For Immediate Release: October 7, 2004 CA-N-05-4
Contact: Jeff Fontana (530) 252-5332

BLM RESOURCE ADVISORY COUNCIL WILL MEET IN UKIAH

Members of the U. S. Bureau of Land Management's Northwest California Resource Advisory Council will focus on fire management, land use planning and public land recreation topics, when they convene for a field tour and meeting Thursday and Friday, Nov. 4 and 5, in Ukiah.

The session gets underway Nov. 4 at 10 a.m. at the BLM Ukiah Field Office, 2550 N. State St. Council members will hear a series of reports about ongoing fire research and fire safe council activities, and then depart for an afternoon tour of the University of California's Hopland Research and Extension Center.

On Nov. 5, the meeting begins at 8 a.m. at the BLM field office. Agenda topics include a report on BLM recreation management in California, transportation system funding, and development of a new Resource Management Plan for public lands managed by the Ukiah Field Office. Council members will also hear a summary presentation, and provide comments, on the Draft Resource Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement for the BLM's California Coastal National Monument.

The field tour and meeting are open to the public. Time for public comments has been set aside for 1 p.m. on Friday. Members of the public participating in the field tour must provide their own transportation and lunch.

The 12 members of the citizen council represent a wide range of public land interests including recreation, timber, environmental groups, local government, transportation and rights of way and the public at large.

Working with BLM managers in Arcata, Redding and Ukiah, and the BLM California state director, they advise the U. S. Secretary of the Interior on public land and natural resource management issues in northwest California.

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