BLM and the 21st Century
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:31 am
•The Bureau of Land Management’s Vision for Treasured Landscapes in the 21st Century
According to this internal document―obtained by Congressman Bishop (UT), Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Forests and Public Lands―the BLM manages 264 million acres of land, roughly equivalent in size to 18 states combined: Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Maryland, West Virginia, South Carolina, Maine, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Of this amount, the BLM intends to treat 130-140 million acres as treasured lands. Part of what this means is “the BLM intends to: (1) finalize appropriate conservation designations and fully account for the ecosystem-services values of its lands; (2) rationalize and consolidate its fragmented landholdings, and (3) commit to planning and allocating resources and resource uses at their natural scales, in effective coordination with other Federal, Sate, and Tribal governments.â€
According to this internal document―obtained by Congressman Bishop (UT), Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Forests and Public Lands―the BLM manages 264 million acres of land, roughly equivalent in size to 18 states combined: Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Maryland, West Virginia, South Carolina, Maine, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Of this amount, the BLM intends to treat 130-140 million acres as treasured lands. Part of what this means is “the BLM intends to: (1) finalize appropriate conservation designations and fully account for the ecosystem-services values of its lands; (2) rationalize and consolidate its fragmented landholdings, and (3) commit to planning and allocating resources and resource uses at their natural scales, in effective coordination with other Federal, Sate, and Tribal governments.â€