The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages some 245 million surface acres of public land for multiple uses and sustained yield. More frequent and severe drought is impacting landscapes and water supplies across the West and challenges the BLM’s ability to conserve healthy rangelands and wildlife habitat, to manage wildland fire, and to protect the availability of water for beneficial uses on public lands. Therefore, the BLM is developing new policies and tools to ensure that climate, remote sensing, and field data are integrated to improve land health and water availability assessments and inform planning decisions in a changing climate.
