6.7 million acres were never under BLM management. Of the 15.5
million other acres of land under BLM management: 48.6 percent
(7,522,100 acres) were intermingled ("checkerboard") land
ownerships or areas where water was not owned or controlled by
the BLM, which made management infeasible; 13.5 percent
(2,091,709 acres) were lands transferred out of the BLM's
ownership to other agencies, both Federal and state through
legislation or exchange; 10.6 percent (1,645,758 acres) were
lands where there were substantial conflicts with other resource
values (such as the need to protect habitat for desert
tortoise); 9.7 percent (1,512,179 acres) were lands removed from
wild horse and burro use through court decisions; urban
expansion; highway fencing (causing habitat fragmentation); and
land withdrawals; 9.6 percent (1,485,068 acres) were lands where
no BLM animals were present at the time of the passage of the
1971 Act or places where all animals were claimed as private
property. These lands in future land-use plans wi