Environmental Assessment Wild Horse Gathering for the Fifteenmile Wild Horse Herd Management Area

The purpose for management of wild, free roaming horses is to comply with law and policy pertaining to wild, free roaming horses on public lands. The policy of the BLM addresses a range of topics including establishment and maintenance of Appropriate Management Levels (AMLs) in Herd Managment Areas (HMAs) in a humane, safe, efficient, and environmentally sound manner

Dixie Resource Area Proposed Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement

This is the Proposed Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement (Proposed Plan) for the Dixie Resource Area. This document responds to public comments received on the Dixie Resource Area Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (Draft Plan). The Proposed Plan also corrects errors in the Draft Plan identified through the public comment process and internal BLM review. The Proposed Plan and associated analysis presents a refined and modified version of the Preferred Alternative and the accompanying impact analysis contained in the Draft Plan. This document is published in condensed form and should be used in conjunction with the Draft Plan, which was published in October 1995, to facilitate review

Beaver Dam Wash Instream Flow Assessment

This report documents findings from an instream flow assessment conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Beaver Dam Wash in Mohave County, Arizona. The assessment, which focused on resources located at the mouth of Beaver Dam Wash from 1991 through 1994, provides a scientific basis for relating flowdependent resources to streamflow levels. Natural resource values, methods of data collection and analysis, and flow requirements are presented in this report

Open Stream Collection and Diversion: An Added Dimension in Providing Water for Grazing Animals

This technical note describes an effective system for collecting water from open streams and conveying it several miles via pipeline systems to watering troughs in arid locations. Perhaps one of the greatest challenges in managing lands that produce forage for grazing animals is to strike a desirable balance between forage and water. However, on native grazing lands, this is rarely the case due to terrain and uneven distribution of water. The open stream collection and diversion system addresses this issue with a specific engineering solution

White River Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan

This document records the decisions reached by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for managing 1,455,900 of BLM surface estate and 365,000 acres of split mineral estate within the White River Resource Area

Ruby Canyon/Black Ridge Integrated Resource Management Plan

The purpose of this plan is to maintain ecosystem health, facilitate multiple use management, while meeting human needs in providing a diversity of benefit opportunites. The need for the plan is to promote biodiversity and sustainable ecosystems while meeting human needs for a variety of uses such as high quality recreation activities and grazing

Treaties, Spirituality, and Ecosystems, American Indian Interests in the Northern Intermontane Region of Western North America

As a contribution to the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project, this report provides an introduction to current American Indian interests in the northern intermontane region of western North America and assesses the prospects of tribes pursuing those interests into the 21st century. A primary goal of the Federal interagency project is to develop scientifically sound and ecosystem-based management strategies for forest and range lands under stewardship of the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in the greater Pacific Northwest (Fig. 1). As an integral part of the project, a scientific assessment is designed to characterize and assess socio-economic and biophysical conditions throughout the interior Columbia River basin and certain adjoining regions, and to identify emerging issues that relate to ecosystem management. This report, more particularly, contributes to the assessment phase of the project. Given the remarkably broad nature of tribal interests in the region, this report addresses a comisserately wide range of topics. For this reason, the term \u27cultural resources\u27 as commonly used by agencies over the past two decades has been broadened in meaning. \u27Cultural resources\u27 in the context of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project refers to native species (plants and animals), inanimate materials, landforms, archaeological sites, ancestral grounds and other components of the physical environment associated with American Indian traditional use of the region

Decision Record and Finding of No Significant Impact for the Pioneer Pipe Line Expansion Project, Sinclair, Wyoming, to Croydon, Utah

This Decision Record and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the proposed Pioneer Pipe Line Expansion Project from Sinclair, Wyoming to Croydon, Utah, is furnished for your information. The decision on this project was based upon the analysis in the Environmental Assessment (EA), public concerns and comments, and other multiple-use resource objectives or programs that apply to the project

Statistical Considerations in Rangeland Monitoring

This Technical Reference deals with the statistical aspects of rangeland monitoring and is intended to help the BLM range conservationist in planning, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating monitoring studies. It is not a statistics cookbook and assumes a level of knowledge of statistical analysis comparable to what most college graduates are exposed to during their undergraduate training. The material covered in this Technical Reference is divided into five sections. Chapter 1 highlights the statistical topics required to analyze monitoring data and gives appropriate references. Chapter 2 addresses the underlying statistical issues of rangeland monitoring. Chapters 3 and 4 deal with the specific methods used for trend and utilization studies. Chapter 5 shows examples of data analysis