Medford District Resource Management Plan

Introduction

The Medford District's Resource Management Plan will guide the Bureau's (BLM) management of approximately 859,100 acres of public lands (public domain land and O&C land) for the next ten years or more, or until replaced by a revised plan. The resource management plan (RMP) is a modification, in response to public comment and protest, of the Proposed RMP presented in the October 1994 Medford District Proposed Resource Management Plan/Final Environmental Impact Statement (PRMP/FEIS). This RMP has been prepared in accordance with the BLM's planning regulations found in 43 CFR 1600. The FEIS has been prepared in accordance with the Council of Environmental Quality's (CEQ) regulations for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, found in 40 CFR 1500.

This document is organized differently and contains only parts of the PRMP/FEIS documents. It includes a description of the decisions made through the planning process plus appropriate materials relating to the implementation of those decisions. Therefore, this document does not include alternatives not selected as the approved resource management plan (alternatives NA-E), the Affected Environment (Chapter 3), Environmental Consequences (Chapter 4), and associated materials or appendices. This document contains three major sections, an introduction, the Resource Management Plan, and other management direction. The Resource Management Plan (RMP) is organized in much the same way as the Proposed RMP was presented in the PRMP/FEIS documents, i.e. Vision, Strategy, information or allocations from the Record of Decision on the Northwest Forest Plan, and decisions relating to specific resource programs.