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

Lands and Realty

The 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 continues to rise each year in UFO due to the increase of growth and development on private land, and the urban interface of the private land with the public land due to 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. 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. UFO also works with multiple towns, cities and counties and has leased and in some cases patented 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. Lands Questions ( Land Sales, Homesteading, etc.)