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The Bureau of Land Management is <br />responsible for the balanced management of <br />the public lands and resouroes and their <br />various values so that they are considered in <br />a combination that will best serve the needs <br />of the American people. Management is <br />based upon the principles of multiple use <br />and sustained yield - a combination of uses <br />that takes into account the long-term needs <br />of future generations for renewable and <br />nonrenewable resources. These resources <br />include recreation, range, umber, minerals, <br />watershed, fish and wildlife, wilderness, and <br />natural scenic, scientific and cultural values. <br />wr~r ~r~.ru.e~,r aa.~s oa a......, r~ra, oa.. ~rsiu.. ar. am <br />The Federal Land Policy and <br />Management Act of 19761aunched a new <br />era for public land management in America's <br />third century. The Act provides that the <br />public lands remain under the stewardship of <br />the Federal Government, unless disposal is in <br />the national interest, and that their resources <br />be managed under amultiple-use concept <br />that will best meet present and future needs <br />of the American people. This information <br />pamphlet wncems one facet of one of these <br />multiple uses: activities under the Mining <br />Law of 1872, as amended. <br />August 1991 <br />B LM- W O-GI -91-002-4130 <br />1 <br />