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SHOSHONE, ID - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Shoshone Field Office will host an open house July 27 from 4:30-7:30 p.m. at the Community Campus (1050 Fox Acres Rd., Room 301 & 302) in Hailey to discuss the recently launched travel management planning (TMP) process for the Wood River Valley. 

In 2010, the Shoshone Field Office initiated the North Highway 20 Travel Management Plan. The effort was put on hold in 2012, but BLM is now reinitiating a TMP for public lands within the Wood River Valley.  The area covered by the plan has been limited from the initial North Highway 20 management plan to include public lands north of Highway 20, south of the Lake Creek Trailhead, west of Willow Creek and east of the Little Wood River and has been renamed the Wood River Valley TMP.

A TMP is a comprehensive approach to travel and transportation planning for serving a wide variety of uses (including uses for recreational, traditional, authorized, commercial, educational and other purposes), as well as various Federal, state, tribal and local government access needs. These plans consider all forms of motorized and non-motorized access or use, such as foot, pack stock or animal-assisted travel, mountain bike, off-highway vehicle and other forms of public transportation. This effort expands upon the Blaine County Commissioners Recreation and Travel Plan recommendations for the Wood River Valley and the initial efforts of the BLM North Highway 20 TMP.  The Wood River Valley TMP will address both summer and winter travel.

     The open house will provide a good opportunity for those who are interested in participating and learning more about the TMP process. If you are unable to attend the meeting and would like to review the plan and/or make comments, a scoping package and associated maps will be available on July 27 at the BLM ePlanning website at:   https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/nepa/nepa_register.do  On the ePlanning website,  select: NEPA, Text Search, Idaho, ID-Shoshone FO, EA, 2017, Recreation and Visitor Services and Trails and Travel Management. 

      Hard copies of the scoping package and maps will also be available on and after July 27 at:

Shoshone, Shoshone Field Office, 400 West F Street

Twin Falls, Twin Falls District Office, 2878 Addison Ave.

Comments are welcome throughout the planning process; however, it is most helpful if your comments are received by Sept. 29, 2017.  Substantive comments are used to help refine alternatives and ensure issues and concerns are addressed.  You may submit comments related to the TMP through any of the following methods:

·         BLM ePlanning website,

·         mail: 400 West F Street, Shoshone, ID 83352

·         e-mail: blm_id_wrvtmp@blm.gov

·         fax: 208-732-7317

      Before including your address, phone number, email address or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment, including your personal identifying information, may be made publicly available at any time.  While you may ask BLM to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.

Once the comment period is over, BLM will begin the National Environmental Policy Act process which consists of addressing public comments, determining key issues which will be used to develop a range of reasonable alternatives and analyzing the alternatives through an environmental assessment.  The analysis results will then be made available for public comment prior to issuing the final decision.  The entire process is anticipated to take 18 months.

If you have questions concerning this project, please call the Shoshone Field Office at 208-732-7200.