Bureau of Land Management

noun

, U.S. Government.

1. a division of the Department of the Interior that manages public lands and resources. : BLM, B.L.M.

Example Sentences

A federal judge has struck down the latest Bureau of Land Management plan to manage off-roading routes in the Mojave Desert, saying it didn’t provide adequate protections for the dwindling desert tortoises in the region.

From Los Angeles Times

Though Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, the author of the chapter on the Interior Department, lawyer William Perry Pendley, already served in the first Trump administration, as the top official in the Bureau of Land Management.

From Los Angeles Times

The federal government owns less than 5% of the land east of the Mississippi River, but nearly half of the acreage in 11 Western states in the Lower 48, controlled mostly by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service.

From Los Angeles Times

Brian Hires, the press secretary and spokesperson for the Bureau of Land Management pushed back against these criticisms.

From Salon

But for many, a wake-up call came in 2011, when Bureau of Land Management firefighter Caleb Hamm, 23, died from exertional heatstroke on a fire in Texas, becoming just the second reported federal wildland firefighter to do so.

From Los Angeles Times