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Under the Federal Land Policy Management Act, BLM is to manage the National System of Public Lands for multiple use and sustained yield. Sustained yield is to be assessed through periodic and systematic inventory of renewable resource condition and trend. The BLM�s Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring Strategy (AIM) is being implemented to provide the Bureau with high quality monitoring data to inform decisions from the scale of permitted uses, to resource management plan effectiveness, and on up to national scale reporting. In this talk, we will present how implementation of the AIM principles (e.g., use of consistent indicators, sampling methods and statistically appropriate sample designs) is allowing the BLM to meet its multi-scale data needs. Specifically, we will show case how individual field offices are using AIM monitoring to set potential natural conditions, from which restoration and reclamation effectiveness efforts are being assessed, and resource management plans are being modified or developed. The use of a single monitoring strategy to meet multiple information needs maximizes the return on monitoring investments through creating efficiencies in terms of training, data storage, and analytical resources.