Resource Management Plan ce Management Plan 

Management of Newly Acquired Lands
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Lands may come under BLM administration aĞer this RMP is approved. This could 

occur through exchange, donation, purchase, revocation of withdrawals to other Federal 

agencies, or relinquishment of Recreation and Public Purposes Act leases. Discretionary 

acquisitions (such as exchanges) will be guided by approved RMP “lands acquisition 

criteria” based on resource values of high public interest. Newly acquired lands will be 

managed for the highest potential purpose for which they were acquired. For example, 

lands acquired within special management areas with specific Congressional mandates 

(i.e., wild and scenic rivers) will be managed in conformance with established guidelines 

for those areas. If lands with unique or fragile resource values are acquired, those values 

will be protected and managed on an interim basis until the next plan amendment or 

revision was completed. as completed. 

Lands acquired without identified special values or management goals will be managed 

in the same manner as comparable BLM lands. This implies typical livestock grazing, 

recreation management or timber harvest opportunities, and related management 

practices, management of the mineral estate, standard operating procedures and precommiĴed mitigation measures. Exchanges of lands resulting in net adjustments in the 

livestock grazing program will be reported to the public in periodic Rangeland Program 

Summary Updates or RMP evaluation or progress reports. aluation or progress reports. 

Operations and Maintenance Actions Operations and Maintenance Actions 

Maintenance of existing and newly constructed facilities or projects will occur over time; 

however, the level of maintenance could vary from year to year based on annual funding. 

Normally routine operation and maintenance actions area categorically excluded from 

NEPA analysis. Such activities could include, but are not limited to, routine maintenance 

of existing roads, ditches, culverts, water control structures, recreation facilities, 

pipelines, waterholes, fences, caĴleguards, seedings, fish and wildlife structures, signs, 

and other similar facilities and projects. These types of actions are considered to be 

part of the implementation of this plan and should not require any further analysis to 

implement on the ground. Maintenance of existing facilities in WSAs will be considered 

on a case-by-case basis and may require additional NEPA analysis. analysis. 

Plan Implementation 

Introduction Introduction 

The Resource Management Plan provides a long-term vision for how BLM administered 

lands in the plan area will function on the local, regional, and national landscape into 

the future. It establishes land allocations and allowable uses to meet specific goals and 

objectives for management of natural resources and land uses. es for management of natural resources and land uses. 

The RMP will be implemented over a roughly 10-20 year timeframe, as funding allows. 

Some of the land use plan decisions are effective upon approval of this document. 

However, many decisions will take a number of years to implement on the ground. 

Implementation monitoring will track progress of RMP decisions. Effectiveness 

monitoring will evaluate whether decisions or actions are achieving management goals. 

Adaptive management, as described below, will be used to make changes to those 

decisions which are not achieving management goals. decisions which are not achieving management goals. 

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