The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) administers 258 million surface acres of public land. Most of this public land is located in the 12 Western States. The BLM manages rangelands throughout the west for the use of wildlife and livestock. The rangelands are divided into allotments and pastures for management purposes.

The Rangeland Administration System (RAS) provides grazing administrative support and management reports for the BLM and the public. The Rangeland Administration system serves as an electronic calendar for issuance of approximately 18,000 applications and 2,400 grazing authorizations (Permits, Leases, and Exchange-of-Use Agreements) per year, eliminating the need for manually processing these forms. RAS also creates approximately 30,000 grazing bills per year. RAS provides distribution information to the Collections and Billings System (CBS) for tracking, collecting, and distributing grazing receipts. Additionally, the system maintains electronic files about allotments, authorizations, and grazing bill history.

The following public Rangeland Administration Reports (RAS) are available from this website. For information on the report click on the Report Summaries or on any of the following reports:

• Public Land Statistics
• Range Allotment Master
• Authorized Use By Range Allotment

To view the allotments and pasture in an interactive mapping environment go to the National Integrated Land System's (NILS) GeoCommunicator Web site at http://www.geocommunicator.gov. The allotment reports from the Rangeland system are also available from GeoCommunicator when using the Identify Tool.

GeoCommunicator also provides information on and links to the following information:

• Land and mineral use authorizations from BLM's LR2000 system- oil & gas, rights-of-ways, mineral leasing, withdrawals, land sales, classifications, conveyances, etc.
• Public Land Survey System (PLSS) land descriptions (township, range, section, aliquot, lots)
• Surface management agency boundaries
• Sub-surface mineral estate
• Reference maps - topo, roads, aerial photography, rivers, counties, states, and much more.