton, Nev. Under the threat of another legal battle, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has quietly pulled the plug on a public-private partnership in northern Nevada aimed at shrinking the size of a wild horse herd through the use of contraceptives, according to documents The Associated Press obtained on Tuesday, May 10, 2016. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP) NO SALES; NEVADA APPEAL OUT; SOUTH RENO WEEKLY OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

Hiring/Retention

How can BLM manage with many vacancies after headquarters relocation?

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Federal Report

Bureau of Land Management: Two headed brontosaurus

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Workforce

BLM still struggling to fill vacancies after westward relocation

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Workforce

Interior will move BLM headquarters, senior officials back to DC

In this May 14, 2021, photo provided by the High Desert Museum, U.S. Forest Service firefighters carry out a prescribed burn on the grounds of the High Desert Museum, near Bend, Oregon. The prescribed burn is part of a massive effort in wildlands across the West to prepare for a fire season that follows the worst one on record. (Kyle Kosma/High Desert Museum via AP)

Workforce

Biden expands pay, hiring for federal firefighters, but union warns it's not enough

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Federal Report

After pandemic telework, are agency relocations dead?

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Workforce

Biden's 2022 budget calls for big staffing increases at several civilian cabinet agencies

Joe Biden

Federal Newscast

GSA has ambitious goal for using renewable electricity in all federal buildings

MR & PR
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Federal Newscast

Some agencies do a better job looking into employees playing hooky

David Bernhardt

Agency Oversight

Interior long planned for BLM relocation, but leasing cost concerns weren't the driving factor

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