Heritage Resources and the Bureau of Land Management’s Landscape Approach

The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) current landscape approach to resource management addresses complex twenty-first century challenges posed by a number of factors, including industrial scale renewable energy and transmission development, climate change-related events, and tight budgets. This landscape approach involves identifying resource conditions and trends within a defined area; identifying risks and vulnerabilities for those resources; prioritizing resources and objectives; and developing regional mitigation strategies. This paper explores several pilot projects the BLM has initiated to integrate heritage resources considerations into the BLM’s landscape approach to resource management.