BLM White River Field Office travel route 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 Acting White River Field Manager Lauren Brown. “We are not making any decisions on any routes at this time, just verifying and correcting information. Are the maps depicting routes accurately? Are there roads or trails missing from the maps?”
The field office is undertaking a comprehensive, multi-year look at the roads and trails that it manages. The first step is to confirm the inventory of the roads and trails – collectively called routes – is accurate.
During the summer of 2016, the field office completed the last 200,000 acres of route inventories across the 1.5 million acres it manages. The 2016 inventory area is in the northwestern section of the field office, roughly between U.S. 40 and the southern boundary of Dinosaur National Monument. The BLM held similar public reviews in 2014 and 2015 for the other areas in the field office.
To review the 2016 route inventory, visit https://on.doi.gov/2q731mn. Hard copies of the 2016 Travel Route Inventory are also available for review in Meeker at the BLM White River Field Office, in Rangely at the Town Hall and the Chamber of Commerce, and in Dinosaur at the Town Hall.
The BLM is hosting a public open house meeting May 23 to give people an opportunity to review the maps, ask questions and provide written comments from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Dinosaur at the Artesia Fire Station at 300 Stegosaurus.
Comments may 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 and will be most helpful if received by July 31, 2017. 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.