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Western Oregon Plan Revision
Ed Shepard, State Director, Bureau of Land Management
Thank you
you for the opportunity
opportunity to review
review and comment
comment on the Draft
Draft Environmental
Thank
Environmental Impact
Impact
Statement for Revision
Revision ofthe
ofthe Resource
Resource Management
Management Plans
Plans ofthe
of the Western
Statement
Western Oregon
Oregon Bureau
Bureau of
of
Land Management
Districts (WOPR).
(WOPR). Forest
Forest Service
Service staff
staff have
have read
Land
Management Districts
read the
the document
document and
and
participated
numerous meetings
meetings of
of your
your cooperator
cooperator group.
participated in numerous
Our first comment
comment is to extend
extend compliments
compliments to your
planning team
team and District
Our
your planning
District participants
participants for
quality of
of the analyses
analyses and the process
process involved.
involved. Considering
Considering the
scope and scale
scale of
the quality
the scope
of this
this
effort, your
your Draft
Draft EIS is impressive.
impressive. At various
various work
work sessions
sessions and meetings,
Service staff
staff
effort,
meetings, Forest
Forest Service
have
have provided
provided comments
comments on technical
technical aspects
aspects of
of the analyses
analyses directly
directly to your
your planning
planning team.
team.
The Forest
Forest Service
Service and Bureau
Bureau of
of Land
Land Management
interdependent in management
The
Management are interdependent
management of
of much
much
of the federal
federal lands
lands in Oregon.
Oregon. In planning
planning for management
management of
of ecological
processes that
ofthe
ecological processes
that operate
operate
across administrative
boundaries, we acknowledge
acknowledge the complexity
complexity of
of developing
developing plans
plans for BLM
BLM
across
administrative boundaries,
managed lands
lands that
that are intermingled
intermingled with
close proximity
proximity to National
managed
with or in close
National Forest
Forest lands.
lands.
Forest plan
plan revisions
revisions for National
National Forests
Forests in western
western Oregon
Oregon are still five to ten
the
ten years
years in the
Forest
future. For
For purposes
purposes of
of WOPR
planning we suggest
suggest your
your analyses
future.
WOPR planning
analyses assume
assume that
that neighboring
neighboring
National Forest
Forest system
system lands
lands will continue
continue to be managed
managed under
under current
current applicable
applicable law,
National
regulation, and land
land management
management plans.
plans.
regulation,
our agencies
agencies move
move forward
forward with
with land
land management
management plan
plan implementation
implementation projects,
both
As our
projects, I hope
hope both
agencies will continue
continue to seek opportunities
opportunities to collaborate
collaborate on project
project scale
scale planning
planning and
and
agencies
operations.
operations.
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