With the passage by Congress to designate 18,610 acres in the Alabama Hills in California in March 2019 as a National Scenic Area under the National Landscape Conservation System, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Bishop Field Office in California hired Logan Simpson to conduct a Visual Resource Inventory (VRI). This is the first-of-its-kind designation to be managed by the BLM. The VRI will be used in the development of the management plan to conserve, protect, and restore this nationally significant landscape.