BLM RMP
PHAS
Monthly Meeting
Thursday, August
22nd, 2013 eve,
Topic: SD
BLM's Draft Resource
Management Plan Revision,
Rapid City School Administration Building
300
6th Street, Rapid City
Community
room, (use SE entrance)
Thursday August 22nd, Prairie Hills
Audubon Society’s (PHAS’s) meeting on SD Bureau of Land Management's Draft
Management, Plan Revision, will be held at the Rapid City School Administration
Building, Community room, (use SE entrance)
Meet and greet with snacks - 6:15 pm and 6:30
pm presentation starts -- Speakers are Mitch Iverson (Planner/Environmental
Coordinator) and Rebecca Smith (Wildlife
Biologist), both are staff of BLM.
Learn about Bureau of Land
Management’s revision of their Resource Management Plan. BLM in SD manages
274,239 acres of surface and 1.7 million acres of mineral estate. Counties of
concern for BLM surface lands are Harding, Butte, Perkins, Meade, Lawrence,
Pennington, Stanley, Fall River and Custer Counties. This planning effort will make decisions
about management of wildlife species (including sage grouse), wild lands,
Native American cultural resources (BLM owns land near Bear Butte), recreation, wind power, oil and gas
development, livestock grazing and other resources.
The draft document can be viewed on
the internet at:
http://blm.gov/m1kd
-
it describes different alternatives for managing public lands by the South
Dakota Field Office. Alternative C is the most protective of biodiversity
values. BLM and Forest Service entities
across the west are doing planning to figure out ways to protect the greater
sage grouse; all agencies hoping to prevent it’s listing as threatened or
endangered (it is currently a candidate species).
This RMP joins other BLM RMPs that
have been released this year: all addressing sage grouse & other issues.
Another RMP (Buffalo Field Office) is currently up for review:
http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/info/news_room/2013/august/09bfo-rmp.html
http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/programs/Planning/rmps/buffalo.html
Email: BRMP_Rev_WYMail@blm.gov;
The
public comment period for SD BLM RMP ends Sept 11th and for Buffalo Wyoming BLM
RMP on Sept 26th.
The public may submit written
comments related to the South Dakota DRMP/EIS by any of the following methods:
Email: <mailto: BLM_MT_South_Dakota_RMP@blm.gov
Fax: (605) 892-7015, Mail or hand-delivery: "South Dakota RMP
Comments," 315 Roundup Street, Belle Fourche, SD 57717
For more information on SD BLM,
contact Planning Specialist Mitch Iverson at (605) 892-7000. For the latest BLM news and updates, visit
BLM on the web at: http://www.blm.gov/mt
and on Facebook at: <http://www.facebook.com/BLMMontana>
http://www.blm.gov/mt/st/en/fo/south_dakota_field/rmp.html
