The watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility highlighted the declining health of rangelands in a new analysis Thursday based on data compiled by the Bureau of Land Management.
“These numbers reveal a landscape under pressure,” Chandra Rosenthal, PEER’s Western lands and Rocky Mountain advocate, said in a statement.
The analysis drew from BLM’s Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring (AIM) program data, which shows that healthy lands dropped from 72 percent in 2022 to 58 percent in 2024.