UPDATE: July 21, 2010 — The Valles Caldera Trust has announced that it will conduct a public meeting on Thursday, August 12th from 5:30-8:00 PM to discuss this landscape restoration and management plan, at the Preserve’s Science and Education Center at 90 Villa Louis Martin in Jemez Springs.
On Friday, a notice appeared on the Federal Register that had been submitted on July 8, 2010 by the Valles Caldera Trust, titled: “Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for a Long-Term Landscape Restoration and Management Plan To Restore and Manage the Forest, Grassland, and Riparian Ecosystems of the Valles Caldera National Preserve.”
You can read this 1,860-word notice by clicking here.
The accompanying summary of the notice is as follows:
The Valles Caldera Trust (VCT) a wholly owned government corporation empowered to provide management and administrative services for the Valles Caldera National Preserve (VCNP) intends to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to analyze and disclose the potential impacts of a proposed Landscape Restoration and Management Plan (LRMP) which includes mechanical treatments, prescribed burning, management of lightning caused wildland fires (wildland fire use), restoration or riparian areas, closure and maintenance of roads and eradication of noxious weeds and invasive plants.
The Trust requests comments on this notice by August 18, 2010, at comments@vallescaldera.gov.
