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.