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BLM Completes Prescribed Burn Near Landusky
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) fire crews, along with cooperators from the Fort Belknap Reservation, recently completed the Old Burn prescribed fire near Landusky, MT.
The prescribed fire treated approximately 250 acres of BLM public land administered by the BLM’s Malta Field Office and was designed to reduce hazardous fuels near Landusky. The fire and thinning also improved forest health by maintaining a healthy stand of conifers, reducing the amount of conifer saplings that are encroaching into the historic meadows and improving wildlife habitat.
The majority of the project area was subjected to a severe wildfire in 1991, and as a result contained significant amounts of dead and downed woody fuels and various stands of ponderosa pine saplings. The ponderosa pine saplings on a portion of the project area had been thinned and hand piled by crews using chain saws in 2007.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most of any Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, recreational and other activities on BLM-managed land contributed more than $130 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 600,000 American jobs. The Bureau is also one of a handful of agencies that collects more revenue than it spends. In FY 2012, nearly $5.7 billion will be generated on lands managed by the BLM, which operates on a $1.1 billion budget. The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands.
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