The Division of Refuge Planning works with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staffs, partners, and the public to prepare land protection plans in the Mountain–Prairie Region. The Service uses land protection planning to study opportunities to conserve land through purchase, conservation easement, or long-term lease. We do land protection planning for individual land tracts as well as lands across a landscape.
Read more about land protection planning.
We are working on land protection plans for the projects listed here. On each plan page, you will find a description of the project, the plan status, and how to get involved. |
Proposed Niobrara Confluence Conservation Area Proposed Ponca Bluffs Conservation Area Proposed San Luis Valley Conservation Area |
Most land protection plans lead to a subsequent action that, when completed, results in a final project such as new tract of land added to a refuge. While we have completed many land protection plans for the Mountain–Prairie Region, the plans listed here are only those documents related to lands in the Refuge System where we still have other major planning efforts to complete, for example, a comprehensive conservation plan for a newly established refuge. The plan page for each project has a summary of the plan, the full plan, and other planning information. Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) Chandler Ranch land donation Baca NWR conceptual management plan Baca NWR land exchange Bear River Watershed Conservation Area Blackfoot Valley Conservation Area expansion Centennial Valley Conservation Area Charles M. Russell NWR refuge expansion environmental assessment 2004 Dakota Grassland Conservation Area |
Dakota Tallgrass Prairie Wildlife Management Area grassland easement program Flint Hills Legacy Conservation Area Karl E. Mundt NWR Jonas Tract expansion environmental assessment Marais des Cygnes NWR expansion North Dakota Wildlife Management Area grassland easement program Rainwater Basin Wetland Management
District expansion Rocky Mountain Front Conservation Area Rocky Mountain Front Conservation
Area expansion Sangre de Cristo Conservation Area Swan Valley Conservation Area Waubay NWR Complex land exchange |