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Bureau of Land Management  

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  • The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), part of the U.S. Department of the Interior, administers more federal land than any other federal agency: over 264 million acres of land (about one eighth of all land in the United States). Also, it manages 700 million additional acres of subsurface mineral resources and has responsibility for wildfire management and suppression on 388 million acres. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Bureau of Land Management]

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