Zasoby i środowisko · 12/09/1994

Availability of the Brown/Howe Dinosaur Area Environmental Assessment

The Environmental Assessment for the planning review of the Brown/Howe Dinosaur Area documents the analysis of four alternatives for managing the area, including the Bureau of Land Management's preferred alternative. The planning review area encompasses 5,457 acres of BLM-administered public land in the Cody Resource Area of the BLM's Worland District in Big Horn County, Wyoming. The planning review is being conducted to evaluate the management needs and issues associated with the discovery of an Allosaurus skeleton in the review area. The discovery was made approximately 1 year after the approval of the Cody Resource Management Plan (RMP) and a review of the RMP is needed to evaluate the adequacy of existing management decisions for the management and protection of paleontological resources in the review area. Management actions being considered include designation of the review area as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) and closure of the area to the staking and development of mining claims and closure to entry under the land laws. Based on preliminary analysis, BLM has established a temporary closure to the staking of mining claims in the planning review area. As p