The Bureau of Land Management is amending its Lakeview Resource Management Plan that will determine the future of millions of acres of wildlands, watersheds and wildlife habitats in the Greater Hart-Sheldon for the next several decades.
This region hosts a nationally important pronghorn migration corridor, some of the highest densities of greater sage-grouse in the American West and core habitat for pygmy rabbit. BLM has recognized half of the public lands in the Greater Hart-Sheldon — 1.6 million acres — as “Lands with Wilderness Characteristics,” the most of any BLM district in the state. Invaluable cultural resources in the region have yielded crucial information and insights about the history of Indigenous peoples in the Great Basin.
The Lakeview Resource Management Plan Amendment offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect these vital wildlands, wildlife, and other important resources.
