The Big Picture: Achieving Landscape-scale Conservation on Public Lands

This paper examines the long-term, very-American pattern of participatory conservation involving public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as part of large landscapes in the West. Conservation outcomes have become common, shared goals publicly expressed and supported through designations, as well as protection and restoration efforts. With varying degrees of success, communities of caring people have been the driving force underlying conservation.