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The Mountain-Prairie Region consists of 8 states in the heart of the American west including Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.
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Created in 1903 by President Theodore Roosevelt, today's National Wildlife Refuge System protects habitats and wildlife across the country, from the Alaskan tundra to subtropical wetlands. Managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Refuge System's 560-plus refuges cover more than 150 million acres and protect nearly 1,400 species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
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The Mountain-Prairie Region's Office of Ecological Services (ES) works to restore and protect healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants and the environments upon which they depend. Using the best available science, ES personnel work with Federal, State, Tribal, local, and non-profit stakeholders, as well as private land owners, to avoid, minimize, and mitigate threats to our Nation's natural resources.
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The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Fish and Aquatic Conservation Program in the Mountain-Prairie Region helps conserve, protect, and enhance aquatic resources and provides economically valuable recreational fishing to anglers across the country. The program comprises 12 National Fish Hatcheries.
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The National Environmental Policy Act Documents (NEPA)
South Dakota: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Seeks Public Comments on a Proposed Shooting Range in Watertown, South Dakota
Public Invited to Comment on the Proposal
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program (WSFR) is seeking public comment on a draft environmental assessment (Draft EA) regarding the State of South Dakota’s proposed construction of the “Watertown Shooting Range.” Funding for the projects by the WSFR Program constitutes a Federal action subject to the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA).
The Service received a grant application to fund the construction of a shooting range in Watertown, South Dakota located in Codington County. The shooting range is to be constructed by the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks (SDGFP) on land owned by the City of Watertown. Phase I of construction will consist of outdoor pistol, rifle, and trap shooting improvements, parking lot, sidewalks, outdoor vault toilet and other necessary appurtenances needed to complete the proposed project. Phase II construction is scheduled in 2018, and will consist of construction of an indoor shooting facility.
Press Release
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
Colorado West Slope Mule Deer Strategy Landscape Scale Habitat Improvements
Project 1 Environmental Assessment
Project 5 Environmental Assessment
Swan River Restoration - Summit County
Hillsdale Shooting Range
Final Environmental Assessment
DRAFT Environmental Assessment
Whitefront Wildlife Management Area Property Exchange Clay County, Nebraska
DRAFT Environmental Assessment (2.25 MB PDF)
Sylvatic Plague Management in Prairie Dogs and Black-footed Ferrets
Final Environmental Assessment (3.73 MB PDF)
Millville Face Parcel Disposal, Trade For Hardware Ranch Parcel
Draft Environmental Assessment (2.3 MB PDF)
Mined Lands Wildlife Area
Final Environmental Assessment (19 megabyte PDF)
Wick Wildlife Habitat Management Area
Draft Environmental Assessment
Red Creek Dam Reinforcement and Spillway Replacement Project
Draft Environmental Assessment (13MB PDF)
Press Release
Wildcat Hills Outdoor Heritage Center - Wildcat Hills State Recreation Area - Scotts Bluff County Nebraska
Final Environmental Assessment
El Dorado Shooting Range El Dorado State Park - El Dorado, Kansas
Draft Environmental Assessment
Press Release
Granada State Wildlife Area Disposal Involving Lands Owned by Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife and Colorado Department of Transportation
Draft Environmental Assessment
Disposal of the Castle Dale Upland Bird Management Unit in Emery County, Utah
Draft Environmental Assessment
Piceance SWA Property Exchange Involving Lands and Water Rights Owned by Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife and Exxon Mobil Corporation
Draft Environmental Assessment
Appendix C: Location Maps of the ExxonMobil Parcels
Appendix D: Photos of the ExxonMobil Parcels
Appendix L: Piceance Property Exchange Wildlife Resources
Appendix M: CNHP Potential Conservation Areas
Final Environmental Assessment for Native Fish Restoration and Enhanced Projects in Northern Utah
Final Environmental Assessment
Finding of No Significant Impact
Draft Environmental Assessment: Wall Lake Game Production Area Disposal: Hand County, South Dakota
Draft Environmental Assessment (6 MB PDF)
Draft Environmental Assessment: US-54 & Bryon Walker Wildlife Management Area Land Exchange: Kingman County, Kansas
Draft Environmental Assessment (15 MB PDF)
Press Release
Draft Environmental Assessment of the Montana Fish, wildlife and Parks Proposed Highway 83 Land Exchange
Draft Environmental Assessment
Ruby Gas Pipeline Easements: East Fork of the Little Bear River and Salt Creek Wildlife Management Areas
