November 15, 2023 |
Photo – High Desert District, Rock Springs BLM Field Office – Bigfoot99 file photo
The full schedule for this week’s public meetings in Rock Springs and Green River on the Bureau of Land Management’s Rock Springs Draft Management Plan has been announced.
Governor Mark Gordon and the University of Wyoming’s Ruckelshaus Institute yesterday released the detailed schedule for two days of informational meetings.
The draft RMP has created alarm because the agency’s preferred alternative would curtail much human activity—recreational, ranching and mining—in an area that is currently multiple use.
The Friday, November 17 meeting in Rock Springs will begin at 2 p.m. with a focus on livestock and industry. From 5-to-7 p.m., the focus topics will include recreation and tourism, as well as wildlife and conservation. The discussions will take place in Western Wyoming Community College, Room 3650.
Similar meetings will be held on Saturday with a morning session in Green River beginning at 9 a.m. at the Western Wyoming Community College.
An afternoon session is scheduled in Farson at the Eden Valley Community Center from 2-to-4 p.m.
The public workshops will inform a governor-appointed stakeholder task force, which will develop recommendations to be delivered to the Governor and BLM in January. They will also provide Wyoming citizens who want to protest the BLM’s preferred alternatives with educational tools to navigate the government’s RMP process.
Governor Mark Gordon told Bigfoot 99 that Washington was surprised by the response in Wyoming to the plan to limit public access on public lands.
Joe Biden’s Washington bureaucrats messed with the wrong county. In response to the outcry, the BLM extended the Rock Springs RMP comment deadline to January 17, 2024. The weekend’s meetings will provide the the public and the governor’s office with critical information to push back against the Biden Administration’s plan to block public lands from public use.
