Rangelands and Grazing

Partnership collects and refines data for plant communities and Rangeland Health attributes

Story by Josh Sorlie, Soil Scientist, Malta Field Office

Making the Red Mountain lease into a viable and productive ranch has been a life-long endeavor for Larry and Pennie Hooper from Deming, New Mexico. Their labor of love began in 1991 when they

The Buffalo Field Office (BFO) rangeland management staff administers over 400 grazing leases. Grazing allotments vary in size from less than 40 acres to over 26,000 acres.

While the BLM manages millions of acres of rangeland for cattle, sheep, and other livestock ranchers in the West, in Alaska it is Alaska Native reindeer herders who are served by the grazing progra