Jonah Interagency Office-Pinedale Anticline Project Office
| Contacts: | Lorraine Keith 307-352-0399 |
The JIO and PAPO to hold Agency Managers Committee and
Mitigation Management Board meetings on April 21, 2010
The Jonah Interagency Office (JIO) and Pinedale Anticline Project Office (PAPO) will hold their Agency Managers Committee and Mitigation Management Board meetings on April 21, 2010. The meetings will run from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.at the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Pinedale Field Office at 1625 West Pine Street in Pinedale, Wyo.
Both meetings are open to the public and include a review of new and ongoing mitigation projects as well as other business. The mitigation projects are designed to offset the impacts resulting from intensive oil and gas development on BLM-administered public lands in the Green River valley. The mitigation projects include, but are not limited to, conservation easements, on-the-ground conservation practices, wildlife-friendly fence modification projects, livestock mitigation projects and wildlife escape-ramp installations.
For additional information regarding the meetings, the JIO or the PAPO, please visit http://www.wy.blm.gov/jio-papo/, or contact JIO-PAPO Project Coordinator Jim Lucas at 307-367-5361.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most of any Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, recreational and other activities on BLM-managed land contributed more than $130 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 600,000 American jobs. The Bureau is also one of a handful of agencies that collects more revenue than it spends. In FY 2012, nearly $5.7 billion will be generated on lands managed by the BLM, which operates on a $1.1 billion budget. The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands.
Jonah Interagency Office-Pinedale Anticline Project Office 1625 West Pine Street Pinedale, WY 82941