BLM Grand Junction land-use planning meetings to be held this week

Posted by egable on December 1st, 2008 filed in Energy development, Public lands

The Bureau of Land Management’s Grand Junction field office will host three public meetings this week as it begins revising its resource management plan, a land-use plan that will guide the management of 1.2 million acres of public lands, primarily in Mesa and western Garfield counties, for the next two decades.

The meetings will be held Dec. 2-4 in Grand Junction, Moab and Collbran.

They come as part of the “scoping” period for the resource management plan, giving the public the opportunity to identify issues to be addressed in the plan revision before BLM begins drafting it. The scoping period ends Jan. 9, 2009.

A draft of the revised resource management plan is expected to be released for a 90-day public comment period in early 2010.