The Bureau of Land Management
By: Christine, Luke, Spencer, Kaitlin
Purpose
To sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Land Management
Reviews and approves permits and licenses from companies to explore, develop, and produce both renewable and non renewable energy on Federal lands. The BLM ensures that proposed projects meet all applicable environmental laws and regulations.
Practices for land use
Grazing
The BLM manages livestock grazing on 155 million acres of land. The BLM administers nearly 18,000 permits and leases held by ranchers who graze their livestock. The overall objective is to ensure the long-term health and productivity of these lands and to create multiple environmental benefits that result from healthy watersheds
Mining
The BLM requires anyone who wants to mine to submit a mining claim, providing your information and fees.
Recreation
By increasing and improving collaboration with community networks of service providers, the BLM will help communities produce greater well-being and socioeconomic health and will deliver outstanding recreation experiences to visitors while sustaining the distinctive character of public lands recreation settings.
Criticisms about Practices
Euthanized 28 wild horses in cold creek
Goals
- 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.
- 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.
Human Interaction Goals
Programs such as the TPL (Teachers on the Public Lands) allows teachers to fully explore BLM public lands, enrich their students with a clearer understanding and appreciation of public lands resources, develop activities that will be used in the classroom during the school year, and have the opportunity to receive graduate and/or continuing education credit. This ensures that students to have a clear understanding and appreciation of the land and its resources.
Sustainable Practices
The BLM undertakes projects to change reliance on fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy. Best management practices (BMPs) are state-of-the-art mitigation measures applied to oil and natural gas drilling and production to help ensure that energy development is conducted in an environmentally responsible manner. BMPs protect wildlife, air quality, and landscapes as we work to develop vitally needed domestic energy sources.
The BLM oversees 225 million acres of land
Services are located
In all the Western States except Wyoming, Hawaii, and Alaska
Services Oversight
Not all lands with energy potential are appropriate for development. The BLM reviewsand approves permits and licenses from companies to explore, develop, and produce both renewable and non renewable energy on Federal lands. The BLM ensures that proposed projects meet all applicable environmental laws and regulations. The bureau works with local communities, the states, industry, and other federal agencies in this approval process and has set up four Renewable Energy Coordination Offices and five oil and gas Pilot Offices to facilitate reviews. In addition, The BLM participates in a Cabinet-level working group that is developing a coordinated federal permitting process for siting new transmission projects that would cross public, State and private lands.