Salem Record of Decision and Resource Management Plan

Salem Record of Decision

Salem District Resource Management Plan Table of Contents:

- Tables

- Maps

- Appendices

Planning Process

The BLM's planning process involves the following nine steps:

1. Identify issues, concerns, and opportunities.
   
2. Develop planning criteria.
   
3. Collect inventory data and information.
   
4. Analyze the management situation.
   
5. Formulate alternatives.
   
6. Estimate effects of alternatives.
   
7. Select the preferred alternative (and publish the draft resource management plan/environmental impact statement).
   
8. Select the resource management plan. Publish the proposed resource management plan/final environmental impact statement. Respond to any protest for the proposed resource management plan/final environmental impact statement.
   
9. Implement, monitor, and evaluate the resource management plan.

Publication of this document constitutes completion of step 8. Public involvement has occurred at several steps in the process.

The planning process is designed to help the BLM identify the uses of BLM-administered lands desired by the public. It also assists the BLM in considering these uses to the extent consistent with the laws established by Congress and the policies of the executive branch of the federal government regarding management of these lands.

Where the BLM manages only the subsurface mineral estate, the resource management plan addresses only the management of BLM-administered minerals.