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Utah Greater Sage-Grouse Draft Land Use Plan Amendments / Draft Environmental Impact Statement

Utah Greater Sage-Grouse Draft Land Use Plan Amendments / Draft Environmental Impact Statement. Greater Sage-Grouse Range-Wide Habitat Map. WAFWA Management Zones and GRSG Breeding Bird Densities.

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Utah Greater Sage-Grouse Draft Land Use Plan Amendments / Draft Environmental Impact Statement

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  1. Utah Greater Sage-Grouse Draft Land Use Plan Amendments /Draft Environmental Impact Statement

  2. Greater Sage-Grouse Range-Wide Habitat Map WAFWA Management Zones and GRSG Breeding Bird Densities • GRSG habitat in Utah is naturally fragmented, located at the southern extent of the range, and is often connected to larger areas of habitat in adjacent states. • GRSG Habitat in the Utah planning area comprises approximately 5 percent of habitat range-wide. • Utah provides habitat for less than 5 percent of known male GRSG populations range-wide.

  3. Utah Sub-Region Planning Area Private37.5%BLM34.5%USFS 11.3%SITLA 8.6%Tribal 5.5%DWR 1.7%Military 0.5%Others 0.4% Within planning area, there are approximately 7,242,930 acres of GRSG habitat, with surface land status as follows: There are 3,313,800 acres of GRSG habitat with BLM and Forest Service surface estate, with 694,880 acres of federal mineral estate with non-federal surface.

  4. Threats to Greater Sage-Grouse • Threats to GRSG in the Utah Sub-Region vary throughout the state: • In the Great Basin (west side of the state), primary threats include wildfire, invasive species, and conifer encroachment. • In the Rocky Mountains/Colorado Plateau (east side of the state), primary threats include infrastructure and energy development and conifer encroachment. • Other threats are present in the planning area, though they vary in location and intensity. • The BLM and Forest Service do not have jurisdiction to resolve threats from predation or hunting in this land use planning process.

  5. Sage-Grouse Management Areas • The Draft EIS categorizes GRSG habitat into one of two levels: • Preliminary priority management areas (PPMAs) are lands that would be managed to maintain and sustain GRSG populations in the planning area (i.e., lands with the highest conservation value). • Preliminary general management areas (PGMAs) are lands that are not as important as PPMAs. • Under Alternative E, areas with the highest conservation value are referred to as Sage-Grouse Management Areas (SGMAs) or Core-Areas rather than PPMAs.

  6. Alternative Themes

  7. Sage-GrouseManagement Areas 1 - PAC: Priority Areas for Conservation 2 - SGMA: Sage-Grouse Management Area

  8. Vegetation and Fire Management

  9. Range Management

  10. Lands and Realty

  11. Minerals Management

  12. Additional Management Actions

  13. Public Comments Interested parties are invited to submit comments on the Draft EIS. Comments may be submitted through one of the following avenues: e-mail: blm_ut_comments@blm.gov U.S. Mail: BLM—Greater Sage-Grouse EIS 440 West 200 South, Suite 500 Salt Lake City, UT 84101–1345 The deadline to submit comments on the Draft EIS is January 29, 2014

  14. Planning Process Timeline * Dates are subject to change.

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