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Northwest Colorado Draft Land Use Plan Available for Public Review and Comment
Dear BRC Action Alert Subscriber,
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released a draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (RMP/EIS) for nearly 1.3 million acres in three counties in northwest Colorado for a 90-day public review and comment period. The plans affect lands managed by the BLM's Little Snake Field Office. The planning area is located in Moffat, Routt and Rio Blanco Counties in northwestern Colorado.
An RMP can be compared to a county master plan where management direction and objectives are defined for specific resources and areas. They address issues including livestock grazing, recreation, wildlife habitat, off-highway vehicle use, camping and even energy and mineral development. The document contains a preferred alternative as well as a range of other management alternatives. Each draft plan includes a draft EIS which analyzes the environmental effects of each planning alternative.
The DRMP/DEIS presents a total of four alternatives which takes into consideration comments received by other governmental agencies, public organizations, state, tribal entities and interested individuals. Public collaboration through the scoping process led to shaping of issues covering recreation, wildlife, minerals, cultural resources, grazing, land tenure, designation of areas of critical environmental concern (ACEC), access to public lands and other topics. The DRMP/DEIS analyzes alternatives to resolve management issues, determines management objectives and actions, and establishes monitoring methods to facilitate multiple use and sustained yield management for the entire planning area.
Your comments and suggestions are critical at this stage in the new RMP development. The BLM will need to know what part of the preferred alternative you support and what part you oppose. Also, BLM needs to know what parts of the other alternatives should be included in the final plan and which parts of the other alternatives should NOT be in the final plan.
All comments received by BLM will be considered during BLM's decision-making process, but only specific comments will be addressed in the Final EIS/Proposed RMP. Please submit comments on the Draft RMP/EIS by May 16, 2007, which ends the 90-day public review period.
The documents are available at http://www.co.blm.gov/lsra/rmp/index.htm. Compact disc copies are also available by contacting Jeremy Casterson, BLM Little Snake Field Office, 455 Emerson Street, Craig, CO, 81625 or by calling by (970) 826-5000, or by e-mail at [email protected]. Please be sure and include a mailing address where they can send the CD.
Written comments should be sent to:
Jeremy Casterson
Bureau of Land Management
Little Snake Field Office
455 Emerson Street
Craig CO 81625
Email comments should be sent to: [email protected]
Thanks in advance for your support,
Brian Hawthorne
BlueRibbon Coalition
208-237-1008 ext 102
Dear BRC Action Alert Subscriber,
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released a draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (RMP/EIS) for nearly 1.3 million acres in three counties in northwest Colorado for a 90-day public review and comment period. The plans affect lands managed by the BLM's Little Snake Field Office. The planning area is located in Moffat, Routt and Rio Blanco Counties in northwestern Colorado.
An RMP can be compared to a county master plan where management direction and objectives are defined for specific resources and areas. They address issues including livestock grazing, recreation, wildlife habitat, off-highway vehicle use, camping and even energy and mineral development. The document contains a preferred alternative as well as a range of other management alternatives. Each draft plan includes a draft EIS which analyzes the environmental effects of each planning alternative.
The DRMP/DEIS presents a total of four alternatives which takes into consideration comments received by other governmental agencies, public organizations, state, tribal entities and interested individuals. Public collaboration through the scoping process led to shaping of issues covering recreation, wildlife, minerals, cultural resources, grazing, land tenure, designation of areas of critical environmental concern (ACEC), access to public lands and other topics. The DRMP/DEIS analyzes alternatives to resolve management issues, determines management objectives and actions, and establishes monitoring methods to facilitate multiple use and sustained yield management for the entire planning area.
Your comments and suggestions are critical at this stage in the new RMP development. The BLM will need to know what part of the preferred alternative you support and what part you oppose. Also, BLM needs to know what parts of the other alternatives should be included in the final plan and which parts of the other alternatives should NOT be in the final plan.
All comments received by BLM will be considered during BLM's decision-making process, but only specific comments will be addressed in the Final EIS/Proposed RMP. Please submit comments on the Draft RMP/EIS by May 16, 2007, which ends the 90-day public review period.
The documents are available at http://www.co.blm.gov/lsra/rmp/index.htm. Compact disc copies are also available by contacting Jeremy Casterson, BLM Little Snake Field Office, 455 Emerson Street, Craig, CO, 81625 or by calling by (970) 826-5000, or by e-mail at [email protected]. Please be sure and include a mailing address where they can send the CD.
Written comments should be sent to:
Jeremy Casterson
Bureau of Land Management
Little Snake Field Office
455 Emerson Street
Craig CO 81625
Email comments should be sent to: [email protected]
Thanks in advance for your support,
Brian Hawthorne
BlueRibbon Coalition
208-237-1008 ext 102
