The Uncompahgre Field Office (UFO) manages approximately 2,500 rights-of-way for land uses such as roads, power lines, natural gas pipelines, water lines, telephone lines, communication sites, and ditches and canals on public land. Requests for rights-of-way continue to rise each year in the UFO due to increased growth and development on private land, and the urban interface of private land with public land resulting from the land ownership pattern in the Uncompahgre and surrounding valleys.

Energy rights-of-way are on the rise including large electric and natural gas transmission lines across the UFO and adjacent BLM field offices. The UFO is involved with land tenure adjustments such as land exchanges, land acquisitions and easement acquisitions in order to acquire key parcels and access to public land and resources. Land sales have not been a priority in recent years.

The UFO also works with multiple towns, cities and counties in leasing and in some cases patenting lands for such uses as sanitary landfills, county maintenance shops, a golf course, a fire station and public parks under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act. Trespass is an ever increasing problem and includes unauthorized uses such as occupancy and agricultural development and dumping on public land.

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 Barbara Sharrow, Field Manager

2465 S. Townsend Ave, Montrose, CO  81401
Phone: (970) 240-5300  |  TDD (970) 240-5366  |  FAX (970) 240-5367
Office hours are 8:00 am to 4:30 pm

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