Part one of term paper
History of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, manages the remainder of the public domain -- a once vast expanse of land held in ownership by the United States Government for the American people. The original 1.8 billion-acre public domain stretched fro ...

Part two of term paper
... aside for national forests, national parks and other public purposes, leaving the BLM to manage 270 million surface acres and 570 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate. The 270 million surface acres under BLM management comprise one-eighth of America's land surface and amount to 41 percent of the land under Federal ownership. The BLM, formed during a government reorganization in 1946, is a successor to two former Federal agencies -- the General Land Office and the U.S. Grazing Service. Most ...