Tag Archives: resource management plan
BLM, San Juan National Forest release long-awaited resource management plan
On Sept. 20, the San Juan National Forest and BLM Tres Rios Field Office released the long-awaited joint Land and Resource Management Plan and the accompanying final environmental impact statement to address long-term management of 2.4 million acres of national-forest … Continue reading
Forest Service rejects Boggy-Glade appeals (Web only)
The Forest Service has rejected all appeals of the Boggy-Glade Travel Management Plan and expects to implement its provisions this spring. According to a press release from the Durango Interagency Dispatch Center, 25 appeals of the plan were initially sent to the … Continue reading
Forest Service, commissioners fail to reach agreement on travel (web only)
By Jim Mimiaga The formal appeal by the Montezuma County commissioners to halt the proposed Boggy-Glade Travel Management Plan will go forward after last-ditch negotiations with the U.S. Forest Service failed on Feb. 7. During a two-hour meeting at the … Continue reading
The Boggy-Glade travel plan draws 25 appeals
By Gail Binkly and David Grant Long The Montezuma County commissioners offered a ringing defense of motorized recreation in their appeal of the Forest Service’s latest travel-management plan for the Boggy-Glade area north of Dolores. The 17-page appeal letter echoes … Continue reading
Hostile crowd greets forest officials
A hostile crowd heckled two Forest Service officials over road closures and federal-lands policies, and Montezuma County Sheriff Dennis Spruell promised to cut a lock off a gate if necessary, during a meeting with one Montezuma County commissioner the night … Continue reading