AIM Lotic Data Viewer
This ArcGIS Online data viewer provides access to all lotic (stream and river) AIM data. The lotic AIM database houses all stream and river monitoring data collected by BLM districts and field…
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NOTE: Materials available from these pages are contributed by BLM staff. The collections are being developed and may be an incomplete baseline of relevant content. It is expected that each collection will continue growing in time to reflect the most current information available.
AIM Terrestrial Data Viewer
This ArcGIS Online data viewer provides access to all terrestrial (upland) AIM data. TerrADat houses all terrestrial monitoring data collected by BLM districts and field offices using the Assessment…
Annual grass invasions and wildfire deplete ecosystem carbon storage by >50% to resistant base levels
Nature Communications, Earth & Environment
Toby Matthew Maxwell, Harold E. Quicke, Samuel J. Price, and Matthew Germino
Applying and Interpreting Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) Data at the Field Office Level_Technical Note 455
This technical note serves as a companion to BLM Technical Note 453, "Guide to Using AIM and LMF Data in Land Health Evaluations and Authorizations of Permitted Uses," by providing an example of…
Biological Crusts Affected by Drought Can Still Stabilize Soils
Results of in situ experiments on natural microbial communities suggest that biological crusts can protect soils from erosion, but their protective role could be compromised under predicted future
Disturbed areas will be reseeded using a mix specified by the AO at a time when seed germination is facilitated by natural conditions.
Soils and Vegetation: "Disturbed areas, where a site will not naturally revegetate in a reasonable time or areas where soil stability is threatened by operations will be reseeded using a seed mix…
DOI Talent Course Search
This is the course catalog view.
Evaluation of Fractional Vegetation Cover Products_TN456
This technical note presents the analysis of three major products that estimate fractional vegetation cover: Landscape Cover Analysis and Reporting Tools (LandCART); Rangeland Condition, Monitoring,…
Exploring a Dynamic Soil Information System
As a living substrate, soil is critical to the function of Earth's geophysical and chemical properties.
From data to interpretable models: Machine learning for soil moisture forecasting
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
Aniruddha Basak, Kevin Schmidt, and Ole Mengshoel
Guide to Using AIM and LMF Data for Land Health Evaluations and Authorizations of Permitted Uses - Technical Note 453.PDF (PDF / 2.4 MB)
This technical note serves as a guide for using AIM data, along with other available data, to complete evaluations of land health and related authorizations of permitted uses as required by BLM…
Identifying priority science needs for managing public lands in Colorado
The BLM National Science Committee supported a project to develop a structured, repeatable method for identifying potential priority science needs for BLM based on multiple lines of evidence.
Improved Wetland Soil Organic Carbon Stocks of the Conterminous U.S. Through Data Harmonization
Frontiers in Soil Science
Bergit Uhran, LisamarieWindham-Myers, Norman Bliss, Amanda M. Nahlik, Eric T. Sundquist, Camille L. Stagg
Integrating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to constrain estimates of land-atmosphere carbon exchange
Nature Communications, March, 2023
Landscape Cover Analysis and Reporting Tools (LandCART)
LandCART is an online mapping app for predicting fractional vegetation cover at 30-m resolution anywhere in the western contiguous United States for any time from 1984 to present. LandCART predicts…
Monitoring Manual for Grassland, Shrubland, and Savannah Ecosystems
This document provides a single, standard reference for the core methods which are part of the BLM Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring Strategy (AIM) and NRCS National Resources Inventory (NRI).
Properly dispose of hydrostatic test water
"Water and Soil Management: 3) Hydrostatic test water will be discharged in a controlled manner onto an energy dissipater and within existing ROWs. The water is to be discharged onto undisturbed land…
Rangeland Condition, Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (RCMAP)
The USGS Rangeland Condition, Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (RCMAP) dataset reports fractional vegetation cover estimates and changes over time in Western U.S. shrublands. Nine shrubland…
Relationship of atmospheric nitrogen deposition to soil nitrogen cycling along an elevation gradient in the Colorado Front Range
Earth's Future
Deborah A. Repert, Ruth C. Heindel, Sheila F. Murphy, and Kaitlyn M. Jeanis
Synthesis on the effectiveness of soil translocation for plant community restoration.
Gerrits, et. al.
Journal of Applied Ecology. Feb. 12, 2023
Thawing permafrost and how USGS is studying this carbon-rich soil in Alaska
By Communications and Publishing
July 19, 2022
The influence of drying on the aeolian transport of river-sourced sand
Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
Joel B. Sankey, Joshua Caster, Alan Kasprak, and Helen C. Fairley
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Wildland Fire Effects on Sediment, Salinity, and Selenium Yields in a Basin Underlain by Cretaceous Marine Shales near Rangely, Colorado
Prepared in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management
U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2024–5043, 31 p.
Working toward a National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network: Vision, progress, and future directions
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society