Grand County public lands proposal

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Welcome to round one of public input on Grand County's public lands legislation proposal. At this point, the county has a tentative proposal for the broad outline of a possible bill (described below). Many important management details remain to be decided. We're looking for input on both the broad outline and the management details.

If you prefer to send your comments via email, please send them to publiclandscomments@grandcountyutah.net. You can also use this email address to send photos or maps.

There are several text boxes for your comments below. Feel free to leave some of them blank and fill out only the ones you wish to.

*** PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO CLICK THE "SUBMIT" BUTTON AT THE VERY END OF THE SURVEY. The survey has five sections. ***

We are looking for input from residents of Grand County (and northern San Juan County) only. If this proposal eventually becomes federal legislation, there will be many opportunities for non Grand County residents to comment. Please enter your name and address below:

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Broad Outline

One of the county's top priorities is to secure increased and ongoing funding for BLM to manage the highly visited lands within Grand County. BLM has additional funds available for the management of "National Conservation Lands", which include National Conservation Areas (NCAs). An NCA designation is the most straightforward path to secure some additional management funding. (Creating new National Parks would also bring additional funding, but new National Parks do not seem like a good fit for Grand County.)

The tentative proposal calls for NCAs covering federal lands within Grand County which either (1) receive higher visitation than typical federal lands, or (2) contain outstanding scenic, cultural, or wildlife resources. There is also a modest expansion of Arches National Park (see below).

* Book Cliffs NCA
* Moab Canyons NCA (heavily visited canyons close to Moab)
* Labyrinth NCA (Green River canyons)
* Colorado/Dolores NCA (Colorado and Dolores canyons)
* La Sal Mountains NCA (higher elevation areas; USFS)
* Arches National Park expansion

National Conservation Areas are very flexible designations. They can contain everything from motorized recreation focus areas to designated wilderness. A single NCA can contain sub-areas with different management emphasis. The legislation creating the NCA specifies the management details -- see below. NCAs do not preempt valid existing rights (e.g. existing mineral leases). NCAs typically include a prohibition on future mineral leases and mining claims.

Rough NCA boundaries

Please use the following text box to tell us:
* How do you feel about using NCA designation as a tool to bring additional resources to GC public lands
* Areas you think should or should not be part of an NCA
* Your thoughts on boundary details of the proposed NCAs
* Other designations that should be considered instead of or in addition to NCAs

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