Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, is part of the United States Department of the Interior. It administers over a million square kilometres of public lands, mostly located in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

Among its other responsibilities, BLM is responsible for wildland firefighting on the lands that it administers. BLM employs thousands of firefighters and support personnel, directed from the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho.