The Department of Interior's Healthy Lands Initiative recognizes the need to enhance the availability of affordable oil, gas and other energy sources, while maintaining strong environmental protections and protecting habitat. The Healthy Lands Initiative represents a new concept for meeting emerging challenges in managing natural resources with flexible, landscape-level approaches for continued multiple use.
The Healthy Lands Initiative in President Bush’s FY 2008 budget (News Release) will expand cooperative conservation efforts to help restore nearly half a million acres of western land that hosts world-class wildlife habitat and energy resources and provides major economic benefits to local communities. BLM Projects include landscape-scale efforts such as restoration of habitat, weed management, and improvement of riparian areas in New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado. For more information on the BLM projects visit the Healthy Lands Initiative web site. NILS GeoCommunicator Healthy Lands Map Viewer provides interactive mapping of map layers important to the health of the land. This includes range allotments, impaired watersheds, Section 303 listed waters, oil and gas basins and production potential areas, hydrological units, federal surface management agency, and numerous reference maps . This map viewer is in development and will continue to evolve as we add additional map themes. |
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