Cottonwood Resource Management Plan

Welcome to the Home Page for the Resource Management Plan for Idaho BLM Cottonwood Field Office.

When completed, the Cottonwood Resource Management Plan (RMP) will provide direction for management of approximately 131,000 acres of public lands and resources, administered by the Cottonwood Field Office, in Latah, Clearwater, Nez Perce, Lewis, Idaho, and Adams Counties in north-central Idaho. BLM is currently developing the Record of Decision (ROD) for the RMP. The ROD/RMP will be posted to this website as soon as it is available. 

The BLM received five letters of protest to the Cottonwood PRMP after it was published in August 2008. The protest issues were reviewed and analyzed and, as a result, the BLM Director upheld all decisions in the PRMP/FEIS except those relating to four grazing allotments that overlap or occur in the vicinity of bighorn sheep habitat. The Director recognized the validity of the protests related to these specific proposed decisions and directed the BLM Idaho State Office to conduct further analysis on this issue. The full report on protest analysis is available on the internet at http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/planning/protest_resolution/protestreports.html.

The ROD/RMP will include management decisions on all resources addressed in the PRMP, except those regarding grazing on the four allotments, which must continue to be managed in accordance with the 1982 North Idaho Range Program Summary Report (ROD) and the 1981 Northern Idaho Grazing EIS.

The BLM is initiating a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) to analyze the impacts of livestock grazing on the Partridge Creek, Marshall Mountain, Hard Creek and Big Creek grazing allotments. The BLM will publish a Draft Supplemental EIS for public review and comment followed by a Final SEIS that will address comments and incorporate changes as appropriate. A separate ROD for the SEIS will supersede the current land use plan guidance regarding grazing on these four specific allotments. 

  

