Land Use Planning

BLM’s Resource Management Plans (RMPs) form the basis for every action and approved use on the public lands.  The BLM prepares RMPs for areas of public lands, called planning areas, which tend to have similar resource characteristics.  Planning emphasizes a collaborative environment in which local, state, and tribal governments, the public, user groups, and industry work with the BLM to identify appropriate multiple uses of the public lands. Plans are periodically revised as changing conditions and resource demands require. 

RMPs are used by managers and the public to accomplish the following:

1. Allocate resources and determine appropriate multiple uses for the public lands;
2. Develop a strategy to manage and protect resources; and
3. Establish systems to monitor and evaluate status of resources and effectiveness of management practices over time. 

 Click here for an overview of the planning process.  

Click here for a map of BLM Alaska's Planning Area Boundaries!

Ongoing Planning Efforts and Associated Planning Documents

• Central Yukon RMP
  • BLM-Alaska Announces Intent to Develop Central Yukon Resource Management Plan (released Jun. 14, 2013)
• Bering Sea-Western Interior RMP 
• Eastern Interior RMP 
  • Supplement to the Draft Eastern Interior RMP/EIS  (release Jan. 11, 2013)
  • Draft Eastern Interior RMP/EIS (release Feb. 24, 2012)

Finalized Planning Documents

• National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) Area
  • NPR-A Record of Decision (released Feb. 21, 2013)
  • NPR-A Final Integrated Activity Plan (IAP) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)  (released Dec. 19, 2012)
• Ring of Fire Planning Area
  • Ring of Fire RMP Record of Decision
  • Ring of Fire RMP/EIS
  • Haines Planning Area Amendment
  • Campbell Tract Plan Amendment
• Bay Planning Area
  • Bay RMP Record of Decision
  • Bay RMP/EIS
• East Alaska Planning Area
  • East Alaska RMP Record of Decision
  • East Alaska RMP/EIS
  • Delta River EA Amendment 
  • Gulkana River Record of Decision Final EA and Revised RMP
• Kobuk-Seward Peninsula Planning Area
  • Kobuk-Seward Peninsula Record of Decision
  • Kobuk-Seward Peninsula RMP/EIS
  • Squirrel River SRMA Plan

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Other Plan Amendments

• Alaska Land Use Plan Amendment for Wildland Fire and Fuels Management Environmental Assessment and FONSI and Decision Record 2005. 

Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation (ES&R) Plans