BLM Advisory Council to meet via teleconference
Organization:
Media Contact:
LAKEVIEW, Ore. – The Bureau of Land Management today announced it will hold a teleconference meeting of the Southeast Oregon Resource Advisory Council. The public is welcome to listen in on the meeting, which will occur Friday, Nov. 16, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time.
Resource Advisory Councils provide advice and recommendations necessary for the BLM to consider resource and land management issues within the agency. BLM maintains 38 chartered advisory committees located in the West. Resource Advisory Committees are sounding boards for BLM initiatives, regulatory proposals and policy changes. Each citizen-based council consists of 10 to 15 members from diverse interests in local communities. They assist in the development of committee recommendations that address public land management issues. Resource councils are critical in assisting the BLM in continuing to be a good neighbor in the communities that the agency serves.
The meeting will consist of discussing potential management approaches for lands identified as possessing wilderness characteristics and potentially making recommendations for the development of draft alternatives for the Lakeview District’s Resource Management Plan Amendment.
“The Southeast Oregon Resource Advisory Council is made up of representatives of ranching, recreation, industry, local government and environmental groups, among others,” Lakeview District Manager Todd Forbes said. “They have reviewed the lands with wilderness character inventory carefully and will use that information to help us develop draft the alternatives to be considered. Those alternatives will then be published for public review and comment.”
The telephone conference line number for the meeting is 1-866-524-6456, Participant Code: 608605.
A half-hour comment period, during which the public may address the RAC, will begin at 11:30 a.m. Depending on the number of people wishing to comment and time available, the amount of time for individual oral comments may be limited.
For more information about the upcoming RAC meeting, please contact Larisa Bogardus at lbogardus@blm.gov or (541) 947-6811.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land located primarily in 12 western states, including Alaska, on behalf of the American people. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. Our mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of America’s public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.