Idaho BLM

Fire, Fuels and Related Vegetation Management Direction Plan Draft EIS

Coeur d'Alene RMP

Cottonwood RMP

BLM and States Develop Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategies

BLM Launches Two New Web-Based Tools for Accessing Land Use Records

Wildfire meetings in Owyhee County

Cottonwood RMP

Grangeville Economic Workshop

Silver City Fir Trees

Challis Field Office Completes Cleanup of Ima Millsite Foundation and Removal of Heavy Metal Contamination

Cleanup of the Ima Mine millsite foundation and removal of heavy metal contamination was recently completed by the BLM Challis Field Office.

The removal project went well, with 28 barrels of mixed heavy metal waste transported to a treatment storage disposal facility. The heavy metal waste, in the form of slag and ore, had remained for years next to a road used by campers, hunters and recreationists accessing a nearby Forest Service trailhead. Removal of the lead- and arsenic-bearing material was the initial step in restoration work proposed for the Ima Mine area.
    Features of the abandoned tungsten mine straddle Patterson Creek, a bull trout stream and tributary of the Pahsimeroi River in east-central Idaho. To improve the stream’s bull trout habitat, mine tailings stabilization along Patterson Creek is proposed, as well as stabilization of a degraded large culvert site.
    Closure of accessible mine adit portals is planned this fall in cooperation with the Sawtooth National Forest mine closure team. The remainder of the Ima Mine along Patterson Creek will be addressed in future stabilization efforts in the next 2 to 3 years.