Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge
Mountain-Prairie Region
Planning

Sharp-tailed grouse dancing on a lek.  Lazuli Bunting perched on a branch.  Townsend's big-eared bat being held for examination.

Photos:Sharp-tail grouse. © Diane Hargreaves. Lazuli Bunting. USFWS photo. Townsend's big-eared bat. USFWS photo.

 

Comprehensive Conservation Planning

Timeline of the CCP for the Refuge.

The CCP for Charles M. Russell NWR is a 15-year plan that will address habitat conservation and wildlife-dependent recreational uses.

The staff at Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge is embarking on an important multi-year process to develop a comprehensive conservation plan (CCP) and environmental impact statement (EIS) for the refuge including UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge. A CCP (as it is commonly referred to) provides long-range guidance and management direction for the refuge’s programs. Your ideas and comments are an important part of the process, and we invite you to participate. