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BLM | 2012
In 2012, BLM began a pilot project to implement its National Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring (AIM) Strategy in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). The AIM Strategy focuses on…
BLM | 2012
In August 2012, staff from the BLM National Operations Center, Division of Resource Services, traveled to Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in southwestern Colorado to assist with three-…
BLM | 2012
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is studying the impacts of agriculture development on water resources in a remote region along the Nevada/Utah border. BLM utilized historical Landsat imagery to…
BLM | 2012
RS2477 Litigation refers to right-of-way issues on routes that cross public lands and determine whether the Federal, state, county, or local governments have legal jurisdiction. Some of the…
BLM | 2011
BLM has issued a National sage grouse policy to ensure environmentally responsible exploration, authorization, leasing and development of energy resources within the range of the Gunnison sage-grouse…
BLM | 2011
The revised Statue 2477 (RS2477) was enacted by Congress in 1866 to facilitate western settlement. It granted “the right-of-way for the construction of highways across public lands not…
BLM | 2011
The famous Laetoli footprints were made by a human ancestor 3.56 million years ago in the Rift Valley of Tanzania and are the earliest fossil evidence of bipedalism in our ancestors. The trail…
BLM | 2011
The Oregon BLM State Office developed a semi-automated technique to map juniper distribution for specific project areas. The technique uses 0.5 meter color infra-red NAIP imagery to identify…
BLM | 2011
The Pacific Northwest Hydrography Framework is sponsoring a working group tasked to evaluate the use of lidar-derived DEMs as a principal data source for updating the National Hydrology Database (NHD…
BLM | 2011
Lidar and aerial photography are valuable tools for preliminary investigations by cadastral surveyors. Boundary disputes are often decided using survey information. Remote sensing data…