BLM invites you to participate in planning workshops

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) invites you to participate in workshops to discuss preliminary management alternatives for the Sonoran Desert National Monument and Phoenix South planning areas. These alternatives will consider proposed activities and uses, desired resource conditions, and management practices. These alternatives build on our previous workshops, including goals (January 2004) and parameters for management alternatives (April 2004). We considered your input and used it to develop preliminary management alternatives. Alternatives provide a range of options to consider and analyze and form the basis for the Resource Management Plans.

Public involvement and input are important to ensure that BLM is able to consider a full range of management options. Each workshop will include an overview and group discussion. The workshops will be hosted from 6 pm – 8 pm on the following dates in six communities:

Buckeye
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Buckeye Chamber of Commerce
Large Conference Room
608 E. Monroe Avenue

Ajo
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Curley School
201 Esperanza Avenue

Casa Grande
Thursday, February 24, 2005
The Garnet at Casa Grande
510 E. 8th Street
(North of Florence Blvd. off Trekell Rd)

Phoenix
Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Deer Valley Community Center
North Multipurpose Room
2001 W. Wahalla Lane
(19th Avenue & Loop 101)

Tucson
Wednesday, March 2, 2005
Quail Run Elementary School Cafeteria
4600 W. Cortaro Farms Road

Yuma
Thursday, March 3, 2005
BLM Yuma Field Office
2555 E. Gila Ridge Road

The preliminary management alternatives can be previewed on the BLM planning web page from Feb. 4, 2005 – March 11, 2005. The web site is located at: www.az.blm.gov/LUP/sonoran/son_des.htm. You will also find the planning bulletin, which provides more information on the preliminary alternatives, on the web site.

The public is also welcome to view the preliminary information at the BLM-Phoenix Field Office, located at 21605 N. 7th Avenue (south of Deer Valley Road) in Phoenix, Arizona, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Monday through Friday. The preliminary alternatives will also be available at local libraries, the Tucson Field Office, and the Yuma Field Office; call our toll-free number at 1-866-627-7850 for specific locations. This information will also be available at the workshops.

After the workshops, BLM will complete the draft management alternatives for the plans that will be assessed in an environmental impact statement. BLM continues to invite comments or questions on the Sonoran Desert National Monument and Phoenix South Resource Management Plans at its toll-free telephone information line at 1-866-627-7850.

We're sending you this email because you expressed interest in the planning process. If you have received this email in error or you no longer wish to receive information about this project, please let us know at our planning email address, az_sdnm_phx_south@blm.gov or call our toll-free telephone information line at 1-866-627-7850.


Thank you,
Karen Kelleher
Planning Project Manager
az_sdnm_phx_south@blm.gov"