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Walk on the Wild Side Explore Your Public Lands Activity Book

FCIC: Walk on the Wild Side: Explore Your Public Lands Activity Book
Walk on the Wild Side:
Explore Your Public Lands

Help Wanted
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As you've seen, BLM has huge areas of land to protect and many resources on that land to care for. Experts in many different resources work for BLM. There are experts in minerals, animals, plants, recreation, and many other fields. By working together, BLM employees can do what's best to protect public lands now and in the future.

With so much land to manage, it's a big job. And BLM doesn't just need experts to do it. All sorts of people can help. As you've seen, people create some of the problems that exist on BLM lands, and people can also help solve them. In other words, BLM needs YOU! After all, as you've learned, public lands belong to all Americans, and that means everyone can help care for them.

Woman that works for the Bureau of Land Management
Man that works for Bureau of Land Management

Activity

Career Fair
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Archaeologist. Biologist. Botanist. Fire Specialist. Forester. Geologist. Hydrologist. Paleontologist. Ranger. Surveyor.

There are many different people who work to protect the historical, archaeological, and natural resources on public lands. We've come up with brief "job descriptions" for some of them, but you need to match them with the job titles listed above. Once you fill in the spaces below, the letters in the boxes will help you answer the question at the bottom of the page.

1. I study forests and manage the forest resources on public lands.
2. I work to determine land ownership and boundaries.
3. I use clues humans left behind to learn about how people lived in the past.
4. I manage fires and work to educate people on fire safety.
5. I study and protect water resources.
6. I work to protect habitat for fish and wildlife.
7. I patrol the public lands to protect them and the people who use them.
8. I study fossils to learn about life in the past.
9. I study plants and work to protect native plants from invasive weeds.
10. I study the structure and history of the Earth and help manage mineral resources on public lands.

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Who is responsible for caring for public lands? _______________________

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