Las Placitas Association (LPA) and ES-CA have just posted their joint comments on the Bureau of Land Management Draft Resource Management Plan (BLM DRMP) for the Rio Puerco area, including Placitas. Please feel free to use all or parts of these comments for your submission to the BLM. Comments must be submitted to the BLM no later than November 26.
The comments can be found on the LPA website here: http://lasplacitas.org/rio_puerco/comments.php. These comments may be revised over the coming days, so please check this web page occasionally for revisions.
There are 2 different comments documents posted: 1) The full 18 page joint LPA/ES-CA Comment document, including detailed comments on all the major topics, 2) A shorter 3 page document consisting of abstracts/summaries from the full document. Both of these can be useful in submitting your own comments.
A Workshop will be held this coming Saturday, November 17, at 2 PM at the Placitas Community Center on how to best submit comments to the BLM. All are invited. The San Felipe and Santa Ana pueblos are also invited to give short presentations on their proposals to acquire Placitas Area BLM parcels for wildlife corridors. Materials will be handed out at the Workshop to help in submitting comments.
The full DRMP text and maps can be found here: http://lasplacitas.org/rio_puerco/index.php.
Information on how to submit comments to the BLM can be found here: http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/fo/Rio_Puerco_Field_Office/rpfo_planning/rpfo_draft_rmp.html