• Land transfer
  Alaska is a young state and land ownership is still being settled. The BLM is tasked with conveying federal land to the State of Alaska, Alaska Native corporations and individual Alaska Natives. Once final land status is determined, the BLM will manage about 70 million acres of federal public lands and 220 million acres of subsurface mineral estate in Alaska, more than in any other state.
• Energy development
  The BLM is committed to sound land use planning for the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). Oil exploration efforts dating back to 1998 are expected to result in the NPR-A’s first commercial production getting to market in 2008. Many resource management issues transcend the boundaries of NPR-A and are applicable to the entire North Slope of Alaska. The BLM partners with other federal and state agencies form the North Slope Science Initiative, a newly developed organization that encourages sharing knowledge to make science-based decisions about development activities on the North Slope.  
  
  
• Trans-Alaska Pipeline System oversight
  The BLM partners with other federal and state agencies at the Joint Pipeline Office to work proactively with Alaska’s oil and gas industry to safely operate the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.
• Fire management
  The Alaska Fire Service provides wildland fire suppression services for all Department of the Interior and Alaska Native corporation lands in Alaska.

Mission

The BLM's mission is to sustain the health, diversity and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.

As stewards of your federal public lands, employees of the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska strive to continually improve our customer service and business practices. To learn more about our programs, we invite you to first explore our Web site and then go explore your public lands in Alaska.