The BLM Yuma Field Office announces publication of the Draft Resource Management Plan (DRMP) and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). The document will be available for a 90-day public review and comment period beginning December 15, 2006, and will concluding March 15, 2007.

The document is now available on the web (link above). A limited number of printed copies, CDs, or Route Inventory Maps are also available. You may request a personal copy by contacting RMP Team Lead Micki Bailey at BLM Yuma Field Office, 2555 East Gila Ridge Road, Yuma, AZ 85365, by calling BLM at 928-317-3200, or by e-mail at AZ_YM_RMP@blm.gov. Please specify preferred media type.

During the 90-day public comment period, we will be holding a number of meetings to introduce the document and to collect public comment. Important meeting dates will be posted on this website as soon as they are scheduled.

The Yuma Field Office encompasses 1.3 million acres along the lower Colorado River in southwest Arizona and southeast California. The planning area is located in Yuma, portions of La Paz, and portions of Maricopa Counties in Arizona; and portions of both Imperial and Riverside Counties in California.

The DRMP/DEIS presents a total of five alternatives which takes into consideration comments received by other governmental agencies, public organizations, state, tribal entities, and interested individuals. Public collaboration through the scoping process led to shaping of issues covering recreation, wildlife, minerals, cultural resources, grazing, land tenure, designation of areas of critical environmental concern (ACEC), access to public lands, and other topics. The DRMP/DEIS analyzes alternatives to resolve management issues, determines management objectives and actions, and establishes monitoring methods to facilitate multiple use and sustained yield management for the entire planning area.

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