U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORBUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT Colorado

2004 Press Releases

Gunnison Field Manager Barry Tollefson to retire Jan. 3, 2005 (12/29/04) Safety concerns lead BLM to close areas to target shooting (12/22/04) BLM Little Snake Field Office to draft Resource Management Plan with local input (12/21/04) Burn sites benefiting from aerial seeding (12/14/04) Public meetings scheduled for Roan Plateau plan (12/8/04) BLM and Forest Service fuelwood permits available (12/8/04) Ground breaking scheduled for Grand Junction interagency air center (12/7/04) BLM approves Figure 4 Geographic Area Plan (12/7/04) BLM Uncompahgre NEPA documents available online (12/3/04) Open house set to review interim travel management designation for Hardscrabble area (12/3/04) Transfer Trail road closing for the season (12/1/04) BLM Grand Junction field office to acknowledge volunteers (11/30/04) Improvements made to popular trailhead (11/30/04) BLM and Forest Service Christmas tree permits available (11/30/04) BLM seasonal road closures in effect Dec. 1 (11/30/04) BLM to host open house at new Craig building (11/30/04) BLM Little Snake Field Office to draft Resource Management Plan with local input (11/23/04) BLM Solicits Public Input to Establish an Oil Shale Leasing Program (11/23/04) BLM releases Roan Plateau DRAFT Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (11/19/04) Recognition Dinner Held for Anasazi Heritage Center Volunteers (11/19/04) BLM White River Christmas tree permits available beginning Nov. 22 (11/19/04) BLM Kremmling Christmas tree permits available beginning Nov. 22 (11/19/04) BLM Christmas tree permits available beginning Nov. 22 (11/19/04) BLM accepting comments on application for Special Recreation Permit (11/17/04) BLM Sage-Grouse Interim Strategy Establishes Comprehensive Approach to Managing Sagebrush Habitat (11/16/04) Q & A Fact Sheet BLM Interim National Sage-Grouse Conservation Strategy (11/16/04) CO BLM November oil and gas lease sale nets more than $3.6 million (11/9/04) November 2004 O&G Lease Sale Fact Sheet (11/9/04) PRODUCING ENERGY AND PROTECTING WILDLIFE FOR AMERICA (11/9/04) The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet Nov. 10 (11/4/04) BLM SELLING CHRISTMAS TREES (11/2/04) Release Date Not Set For Roan Plateau Draft RMP/EIS (11/2/04) BLM announces plan for grazing permit renewals and land health assessments (10/29/04) Vandals strike popular BLM site (10/29/04) Light Painting Exhibit at Anasazi Heritage Center (10/29/04) Reasonable Foreseeable Development (RFD) Calculations for the Roan Plateau (10/27/04) Q & A FACT SHEET Roan Plateau Planning Area Reasonable Foreseeable Development (RFD) (10/27/04) BLM Director joins in celebrating community-based plan (10/27/04) BLM Director honors Uncompahgre Plateau Project (10/26/04) Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board Meeting Scheduled (10/19/04) All of us lose through senseless vandalism (10/15/04) BLM and States Develop Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategies (10/5/04) BLM Strategy to Manage Horses Upheld in Federal Court (9/23/04) LOU ANN JACOBSON, MANAGER OF BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT’S CANYONS OF THE ANCIENTS NATIONAL MONUMENT AND ANASAZI HERITAGE CENTER, IS RECIPIENT OF 2004 TAKE PRIDE IN AMERICA® FEDERAL LAND MANAGER AWARD (9/17/04) BLM BEGINS ARKANSAS RIVER TRAVEL MANAGEMENT PLAN (9/13/04) Draft Environmental Impact Statement Focuses on Wind Energy Development on BLM–Administered Public Lands (9/10/04) Holy Cross Trail to be dedicated on National Public Lands Day— volunteer and be a part of history (9/8/04) Fire ban lifted on BLM lands (9/7/04) The BLM Emphasizes OHV Safety Over Three-Day Weekend (9/3/04) Secretary Norton Announces New Appointments to BLM Resource Advisory Councils (9/3/04) Prescribed fire scheduled for Deer Pen area (9/2/04) Wild horse gather scheduled for Little Book Cliffs (9/2/04) Fire restrictions continue for BLM lands (9/1/04) BLM seeks members for Colorado Canyons NCA Advisory Council (8/31/04) New appointments announced to BLM Northwest and Southwest Resource Advisory Councils (8/31/04) BLM to Give Away Mustang at State Fair (8/31/04) Abandoned mine closures on BLM lands (8/30/04) Assistant Secretary of the Interior Rebecca Watson to Address the World Renewable Energy Congress, Aug. 31 (8/30/04) Cow Creek road to reopen (8/24/04) LOCAL VOLUNTEERS TO PITCH IN ON NATIONAL PUBLIC LANDS DAY - 600 COAST-TO-COAST SITES TARGETED FOR HELPING HANDS ON SEPT. 18 (8/23/04) CO BLM August oil and gas lease sale nets over $6.7 million (8/12/04) August 12, 2004 O&G Lease Sale Fact Sheet (8/11/04) North Fruita Desert Plan released (8/10/04) BLM AND WOLF SPRINGS RANCHES COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGE (8/6/04) Northwest Resource