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→ Idaho BLM Staff Meet with Shoshone-Bannock Tribes on Greenhouse Partnership: Staff from the State Office and Upper Snake Field Office met with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes on January 21, 2009 to discuss progress on the native plant partnership involving greenhouses and seedling production. Through this partnership, the Tribes have already provided 45,000 seedlings to the Idaho Falls District for restoration and rehabilitation projects, and they plan to provide the District another 50,000 seedlings this spring. BLM provided the funding, and the Tribes built the greenhouse and storage shed and purchased the related materials to produce the seedlings. The Idaho State Office has obtained additional national funding through BPS Native Plant funds for the Tribes to purchase another greenhouse and cover related costs. When completed, this will increase production capacity by an additional 60,000 seedlings for the fall, which will be available for upcoming Health Land Initiative and fuels projects. Last fall’s planting yielded a 45 percent success rate.

St. Anthony Sand Dunes Closure Extended
The BLM and Idaho Department of Fish & Game (IDFG) are working together to extend the Egin-Hamer closure until May 1 due to snow pack and lack of feed for wintering mule deer in the area. Winter conditions have resulted in deeper than average snow and have required the supplemental feeding of over 800 deer. Even with all this effort, some deer will die of malnutrition. However, delaying the opening of the remainder of the dunes until May 1 will allow deer the security they need until the snow disappears. IDFG and volunteers have been hauling specially designed feed pellets to about 800 of the over 2000 mule deer that have been wintering at the St. Anthony Sand Dunes. Watch television news coverage at: http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?s=8049417.

Upper Snake Field Office

10th Annual Interagency Egin-Hamer Area Closure begins Jan. 1
For the tenth consecutive year, the interagency IDFG/BLM Egin-Hamer Area Closure in southeastern Idaho will place nearly 500 square miles of land off-limits to human entry for the protection of wintering deer, elk and moose herds. The closure begins on January 1 and lasts through the end of March on lands south of the Egin-Hamer Road and until April 30 on lands north of it. The signs marking the area north of the Egin-Hamer road are fluorescent orange, while the signs for the earlier opening southern portion are lime green in color. Last year, a change was made to help ensure a fair opening for those interested in collecting antlers. The opening time was moved to sunrise on April 1 for the southern portion and sunrise on May 1 for the northern portion.

Idaho BLM Closes Lands near South Fork of the Snake River to Protect Wintering Mule Deer
The BLM Upper Snake Field Office is implementing a closure to human entry in the area of Stinking Springs and Wolf Flat December 1 through April 15. Fragile mule deer populations rely on these favored areas near the South Fork of the Snake River to make it through the winter. The closure is being implemented at the request of, and in partnership with, the IDFG Region 6 office in Idaho Falls. Public lands between the river road and the South Fork of the Snake River will remain open to anglers for fishing.