Rocky Mountain Region

The Forest Planning Rule
The Forest Service is beginning an open, collaborative process to create and implement a new planning rule to guide land managers in developing, amending, and revising land management plans for the 155 national forests and 20 grasslands in the National Forest System.  Click here to go to the National Page for more information.

Notes are available from the initial round of public roundtable meetings regarding the development of a new Forest Service land management planning rule. The rule guides the revision or amendment of Forest Plans and Grassland Plans.

The roundtable meetings in the Rocky Mountain Region will be hosted in (see schedule below for more information):

• Lakewood, Colorado April 12 afternoon session; meeting notes
• Lakewood, Colorado April 12 evening session; meeting notes
• Laramie, Wyoming April 13; meeting notes
• Cheyenne, Wyoming April 14; meeting notes
• Sheridan, Wyoming April 15; meeting notes
• Cody, Wyoming April 16; meeting notes
• Rapid City, South Dakota April 21; meeting notes

For further information about the planning rule process, please refer to the National Page. For questions about the meetings in the Rocky Mountain Region, contact John Rupe, Regional Planner, at (303) 275–5148.

In addition to these roundtable meetings, there will be three informational meetings at the following locations (no need to register).

April 13	Laramie, Wyoming	Medicine Bow Routt Thunder Basin Supervisor´s Office 2468 Jackson Street	6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
April 15	Sheridan, Wyoming	Bighorn Supervisor´s Office, 2013 Eastside 2nd Street	6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
April 16	Cody, Wyoming	Park County Library, 1500 Heart Mtn Street	1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Here are meetings hosted by other adjacent Forest Service regions:

April 8	various Utah and Western Wyoming locations	1:00 pm – 4:00 pm OR 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm	Please pre-register at the Intermountain registration site
April 14	Billings, Montana	Custer Supervisor´s Office, 1310 Main Street	9:30 am – 8:00 pm Please pre-register at the Northern Region registration site