BLM releases draft of new management plan

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released the draft of its plans to manage public lands in northeast Wyoming and the public now has a chance to comment.

The new resource management plan would replace the current, 23-year-old version now used by the Newcastle Field Office.

The Draft Newcastle and Nebraska Resource Management Plan covers all the lands within the Newcastle Field Office’s boundaries in Crook, Weston and Niobrara counties, and also the entire state of Nebraska.

While this may seem unbalanced, the decision was made to combine these two areas because the BLM manages considerab...