assessment (EA) to analyze potential impacts associated with a Normal
Year Fire Stabilization and Rehabilitation Plan (NFRP) to guide
post-wildland fire management actions on public lands throughout the
Moab, Monticello, and Price Field Offices. During a normal fire year
the Moab Fire District averages one hundred wildfires resulting in
10,000 to 16,000 acres each year of disturbed and potentially damaged
land.
A programmatic NFRP would streamline Emergency
Stabilization and Rehabilitation (ES&R) procedures and enable
timely on-the-ground treatments. Although the final decision
regarding implementation of ES&R actions rests with the Field
Office Manager, an NFRP can save time and decrease costs by reducing
the repetitive preparation of stabilization and rehabilitation plans
for individual fires. Also, potential impacts from recommended ES&R
measures are assessed during the development of the NFRP, which saves
valuable time in implementing management actions to protect the health
and safety of the public while preventing resource degradation and
restoring ecosystem health.
The BLM collaborated with interested parties as well
as Federal, State and County agencies in putting together the proposed
action for this valuable plan. The interested public is
encouraged to comment on the final NFRP through December 22, 2005, and
a copy of the EA will be available in the Moab, Monticello, and Price
Field Offices.
Those who wish to withhold their name or street
address from public review or from disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act must state this prominently at the beginning of your
written comment. Such requests will be honored to the extent allowed by
law. All submissions from organizations or businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, will be made available for public
inspection in their entirety.
Questions or comments regarding the NFRP can be
emailed kate_juenger@blm.gov, or mailed to the attention of Kate
Juenger at the above address. For more information contact Brian
Keating, ES&R Coordinator, at 435-259-2194 or Kate Juenger,
Planning Coordinator, at 435-259-2195.