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Essay Galaxy - History of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
History of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, manages the remainder of the public domain -- a once vast expanse of land held in ownership by the United States Government for the American people. The original 1.8 billion-acre public domain stretched from the Appalachian Mountains to the Pacific Ocean -- so much land that Western historian Frederick Jackson Turner called it "the richest free gift that was ever spread out before civilized man."
Of these 1.8 billion acres, two-thirds was transferred from Federal ownership to individuals, corporations and States. Other land was set aside for national forests, national parks and other public purposes, leaving the BLM to manage 270 million surface acres and 570 million acres of sub-surface mineral est....
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