Advisory Council to meet Aug. 12 in Kremmling (8/5/04) BLM employee dies after ATV accident (8/3/04) Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board Meeting Scheduled (7/23/04) Secretary Norton Signs Agreement with Jefferson County to Explore Development of Biomass Utilization Facility (7/22/04) South Shale Ridge oil and gas leasing EA released (7/22/04) Saddle Mountain Fire may smoke for some time (7/22/04) ecretary Norton to Sign Agreement that Focuses Biomass Facility for Jefferson County (7/21/04) Joining forces in war against weeds (7/20/04) BLM Web Site Provides Access to Historical Images (7/15/04) Southwest Resource Advisory Council to meet July 23 in Lake City (7/15/04) Fuel reduction project set for Mud Springs (7/14/04) Cow Creek Road closed for bridge construction (7/13/04) BLM accepting applications for commercial Special Recreation Permits (7/13/04) Saddle Mountain Fire slowed by firefighters (7/13/04) Oil Springs "fire use fire" burns 650 acres near Douglas Pass (7/13/04) Land deal will preserve crucial open space (7/7/04) UTE LEADERS AND LEGACY ON EXHIBIT AT ANASAZI HERITAGE CENTER (7/7/04) Partnership Enhances Sage-Grouse Habitat in Northwestern Colorado (7/6/04) McGruder Fire near Cedaredge burns 3,100 acres (7/6/04) Media Advisory: Recreational shooting ranges take shape (7/1/04) BLM to assess new Bridgeport Bridge at Dominguez Canyon (7/1/04) BLM Revises Mining Claim Location and Annual Maintenance Fees (6/30/04) BLM to enforce regulations for Mack Ridge area during Lower Valley Fire District fireworks display (6/30/04) BLM accepting applications for commercial Special Recreation Permits (6/29/04) Lookout Mountain fuel reduction project to protect communication sites near Glenwood Springs (6/28/04) BLM initiates Environmental Assessment for EnCana’s Grass Mesa Geographic Area Proposal (6/28/04) Public Meetings Set for Northern San Juan Basin Coalbed Methane Proposal (6/21/04) Bull Hill fire burns 60 acres near Gateway (6/17/04) Colorado Receives $17,600,933 from Interior Under Federal Payment in Lieu of Taxes Program (6/17/04) BLM BEGINS FIRE RESTRICTIONS ON PUBLIC LANDS IN EASTERN COLORADO (6/16/04) Seismic testing proposed in Montrose County’s west end (6/16/04) BLM to Present Draft Proposal for the Wolford Mountain Travel Plan (6/14/04) Northern San Juan Basin Coalbed Methane Draft EIS Released for Public Review (6/9/04) QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Northern San Juan Basin EIS (6/9/04) BLM Anasazi Heritage Center Announces 2004 Summer Museum Programs (6/7/04) BLM trail projects to celebrate National Trails Day June 5 (6/3/04) BLM’s Little Snake Field Office to move June 4-11 (6/3/04) BLM plan for Hardscrabble Open Area Trail System in the works (6/1/04) BLM Uncompahgre OHV crew gears up for busy season (6/1/04) Four Corners United States Attorneys offer amnesty for return of illegally possessed Indian Artifacts (5/20/04) Bangs Canyon recreation meeting set for May 25 (5/18/04) MOU expected to Wild Horse and Burro Adoptions (5/17/04) CO BLM May oil and gas lease sale nets over $6.6 million (5/13/04) BLM Fact Sheet May 13, 2004 O&G Lease Sale Fact Sheet #2 (5/13/04) BLM Anasazi Heritage Center to open new exhibit (5/13/04) Anasazi Heritage Center Seeks to Recruit New Volunteers (5/12/04) BLM to gather feral llamas from Escalante Canyon (4/7/04) BLM open house for new field manager Barb Sharrow (5/4/04) Bureau of Land Management - Colorado Current Issues - May 2004 Colorado BLM announces new wild horse and burro adoption incentives (4/19/04) BLM Northwest Colorado Resource Advisory Council to meet in Browns Park May 6 (4/17/04) BLM’s May 13, 2004 Oil &Gas lease auction Fact Sheet #1 (4/9/04) BLM Director signs mineral patent for Mt. Emmons Mining Company (4/6/04) PRESCRIBED BURN SCHEDULED FOR UPPER BROWNS DRAW (3/26/04) Sage Grouse "Listening Session" March 26 at BLM State Office (3/22/04) Federal agencies prepare for Roaring Fork and Cache Creek (3/18/04) Prescribed Fires Scheduled for Book Cliffs and Collbran Areas (3/18/04) Accelerated burning programs planned for public lands this spring (3/18/04) EnCana pipeline proposal environmental assessment available for review (3/5/04) BLM Sponsors Wolford Mountain Travel Management Workshop (3/5/04) BLM Seeks Resource Advisory Council Members (3/5/04) ANASAZI HERITAGE CENTER BEGINS SUMMER HOURS (3/1/04) Mud season gums up travel on public lands (2/24/04) BLM accepting comments on 21 Special Recreation Permits (2/19/04) Southwest RAC to meet Feb. 20 in Silverton (2/17/04) BLM’s new Little Snake Field Office to open in summer of 2004 (2/17/04) BLM begins planning effort in South Park (2/13/04) “Sparky” Taber named Colorado Weed Manager of the Year (2/12/04) BLM Northwest Colorado RAC to meet in Glenwood Springs Feb. 12 (2/2/04) New fire management officer for the Upper Colorado (1/5/04)