Socioeconomic Impact
Revenues (Payments to State and Counties)
Proceeds generated by the sale of timber, grazing and mineral fees, payment in lieu of taxes, and other federal fund sources are distributed to the state to produce revenues for schools, counties and the local taxing districts.
- $285.5 million Secure Rural Schools Funds from 2008 to 2010
- $25,472,709 Payments in Lieu of Taxes to Oregon and Washington
- $23,168,785 Minerals Income, Grazing Fees, Public Land and Material Sales, and other collections
- $251 million in annual expenditures for BLM resource management in Oregon and Washington
Employment
Through the use of contracts, partnerships and special initiatives, the BLM employs local workers to fight fires, build bridges, and conduct fish and wildlife habitat improvement projects. These jobs result in cost savings for the state, achieved through maintenance of capital facilities, forest and rangeland health improvements, and wildfire preparedness.
- 1,498 permanent jobs
- $118,523,505 annual payroll cost
- 188 permanent fire jobs, approximately 20 permanent positions hired each year
- 190 temporary fire jobs across the States
Oregon Program Totals
The BLM's management of public lands in Oregon supported more than 9,900 jobs in Fiscal Year 2010. Most of the jobs were related to recreation, which resulted in an economic impact of about $662.4 million. The overall BLM economic impact was about $1.3 billion. This table provides employment and economic output by category. Economic output data are in millions of dollars.
| Category | Impacts | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employment | Output ($million) | ||||||||||||
| Direct | Total | Direct | Total | ||||||||||
| Recreation | 4,328 | 6,811 | 357.0 | 662.4 | |||||||||
| Energy | |||||||||||||
| Oil and Gas | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Coal | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Non-Metallic Minerals | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Wind | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Geothermal | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Total Energy1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Timber | 889 | 2,736 | 245.9 | 595.1 | |||||||||
| Grazing | 216 | 388 | 17.5 | 36.4 | |||||||||
| Total, All Categories1 | 5,433 | 9,935 | 620.4 | 1,293.9 | |||||||||
Washington Program Totals
The BLM's management of public lands in Washington supported about 400 jobs in Fiscal Year 2010. Most of the jobs were related to recreation, which resulted in an economic impact of about $34.6 million. The overall BLM economic impact was about $53.3 million. This table provides employment and economic output by category. Economic output data are in millions of dollars.
| Category | Impacts | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employment | Output ($million) | ||||||||||||
| Direct | Total | Direct | Total | ||||||||||
| Recreation | 199 | 307 | 18.8 | 34.6 | |||||||||
| Energy | |||||||||||||
| Oil and Gas | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Coal | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Non-Metallic Minerals | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Wind | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Geothermal | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Total Energy1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Timber | 24 | 63 | 6.6 | 15.5 | |||||||||
| Grazing | 21 | 33 | 1.5 | 3.2 | |||||||||
| Total, All Categories1 | 244 | 403 | 26.9 | 53.3 | |||||||||
1 Totals may not add up exactly, owing to rounding.
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