The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages over 245 million acres of public land, including 155 million acres leased for livestock grazing. However, the decentralized nature of land health evaluations hindered effective management and public awareness. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) launched a groundbreaking initiative to centralize, analyse, and visualize rangeland health data across 13 western states.

Using GIS technology, PEER consolidated data from 21,000 grazing allotments obtained through public records requests. Errors were corrected, data gaps addressed, and a centralized geodatabase was created. This geodatabase was then integrated into a publicly accessible ArcGIS Online map and ArcGIS StoryMaps platform. The interactive map includes layers for land health standards, causes of degradation (e.g., livestock, fire, invasive species), and other federal GIS data such as wilderness areas and drought conditions.