Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve analysis of the management situation: draft management plan amendment [and] environmental impact statement

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The purpose of this Plan Amendment is to consider a range of reasonable alternatives for livestock grazing, including no grazing and reduced grazing alternatives. The BLM will analyze grazing management alternatives consistent with the goals for greater sage-grouse outlined in the BLM’s current policies for greater sage-grouse, the existing objectives for vegetation and wildlife resource management as identified in the desired future conditions in the 2007 Craters of the Moon Management Plan, Idaho Standards for Rangeland Health and Guidelines for Livestock Grazing Management, as well as other relevant agency policies and guidance. The need for this planning effort is to cure deficiencies identified by the District Court. The Court found that BLM failed to adequately address the current science and the agency's own policies designed to protect greater sage-grouse habitat, primarily with regard to managing livestock grazing in Craters of the Moon. The Court also found that BLM failed to consider a range of alternatives related to livestock grazing, including consideration of a no-grazing alternative or any alternative that reduced grazing.

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ELECTRONIC FILE - Zoology: Multiple Species, ELECTRONIC FILE - Ecology

SWAP (2/19/2016) citation [corrected]:
[BLM] Bureau of Land Management (US). 2014. Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve analysis of the management situation: draft management plan amendment [and] environmental impact statement. Shoshone (ID): US Bureau of Land Management. 104 p. [accessed 2015 Dec 03]. https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/projects/nepa/35968/48688/529....

Note: Date of publication came from BLM website, "release date."