Colorado's Columbine Field Office/Ranger District Begin Planning Route Management

March 30, 2009 - BLM intends to amend the San Juan/San Miguel Resource Management Plan (RMP) to limit OHV use to designated roads and motorized trails on lands within the Beaver Meadows-Sauls Creek Travel Management Landscape.  The Landscape project analysis area encompasses approximately 797 acres of BLM lands and approximately 54,397 acres of Forest Service lands on the Columbine Field Office/Ranger District in the vicinity of Bayfield, Colorado.  The agencies will conduct a joint Environmental Assessment (EA) that will also determine designated motorized routes within the landscape in addition to the San Juan/San Miguel RMP amendment.  Once the plan is finalized, all OHV use off designated routes will be prohibited.

A 30-day public comment period will be announced with the release of a Pre-Decisional EA, which will address specific route designations.  The notice will be advertised in the local media and on the San Juan Public Lands Center website shown below by the end of this spring, so check back periodically.

Additional information found online:
San Juan Public Lands Center website
Original Federal Register notice

For further information, please contact Nancy Berry, Recreation Forester, at nberry@fs.fed.us or at 970–375–3304.