Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area by Bob Wick
Ferruginous Hawk, Curlew Allotment, BLM Idaho. Photo by Matt Fischer.
Students learn from BLM Colorado employees
Get outside on the Delta Wild and Scenic River in Alaska! Photo by Jeremy Matlock, BLM.
Foliage at John Jarvie Ranch in Utah. Photo by Bob Wick, BLM.
These are your lands, America! Celebrate 40 years of enjoying #YourPublicLands!
The Bureau of Land Management was established in 1946, but its roots go back to the years after America’s independence, when the young nation began acquiring additional lands. At first, these lands were used to encourage homesteading and westward migration. The General Land Office was created in 1812 to support this national goal.
Over time, values and attitudes regarding public lands shifted, and Congress merged the GLO and another agency, the U.S. Grazing Service, creating the BLM.
The BLM manages public lands and subsurface estate under its jurisdiction under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act or FLPMA, passed in 1976. Despite the rapidly changing environment in which we work, the BLM remains committed to its core mission mandated by FLPMA – a careful balancing of multiple use and sustained yield.
Our FLPMA Flickr album reflects the BLM’s multiple responsibilities as a federal land management agency, from our beginnings to the present.
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