April 1, 2013 – Now that we have successfully stopped the lease sale, the time has come to join together to make sure that the BLM puts strong, protective and updated management in place through the new Resource Management Plan.
This spring, the Bureau of Land Management will release a draft Resource Management Plan (RMP) that will include its proposed decision on where to allow oil and gas leasing and under what type of management. To prepare for the coming RMP, the Conservation Center has been working with a team of community members including, VOGA, the West Elk AVA, realtors, ranchers, and Citizens for a Healthy Community to develop the North Fork Alternative Plan.
The North Fork Alternative Plan plan sets out to adapt existing BLM management tools to the North Fork, and to craft a framework for oil and gas leasing and development that is highly protective of the North Fork’s important features and resources. The North Fork Alternative Plan is much more protective than what the BLM will likely recommend in the draft RMP’s ‘preferred’ alternative. Click here to learn more about the North Fork Alternative.
We need to show the BLM that there is wide-spread support in our community for the North Fork Alternative Plan.