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Socioeconomic Impacts in ColoradoThe BLM's management of public lands in Colorado supported more than 51,000 jobs in Fiscal Year 2011. Most of the jobs were related to oil and gas activity, which resulted in an economic impact of about $9.5 billion. The overall BLM economic impact was about $11.5 billion. This table provides employment and economic output by category. Economic output data are in millions of dollars.
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Employment | Output ($million) | ||||||||||||
Direct | Total | Direct | Total | ||||||||||
| Recreation | 3,705 | 5,454 | 324.5 | 561.6 | |||||||||
| Energy |
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Oil and Gas | 18,101 | 39,128 | 6,501 | 9,514 | |||||||||
Coal | 2,650 | 5,719 | 875.4 | 1,309.1 | |||||||||
Non-Metallic Minerals* | 45 | 131 | 21.1 | 33.1 | |||||||||
Wind | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
Geothermal | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
| Solar | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
| Total Energy1 | 20,796 | 44,978 | 7,397.5 | 10,856.2 | |||||||||
| Timber | 15 | 39 | 2.7 | 7.4 | |||||||||
| Grazing | 467 | 842 | 46.1 | 94.1 | |||||||||
| Total, All Categories1 | 24,983 | 51,313 | 7,770.8 | 11,519.3 | |||||||||
1Totals may not add up exactly, owing to rounding.
*Does not include hardrock minerals.
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