SILT, Colorado — With almost half of the habitat for greater sage grouse on U.S. Bureau of Land Management lands in northwest Colorado, the federal agency is launching a planning effort to conserve the bird's sagebrush habitat. The BLM will host a series of four open house meetings, including one on Thursday, Feb. 2, in Silt, to explain the process and take comments.
BLM is writing an environmental impact statement to analyze how best to apply new sage grouse conservation measures into the resource management plans governing five field offices: the Colorado River Valley Field Office in Silt, Grand Junction, Kremmling, the Little Snake Field Office in Craig and the White River Field Office in Meeker. More than 1.8 million acres of Colorado's greater sage grouse habitat are on BLM lands in northwest Colorado. That's almost half of the entire greater sage grouse habitat in Colorado.