Public lands make up around half of the land in the state of California. That includes around 15 million acres of Bureau of Land Management lands that themselves comprise around 15% of the state, but ...

At first, the lands were used mainly for their resources, to build railroads and for settlement. Starting in the 1860s and ...

One-tenth of land in the U.S.— 245 million acres to be exact—is managed by the BLM, making it one of the most accessible places to recreate. It’s also one of the freest.

This land is primarily managed by the United States Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The Wilderness Society provided a map, seen below, that illustrates what local public ...

The image below shows the entire state, plus areas of U.S. Forest Service land in California and BLM land in Utah. Public lands ‘fire sale’ plan fuels criticism from Nevada, environmental groups ...

The revised version of the bill, proposed by Utah Senator Mike Lee, would authorize the sale of 0.25–0.5 percent of BLM-managed land in eleven states, including California.