Maintain existing management policies, designations, and allocations except where changes are necessary to comply with the Proclamation and protect the objects of scientific and historic interest within the monument.

Provide the public with prompt and accessible information on questions regarding the use of federal lands within the monument. Coordinate with the State, Tribes, and other governmental entities (under existing agreements and any new arrangements deemed necessary) to disseminate and exchange information and cooperate in management actions, consistent with applicable legal authorities and other directives.

Assure the applications, proposals, and future use requests pending when the Proclamation was issued are subject to the terms of the Proclamation, including its recognition of valid existing rights, and other management directives and decisions relate to the monument.

Consider land or easement acquisitions and land exchanges that will enhance the values of the monument. All existing planning documents related to the monument lands should be reviewed for consistency with the Proclamation. Consistent with NEPA and FLPMA, the plans should be modified or a new plan created for the monument that addresses all resource issues in the Proclamation.

Discussion of Specific Activities

In general, actions that are not precluded by the Proclamation and which do not conflict with the established purposes of the monument may continue. Allowed activities can be restricted only where (1) the BLM, through processes required by existing law, identifies places where such uses ought to be restricted or prohibited as necessary to protect the federal lands and resources, including the objects protected by the monument designation; or (2) where the BLM finds a clear threat from such a use to the federal lands and resources, including the objects protected by the monument designation and the circumstances call for swift protective action.

• Livestock Grazing: Livestock grazing within the monument will continue to be permitted, pursuant to the terms of existing permits and leases. Appropriate grazing management practices should be followed to protect rangeland resources and to ensure compliance with BLM Colorado's Standards for Public Land Health and Guidelines for Livestock Grazing. Enforcement actions against trespassers or other violators continue to be authorized.
• Animal Damage Control: Modify existing agreements with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection service (APHIS) animal damage control, specifically targeting individual predators rather than predator populations.
• Camping: Dispersed recreational camping may continue consistent with current policies and practices and the Proclamation. Developed BLM camping facilities, if any, should be maintained and rehabilitated as appropriate, consistent with monument purposes.
• Facilities: Maintenance of existing facilities should be permitted, subject to compliance with current policies and practices, provided monument resources are protected. Applications for new facilities may be considered, if they will protect or enhance monument resources.
• Hunting and Fishing: Coordinate with the State to ensure public safety, specifically if there are areas of increased visitor use.
• Mineral Activities (including hardrock, oil, gas, and coal): With the exception of oil and gas leasing, the Proclamation reserved and appropriated all federal lands and interests in lands within the monument and withdrew them from all forms of entry, location, selection, sale, leasing, or other disposition under the public land laws, including the mineral leasing and mining laws. Thus, with the exception of oil and gas leases, no new federal mineral leases will be issued within the monument, and authorization for activities on existing mineral leases will be governed by valid existing rights. As to hardrock minerals, no new mining claims can be located, and no new prospecting or exploration activities can be undertaken to identify locatable minerals or to establish the discovery of valuable mineral deposits. Plans of operation for mining operations are not to be approved unless the Department has finally determined the validity of the mining claims and mill sites covered by the plan.
• Noxious Weeds/Exotic Species: Existing noxious weed control activities should continue. Exotic species should not be introduced, unless doing so is essential to control noxious weeds or other undesirable species.
• Off-Road Vehicles: For the purpose of protecting the objects identified in the Proclamation, no areas in the monument will be authorized for cross-country, off-road vehicular use, except for authorized administrative and emergency purposes. Motorized and mechanical vehicular use will be allowed only on designated roads or routes. Existing limitations and closures will be retained, Management discretion should be exercised where necessary, through emergency closures or other actions, to protect monument resources.
• Paleontological Resources and Rock Collection: The collection of specimens will not be permitted, except where intended for legitimate scientific uses for which documentation is provided to the satisfaction of the responsible management official.
• Rights-of-Way: No new rights-of-way or ancillary public facilities should be processed, except for rights-of-way pursuant to existing policies and practices and necessary for access to private or state inholdings.
• Roads: In general, improvements should be minimal and designed solely to correct those conditions that are unsafe or hazardous. Activities that maintain, as opposed to enhance, existing roads may be permissible.
• Scientific, Archaeological, and Historical Investigations: These investigations are important to increase our understanding of the monument's resources.
• Signs and Interpretation: Provide appropriate signs at monument boundaries and post other relevant information as needed. Initiate actions to interpret monument resources and values and provide environmental education to visitors on important topics (i.e., visitor safety and resource protection).
• Surface Disturbance and Reclamation Activities under Current Permits: These activities should proceed consistent with current permits. Permit extensions may be considered subject to consistency with applicable policies and procedures, only if consistent with monument purposes.
• Vegetation Manipulation: Chaining and other methods that cause substantial surface disturbance shall not be permitted.
• Wilderness Study Areas: Where applicable, maintain the non-impairment standard for wilderness study areas, per FLPMA, to prevent undue and unnecessary degradation of resources.
• Activities on Non-monument Lands: Activities on non-monument lands that are causing, or expect to cause water quality deterioration, soil degradation, or other damage to monument lands - whether directly or indirectly - must be reported to the responsible management official.