Governor's Task Force on the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan Final Report

Temple Stoellinger, Steve Smutko, Melanie Armstrong, Birch Malotky, Weston Eaton, Kate Blythe Gamble, Selena Gerace, et al.

Item

Governor's Task Force on the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan Final Report

Temple Stoellinger, Steve Smutko, Melanie Armstrong, Birch Malotky, Weston Eaton, Kate Blythe Gamble, Selena Gerace, et al.

Abstract

In 2023, the Bureau of Land Management released its Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP) and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Rock Springs Field Office in Southwest Wyoming. In response, Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon assembled a task force representing diverse Wyoming interests and charged the task force with developing consensus recommendations for revising the Draft RMP to meet the needs of Wyoming stakeholders. Those consensus recommendations, which include 24 agreements in principle and more than 100 management prescriptions, were submitted to governor and to the BLM as a comment on the Draft RMP.