BLM’s land use programs include: grazing management, mining, coal/oil/gas leasing, recreation, forestry, and the National Conservation Lands.

Fracking is the process of using explosives and a highly pressurized mixture of water, sand, and chemicals to stimulate production from natural gas and oil wells. It threatens our water, air, land, and communities.

The entire fracking process — from drilling a well to dealing with the resulting toxic waste — endangers our water and the health of our communities.

Because it limits local control over surface and subsurface use, the split estate has been a significant enabling condition of the oil and gas boom in the United States in recent years.