- Mission [1]
- The Boise District RAC has actively provided input to BLM regarding natural resource issues. Throughout FY2011, the Boise
District RAC provided input and recommendations to the BLM on the Draft Management Alternatives for the Four Rivers Field
Office (FRFO) Resource Management Plan (RMP), during the three full RAC meetings and at several RMP Subgroup meetings. Recommendations
on how criteria should be developed for route designation across Owyhee County Several discussions have been held on travel
management plans in the Owyhee Field Office were conveyed during the July 2011, meeting. Ten specific recommendations, and
several action items were forwarded to BLM following the RAC-sponsored Symposium in Boise on February 1-2, 2011, "How Can
Collaborative Resource Management Break the Fire Cycle...". The RAC participated in the first field trip of the newly created
subgroup resulting from the Symposium. Another field trip attended including showing the success rates of re-vegetation efforts
with various plant species, in June 2011. The Field Trip was to the eastern portion of the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds
of Prey National Conservation Area. RAC Members participated in the Owyhee and West Central Sage-Grouse Local Working Group's
bi-monthly meetings. The RAC's new recreation subcommittee (joint-with the Twin Falls District RAC) did not meet during FY2010.
Neither the Payette and Sawtooth National Forests, and recreation areas, nor BLM had any proposed fee changes in FY2010. At
the March 2, 2011 meeting, the Payette River System Working Group presented its annual report and recommendations to the full
RAC. The recommendations addressed improvements to amenities funded by recreation fees collected on the River System. They
were approved and forwarded to BLM and the Payette National Forest Supervisor. The RAC also continued to urge BLM to recruit
volunteers to assist with monitoring in the Districts three Field Offices, and the five new wilderness areas created by passage
of the Omnibus Public Lands Act of 2009. The new wilderness areas total over 500,000 areas. Several recommendations presented
at the September 2011, meeting continue to be discussed and revised addressing additional changes to the FRFO RMP, permittees
travel restrictions within the newly created wilderness areas, and development of fuel and fire management tools, including
fuel breaks within the Symposium Pilot Project area east of Boise.
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