Con
ntact: Tara Martinak
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(541
1) 573-4400
Release No. OR-BU-13
3-27
Septtember 27, 20
013
Southeeast Oreg
gon Resource Adv
visory Coouncil M
Meets Oct.. 3, 4
HIN
NES, Ore. – The next So
outheast Oreegon Resourcce Advisoryy Council (RA
AC) meetingg is set for
Thuursday and Friday,
F
Octob
ber 3-4, at th
he Clarion In
nn, 1249 Tappadera Avennue, in Ontarrio,
Oreegon.
On Thursday, th
he Southeastt Oregon RA
AC will depaart the Clarioon Inn at 8:000 a.m., locall time, for a
full-day field to
our to visit laands with wiilderness chaaracteristics in the Vale D
District. Thhursday’s
sesssion will adjourn around
d 4:30 p.m.
On Friday, the RAC
R
will review the preevious day’s activities annd continue discussing laands with
wildderness charracteristics; hear
h Designaated Federal Official andd agency reppresentative updates;
hearr a presentattion on the Wild
W Horse and
a Burro prrogram and ddiscuss a fenncing issue inn the Three
Finggers Herd Management
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Area; attend
d to general business
b
item
ms such as aagenda plannning,
appproving meetting minutes and establisshing the 2014 meeting sschedule; annd receive m
member
upddates and con
nstituent reports. Friday
y's session wiill conclude around 3:000 p.m. Any other
mattters that may reasonably
y come beforre the RAC throughout tthe two-day meeting maay also be
disccussed.
Thee public is welcome
w
to atttend all porttions of the meeting,
m
inccluding the fi
field tour (provide
privvate transporrtation), and can contribu
ute during th
he public com
mment periood at 1:15 p.m
m., local
timee, on Friday, October 4. Those who verbally add
dress the RA
AC during the open session are
askeed to provid
de a written statement
s
of their commeents or preseentation.
For further info
ormation on the
t Southeasst Oregon RA
AC or the uppcoming meeeting, contacct Tara
Marrtinak at the Burns Distrrict Bureau of
o Land Man
nagement Offfice at (541)) 573-4519. Additional
infoormation abo
out the RAC can be foun
nd online at:
httpp://www.blm
m.gov/or/rac//seorrac.php
BLM manages more
m
than 245 million
m
acres of public
p
land, the most
m of any Fedeeral agency. Thiis land, known aas the National
The B
Systeem of Public Lan
nds, is primarily
y located in 12 Western
W
states, in
ncluding Alaska. The BLM alsoo administers 7000 million acres
of suub-surface minerral estate through
hout the nation. The BLM's mulltiple-use missioon is to sustain thhe health, diverssity, and
produuctivity of the pu
ublic lands for th
he use and enjoy
yment of presentt and future geneerations. In Fisccal Year 2012, acctivities on
publiic lands generateed $4.6 billion in
n revenue, much
h of which was sh
hared with the S
States where the activities occurrred. In
addittion, public land
ds contributed mo
ore than $112 biillion to the U.S. economy and hhelped support m
more than 500,0000 jobs.
-BLM
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