BLM Alaska AIM infographic
The Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) strategy provides a standardized approach for measuring natural resource conditions and trends on BLM-managed public lands. Rather than relying upon modeled projections of potential environmental change, the AIM reference sites allow us to quantify change over time and when paired with targeted sites we can differentiate between natural and anthropogenic (human influenced) change. Since AIM reference sites are assessed every 10 years, they will be immensely valuable as time passes and they serve as bookmarks in time over the next 100 years. Given the modeled projections of environmental change, these sites will serve to validate or adjust what we anticipate from actual climate driven changes across the landscape. The AIM Strategy provides quantitative data and tools to guide and justify policy actions, land uses, and adaptive management decisions.
