This is YOUR chance to play a role in how our public lands are managed and ensure that sportsmen and women have a say about the places where we love to hunt and fish
The Bureau of Land Management’s Four Rivers Field Office manages more than 780,000 acres of public lands across western Idaho from the Bennett Hills to the eastern shores of Brownlee Reservoir. These landscapes provide some of the finest hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation opportunities in western Idaho, as well as important habitat for big game, upland birds, and wild trout.
Currently, the BLM is revising its plan that will determine the future management of these lands for the next 20+ years, and public meetings are scheduled that offer an opportunity for the public to share their ideas directly to the BLM. Sportsmen and women must get involved to ensure that the best habitats are conserved and public access for hunting and fishing is maintained.
Please attend one of four local public meetings and make your voice heard – meeting dates, locations, and times, as well as suggested talking points are listed below.
Where and when
Public meetings (All meetings run from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.)
June 18: Boise District Office 3948 S Development Avenue, Boise ID 83705
June 25: Weiser High School 690 W Indianhead Rd, Weiser, ID 83672
June 26: Emmett Junior High School 301 E 4th St, Emmett, ID 83617
June 27: Mountain Home Junior High School 1600 E 6th S St, Mountain Home, ID 83647
Suggested talking points
• It is important to me that the Four Rivers BLM Field Office’s RMP revision conserve valuable big game winter range and popular hunting areas. The BLM should adopt a Backcountry Conservation Area for the Bennett Hills that would conserve valuable big game range, sustain sportsmen’s access, and prioritize habitat restoration for one of Idaho’s best mule deer hunting areas.
• I encourage the BLM to identify places where public access acquisition should be a priority, including the creation of access to public lands that are landlocked or difficult to access because there are few or no access points across private land that enable the public to reach BLM lands.
• I request that the BLM take steps to ensure the conservation of identified big game migration corridors and winter range. This should include not only conserving corridors that have already been mapped and analyzed by Idaho Fish and Game, but also migration corridors that will be mapped in the future.
I support these talking points.
All Blm that is land locked should have access point marked by sign where to enter and protected for future generations ! Idaho is growing in population very rapidly Idahoans need all the space we can get to recreate ,hunt ,fish ,camp ,hike,many other activities. So all blm lands should have access to every inch of land with reasonable access for all people as well as forest service land ,state land any other public land no land owner should be able to block access for any reason period
How do I find out more information and support from afar as I’m in the field fighting fire. As a native Idahoan, I have explored most of these remote areas all over the owyhees, Bennett’s, cascades and much of area in question.
I also have a lot of contacts in older generation who votes and will be active but is behind on social media.
Thank you for your work!
I contacted our state representative Christy Zito regarding the Wilks brothers blocking another forest access road and why they killed Senate bill 1089. She seemed to be unaware that the bill even existed but was supportive of holding BLM and forest service accountable and said they were the greatest perpetrators of blocking access. I shared this post with her and asked if she would attend the Mountain Home meeting. I intend to be there as well. Hopefully we see her there too!