Motorized Travel Limited to Existing Roads and Trails in Little Snake
With hunting season upon us, the Bureau of Land Management's Little Snake Field Office is reminding the public that motorized-use within the majority of its boundaries in Moffat, Routt and northern Rio Blanco counties is now limited to existing roads and trails unless otherwise posted.
Some areas within the field office are closed to all motorized travel, including all Wilderness Study Areas; the Serviceberry, Fly Creek, and Emerald Mountain Special Recreation Management Areas; the Maybell Uranium Pit; and the Irish Canyon Area of Critical Environmental Concern.
To continue to provide the opportunity for off-road recreation, the field office specifically manages nearly 20,000 acres in the South Sand Wash Basin as an area open to off-road motorized use.
Reclamation Plan Template
This is a draft template for the voluntary use by industry. Send any comments to:
Dave Rosenkrance, Assistant District Manager
Northwest Colorado District
2815 H Road
Grand Junction, CO 81506
(970) 244-3000
BLM Begins Greater Sage-Grouse Planning Effort with Public Open House Meetings
The Bureau of Land Management's Northwest Colorado District will begin a district-wide greater sage-grouse planning effort with four open house meetings to hear from the public.
The BLM is writing an Environmental Impact Statement to analyze incorporating new sage-grouse conservation measures into its Resource Management Plans for the five field offices within the District: the Colorado River Valley Field Office in Silt, the Grand Junction Field Office, the Kremmling Field Office, the Little Snake Field Office in Craig and the White River Field Office in Meeker.
More than 1.8 million acres of Colorado's greater sage-grouse habitat are on BLM lands in the Northwest District. That's almost half of the entire greater sage-grouse habitat in Colorado. View the entire news release .
BLM Issues Final Decision for the Little Snake Management Plan
The Bureau of Land Management today released the Record of Decision for the Little Snake Resource Management Plan in northwestern Colorado.
The Record of Decision is the final step of an extensive, multi-year effort to develop a Resource Management Plan for approximately 1.3 million acres of BLM-administered public lands and an additional 1.1 million acres of subsurface mineral estate administered by the Little Snake Field Office in Moffat, Routt, and Rio Blanco counties.
BLM Plan Proposes Balanced Management, Responsible Oil and Gas Leasing in NW Colorado, and Protection of Vermillion Basin
The Bureau of Land Management announced today that its upcoming Proposed Resource Management Plan for the Little Snake Field Office in northwestern Colorado would continue to allow oil and gas development on most of the lands and minerals managed by the Field Office, but would protect the 77,000-acre Vermillion Basin from energy development.
Bureau of Land Management in Northwest Colorado...
The Little Snake Field Office encompasses 4.2 million acres of federal, state and private lands in Moffat, Routt, and Rio Blanco counties. Of the total area, 1.3 million acres are public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and 1.1 million acres of the private and state lands are underlain by federally owned minerals. Resource activities include: wildlife, cultural resources, grazing, energy & minerals, rights-of-ways, paleontological resources and recreation. For more information, click here or on "Programs" from the menu above.
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Wendy Reynolds, Field Manager
Phone: 970-826-5000 | Fax: 970-826-5002 | Office Hours: 7:45 am – 4:30 pm M-F