Editing Bureau of Land Management (section)

=== Biden administration ===
On September 17, 2021, Secretary [[Deb Haaland]] announced that the headquarters would be moved back to Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite tweet|number=1438965957809016837|user=USInteriorPress |author=US Interior Press Team |title=Today, @SecDebHaaland announced next steps to rebuild and strengthen @BLMNational, including plans to restore the national headquarters to Washington, D.C. and expand the Western headquarters in Grand Junction, Colorado.|date=September 17, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220405075858/https://twitter.com/USInteriorPress/status/1438965957809016837 |archive-date= Apr 5, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet |number=1438966794656567296 |user=SecDebHaaland |author=Secretary Deb Haaland |title=The Bureau of Land Management is critical to the nation's efforts to address the climate crisis and expanding access to public lands. The bureau must have access to the policy, budget, and decision-making levers to best carry out its mission. |date=September 17, 2021 |bot=TweetCiteBot}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/17/politics/bureau-of-land-management-headquarters-return-washington/index.html|title = Bureau of Land Management headquarters to return to Washington, DC|website = [[CNN]]| date=September 17, 2021 |first1=Liz |last1=Stark |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327002358/http://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/17/politics/bureau-of-land-management-headquarters-return-washington/index.html |archive-date= Mar 27, 2023 }}</ref>

Under the Biden administration, the BLM is working on a pilot project called "outcomes-based grazing", to see if cattle grazing can help achieve conservation, agency director [[Tracy Stone-Manning]] said in an interview published in April 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Mohr  |first1=Kylie  |last2=Stone-Manning |first2=Tracy |date=2022-04-15 |title=Cows, coal and climate change: A Q&A with the new BLM director |url=https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.5/north-bureau-of-land-management-cows-coal-and-climate-change-a-q-a-with-the-new-blm-director |access-date=2022-04-27 |website=High Country News |language=en-us}}</ref>

In June 2022, the BLM finalized two acquisitions in Colorado and Wyoming, acquiring over 40,000 acres of previously inaccessible land. The acquisition in Wyoming for 35,670 acres is the agency's largest ever purchase in the state.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-01 |title=BLM acquires 35,670 acres near Casper in agency's largest ever Wyoming land purchase |url=https://oilcity.news/community/2022/06/01/blm-acquires-35670-acres-near-casper-in-agencys-largest-ever-wyoming-land-purchase/ |first1=Brendan |last1=LaChance |access-date=2022-06-08 |website=Oil City News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=New BLM land acquisitions open up nearly 40,000 acres of public land |url=https://www.gohunt.com/content/news/new-blm-land-acquisition-open-up-nearly-40k-acres-of-public-land |access-date=2022-06-08 |website=GOHUNT |first1=Kristen A. |last1=Schmitt |date=June 7, 2022 |language=en |archive-date=June 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627052042/https://www.gohunt.com/content/news/new-blm-land-acquisition-open-up-nearly-40k-acres-of-public-land |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2024 the Department of the Interior has begun to advance a new rule according to which the Bureau of Land Management can distribute restoration leases and mitigation leases exactly in the same way as it distributes new leases for oil and gas drilling. The designed land will be used for nature conservation including use of indigenous knowledge.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Joselow |first1=Maxine |title=The U.S. just changed how it manages a tenth of its land |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/18/biden-public-lands-conservation-rule/ |access-date=21 April 2024 |agency=Washington Post |date=18 April 2024}}</ref>