BLM Publications

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Agency Mission & Statistics

Bureau of Land Management General Brochure (2MB PDF)
This brochure provides a general overview of the public lands the BLM manages, their location and character, the three broad categories of uses and activities that take place on them, and why they are important to all Americans. Also available in text format and print quality (PDF format, 17.2MB - high speed connection recommended).

Public Rewards from Public Lands
This publication contains information, State-by-State, about what the BLM-managed public lands are worth—in economic, social, and environmental terms. The BLM historically brings more money each year into the general U.S. Treasury than it costs to operate. Only the IRS, Minerals Management Service, and U.S. Customs Service send more money to the general Treasury than the BLM. Public Rewards tells that story.

2005 - Full-Color Graphics Version (13MB PDF) or Text Only Version (825KB PDF)
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1999

Public Land Statistics
The one location for most of the acreage figures for BLM public land management. This document is updated annually and includes land acres, revenue, horse numbers, fire acres, recreation use, and other valuable information.

Resourceful Management of Our Natural Resources
This four-page publication provides a very quick overview on the scope and complexity of the BLM's responsibilities, and charts the agency's key land management priorities based on the proposed fiscal year 2002 budget.

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Resources & Programs

Energy Facts: Onshore Federal Lands (1.2MB PDF)
The BLM plays a critical role in facilitating the development of energy resources such as oil and gas, coal, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind, and biomass in its implementation of the President’s National Energy Policy. BLM is also the leasing agent for all energy minerals on all Federal lands, and as trustee, manages mineral development on over 56 million acres of Indian lands.

Federal Advisory Committee Act (774KB PDF)
A summary brochure of what BLM staff need to know when working with ADR-based collaborative community working groups. Also available in text format.

Federal Advisory Committee Act: National Policy (915KB PDF)
This guidebook provides key considerations and best practices, examples of when FACA might or might not apply, and answers to frequently asked questions. With this information, field offices designing and setting up ADR-based collaborative community working groups will be able to decide which type of group will best serve the needs of the community and the agency. Also available in text format

The Bureau of Land Management's National Landscape Conservation System
Established in 2000 to help protect some of the nation's most remarkable and rugged landscapes, the National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) includes National Conservation Areas, National Monuments, Wilderness Areas and Wilderness Study Areas, Wild and Scenic Rivers, and National Historic and Scenic Trails. Feel free to print copies of this brochure; in addition, this document can be modified to include descriptions of other NLCS units in your State that are not described in the brochure. Any modifications, however, should preserve the idea that the NLCS is national in scope.

HTML Version
PDF Version - The content of this PDF file is identical to the HTML version above. The PDF version is better if you will be printing hard copies of the brochure, because it is formatted for 8.5" x 11" paper.

People, Places, and Partners: Planning, Managing, and Enhancing Recreational Experiences (300KB PDF)
Vast and varied, Bureau of Land Management public lands represent the largest acreage available for recreation in America, offering unparalleled leisure opportunities. Recreation has become one of the BLM’s premier programs and is vital to the local economy in many communities across the West. As recreation and tourism take their place alongside more traditional land uses in the culture and economy of these communities, the BLM’s responsibility to these places and the people who live there is also growing. Also available in text format.

They Walked Here Long Ago... (1.4MB PDF)
The public lands provide numerous opportunities to see the fossil evidence of life on earth millions of years ago, including spectacularly preserved dinosaur tracks. This brochure tells readers where they can view dinosaur tracks and provides guidance on what fossils can be collected from public lands legally while preserving the Nation's fossil heritage. Also available in 17x11 layout (PDF format, 1.1MB).

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Management & Budgeting

Strategic Plan (8.3MB PDF)
A document that charts the overall direction of the BLM. Organized around three goal categories which contain eight mission goals, the plan describes accomplishments expected under assumed level-budget scenarios in the BLM's various programs, through 2005. The goal categories focus on serving current and future publics, restoring and maintaining the health of the land, and improving organizational effectiveness.

Budget Justifications
Budget Justifications tie the annual request for funding to the BLM's Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan.

Annual Performance Plan and Report (2001/1999) (12.3MB PDF)
This Plan links with the Strategic Plan and presents the BLM's goals and goal measures. It identifies the fiscal year 2001 strategies and resources needed to achieve those goals, and reports 1999 performance accomplishments.

NTSC Annual Reports
The Annual Reports are BLM's annual financial accomplishment list. This report also contains the Agency financial position, net cost of operations, changes in net position, budgetary resources, and details regarding financing of the BLM, as required by the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990.

Law Enforcement Year End Review

2005: 4.7MB PDF or text format
2004: 3.5MB PDF or text format