General Information About the Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of Land Management
- Purpose: Initially to manage (primarily) range lands for grazing, oil and gas development, and mining. Their role expanded to include multiple use resources such as wildlife, watersheds, recreation, wilderness, and other conservation values with the passage of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act in 1976.
- Federal Department: Interior
- Website: http://www.blm.gov
- Manages 42% of Federal Lands and 7% of the acreage within National Wilderness Preservation System.
- Uses 46 administrative units to manage 222 wilderness areas.
Wilderness Areas on Bureau of Land Management Lands
- Arizona
- Arizona Strip Field Office/Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
- Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument
- Hassayampa Field Office
- Kingman Field Office
- Lake Havasu Field Office
- Lower Sonoran Field Office
- Safford Field Office
- Sonoran Desert National Monument
- Tucson Field Office
- Yuma Field Office
- California
- Arcata Field Office
- Bakersfield Field Office
- Barstow Field Office
- Bighorn Mountain Wilderness
- Black Mountain Wilderness
- Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness
- Funeral Mountains Wilderness
- Hollow Hills Wilderness
- Ibex Wilderness
- Newberry Mountains Wilderness
- Nopah Range Wilderness
- Pahrump Valley Wilderness
- Pinto Mountains Wilderness
- Resting Spring Range Wilderness
- Rodman Mountains Wilderness
- Saddle Peak Hills Wilderness
- South Nopah Range Wilderness
- Bishop Field Office
- El Centro Field Office
- Hollister Field Office
- Needles Field Office
- Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness
- Bristol Mountains Wilderness
- Cadiz Dunes Wilderness
- Chemehuevi Mountains Wilderness
- Clipper Mountain Wilderness
- Dead Mountains Wilderness
- Kelso Dunes Wilderness
- Kingston Range Wilderness
- Mesquite Wilderness
- North Mesquite Mountains Wilderness
- Old Woman Mountains Wilderness
- Piute Mountains Wilderness
- Sheephole Valley Wilderness
- Stateline Wilderness
- Stepladder Mountains Wilderness
- Trilobite Wilderness
- Turtle Mountains Wilderness
- Whipple Mountains Wilderness
- Palm Springs - South Coast Field Office
- Agua Tibia Wilderness
- Beauty Mountain Wilderness
- Big Maria Mountains Wilderness
- Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
- Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
- Mecca Hills Wilderness
- Orocopia Mountains Wilderness
- Otay Mountain Wilderness
- Palen/McCoy Wilderness
- Rice Valley Wilderness
- Riverside Mountains Wilderness
- San Gorgonio Wilderness
- Santa Rosa Wilderness
- Redding Field Office
- Ridgecrest Field Office
- Argus Range Wilderness
- Bright Star Wilderness
- Coso Range Wilderness
- Darwin Falls Wilderness
- El Paso Mountains Wilderness
- Golden Valley Wilderness
- Grass Valley Wilderness
- Kiavah Wilderness
- Malpais Mesa Wilderness
- Manly Peak Wilderness
- Owens Peak Wilderness
- Piper Mountain Wilderness
- Sacatar Trail Wilderness
- Surprise Canyon Wilderness
- Sylvania Mountains Wilderness
- White Mountains Wilderness
- Ukiah Field Office
- Colorado
- Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area
- Gunnison Field Office
- Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area
- McInnis Canyon National Conservation Area
- Idaho
- Bruneau Field Office
- Coeur d'Alene Field Office
- Jarbidge Field Office
- Owyhee Field Office
- Montana
- Dillion Field Office
- Nevada
- Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area
- Black Rock Desert Wilderness
- Calico Mountains Wilderness
- East Fork High Rock Canyon Wilderness
- High Rock Canyon Wilderness
- High Rock Lake Wilderness
- Little High Rock Canyon Wilderness
- North Black Rock Range Wilderness
- North Jackson Mountains Wilderness
- Pahute Peak Wilderness
- South Jackson Mountains Wilderness
- Ely Field Office
- Becky Peak Wilderness
- Big Rocks Wilderness
- Bristlecone Wilderness
- Clover Mountains Wilderness
- Delamar Mountains Wilderness
- Far South Egans Wilderness
- Fortification Range Wilderness
- Goshute Canyon Wilderness
- Government Peak Wilderness
- Highland Ridge Wilderness
- Meadow Valley Range Wilderness
- Mormon Mountains Wilderness
- Mount Grafton Wilderness
- Mt. Irish Wilderness
- Mt. Moriah Wilderness
- Parsnip Peak Wilderness
- South Egan Range Wilderness
- South Pahroc Range Wilderness
- Tunnel Spring Wilderness
- Weepah Spring Wilderness
- White Rock Range Wilderness
- Worthington Mountains Wilderness
- Las Vegas Field Office
- Arrow Canyon Wilderness
- Eldorado Wilderness
- Ireteba Peaks Wilderness
- Jumbo Springs Wilderness
- La Madre Mountain Wilderness
- Lime Canyon Wilderness
- Mt. Charleston Wilderness
- Muddy Mountains Wilderness
- North McCullough Wilderness
- Rainbow Mountain Wilderness
- South McCullough Wilderness
- Spirit Mountain Wilderness
- Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness
- Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area
- New Mexico
- Farmington Field Office
- Rio Puerco Field Office
- Taos Field Office
- Oregon
- Andrews Field Office (Burns District)
- Cascades Field Office (Salem District)
- Medford District
- Prineville District Office
- Vale District
- Utah
- Kanab Field Office
- Moab Field Office
- Salt Lake Field Office
- St. George Field Office
- Beartrap Canyon Wilderness
- Blackridge Wilderness
- Canaan Mountain Wilderness
- Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness
- Cougar Canyon Wilderness
- Deep Creek North Wilderness
- Deep Creek Wilderness
- Doc's Pass Wilderness
- Goose Creek Wilderness
- LaVerkin Creek Wilderness
- Red Butte Wilderness
- Red Mountain Wilderness
- Slaughter Creek Wilderness
- Taylor Creek Wilderness
- Washington
- Border Field Office (Spokane District)