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Little Snake Field Office
RESOURCE PAGE

2/9/07: BLM has published its Draft Resource Management Plan. You can find this document here.

The Little Snake Field Office encompasses over 3.2 million acres of federal, state, and private land in northwest Colorado. The BLM's Little Snake Field Office manages 1.3 million acres of the federal surface estate and 2.4 million acres of federal mineral estate in this area. The BLM's Little Snake homepage is available here.

The decisions contained in this document will decide the fate of BLM lands in this area for the next 20 years. Please visit the links below for more information on this important land use planning process.

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MAPS

As part of the Resource Management Plan (RMP) process for the Little Snake Field Office, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) developed a Reasonable Foreseeable Development (RFD) scenario for oil and gas development on federally managed minerals within the planning area – BLM asked the oil and gas industry to identify the number of wells it plans to drill over the next 20 years and identify areas where they expect intense development to occur. The document BLM developed is available here (pdf).

Scientists at The Wilderness Society used this document – along with information gathered during detailed discussions with BLM staff – to map what the Little Snake Field Office might look like in 20 years if, as anticipated, the BLM proceeds with development as outlined in RFD scenario. Using advanced spatial analysis, The Wilderness Society’s scientists were able to map one possible scenario of oil and gas development within the resource area, calculate the resulting habitat fragmentation, and predict the likely impacts that oil and gas development will have on wilderness quality lands, big game species, and Greater Sage-Grouse. To view the assumptions and constraints used in this analysis, please click here.