Date: May 1, 2007

For Immediate Release

Contact:            Lorraine Buck, 520.258.7240

                        Mark Lambert, 520.258.7242

 

BLM SCHEDULES PUBLIC MEETING

TO GATHER COMMENTS FOR IRONWOOD FOREST NATIONAL MONUMENT PLAN

           

            The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Tucson Field Office will host a public meeting to answer questions and take comments on the Ironwood Forest National Monument Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement. The agency has previously hosted five meetings. The meeting is scheduled for May 19, from 10 a.m. to noon, at Pima Community College West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road, Tucson, in the Proscenium Theater, located on the east side of the campus. Sign in for speakers will begin at 9:30 a.m. The meeting will be a question-and-answer format with a panel of BLM specialists. Each person will be given up to two minutes to ask a question or provide a comment, which will be recorded by a note taker.

 

            Comments to the plan will be accepted through May 30. Comments may be submitted in writing to: Mark Lambert, IFNM Planner, BLM, 12661 East Broadway, Tucson AZ 85748 or may be submitted via e-mail at AZ_IFNM_RMP@blm.gov.

 

            “There has been so much interest in the draft plan that another meeting in a different format will provide an opportunity for clarification on issues that were not addressed during the open house meetings,” said Scott Berkenfield, manager for the monument.