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News From The Apiaries Beekeeping News, Tutorials, And Places of Interest The Apiaries Resources The Apiaries Bee Keeping Bureau of Land Management Ape & Bee Beekeeping Museums About Shop The Apiaries makes finding public beekeeping claims a matter of a simple search. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), along with a wide range claim types, grants individuals and companies the beekeeping rights on public land. The Apiaries is a source to see where these beekeeping claims are and have been. New claims are being filed, auctioned, or resold through private sales. While claims change hands, become active or closed, or have new actions filed, we are updating our records to make this information available to everyone. Five Gifts For Friends of the Bees by Lizette Twain on November 11, 2015 in Bee Keeping • 0 Comments We all know that bees are important pollinators for a lot of the food sources that we take for granted. While this has driven more people to join the ranks of beekeepers, some of us want to help but are not in a position to keep bees. Here are five gifts for friends of the bees.” A Pollinator Garden In today’s… Read more Understanding Maps by Lizette Twain on July 29, 2015 in The Apiaries • 0 Comments The time has come for a over of our mapping services to clear the way for further development of handy tools for our users. As such, this month we have rolled out a new map format to better allow our users to quickly peruse beekeeping leases by disposition. In order to keep the maps as clutter free as possibly, we… Read more Understanding Permit Ownership For Beekeeping by Lizette Twain on July 12, 2015 in Bureau of Land Management , The Apiaries • 0 Comments We receive lots of emails from people who find their name or a relative’s name on our site and want to know if this means they have some right to the land listed under that name. The short answer is, if you have to ask, then probably not” but the complete answer deserves the time and attention that is best… Read more Understanding BLM Administrative Areas by Lizette Twain on April 9, 2015 in Bureau of Land Management , The Apiaries • 0 Comments We have added a new way to browse and explore claims: by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Administrative Area. To give context to this new feature, we wrote this handy explanation. Summary Nearly a quarter of a billion acres – about one-eighth of the landmass of the USA – is administered by the BLM. These public lands & resources contributed… Read more Growing A Pollinator Garden by Lizette Twain on March 2, 2015 in Bee Keeping • 1 Comment Spring is around the bend. It is time to think about what plants you are going to nurture in your yard for the year. While big lawns may be classic, might we suggest a pollinator garden? Pollinator gardens are designed to provide pollen to local animals and insects that rely on this resource such as bees but also hummingbirds, butterflies, and bats,… Read more Understanding Townships by Lizette Twain on February 11, 2015 in Bureau of Land Management , History , The Apiaries • 0 Comments This entry focuses on a part of our earlier discussion, Understanding Location Data. For greater context on what we will be addressing, please read that post first. One of the more confusing aspects of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the concept of townships.” A township” can refer to two different things. Both are part of the PLSS measurement system but have… Read more The Buzz in California by Lizette Twain on January 27, 2015 in Bee Keeping It is late January and beehives are already being set up in the orchards of Central California. In what may seem unfathomable to those on the East Coast of the United States—poised to be battered by record breaking blizzards—California’s Central Valley is speckled with beehives. This is in spite of what looks to be another year of relative drought for… Read more Understanding Location Data by Lizette Twain on January 4, 2015 in Bureau of Land Management Claims handled by the Bureau of Land Management are not mapped by latitude and longitude, as many maps now use. Instead, many of these claims harken back to an older form of surveying called the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a measurement system that may seem confusing to the uninitiated, but was a great step forward in the time that it… Read more Pick On Someone Your Own Size by Lizette Twain on November 17, 2014 in Ape & Bee The first lesson everyone learns when dealing with the bees is that it does not pay to get in a fight. While a lone bee can often be shooed” away, a colony is a formidable opponent. Size does matter, but sometimes that measurement isn’t made in inches, but in community. Read more Not The Ape” You Were Thinking Of by Lizette Twain on November 12, 2014 in Ape & Bee We made a comic strip It seems that most people we know, upon encountering the terms apiary,” apiarist,” or apis” are fist surprised and amused that these terms refer to bees rather than our closer cousins: the apes. We were quite amused, too. As we were building The Apiaries brand, images of a confused ape kept coming up. Job interviews, hair… Read more Posts navigation ← Older posts The Apiaries The Apiaries™ provides data on the locations and status of apiary leases on public land. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), along with a wide range lease types, grants individuals and companies beekeeping rights on public land. The Apiaries™ is a source to see where these apiary leases are and have been. 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