BLM National Landscape Conservation System 15-Year Strategy 2010-2025

The BLM National Landscape Conservation System 15-Year Strategy 2010-2025 is a national sectoral strategy of the United States of America. Its main objectives are to conserve, protect, and restore nationally significant landscapes and places that have outstanding cultural, ecological, and scientific values for the benefit of current and future generations.
More specifically, it aims to ensure the conservation, protection, and restoration of National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) Values; clearly communicate that the conservation, protection, and restoration of NLCS values is the highest priority in NLCS planning and management, consistent with the designating legislation or presidential proclamation; expand understanding of the NLCS values through assessment, inventory, and monitoring; provide a scientific foundation for decision-making; use the NLCS as an outdoor laboratory and demonstration center for new and innovative management and business processes that aid in the conservation, protection, and restoration of NLCS areas; limit discretionary uses to those compatible with the conservation, protection, and restoration of the values for which NLCS lands were designated; manage facilities in a manner that conserves, protects, and restores NLCS values; collaboratively manage the NLCS as part of the larger landscape; emphasize an ecosystem-based approach to manage the NLCS in the context of the surrounding landscape; adopt a cross-jurisdictional, community-based approach to landscape-level conservation planning and management; work with Congress, tribes, other federal and state agencies, and national and local communities to identify and protect lands that are critical to the long-term ecological sustainability of the landscape; adopt a community-based approach to recreation and visitor services delivery, consistent with the conservation purpose of the NLCS and the socio-economic goals of the local community; raise awareness of the value and benefits of the BLM’s NLCS; launch a long-term public awareness initiative about the BLM’s NLCS, including national and local outreach, communications, and media plans; advance and strengthen partnerships to facilitate shared stewardship and to advance the relevance of the NLCS to communities of interest and place; expand use of volunteers within the NLCS; engage the public in stewardship of the NLCS through education and interpretation; recruit and retain well-trained youth from diverse backgrounds for entry-level careers, and engage youth in recreation, education, and stewardship on conservation lands; build upon BLM’s commitment to conservation; improve internal communication and understanding of the NLCS and its potential to enhance the BLM as a whole; cultivate shared responsibility for the NLCS conservation mandate as an integral part of BLM’s multiple-use, sustained-yield mission; clearly define, understand, and justify staffing needs, and administratively organize the NLCS areas to operate as a cross-cutting program within the BLM; ensure the NLCS budget is coordinated with the other BLM programs; and set clear expectations and procedures for interdisciplinary budget development, priority setting, and reporting of accomplishments.