Welcome. As a multiple-use agency, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages 262 million acres of public lands in the West. Due to the diverse demands placed on these lands and BLM’s limited resources, it is paramount for the Bureau to work in partnership with federal, state, and local governments, and other interested parties to help insure stewardship of our Nation’s vast resources.

The following series of Questions and Answers (Q & A) represents some of the best information available to help remove barriers that face both BLM and its Partners, when creating new partnerships.These Q & A s are the result of the hard work completed at the BLM hosted Partnership Workshop held in the spring of 2002, in Las Vegas Nevada. At this workshop, BLM and many BLM Partner subject matter experts worked together to:

1. identify common barriers to building lasting partnerships;
2. describe what good partnerships need, and;
3. identify what tools are essential to building and maintaining productive partnerships.

In order to apply the Workshop recommendations, the BLM’s National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) created a National Partnership Task Force to address the workshop findings. The following set of Q&As were developed by this Task Force to assist you with your developing partnerships.

• Partnership Questions and Answers
• Do's and Don'ts When Establishing Partnerships with Private Organizations

If you have additional questions or would like some clarification, please contact:

Holly Hampton
Bureau of Land Management
National Landscape Conservation System
Telephone: 202-452-5174
Fax: 202-653-2154
E-mail: holly_hampton@blm.gov