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Mutiple uses must be considered AUDIO

Phil Hanceford, Associate Attorney at The Wilderness Society's BLM Action Center, talks about the importance of managing public lands for multiple uses.

User's Guide: Understanding and implementing Wild Lands policy PDF

Secretarial Order 3310 sets out a policy for designating and managing Wild Lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Following this Order, the BLM released three new manuals for implementing the policy, addressing:

The Facts: New Data Shows Over 29,000,000 Acres of Idle Federal Oil and Gas Leases PDF

Data Also Shows Thousands of Idle but Approved Federal Drilling Permits Although the oil and gas industry and their allies have criticized Obama Administration policies for allegedly restricting the industry’s access to federal lands for drilling, new information released by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in January, 2011 indicates that the oil and gas industry controls 41,186,158 acres of federal onshore lands, but has drilling operations on just 12,205,416 acres of these leases.

The Facts: Economic Benefits of the Wild Lands Policy PDF

Every year millions of Americans spend time outdoors. When people visit public lands for camping, hunting, bird watching and other recreation activities, they frequently spend money in local communities on lodging, meals, gear, licenses, and other necessary expenditures. Without Wild Lands that are free of oil and gas rigs and other uses that disrupt the naturalness of pristine landscapes, this slice of the economic pie wouldn’t exist.   View the Fact Sheet in its entirety below.      

The Facts: The Bureau of Land Managements New Wild Lands Policy PDF

73 Colorado Elected Officials Send Letter of Support for Wild Lands Policy to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar PDF

Letter to Colorado BLM State Director Helen Hankins in Support of Wild Lands Policy PDF

On behalf of our thousands of members across Colorado, more than 20 Colorado organizations wrote BLM State Director Helen Hankins,  to express support for Wild Lands Secretarial Order 3310. The letter highlights the need to ensure that the Order is implemented immediately, in order to give due protection to wilderness values through the many ongoing land use planning processes and in land management decisions currently pending in Colorado.

Toward a Bureau of Landscape Management: The Evolution of BLM’s Conservation Mission PDF

This paper looks back at the evolution of the BLM’s conservation mission as a vital part of its mandate, including multiple use, through the agency’s creation and the first fundamental shifts toward retaining public lands for public use and management. The paper will then discuss how the conservation aspect of the agency’s mission developed along with the enactment of keystone environmental laws and the enactment of FLPMA, while continuing to incorporate additional conservation designations.

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