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Roads around CR 200 newly designated as open to all traffic
A map featuring newly designated roads as open to all traffic near Garfield County Road 200.
The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Grand Junction Field Office has signed a decision declaring roughly 14 miles of unpaved road in the vicinity of Garfield County Road 200 as open to all modes of travel. The roads, which had previously been considered open to administrative use only, pass through private property and allow access to more than 50,000 acres of BLM land that had previously been difficult to reach. Four-wheel drive is recommended while using these primitive roads to access public lands. No trailers should be taken past the flag poles, as there are no spots to turn them
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Garfield County supports greater efficiency in BLM planning process
GARFIELD COUNTY, CO – Garfield County has joined a group of local governments supporting potential changes to increase the efficiency of Bureau of Land Management processes pertaining to land use. The county also called on the agency to comply with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), which requires greater coordination with state and local governments. In late March, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke directed the BLM to streamline both its land-use planning and National Environmental policy Act (NEPA) processes. He called those processes time-consuming, inefficient, and duplicative. In a letter to Cynthia Moses-Nedd, liaison to state and
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