Bureau of Land Management

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★ The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the UnitedStates Department of the Interior.

★ They administer more than 247.3 million acres of public lands in theUnited States.

★ That constitutes one-eighth of the landmass of the country.

What is Bureau of Land Management

(BLM)?

∗Most BLM public lands are located in 12 western states:

∗ Alaska

∗ Arizona

∗California

∗Colorado

∗ Idaho

∗Montan

∗Nevada

∗New Mexico

∗Oregon

∗Utah

∗Washington

∗Wyoming

∗ The General Land Office and the Grazing Service.

∗ Land owned by different federal government agencies. The yellow represents

the Bureau of Land Management's holdings.

Who were the major players that made

it possible?

Why was the organization founded to

begin with?

★ President Harry S. Truman formed the organization in

1946. He combined the General Land Office and the

Grazing Service to make the Bureau of Land Management.

★ By combining this office and service, money, time, and

work could have been saved and become more efficiently

executed.

★ The federal government manages approximately 700

million acres of subterranean minerals both beneath and

also directly on private lands.

∗ Some of their responsibilities are to control public land resources for variety uses for

energy development, livestock grazing, recreation, and timber harvesting.

∗ Protecting wildlife of natural, cultural, and historical resources many of them are

founded in the BLM’s 27 million-acre National Landscape Conservation System.

∗ Manages the National Landscape Conservation System, including 16 national

monuments, 21 national conservation areas and similarly designated areas, and 221

wilderness areas.

∗ To assist the health, diversity, and productivity of public lands for use

What were the original responsibilities?

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BLM in Washington and Oregon

∗ America's Great Outdoors initiative - to manage the land and its resources as well as

to come together as Americans into the outdoors.

∗ New Energy Frontier - renewable energy development. Such as solar, wind, and

geothermal energy on nationally public lands.

∗ Cooperative Landscape Conservation - to get to know the conditions of the BLM’s landscape at a board level

∗ Youth in the Great Outdoors - to encourage the youth and their families to visit, explore,

and learn about the public lands BLM has to offer.

∗ Climate Change - the climate that is affecting public land and the lives of the people

responsible to inform future management decisions.

BLM is focusing on the following

priorities

∗ Within their notable use of test logging systems, they eventually

became a center for watershed, landscape, and ecosystem

research.

∗ Over time the department grew, now there is a large number of

10,000 employees in a full time position that are crucial part of

the Bureau of Land Management.

∗ More people are spending some kind of money on or by helping

creating an interest on land owned by the BLM than ever before.

∗ $5 Billion dollars came from people, events, and companies on

BLM land in the year of 2012 alone.

How has it evolved over time?

∗ For the past six years BLM has been working to facilitate

clean energy.

∗ renewable energy generation and transmission

projects.

∗ This includes 29 utility-scale solar facilities, 11 wind

farms, and 12 geothermal plants.

∗ The 2016 President’s Budget requests $29.4 million for

Renewable Energy Management.

BLM Increased Energy Production

∗ The BLM is proud to manage some of the world’s best

mountain bike trails.

∗ More than one million visitors used mountain bike trails

located on BLM public lands last year.

∗ Online tool features interactive maps for 20 of the nation’s

most popular trails on public lands.

∗ The BLM will develop additional online tools that will help

ensure that the public has informed and open access to the

incredible recreational opportunities that can be found on our

nation’s public lands. (The maps can be accessed at www.blm.gov/mountainbike.)

BLM Outdoor Recreation

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∗http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/About_BLM.html

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∗ http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/newsroom/2015/october/nr_10_02_2015

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∗ www.blm.gov/mountainbike

∗ https://youtu.be/nQGo9fgHfxA

∗ http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/wo/Communications_Directorate/20

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