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In 1976, Congress passed the FederalLand Policy Management Act (FLPMA) reversing the 200-year national policy of conveying public lands to private ownership; the Act provides for perpetual federal retention unless it is in the national interest to dispose of a particular parcel.
Among the many functions of the federal agencies which have public lands management responsibilities are wildlife management, endangered species protection, wetlands protection, meeting the open space requirements of growing population, environmentally sound forest and rangeland management, payments-in-lieu-of-taxes to local governments, and the administration of mineral development impact loans.
Federal agencies managing federalland should assure that uses both on-site and off-site do not cause adverse environmental impacts on the federalland or other adjacent lands or waters and provide special protection for wetland resources in light of the goal of no loss of wetlands.
Federal agencies can also provide substantial, permanent conservation of the listed species that have more than half of all occurrences on their lands.
For many listed species with less than 50% of their occurrences on federalland, federal agencies may still be able to provide important protection and recovery opportunities.
This study found, however, that fully 50% of federally listed species are not known to occur on federallands, and that for all listed species, 64% of known occurrences are on nonfederal lands.
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