BLM White River Field Office road and trail inventory available for public review
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MEEKER, Colo. – The Bureau of Land Management seeks the public’s help in reviewing its road and trail inventory for lands managed by the White River Field Office in northwestern Colorado.
“If you use the roads and trails within the White River Field Office, we would like to hear from you,” said White River Field Manager Kent Walter.
Over the next several years the field office will undertake a comprehensive travel management planning process looking at the roads and trails – collectively called routes – that it manages. The first step is to confirm the route inventory is accurate.
“We are not making any decisions on any routes at this time, just verifying and correcting information,” Walter said. “We are asking the public to look at the maps and let us know whether the maps depict the routes accurately, and whether there are roads or trails missing from the maps.”
The field office currently has comprehensive travel route data on 650,000 acres of the 1.5 million-acre field office, including more than 1,833 miles of routes. The BLM will inventory the remainder of the field office this summer.
To review the route inventory, visit the White River Field Office homepage, http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/wrfo.html, and click on the Travel and Transportation Management link. This page contains links to the 2014 Travel Route Inventory and information about how to download maps and submit comments. Comments may also be sent to blm_co_wrfo_tmp@blm.gov or by mail to BLM, White River Field Office, 220 East Market St., Meeker, CO 81641.
Comments on the 2014 inventory will be most helpful if received by May 31, 2015. For more information, contact Aaron Grimes, Outdoor Recreation Planner, (970) 878-3837.
Before including your address, phone number, e-mail 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 can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land located primarily in 12 western states, including Alaska, on behalf of the American people. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. Our mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of America’s public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.