This California map illustrates National Landscape Conservation System locations. These are some of the gems within our public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
This Arizona map illustrates National Landscape Conservation System locations. These are some of the gems within our public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
How the Bureau of Land Management manages our National Conservation Lands over the coming years will be just as important as was designating these places for protection in the first place.
Our conservation lands face many challenges: understaffing, underfunding and shifting political priorities. The system’s lands and waters are also threatened by development, vandalism and neglect.
The National Landscape Conservation System includes more than 27 million acres of special wildlands. Below you can use our maps to find out where those lands are.
In 2025, just 15 years from now, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act will have been guiding the agency’s management for 50 years. In that same year, the National Landscape Conservation System will turn 25.
After months of planning and research, we at the Wilderness Society have recently taken a look at some key public lands in America and how they are being cared for.
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument — a treasure trove of Puebloan artifacts in Colorado, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument — the last place mapped in the Lower 48 States, Las Cienegas National Conservation Area — where the history of ranching and protection of grassland bird species come together in Arizona. These are a small sample of the vast landscapes in the National Landscape Conservation System (Conservation Lands).
