The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Royal Gorge Field Office is considering and evaluating the proposed expansion of the Parkdale Quarry, located west of Cañon City in Bighorn Sheep Canyon, onto about 700 aces of BLM public lands, which the BLM has found to have Lands with Wilderness Characteristics (LWC).
Big Horn Sheep Canyon. Image by Good Times Rafting.
The BLM is in the draft phase of this plan. Public comments on the draft phase of the plan are due to the BLM by Monday, March 23.
The BLM has released a draft environmental impact statement and analysis with three alternatives for the proposed expansion. It is available at go.usa.gov/.
Wild Connections, the nature and environmental protection nonprofit, has compiled a summary of the alternatives with BLM maps, where to comment, and more information on this area and issue, with public comment talking points.
Wild Connections has been tracking the proposed expansion, and their site provides additional information and maps about the proposed expansion. For more info, go to http://www.wildconnections.org/conservation/parkdalequarrytablemtn.html.
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