Bureau of Land Management

About Us

The U.S. Department of the Interior and the BLM are working with local communities, state regulators, industry, and other federal agencies in building a clean energy future by providing sites for environmentally sound development of renewable energy on public lands. Renewable energy projects on BLM-managed lands include wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass projects and the siting of transmission facilities needed to deliver this power to the consumer.
Our Mission: The BLM collects, analyzes, and records a tremendous amount of business information about the public lands and resources, ranging from land title to recreational usage to wildlife habitat. Much of this data is geographic in nature and is best understood when displayed and analyzed in spatial form using automated geographic information systems. This data/information is used to make thousands of business decisions each year. We recognize that this business information is of great utility and value to wide variety of other parties, including public land users; education institutions; public interest groups; other Federal, State, Tribal and local agencies, and the scientific community. Today, with the explosive growth of the Internet and use of personal computers, expectations of our employees, citizens, and businesses having transactions with the BLM have significantly changed.

Today, access, speed and accuracy are key components of the information age. To keep pace with our public responsibility, it is now necessary to begin the business of reengineering the process that can take place using new technology to im