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  2. Bureau of Land Management - Wikipedia

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    The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering U.S. federal lands. Headquartered in Washington, D.C. , the BLM oversees more than 247.3 million acres (1,001,000 km 2 ) of land, or one-eighth of the United States's total landmass.

  3. Federal lands - Wikipedia

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    Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - The agency was formed in 1946 from the consolidation of the Grazing Service and the General Land Office. BLM manages about 244.4 million acres (0.989 million km 2) of federal lands as of 2018, more than any other agency. Of these, more than 99% are in the 11 Western states or Alaska.

  4. Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 - Wikipedia

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    The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a division of the Department of the Interior (DOI), is the principal administrator of the Mineral Leasing Act. BLM evaluates areas for potential development and awards leases based on whoever pays the highest bonus during a competitive bidding period.

  5. Biden granted more oil and gas drilling permits than Trump in ...

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    Data from the Bureau of Land Management shows that President Biden approved more oil and gas drilling permits in his first two ... He also agreed to more leasing to win the support of Sen. Joe ...

  6. US proposes ending new federal leases in nation's biggest ...

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    The Bureau of Land Management proposal would affect millions of acres (millions of hectares) of federal lands and underground mineral reserves in the Powder River Basin area of Wyoming and Montana.

  7. Tim DeChristopher - Wikipedia

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    Timothy Mansfield DeChristopher (born November 18, 1981) is an American climate activist and co-founder of the environmental group Peaceful Uprising. In December 2008, he protested a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction of 116 parcels of public land in Utah's redrock country by successfully bidding on 14 parcels of land (totaling 22,500 acres) for $1.8 million with no ...

  8. Trump administration lays off over 2,000 workers at Interior ...

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    The Interior Department manages around 500 million acres of U.S. public lands, including its national parks, and also administers the country's onshore and offshore oil and gas leasing programs ...

  9. Public lands in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The federal government owns 640 million acres, about 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States. About 95 per cent of these acres are managed by four agencies: Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the United States National Park Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, or the Fish and Wildlife Service and the United States Forest Service.