The Resource Management Plan

The purpose of this section is to describe the Klamath Falls Resource Area Resource Management Plan. The Resource Management Plan was developed partially in response to public comments related to the Bureau of Land Management's August 1992 draft Resource Management Plans for western Oregon. In addition the plan incorporates the land use allocations and management direction from the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Record of Decision. Finally, the plan was slightly modified in response to public comments and protest on the September 1994 proposed resource management plans for western Oregon. The following modifications were made in the Klamath Falls Resource Area Resource Management Plan:

The approved Resource Management Plan (RMP) incorporates the following nonsubstantive changes from the Proposed RMP:

Language revisions intended to clarify some management direction.
Language revisions intended to tighten the link between the approved RMP and the 1994 Record of Decision for Amendments to Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management Planning Documents Within the Range of the northern spotted owl and Standards and Guidelines for Management of Habitat for Late-Successional and Old-Growth Forest Related Species Within the Range of the northern spotted owl.
Revisions that incorporate guidelines issued by the Regional Ecosystem Office since the issuance of the 1994 Record of Decision named above. Such guidelines may clarify or interpret the 1994 Record of Decision.

A map showing the land allocations of the Resource Management Plan are contained in Map 3.

In the Klamath Falls Resource Area, all references to Late-Successional/District Designated Reserves are for reserves that were unmapped in the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement.

Also, the Matrix in the Klamath Falls Resource Area is designed to provide connectivity and biological diversity across the landscape rather than in connectivity/ diversity blocks.

Much of the BLM-administered land in the Klamath Falls Resource Area was not covered by the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement because it is outside the range of the northern spotted owl. However, an effort similar to the western Oregon Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement process is currently in progress for eastern Oregon (called the Eastside Ecosystem Management Project). An environmental impact statement is being developed, but a draft environmental impact statement has not been released yet. In the Klamath Falls Resource Area, any requirements, goals, and objectives devised as a result of the Eastside Ecosystem Management Project's future environmental impact statement record of decision will be incorporated into the resource area's management programs as appropriate.