BLM to host public meetings for management plan

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has announced four upcoming opportunities to give in-person feedback on its draft resource management plan for the Newcastle Field Office and Nebraska.

If ultimately approved, the new resource management plan would replace the current, 23-year-old version now used by the Newcastle Field Office.

The plan covers all the lands within the Newcastle Field Office’s boundaries in Crook, Weston and Niobrara counties, and also the entire state of Nebraska. While this may seem unbalanced, the decision was made to combine these two areas because the BLM manages conside...