Governor blasts BLM management plan

(May 7, 2008) Citing what he calls “recurring failures” of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) state and Pinedale offices to work with the state as a cooperating agency, Gov. Dave Freudenthal harshly criticized the agency’s draft revised Pinedale Resource Management Plan (RMP).

In his May 2 comments to BLM project manager Kellie Roadifer and field manager Chuck Otto, the governor said, “...the BLM must treat state cooperators as true partners on the interdisciplinary team for this Pinedale RMP revision process.”  Read more.