Mean number of citations per Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Environmental Assessment by category of proposed action.
By Fort Collins Science Center
February 2025 (approx.)
Detailed Description
The documents presented are from a stratified random sample of 70 Environmental Assessments (EAs) completed by the BLM in Colorado from 2015–2019. Proposed actions that were analyzed in fewer than 10 EAs (Wildland fire management, Wild horses and burros, Conservation and preservation areas, Paleontology) are not shown in the figure.
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Public Domain.
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