Proposed RMP/Final EIS
Volume I - Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4
Full Volume I (3.4 mb)	Cover (1.5 mb)	Dear Reader Letter (184kb)
Abstract (186 kb)	Table of Contents & Acronym List (68 kb)	Executive Summary (254 kb)
Chapter 1 - Introduction (607 kb)	Chapter 2 - Alternatives (762 kb)	Chapter 3 - Affected Environment (447 kb)
Chapter 4 - Environmental Consequences ( 1.4 mb)
Volume II - Chapters 4 (continued), 5 and 6 and Appendices A - K
Full Volume II (7.8 mb)	Cover (1.5 mb)	Table of Contents & Acronyms List (68 kb)
Chapter 5 - Consultation & Coordination (105 kb)	Chapter 6 - References (114 kb)	Glossary (115 kb)
Index ( 20 kb)	Appendix A - Idaho Standards for Rangeland Health & Guidelines for Livestock Grazing Management (1.7 mb)	Appendix B - Best Management Practices - Alt B, C & D (161 kb)
Appendix C - Conservation & Restoration Watersheds - Alts B, C & D (154 kb)	Appendix D - Desired Future Conditions for Forest Vegetation/Wildlife Habitat - Alts B & C (147 kb)	Appendix E - Best Management Practices for Weed Prevention - Alts B, C & D (115 kb)
Appendix F - Aquatic and Riparian management Strategy - Alts B, C & D (251 kb)	Appendix G - Special Status Species (153 kb)	Appendix H - Wildland Fire Management - Alts A, B, C & D (2.4 mb)
Appendix I - Grazing AUMs by Allotment - Alts A, B, C & D (132 kb)	Appendix J - Mineral Leasing Surface use Stipulations - Alts A, B, C & D (154 kb)	Appendix K - Draft Wild and Scenic Rivers Eligibility and Suitability Study (1.5 mb)
Volume III - Appendices L - W
Full Volume III (36 mb)	Cover (1.5 mb)	Table of Contents and Acronyms List (20 kb)
Appendix L - BLM Wind Energy Development Program Policies and Best Management Practices (BMPs) - Alternatives B, C, and D (265 kb)	Appendix M - Land Tenure Adjustments - Alternatives B, C, and D (116 kb)	Appendix N - Relevance and Importance Evaluations of Areas of Critical Environmental Concern Nominations (3.4 mb)
Appendix O - Watershed and Stream Water Quality Conditions (94 kb)	Appendix P - Current Grazing Allotments (153 kb)	Appendix Q - Reasonably Foreseeable Development Scenarios for Minerals (156 kb)
Appendix R - Notice of Intent (165 kb)	Appendix S - Species-specific Habitat Definitions (141 kb)	Appendix T - Cottonwood Field Office Habitat Management Plans (117 kb)
Appendix U - Comments Received on Cottonwood Draft RMP/EIS (31.7 mb)	Appendix V - Conservation Measures for Listed Species (671 kb)	Appendix W - Desired Conditions and Watershed and Aquatic Condition Indicators (179 kb )
Volume IV - Maps
Full Volume IV (30 mb)	Cover (600 kb)	Table of Contents and Acronyms List (50 kb)
	Map 1 - Planning Area Land Status (800 kb)	Map 2 - Prescription Watersheds-Alternative A (600 kb)
Map 3 - Conservation and Restoration Watersheds-Alternative B (600 kb)	Map 4 - Conservation and Restoration Watersheds-Alternative C (650 kb)	Map 5 - Conservation and Restoration Watersheds-Alternative D (600 kb)
Map 6 - Desired Future Condition Blocks-Alternative B (500 kb)	Map 7 - Desired Future Condition Blocks-Alternative C (500 kb)	Map 8 - Commercial Forest-Alternative B (800 kb)
Map 9 - Commercial Forest-Alternative C (800 kb)	Map 10 - Commercial Forest-Alternative D (800 kb)	Map 11 - Fire Management Units (700 kb)
Map 12 - Visual Resource Management-Alternatives A and B (600 kb)	Map 13 - Visual Resource Management-Alternative C (600 kb)	Map 14 - Visual Resource Management-Alternative D (600 kb)
Map 15 - Grazing Allotments-Alternative A (600 kb)	Map 16 - Grazing Allotments-Alternative B (600 kb)	Map 17 - Grazing Allotments-Alternative C (600 kb)
Map 18 - Grazing Allotments-Alternative D (600 kb)	Map 19 - Areas Closed to Leasing-Alternative A (600 kb)	Map 20 - Areas Closed to Leasing and Mineral Stipulations-Alternative B (600 kb)
Map 21 - Areas Closed to Leasing and Mineral Stipulations-Alternative C (600 kb)	Map 22 - Areas Closed to Leasing and Mineral Stipulations-Alternative D (600 kb)	Map 23 - Areas Closed to Salables (600 kb)
Map 24 - Areas Closed to Locatables (600 kb)	Map 25 - Recreation Opportunity Spectrum Classifications (600 kb)	Map 26 - Special Recreation Management Areas-Alternative A (600 kb)
Map 27 - Special Recreation Management Areas-Alternatives B, C, and D (600 kb)	Map 28 - OHV Area Designations and Designated Routes-Alternative A, Area 1 (900 kb)	Map 29 - OHV Area Designations and Designated Routes-Alternative A, Area 2 (600 kb)
Map 30 - OHV Area Designations and Designated Routes-Alternative A, Area 3 (500 kb)	Map 31 - OHV Area Designations and Designated Routes-Alternatives B and C, Area 1 (900 kb)	Map 32 - OHV Area Designations and Designated Routes-Alternatives B and C, Area 2 (600 kb)
Map 33 - OHV Area Designations and Designated Routes-Alternatives B and C, Area 3 (500 kb)	Map 34 - OHV Area Designations and Designated Routes-Alternative D, Area 1 (950 kb)	Map 35 - OHV Area Designations and Designated Routes-Alternative D, Area 2 (600 kb)
Map 36 - OHV Area Designations and Designated Routes-Alternative D, Area 3 (500 kb)	Map 37 - Management Blocks (Retention Areas)-Alternative A (600 kb)	Map 38 - Management Blocks (Retention Areas)-Alternatives B, C, and D (600 kb)
Map 39 - Existing ACECs and ACEC/RNAs-Alternative A (600 kb)	Map 40 - Proposed ACECs and ACEC/RNAs-Alternative B (600 kb)	Map 41 - Proposed ACECs and ACEC/RNAs-Alternative C (600 kb)
Map 42 - Proposed ACECs and ACEC/RNAs-Alternative D (600 kb)	Map 43 - US EPA Water Quality Limited Water Bodies (700 kb)	Map 44 - Mineral Potential (700 kb)
Map 45 - Developed Recreation Sites (400 kb)	Map 46 - Wilderness Areas and Wilderness Study Areas (400 kb)	Map 47 - Mine Sites (700 kb)
Map 48 - Motorized Vehicle Use Management-Alternatives B and D (600 kb)	Map 49 - Motorized Vehicle Use Management-Alternative C (600 kb)