The alternative mitigation program that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) established in 2008 to address impacts to the archaeological resources in the Permian Basin of southeastern New Mexico, now one of the most active of the nation's oil and gas energy fields, has supported more than $10 million in field research programs and is poised to be able to fund about $1 million in field research annually for the foreseeable future. The financial success of the program is mirrored by the program's outstanding contributions to our understanding of the Permian Basin's long and complex history of human occupation. Surprisingly, although other public lands under the auspices of the BLM are seeing similar rates of energy development, the critical elements of this program have not been picked up elsewhere in the BLM. The Permian Basin program appears doomed to be an example of a “one-off” alternative mitigation solution. The factors barring more widespread adoption include the ebb and flow of energy production activity, complications arising from mixed land status and the ability to work across jurisdictional boundaries, hesitation to change procedures that are working adequately for the time being, and a lack of capacity to institute systemic change.

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景观缓解计划的长期前景

土地管理局 (BLM) 于 2008 年建立的替代缓解计划旨在解决对新墨西哥州东南部二叠纪盆地考古资源的影响，该盆地现在是美国最活跃的石油和天然气能源领域之一，已支持更多超过 1000 万美元的实地研究计划，并准备在可预见的未来每年为实地研究提供约 100 万美元的资金。该计划的财务成功反映在该计划对我们了解二叠纪盆地漫长而复杂的人类占领历史的杰出贡献上。令人惊讶的是，尽管 BLM 赞助的其他公共土地的能源开发速度相似，但该计划的关键要素并未在 BLM 的其他地方得到体现。二叠纪盆地计划似乎注定要成为“一次性”替代缓解解决方案的一个例子。阻碍更广泛采用的因素包括能源生产活动的潮起潮落、混合土地状况带来的复杂性以及跨辖区工作的能力、对改变暂时有效的程序犹豫不决以及缺乏能力进行系统性变革。