Otero Mesa
The BLM has issued a proposed Resource Management Plan Amendment and Supplement to its Final Environmental Impact Statement for fluid mineral leasing in Otero and Sierra counties.
• Proposed RMPA/FEIS Website |
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 Management Plan Adopted for El Camino Real National Historic Trail
The National Park Service and BLM have adopted a comprehensive management plan for El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail, the “royal road to the lands of the interior,” traveled in 1598 by New Mexico’s first Hispanic colonists.
The management plan calls for an ambitious program of resource protection and visitor opportunities, including an auto tour route, a certification program to bring privately-owned sites into the trail program, and coordinated interpretation and educational projects.
• News Release
• Plan Website
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Visit www.ElCaminoReal.org |
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 Fire and Fuels Management Plan Amendment Decision Record Signed
State Director Linda Rundell has signed the Decision Record for the Fire and Fuels Management Plan Amendment and Environmental Assessment (EA). The Plan Amendment adjusts nine Resource Management Plans in eight Field Offices in New Mexico and Texas.
• Fire and Fuels Management Plan Website |
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 Draft Environmental Impact Statement Focuses
on Wind Energy Development on BLM-Administered Public Lands
WASHINGTON—Rebecca Watson, assistant secretary of the Interior
for Land and Minerals Management announced the availability of
a Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on Wind Energy
Development on BLM-Administered Lands in the Western United States. The
public comment period ends December 10, 2004 .
• News
Release PDF | HTML
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Wind Energy Development Programmatic EIS Information Center |
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Special
Status Species Amendment for Carlsbad and Roswell Field Offices
 The
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will soon initiate an amendment
to the Roswell and Carlsbad Resource Management Plans. The
amendment is designed to address land-use decisions affecting
special status species, primarily the habitats of lesser prairie
chickens and sand dune lizards.
• Special Status Species Amendment Website |
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Alamogordo Regional Water Supply Project
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Las Cruces
Field Office and the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) are preparing
an environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed Alamogordo
Regional Water Supply Project.
• Project Website (BLM) |
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 BLM
Hosts 150th Anniversary of Territorial Fort
This year, 2004, marks the 150th anniversary
of the founding of Fort Craig. The BLM, with its many partners, will
help commemorate this occasion with a multi-day event. Commissioned
in 1854, Fort Craig was one of the largest frontier forts in the
West.
• Fort Craig National Historic Site
• 150th Anniversary Celebration
• News
Release/Schedule of Events
• Black
Mesa Tour Information and Registration Form |
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 2004
Wild Horse and Burro Expo
Back
By Popular Demand The New Mexico Region will once
again host its annual Wild Horse & Burro Expo in Ardmore,
Oklahoma, October 7-10, 2004
• More
Information on the 2004 Expo
• BLM New Mexico Region Wild Horse
and Burro Website |
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