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Horses on the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range in Montana. The BLM distinguishes between "herd areas" (HA) where feral horse and burro herds existed at the time of the passage of the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, and "Herd Management Areas" (HMA) where the land is currently managed for the benefit of horses and burros, though "as a component" of public lands, part of ...
Bureau of Land Management national monuments (4 C, 31 P) National Conservation Areas of the United States (20 P) Units of the National Landscape Conservation System (3 C, 61 P)
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.
[a] However, BLM procedures do not ban the export of wild horses for sale and slaughter outside the United States. [73] In 2008, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded BLM was not in compliance with the 2004 amendment, as the department had imposed limitations on the sale of excess horses to help ensure that they were not ...
Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) is a conservation ecology program in the Western United States, managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The ACEC program was conceived in the 1976 Federal Lands Policy and Management Act ( FLPMA ), which established the first conservation ecology mandate for the BLM.
The Bureau of Land Management Back Country Byways are roads that have been designated by the Bureau of Land Management as scenic byways. Some are also National Scenic Byways or National Forest Scenic Byways. The program was initiated in 1989 and 54 byways have since been designated in the Western United States. [1]
The National Park Service (NPS), US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands support approximately 11,000 bison in 19 herds across 12 states. [56] Together with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the US Geological Survey , these DOI agencies promote bison conservation and shared stewardship. [ 51 ]
From 1999 to 2006, Stone-Manning was the director of the Clark Fork Coalition, an environmental protection organization based in Missoula, Montana.She joined the U.S. Senate office of Jon Tester, serving as his regional director from 2007 to 2012 and acting state staff director and senior advisor in 2012.