CCCD participates in Buffalo Field Office RMP Revision

The existing BFO RMP was approved in October 1985, and several updates have occurred since that time. Current RMP decisions are on the BFO web site:

http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/field_offices/Buffalo/bfoplan.html.

The revised BFO RMP will provide future direction for managing approximately 800,000 acres of BLM-administered surface land and 4.7-million acres of BLM–administered mineral estate in Campbell, Johnson, and Sheridan counties in north-central Wyoming.

Emerging issues and changing laws necessitate revision of the BFO RMP.  The major issues are 1) energy and mineral resource exploration and development; 2) access to and transportation on BLM lands; 3) recreation and off-highway vehicle management; 4) wildlife habitat management; 5) management and the cumulative effect of land uses and human activities on threatened, endangered, candidate, and sensitive species and their habitats; 6) vegetation, including impacts of invasive non-native species;

7) management of cultural and paleontological resources, including historic trails; 8) landownership adjustments; 9) fire management; 10) livestock grazing; 11) visual resource management; 12) Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC), Wilderness Study Areas (WSA), Wild and Scenic Rivers (W&SR), or other special management areas; and 13) air and water quality.