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BLM to Hold Joint Resource Advisory Council Meeting March 6-8 in Montrose
DENVER -- The Bureau of Land Management Colorado’s Northwest, Southwest and Front Range Resource Advisory Councils have scheduled a joint meeting for March 6-8 at the Holiday Inn Express, 1391 South Townsend Avenue, Montrose, Colo.
The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. on March 6 and will conclude at noon on March. 8. A public comment period is scheduled for March 6 at 3:50 p.m. In addition, the Northwest, Southwest and Front Range RACs will each hold separate meetings from 3:30 p.m. March 7 – noon March 8, at the Holiday Inn Express. All of the meetings are open to the public.
Topics of discussion during the meetings will include recreation, land use planning, air quality, fracking, BLM’s national Sage Grouse planning strategy, National Landscape Conservation System strategy, vegetation management, camping rules and other issues.
The RACs advise BLM on a variety of public land issues in Colorado.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most of any Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, recreational and other activities on BLM-managed land contributed more than $130 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 600,000 American jobs. The Bureau is also one of a handful of agencies that collects more revenue than it spends. In FY 2012, nearly $5.7 billion will be generated on lands managed by the BLM, which operates on a $1.1 billion budget. The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands.
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