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last updated: March 2021

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of America’s public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. It administers more public land – over 245 million surface acres – than any other Federal agency in the United States. Most of this land is located in the 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also manages 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation.

The BLM’s multiple-use mission, set forth in the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, mandates that we manage public land resources for a variety of uses, such as energy development, livestock grazing, recreation, and timber harvesting, while protecting a wide array of natural, cultural, and historical resources, many of which are found in the BLM's 27 million-acre National Landscape Conservation System. 
 
The BLM is one of a handful of Federal agencies that generates more revenue for the United States than it spends. For example, in Fiscal Year 2012, nearly $5 billion will be generated by activities on BLM-managed lands, including an estimated $4.3 billion from onshore oil and gas development, with about half of those revenues going to the states where the mineral leasing occurred.
 
The BLM is focusing on the following priorities:

• The America’s Great Outdoors initiative, which is aimed at enhancing the conservation of BLM-managed lands and resources and reconnecting Americans to the outdoors.
• The New Energy Frontier, which encourages and facilitates renewable energy development – solar, wind, and geothermal – on the Nation’s public lands.
• Cooperative Landscape Conservation, a scientific initiative that recognizes the need to better understand the condition of BLM-managed landscapes at a broad level.
• Youth in the Great Outdoors, which supports programs and partnerships that engage youth in natural resource management and encourages young people and their families to visit, explore, and learn about the public lands.
• Climate Change, which is affecting public lands in ways that could impact on Americans’ quality of life. The BLM is responding with two interconnected initiatives: a proposed landscape approach to land management and Rapid Ecoregional Assessments, which will improve the agency’s understanding of public land conditions to inform future management decisions.

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Nikki Haskett
Office of National Conservation Lands and Community Partnerships
1849 C Street NW
Rm. 5665
Washington, DC  20240
Phone: 202-208-3516
Fax: 202-208-6769
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BLM Fire Preparedness Program Summary for 2014

As fire seasons have tended to become longer and fire behavior more severe, questions inevitably arise among the public and media. “Is this the worst fire season ever?” “How does this year compare with otherbad fire seasons?”

BLM's Best Management Practices for Sage Grouse

In this report, produced by the Sage-grouse National Technical Team in 2011, the BLM outlines Best Management Practices for Sage-grouse in the Appendixes. Appendix C outlines BMPs for how to make a pond that wont produce mosquitos that transmit the West Nile virus, Appendix D outlines BMPs for Fluid Mineral Development, Appendix E outlines BMPs for Locatable Mineral development and Appendix F outlines BMPs for Fire and Fuels.

American Forests & Bureau of Land Management

American Forests and the BLM teamed up to re-establish pine forests on acquired cutover lands on the Homestead Mesa in New Mexico.

Bighorn Sheep Restoration in North America

Through research, habitat enhancements, and translocations, bighorn sheep have been restored to much of their native range. Their numbers have been increased from below 50,000 to over 200,000.

Building Collaborative Stewardship, North Fork Crooked River

Project is a model for future efforts as partners work together to forestall lawsuits and establish improvements on private land as well as Federal.

California Tribal Partnerships

A unique blend of traditional Native American practices and today’s science preserves native customs and contributes to forest health.

Cascade Streamwatch Project

Cascade Streamwatch is a collaborative educational outdoor site for teaching and expanding public understanding of healthy watersheds and fisheries.

Central Oregon Partnership for Wildfire Risk Reduction

The Central Oregon Partnership is using small tree harvests as a tool to foster health forest health and build new forest-biomass industries.

Controlling Invasive Tamarisk in Aravaipa Canyon

Control of invasive plants in the entire management area has become a priority shared across interest groups - from ranchers to conservationists - who are stakeholders in the area.

Cooperative Sagebrush Steppe Restoration Initiative

Conservation groups work together to restore sagebrush ecosystems through the removal of invasive western juniper and adaptive management techniques.

FireWise Communities

FireWise Communities is a national initiative helping communities and their residents design, build, and maintain fire resistant properties.

GeoMAC

GeoMAC provides the public and wildland fire managers Internet access to interactive maps with current wildland fire locations and perimeters.

