Idaho Planning and NEPA

In Idaho, the BLM has 21 land use plans in effect. The BLM develops comprehensive land use plans to guide management decisions and actions on public lands. These plans address the full range of activities that occur on public lands, including off-highway vehicle use, wildland fire management, wildlife management, timber harvesting, mineral development, and livestock grazing. These plans also direct management of public lands that require special protection, such as areas of critical environmental concern, and potential additions to the National Wild and Scenic River System. Most of the land use plans for Idaho were amended by the Greater Sage-Grouse Plan Amendment, which is currently under revision.

View our plans in effect or undergoing revision in the accordion below.  Find all BLM Idaho NEPA and planning documents in our ePlanning National NEPA Register.

Plans and NEPA in Development

Read about featured plans and NEPA documents currently being developed, revised or amended, and get involved in the planning process.

• Four Rivers Resource Management Plan
• Greater Sage-Grouse Amendments

Plans in Effect

The Bureau of Land Management uses the following plans to guide management of public lands across Idaho:

Boise District:

• Bruneau Management Framework Plan
• Cascade Resource Management Plan
• Kuna Management Framework Plan
• Owyhee Resource Management Plan
• Jarbidge Resource Management Plan (1987)
• Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey Resource Management Plan

Coeur d’Alene District:

• Coeur d’Alene Resource Management Plan
• Cottonwood Resource Management Plan

Idaho Falls District:

• Challis Resource Management Plan
• Lemhi Resource Management Plan
• Big Desert Management Framework Plan
• Big Lost Management Framework Plan
• Little Lost-Birch Creek Management Framework Plan
• Medicine Lodge Resource Management Plan
• Pocatello Resource Management Plan

Twin Falls District:

• Land Tenure Amendment to Shoshone Field Office Land Use Plans
• Cassia Resource Management Plan
• Twin Falls Management Framework Plan
• Monument Resource Management Plan
• Bennett-Timmerman Hills Management Framework Plan
• Magic Management Framework Plan
• Sun Valley Resource Management Plan
• Craters of the Moon Resource Management Plan
• Jarbidge Resource Management Plan (2015)

Regional:

• Greater Sage-Grouse Plan Amendments

Featured Plans and NEPA

Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Final Management Plan and EA

Requests for Motorized/Mechanized Use Related to Livestock Grazing:

• Pole Creek Wilderness request of motorized use (Sierra Del Rio)
• Pole Creek Wilderness request of motorized use  (Nahas FFR)
• Big Springs Allotment: Owyhee River and Pole Creek Wilderness (2021)
• Big Springs Allotment: Owyhee River Wilderness
• Battle Creek and Owens Allotments: Little Jacks Creek Wilderness
• Big Springs Allotment 
• Big Springs Allotment #2 
• Big Springs Allotment #3 
• Battle Creek Allotment: Little Jacks Creek Wilderness
• Nickel Creek Allotment: North Fork Owyhee Wilderness
• Big Springs Allotment: Owyhee River and Pole Creek Wilderness
• Bruneau Jarbidge Wilderness request of motorized use
• Little Jacks Creek Wilderness request of motorized use