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BLM (all states)
Within Grazing Districts (Section 3)
Year	Operators or Permits/Leases	Permitted AUMs	Authorized AUMs
1947			14,993,597
1948			14,726,442
1949	21,081		14,572,272
1950	20,887		14,460,988
1951	19,876		14,331,032
1952	19,692		15,403,308
1953	19,107		15,779,661
1954	18,727		15,686,265
1955	18,937		15,367,288
1956	18,578		15,300,856
1957	18,856		14,611,129
1958	18,203		14,797,438
1959	18,185		14,749,856
1960	18,371		12,453,942
1961	18,041		12,096,998
1962	18,020	14,662,642	12,000,057
1963	18,237	14,629,275	12,051,772
1964	17,419	14,442,624	11,861,242
1965	16,389	14,211,308	11,773,097
1966	16,252	14,171,225	11,801,304
1967	15,833	13,969,308	11,634,505
1968	15,468	13,835,243	11,665,024
1969	14,932	13,265,524	11,237,706
1970	14,455	13,161,642	10,980,535
1971	13,811	12,532,924	10,286,574
1972	13,958	12,703,873	10,409,608
1973	13,759	12,576,590	10,382,996
1974	13,774	12,506,327	10,393,079
1975	13,736	12,504,192	10,239,189
1976	13,821	11,974,710	10,227,730
1977	13,418	11,675,722	9,094,194
1978	12,862	11,822,279	9,384,978
1979	12,267	11,640,866	9,172,945
1980	12,793	11,197,012	8,875,380
1981	12,721	11,407,514	9,025,011
1982	12,573	11,389,363	9,152,028
1983	12,928	11,010,158	8,898,897
1984	12,302	11,782,030	9,612,517
1985	12,493	12,308,724	9,768,829
1986	12,394	11,759,792	8,994,391
1987	12,368	11,785,143	9,720,254
1988	12,537	11,950,605	9,042,423
1989	12,362	11,896,422	9,576,034
1990	12,153	12,034,208	9,382,959
1991	12,312	11,818,156	8,320,845
1992	12,128	11,780,018	8,750,136
1993	12,069	11,765,634	8,401,369
1994	11,964	11,756,403	8,587,695
1995	11,936	11,619,281	8,606,381
1996	11,900	11,608,366	8,423,344
1997	11,895	11,594,294	8,166,877
1998	11,866	11,545,139	8,920,973
1999	11,808	11,494,751	8,788,056
2000	11,690	11,381,849	8,536,551
Recalculated to reflect estimates.
Outside Grazing Districts (Section 15)
1979	7,744		1,650,277
1980	7,675		1,594,912
1981	7,611		1,544,497
1982	7,826		1,528,131
1983	7,841		1,461,447
1984	7,680		1,477,194
1985	7,387		1,475,984
1986	7,375		1,469,736
1987	7,307		1,471,453
1988	7,259		1,407,833
1989	7,397		1,470,472
1990	7,161		1,475,448
1991	7,230		1,293,662
1992	7,081		1,346,386
1993	7,039	1,509,058	1,367,025
1994	6,946	1,496,794	1,325,212
1995	6,872	1,475,566	1,334,130
1996	6,894	1,477,969	1,315,294
1997	6,874	1,475,882	1,278,605
1998	6,832	1,470,164	1,432,059
1999	6,760	1,500,132	1,299,932
2000	6,703	1,428,638	1,301,037
Total
1979	20,011		10,823,222
1980	20,468		10,470,292
1981	20,332		10,569,508
1982	20,399		10,680,159
1983	20,769		10,360,344
1984	19,982		11,089,711
1985	19,880		11,244,813
1986	19,769		10,464,127
1987	19,675		11,191,707
1988	19,796		10,450,256
1989	19,759		11,046,506
1990	19,314		10,858,407
1991	19,542		9,614,507
1992	19,209		10,096,522
1993	19,108	13,274,692	9,768,394
1994	18,910	13,253,197	9,912,907
1995	18,808	13,094,847	9,940,511
1996	18,794	13,086,335	9,738,638
1997	18,769	13,070,176	9,445,482
1998	18,698	13,015,303	10,353,032
1999	18,568	12,994,883	10,087,988
2000	18,393	12,810,487	9,837,588