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BLM LIBRARY 88065168 LAND PUBLIC STATISTICS 1997 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT U.S. Department ofthe Interior, Bureau ofLand Management The Bureau ofLand Management sustains the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment ofpresent and future generations. LAND PUBLIC STATISTICS 1997 Volume 182 BLM/BC/ST-98/001+1165 ^M^ 0^ 1 March 1998 TABLE OF CONTENTS Table Page No. PART 1 - LAND RESOURCES AND INFORMATION 1-1 Acquisition of the public domain, 1781-1867 3 1-2 Disposition of public lands, 1781-1996 5 1-3 Comparison of federally owned land with total acreage of States 7 1-4 Public lands under jurisdiction of the BLM 10 1-5 O & C revested lands by Oregon county 13 1-6 Withdrawals and revocations 15 1-7 Cadastral survey actions completed 19 1-8 Obligations of appropriations received 32 PART 2 - HEALTHY PRODUCTIVE LANDS 2-1 Percent of acreage by ecological status by State 35 2-2 Condition of riparian-wetland areas 36 2-3 Resource conservation and improvement accomplishments 38 2-4 Forest development accomplishments 39 2-5 Types of wildlife habitats on public lands 40 2-6 Estimated numbers of big game animals on public lands 41 2-7 Fish and wildlife habitat improvements completed 43 2-8 Emergency fire rehabilitation projects 45 2-9 Prescribed fire projects 46 PART 3 - COMMERCIAL USES AND REVENUES GENERATED 3-1 Applications, entries, selections, and patents 48 3-2 Patents issued with minerals reserved to the United States 54 3-3 Nonspecific land use authorizations 56 3-4 Miscellaneous land use authorizations 58 3-5 Summary of authorized use of grazing district (Section 3) lands 62 3-6 Summary of authorized use of grazing lease (Section 15) lands 63 3-7 Grazing permits in force on grazing district (Section 3) lands 64 3-8 Grazing leases in force on grazing lease (Section 15) lands 65 3-9a Timber and nontimber forest product sales 66 3-9b Forest product sales by state 67 3-10 Competitive oil and gas and geothermal leasing 68 3-11 Noncompetitive oil and gas and geothermal leases 74 111 3-12 Other oil and gas leasing actions 82 3-13 New oil and gas well drilling activities on Federal lands 84 3-14 Continuing oil and gas activities on Federal lands 85 3-15 Coal leases, licenses, permits, preference right lease applications and logical mining units 87 3-16 Other solid mineral leases, licenses, permits, and preference right lease applications 90 3-17 Disposition of mineral materials 95 3-18 Mineral patents issued 101 3-19 Recordation of mining claims 102 3-20 Notices and plans of mining operations filed with BLM 104 3-21 Helium operations and revenues 106 3-22 Receipts from the disposition of public lands and resources, May 20, 1785 through FY 1996 107 3-23 Statement of receipts by source 108 3-24 Receipts from oil and gas right-of-way rentals, mineral leases, licenses, and permits Ill 3-25 Allocation of receipts to States and local governments by program 112 3-26 Allocation of receipts by source and fund 113 3-27 Payments to States and territories 115 3-28 Legal allocation of BLM receipts 117 PART 4 - RECREATION AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES 4-1 Estimated recreational use of public lands administered by BLM by major activity grouping 126 4-2 Estimated number of hunter days and net value of hunting trips on public lands 127 4-3 Estimated number of persons, visitor days and expenditures for nonconsumptive trips to public lands 127 4-4 Estimated recreational visits to non-fee sites on public land administered by BLM 128 4-5 Recreation use for fee sites on public lands administered by BLM 129 4-6 Land and Water Conservation Fund Act deposits from BLM-administered recreational fee activities 130 PART 5 - PRESERVATION OF SIGNIFICANT CULTURAL AND NATURAL FEATURES 5-1 Land exchanges 134 5-2 Federally listed T/E and candidate plant species 136 5-3 Federally listed T/E and candidate animal species 137 5-4 Wild free-roaming horse and burro populations 139 5-5 Wild free-roaming horse and burro removals and adoptions by State 140 5-6 Cultural resource management activities 141 5-7 BLMs ACEC's 142 5-8 BLM wilderness study area 143 IV 5-9 BLM wilderness recommendations pending before Congress 144 5-10 BLM lands designated as wilderness by Congress 145 5-11 BLM National wild & Scenic Rivers 149 PART 6 - PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, AND RESOURCE PROTECTION 6-1 Fires on or threatening BLM lands 152 6-2 Capital improvements on public lands 154 6-3 Release of hazardous substances on public lands 155 Glossary 157 . WELCOME TO PUBLIC LAND STATISTICS 1997 Welcome to the 1997 edition of Public Land Statistics This . year's edition is virtually identical to last year's document, with two exceptions: Table 3-9 has been expanded into two tables to provide more information on forest product sales, and a new table (5-11) on Wild and Scenic Rivers has been added. Once again this year, Public Land Statistics is available on the Internet. Visit our national homepage online at: http://www. blm. gov/nhp/landfacts/pls97. html Note that the data presented in the 1997 Public Land Statistics tables may not exactly match the data in other BLM publications covering fiscal year 1997 operations and accomplishments. This occurs because the databases that provide table data are not static; they are constantly being updated to provide the latest information, sometimes many months after the end of the fiscal year. We have presented the most current data available in this edition of Public Land Statistics. 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