BLM was created in 1947 by merging the Grazing Service with the General Land Office. That all changed with Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, which defines how all the federal lands are managed.
Other Acts of Congress also come into play, for example: the Wilderness Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, to name a few.
On one hand, since passage of FLPMA, the number of grazing leases has been reduced, the number of acres being grazed has been reduced, and federal oversight of grazing has increased.
OTOH, since passage of FLPMA, there are a lot more recreational sites, coal and natural gas leases, wilderness areas and wilderness study areas, & archeological sites, to name a few.
T’anks—The more I learn the more determined I am to be
numbered among those who oppose Tyranny. The enemy thought they could snuff out a brushfire by the MURDER of Robert Lavoy Finicum— and the Terrorism—and imprisonment of so many others. In me they sparked a coal seam fire. Lincoln said Americans must live through all time a nation of Freemen or die by suicide. When the “progressives”seized control of our Government—and schools they thought they had found a motherload and would enrich themselves forever.
I never learned in school “Resistance to Tyranny is obedience to God.” Hey I do not recall ever hearing of Joseph Story— or of Montesquieu, or Locke our teachers were ashamed to teach Ben Franklin’s speech June 28 1787.
I never heard of James Madison “On Property” until 2015.
I did hear the brief Network news version of the “Standoff “ between the Bundy family and the Government— but NOT the facts essential to that event. Much like the media coverage of what took place in Eastern Oregon.
I can never replace -nor would I want to —the Bundy Family—Nor Lavoy Finicum- Nor the Hammonds— Nor any other who were called to go to Oregon.But the brushfire the enemy thought they could snuff out—has become a coal seam fire in me. And I will NEVER surrender of my own free will.