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Essay Archive - 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 Federa....
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