Greater Yellowstone Mammal Migrations

The Nature Conservancy and partners are committed to protecting critical seasonal ranges for Yellowstone's migrating animals and preserving these historic overland movements.

Hells Canyon Initiative

Following a dramatic, disease-caused, die-off, NGO, tribal, state, and federal partners worked cooperatively to restore wild sheep to Hells Canyon.

Henry Mountain Bison Herd

Sportsmen and ranchers negotiate win-win solutions to maintain livestock grazing and ensure quality bison hunts in the Utah Henry Mountains.

Integrating Desert Conservation, Visitor Services, and Public Safety

Key government agencies created the California Desert Managers Group to coordinate conservation, recreation, research and other activities at a landscape scale.

Jupiter Inlet Natural Area

BLM works with federal, county, municipal, educational and non-profit groups to manage a key regional landmark in northern Palm Beach County.

Keizer Rapids Regional Community Park

The Keizer Rapids Park demonstrates how the Willamette American Heritage Rivers Initiative works with local partners to provide leverage for projects and build community capacity.

LANDFIRE

LANDFIRE is a multi-organization partnership to identify and prioritize areas for, and improve coordination on, hazardous fuel reduction.

Malpai Borderlands Partnership

The rancher-led partnership is protecting privately-owned land and working landscapes through easements, grass-banking and habitat restoration.

Montana Water Trust

MWT develops water transfer agreements with farmers, ranchers, and other landowners that increase flows and benefit native fish in Montana’s 4,000 miles of dewatered streams.

Mountain Plover Conservation Efforts in Colorado

Several organizations partnered together to conduct research on over 300,000 acres of farm land in Colorado. Due to cooperative efforts, the plover was not listed as an Endangered Species.

Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium

A consortium of federal agencies produced a comprehensive spatial database for user-specified mapping of 21 types of land cover anywhere in the U.S.

Oasis Valley Project

The town of Beatty, Nevada partnered with The Nature Conservancy to craft a conservation strategy that prevented the endangered species listing for an endemic toad.

Pacific Northwest Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program

The Pacific Northwest CREP works with farmers to voluntarily establish and maintain long-term riparian buffers on agricultural lands to help protect critical salmon and trout habitat.

Rich County Wildlife Habitat Conservation

The partnership will improve 24,000 acres of shrubsteppe habitat and collect pre- and post-treatment response data for vegetation and wildlife.

Rio Arriba County Project

Partners identified BLM lands next to communities for transfer to and future development by private owners in exchange for conservation easements.

Sandy River Riparian Habitat Protection Project

Our multi-partner program combined education, research and noxious weed control to raise awareness and protect critical habitats on the Sandy River.

Sonoita Valley Planning Partnership

Disparate and previously conflicted interests collaborated to develop a watershed-wide plan to promote ecological health, leading to the creation of the Las Cienegas National Recreation Area.

Sonoran Pronghorn Captive Breeding Program

A cooperative captive breeding program was established in Arizona to halt the decline of the endangered Sonoran Pronghorn and to seed new populations of the species in the state.

Southern Nevada Lands Partnership

Multi-agency and community partnerships conserve and steward “outside Las Vegas” using innovative funding and legislative authorities.

Southwestern Fire Learning Network

Project goal is to accelerate restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems on private & public lands through applied science, coordination and collaboration.

Sun River Watershed

A watershed project established in 1996, that benefits all water users in the Sun River Basin

Upper Klamath Basin Working Group

A community stakeholder group created by Senator Mark O. Hatfield in 1996 to develop consensus solutions to complex agricultural and endangered species issues associated with water allocations.

Upper San Pedro Partnership

A consortium comprised of 21 local, state and federal agencies and organizations whose goal is to ensure an adequate long-term groundwater supply for both residents and the Upper San Pedro River.

Upper Snake River Land Conservation Project

The combined efforts of BLM, local landowners, and conservation organizations has conserved more than 14,000 acres of private land along Idaho's upper Snake River.

West Eugene Wetlands Partnership

An eight-organization partnership has implemented land acquisition, habitat restoration, environmental education and recreation facilities development over a 13-year period.

Wildlife Habitat Registry

To provide a web mapping tool to facilitate collaboration among wildlife biologist in federal, state, and tribal agencies and among NGO's involved in wildlife habitat projects.