Rapid City Outdoor Campus West and Regional Headquarters Facility Construction
Draft Environmental Assessment (4.5 PDF)
Removal and Control of Nonnative Carp in Utah Lake to Support June Sucker Recovery
Finding of No Significant Impact
Final Environmental Assessment (4.5 MB PDF)
Pablo Wildlife Management Area Land Exchange
Draft Environmental Assessment (1 MB PDF file) - Land Exchange between Pablo Wildlife Management Area and Private Property adjacent to Ninepipe Wildlife Management Area
Parowan Front Land Exchange
Draft Environmental Assessment (2.5 MB PDF file) - Land Exchange between the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and the Utah School & Institutional Trust Lands Administration
Brigham Face Wildlife Management Area - Populus to Ben Lomond 345kV Transmission Project
Download the entire Draft Enviromental Assessment as one file or the individual chapters and appendices
Draft Environmental Assessment - March 23, 2009 (15 Megabyte PDF file)
Table of Contents (1 Megabyte PDF file)
Chapter 1: Purpose and Need (2.5 Megabyte PDF file)
Chapter 2: Project Alternatives (1 Megabyte PDF file)
Chapter 3: Affected Environment and Environmental Consequences (310 KB PDF file)
Chapters 4, 5 and 6: (256 KB PDF file)
Consultation and Coordination
List of Preparers and Reviewers
References
Appendix A: Public Communications (1 Megabyte PDF file)
Appendix B: Biological Assessment (3 Megabyte PDF file)
Appendix C: Cultural Resource Inventory (9 Megabyte PDF file)
Appendix D: Visual Simulation (1.5 Megabyte PDF file)
Todd Game Production Area Property Exchange - Bennett County, South Dakota
Draft Environmental Assessment (5 MB PDF file)
Grant Easement for Highway Bridge Replacement
Finding of Significant Impact - Matheson Wetlands Wildlife Management Area, Moab, Utah
Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Project W-149-L-2
Disposal of the Roosevelt Upland Bird Management Unit
Finding of No Significant Impact
Final Environmental Assessment (527 KB PDF)
Disposal of Property In the Blackfoot Clearwater Game Range Acquired in Part With Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Funds
Finding of No Significant Impact
Final Environmental Assessment
Mapleton Land Disposal Draft Environmental Assessment
Finding of No Significant Impact News Release
Final Environmental Assessment
Finding of No Significant Impact
Utah Cultural Resource Summary Report
Exhibits A and B (1.2 MB PDF)
Ivins City Detention Basin Construction Project
Finding of No Significant Impact
Final Environmental Assessment (1 MB PDF)
Appendix A - Drawings (8 MB PDF)
Appendix B (2.3 MB PDF)
Appendix C (2 MB PDF)
Appendix E - Engineering Estimates (540 KB PDF)
Appendix F (1 MB PDF file)
Figure 1 Project Vicinity ( 1 MB PDF)
Figure 3 Cumulative Effects Area (2 MB PDF)
Native Trout Restoration and Enhancement Projects in Southwest Utah
Press Release August 9, 2007: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Makes a Finding of No Significant Impact for Native Trout Restoration and Enhancement Projects in Southwest Utah
Final Environmental Assessment - (2 MB PDF file)
Finding of No Significant Impact
Comment Letters Received by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Better Fishing Through Management - How Rotenone Is Used to Help Manage Our fishery Resources More Effectively. (2 megabyte PDF file)
Piceance Property Exchange
Involving Lands and Water Rights Owned by Colorado Division of Wildlife and Shell Frontier Oil & Gas Inc.
Finding of No Significant Impact
News Release 5/30/2007
Final Environmental Assessment - 689Kb PDF
Appendix A - Map of Parcel Exchange 751KB PDF
Appendix B - Map of Shell Parcels 478 Kb PDF
Appendix C - List of Parcels by Tract Name 767 Kb PDF
Appendix D1 - Parcel List - Tract Name with Associated Water Rights 350 Kb PDF
Appendix D2 - Parcel List - Tract Name with Associated Wetland Description 198 Kb PDF
Appendix E - Memorandum of Agreement Between Colorado Division of Wildlife and Shell Frontier Oil & Gas Inc. 917 Kb PDF
Appendix F-I - Piceance Parcels Game Management Units
Letter of Concurrence, FWS Region 6 Archaeologist
Piceance Exchange Soil Types
Detailed Expanded Water Resouces Narrative 492 Kb PDF
Appendix J - Photos of the Piceance Parcels and the Shell Parcels 725 Kb PDF
Appendix K - Exchange Wildlife Species 585 Kb PDF
Appendix L - Map of Wildlife Use on the Piceance Parcels 727 Kb PDF
Six-Mile Unit of the Twelve Mile Big Game Deer Winter Range Southwest Manti Wildlife Management Area Land Disposal
Finding of No Significant Impact
Final Environmental Assessment: Six-Mile Unit of the Southwest Manti Wildlife Management Area Land Disposal (1 Meg PDF file)
Sanpete County County Sheriff's Complex Construction Project: Class I Environmental Assessment with Environmental Report (64 megabyte PDF file)
Intermediate Endangered Species Habitat Improvement by Vegetation Removal in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska Segments of the Missouri River
Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact (July 2005 1 MB PDF file)
Yankton Sioux Tribe Fish and Wildlife Commission Federal Assistance Project U-8-NA
Finding of No Significant Impact for the Riverine Endangered Species Habitat Development
Frank Shoemaker Marsh Property Disposal Environmental Assessment
Environmental Assessment (1.3 MB PDF)
Egge Diversion Diversion Dam Removal
Draft - Environmental Assessment (3.4 MB PDF)
Gilbert-Baker Wildlife Management Area Property
