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Comprehensive Conservation Planning

The staff at Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge is embarking on an important multi-year process to develop a comprehensive conservation plan (CCP) and environmental impact statement (EIS) for the refuge including UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge. A CCP (as it is commonly referred to) provides long-range guidance and management direction for the refuge’s programs. Your ideas and comments are an important part of the process, and we invite you to participate. Throughout the process, we will provide information on this website about upcoming public meetings or workshops and we’ll post project documents as they become available. Additionally, you can request to be placed on the project mailing list or submit comments by following the links.

Click on the link to the planning involvement summary to learn more about the CCP process and how you can be involved.

August, 2008

Keeping on track with the schedule shown to the right, the Refuge staff have begun the process of developing and analyzing alternatives for the CCP. The CCP alternatives are different sets of objectives and strategies or means of achieving Refuge purposes and goals, helping to fulfill the Refuge System mission, and resolving issues. We would like to invite the public to join us at our meetings in September. Please click on the links below to view the meeting schedule and the August 2008 Planning Update which provides details about the alternatives. Comments will be accepted on the draft alternatives through October 31, 2008.

              

                         

• Meeting Schedule
  • The next round of public meetings will be after the release of the Draft CCP. The website will be updated with dates, times, and locations at that time.
• Press Releases
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service To Hold Rescheduled Public Open House In Bozeman, Montana For Comprehensive Conservation Plan For Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Hold a Public Open House For Comprehensive Conservation Plan For Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge


• Planning Documents
• Summary of Comments on Draft Alternatives. *NEW* A report of the comments that were received during the fall 2008 draft alternatives meetings held in 7 of the surrounding communities.
• Memorandum of Understanding agreement between the cooperating agencies assisting in the development of the CCP and EIS.
• Federal Register Notice: Request for Comments on the intent to prepare a comprehensive conservation plan and an environmental impact statement * comment period extended until February 29, 2008 *
• Scoping Report - April 2008
• Draft Vision and Goals - January 2008




• Planning Updates

• January 2009 *NEW*
• August 2008 (2.7 megabyte PDF file)                     
• May 2008 (2.3 megabyte PDF file)
• January 2008 (3 megabyte PDF file)

• Mailing List

• Send your comments to cmrplanning@fws.gov

Comments will be accepted in writing at:  Laurie Shannon, Planning Team Leader, Division of Refuge Planning, P.O. 25486, Denver, CO  80225-0486

Barron Crawford
Project Leader,
Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge