BLM National Grazing Pasture Boundaries

Polygon feature class represents the spatial extent and boundaries for Bureau of Land Management grazing pastures. The dataset is a national aggregation from multiple BLM Administrative States, where pastures are subsets of grazing allotments used for livestock grazing. Errors and inconsistencies may be present in the aggregated data.

Use Cases

• Analyze pasture boundaries to assess livestock grazing management areas within allotments.
• Map spatial extents of grazing pastures for land use planning and resource allocation.
• Identify allotments with multiple pastures or no pastures for administrative review.

Strengths

• National aggregation from multiple BLM Administrative States provides a broad spatial scope.
• Data is provided in multiple formats including GeoJSON, CSV, and KML for accessibility.
• Includes tags for specific states like Montana, Alaska, and Nevada indicating geographic coverage.

Limitations

• Errors and inconsistencies are explicitly noted as potentially present in the aggregated data.
• No row count, column details, or sample data are available to assess dataset scale and structure.
• The description lacks specific temporal coverage or update frequency details.

Provenance

Source

Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management Administrative States.

Collection Method

Aggregation from multiple datasets provided by BLM Administrative States.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-03-17.

Geography

National coverage, with tags indicating states including Montana, Alaska, Nevada, California, Arizona, Idaho, North Dakota, New Mexico, Nebraska, and Colorado.