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Moffat County Land Use Board

Minutes of Meeting

April 14, 2005

Moffat County Land Use Board Meeting Minutes April 14, 2005 Attendees: Richard Blakley Rick Hammel Jeremy Casterson, BLM Ed Winters Jeff Comstock, Moffat County Luke Schafer, Wilderness Network Bob Grubb Will Fletcher, Morning News Marianna Raftopolous Stephen Hinkemeyer Call to Order: Richard Blakley called the meeting to order at 7:07 pm. Moment of Silence: Approval of Minutes Grammatical correction of Luke Schafer’s name will be made. Rick Hammel made a motion to approve the minutes from March 14, 2005 meeting with the corrections noted. Ed Winters seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. General Discussion/Updates Sandwash Basin OHV Monitoring by NWCOS subcommittee Rick Hammel presented what the NWCOS subcommittee is monitoring in the Sand Wash Basin area of Moffat County as to what impacts OHV use is having. The group will be laying out monitoring sites and transects to measure cover, density and other vegetation areas. Other issues looked at will be wildlife, user conflicts, wild horses, oil and gas issues and grazing issues. Dana Bishop from CSU is the group advisor and is helping by teaching them how to do the monitoring. The LUB had several concerns about how the monitoring is being done, how it is being monitored and what science is being used to gather the data. Some of the data is being gathered scientifically and other data is going to be strictly observational. One recommendation is to involve some OHV users in this group to gather some input from them as well. Dana Bishop and Rob Schmitzer will give the LUB a one page summary concerning the objectives of the monitoring group. North West Colorado Weed Partnership Gary Brennan and Dave Blackstun toured the county and looked at weeds. They toured most of the areas in the northwest and north parts of the county. Hiawatha and Powder Wash had some big weed problems and Sand Wash Basin and Great Divide had less weeds and represented more healthy plant communities. The county asked the Oil and Gas Community to help out with the weed problems in Hiawatha and Powder Wash, and some work in Sand Wash Basin/Great Divide. The gas companies have chipped in almost $50,000, and the total could be nearly $60,000. The county wrote a grant to DOLA asking for some matching money. The group has now invited private landowners from these areas to become involved and put in some of their money as well. County RS2477 Policy committee Update The group met last Wednesday on the RS2477 policy. The group looked at the policy and the current thinking is to adapt some language that would strengthen the RS2477 policy and still protect private property rights. The commissioners wanted to be able to use RS2477 to defend current county roads. The group is looking at drafting the language and then running them by a lawyer before a recommendation would be made to the BOCC. NWCOS Jeremy gave an update on the RMP/NWCOS project. The BLM core group met and has come up with their shells of what the alternatives could look like. Those shells will be out possibly this week (Keystone will distribute). NWCOS should have enough to work with at their subcommittee meetings coming up next week. The subcommittee groups and topics are 1) vegetation and riparian, 2) recreation and travel management, 3) special management and special designation, and 4) mineral and mining. NWCOS subcommittees will be meeting on the 19th and 20th of this month at the BLM offices. Three and Four individuals submitted input on the goals and objectives. Keystone will be trying to garner some more input at the next NWCOS meeting. The economic baseline is being recommended to proceed so it will be ready by early summer 2005 and BLM is still working on getting CSU to do the Economic Analysis. Fire Plan Update The commissioners have asked Jeff to look at which communities might be the greatest at risk. Jeff identified seven communities. Jeff will write letters to those in the seven communities to see if the communities want some fire planning done. Those letters were set to go out later in the week. Announcements The company that has done the satellite imagery is coming to give the commissioners an overview of how their imagery can be used for emergency planning. The meeting will be at 1:00 pm on the April 25th. Agenda Items for next several meetings Elk head Expansion Update (Ray Tinney?) White-tailed prairie dog Black footed ferret program National Park Service and National Wildlife Refuge Update Adjournment Jeremy Casterson made the motion to adjourn. Steve Hinkemeyer seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Meeting adjourned at 9:07 pm.

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