BLM Seeks Comment on Management Plan for Piute-Eldorado Valley
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Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Las Vegas Field Office is seeking comments to begin the process of developing an Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) management plan for the Piute-Eldorado Valley ACEC. Comments are due by May 31 and would be most helpful if they focused on providing information about how people are currently using the area as well as resource issue concerns.
Open house meetings will be held to request comments:
April 4 - Boulder City Library; 701 Adams Blvd. 6-8 p.m.
April 5 - Searchlight Community Center.; 200 Michael Wendell Way. 6-8 p.m.
April 11 - Clark County Library (Las Vegas); 1401 E. Flamingo Road. 5:30-7:30 p.m.
April 12 - Laughlin Town Hall; 101 Civic Way. 6-8 p.m.
Written comments may be submitted to srowe@blm.gov; faxed to 702-515-5023 or mailed to Bureau of Land Management, Attn: ACEC Plan, 4701 N. Torrey Pines Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89130
In 1998, the BLM designated portions of the Piute and Eldorado valleys in southern Nevada as an ACEC to protect and preserve critical habitat for the desert tortoise. This ACEC is located between Boulder City and California and surrounds the communities of Searchlight and Cal-Nev-Ari.
The BLM is beginning the process to develop an ACEC management plan to guide and prioritize management actions in the Piute-Eldorado Valley ACEC and an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the plan.
If you have any questions, please call Susanne Rowe, Project Manager at 702-515-5071.
Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment – including your personal identifying information – may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
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.