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Show Open house Friday for Bureau of Land Management anniversary States own approximately 460 million acres of BLM administered adminis-tered land--about one-fifth of the total land area of "the United States--primarily located locat-ed in ten. western states and Alaska. The representatives of BLM manage all the "Public Lands" and their resources for uses such as recreation, domestic livestock grazing, timber and mineral production, fish and game habitat and watershed protection. Public land surveys and care and maintenance of public land records continue i to be important aspects of the work of BLM. The Cedar City district comprises about 1,600,000 acres of public land. Mr. Isaacson said, "We hope you will find time to vLsit our office and learn where the public land is and some of the uses and products that are realized from it." District Manager. Harold E. Isaacson invites one and all to the Open House at the district office in the Parks Office Building, 154 North Main Street, Cedar City, on July 16th. A slide series will be presented pre-sented throughout the day to show the more scenic portions of the district and some of the resources managed on the land. Refreshments will be served. The Bureau of Land Management, Man-agement, or BLM, was created cre-ated in the Department of the . Interior in 1946 and became be-came the successor to both the General Land Office (founded in 1812) and the Grazing Service (founded in 1943). Citizens of the United |