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• May 10, 2012 Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale

  • GIS Shapefiles
  • Google Earth Map of Sale Parcels
  • Preliminary Little Snake Environmental Assessment

• BLM Begins Greater Sage-Grouse Planning Effort with Public Open House Meetings

The Bureau of Land Management's Northwest Colorado District will begin a district-wide greater sage-grouse planning effort with four open house meetings to hear from the public.

The BLM is writing an Environmental Impact Statement to analyze incorporating new sage-grouse conservation measures into its Resource Management Plans for the five field offices within the District:  the Colorado River Valley Field Office in Silt, the Grand Junction Field Office, the Kremmling Field Office, the Little Snake Field Office in Craig and the White River Field Office in Meeker.

More than 1.8 million acres of Colorado's greater sage-grouse habitat are on BLM lands in the Northwest District.  That's almost half of the entire greater sage-grouse habitat in Colorado.  View the entire news release .

• BLM Issues Final Decision for the Little Snake Management Plan

The Bureau of Land Management today released the Record of Decision for the Little Snake Resource Management Plan in northwestern Colorado.

The Record of Decision is the final step of an extensive, multi-year effort to develop a Resource Management Plan for approximately 1.3 million acres of BLM-administered public lands and an additional 1.1 million acres of subsurface mineral estate administered by the Little Snake Field Office in Moffat, Routt, and Rio Blanco counties.

• View the entire news release
• View the Little Snake Resource Management Plan web page
• View/download the Record of Decision 

• BLM Plan Proposes Balanced Management, Responsible Oil and Gas Leasing in NW Colorado, and Protection of Vermillion Basin

The Bureau of Land Management announced today that its upcoming Proposed Resource Management Plan for the Little Snake Field Office in northwestern Colorado would continue to allow oil and gas development on most of the lands and minerals managed by the Field Office, but would protect the 77,000-acre Vermillion Basin from energy development.

• View the entire news release
• View a map of the Vermillion Basin 
• View additional information on the Vermillion Basin 

• Emerald Mountain Trail Work Progresses

Trail work is quickly moving forward on Emerald Mountain.  The Steamboat Springs Rotary Club recently donated $7,500 for construction of the Rotary Trail in the Emerald Mountain SRMA, which they generated through the Tango and Cash event held April 3, 2010.  The Rotary Club is expected to begin work late July with completion of the approximately 5 mile trail by October.  The BLM received funding through a Youth Initiative Program to hire the Steamboat Springs Youth Corp to spend two weeks helping the Rotary Club in trail construction.  The Rotary Club has also recently applied for grants to assist the BLM in trailhead facility development.

In addition to the Rotary Trail, construction is expected to begin on the Beall Trail at Emerald Mountain sometime in August 2010.  this trail is being funded through a $35,000 grant received by the Routt County Riders from the Great Outdoors Colorado Program.  the Routt County Riders is a non-profit organization promoting bicycling in the area.  The Rocky Mountain Youth Corp will spend two weeks working with the Routt County Riders and BLM to construct the approximately 7-mile Beall Trail.  Trail completion is also expected by October.

With the completion of the IP Amendment, the BLM and its Partners can successfully manage Emerald Mountain for recreation, wildlife, and agricultural needs.

• View the Implementation Plan Amendment
• View the Brochure & Trail Map
• View the Emerald Mountain Exchange/Planning information

Bureau of Land Management in Northwest Colorado...

The Little Snake Field Office encompasses 4.2 million acres of federal, state and private lands in Moffat, Routt, and Rio Blanco counties.  Of the total area, 1.3 million acres are public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and 1.1 million acres of the private and state lands are underlain by federally owned minerals.  Resource activities include:  wildlife, cultural resources, grazing, energy & minerals, rights-of-ways, paleontological resources and recreation.  For more information, click here or on "Programs" from the menu above.

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Wendy Reynolds, Field Manager