The BLM will invest $161 million in restoring the resilience of 21 landscapes across the West, where we can make the most difference for communities and resources. The future of multiple use and sustained yield is #RestorationLandscapes. A Tweet from the Bureau of Land Management – National@BLMNational·May 31Learn more http://ow.ly/kra250OvWvZ.
I don’t think that the Bureau of Land Management even exists east of the Mississippi, but, in the West, the BLM – as it’s affectionately called – is everywhere. For much of it’s history the BLM, under the guise of multiple use, has considered its mission to be be kind to the extraction industry. I think that is starting to change.
Increasingly, often for political reasons, the BLM is managing recreation areas and Conservation Corridors (including building bridges for animals over highways). They have also become much more open to feedback from the General Public. One of the Lobbying Groups that I support is SUWA, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, which has a handy form to give the BLM your two cents worth. Please use it.
I’m not sure I ever heard about the BLM before traveling out west.
Our land is pretty much all owned by private entities or it’s park land. From what little I knew it seems like they were not very effective.
I wonder if the BLM is a result of so much of the West being so arid or if it is a result of the settlement of White America starting in the east.
Your photos are so beautiful Steve. They show how much you love the land.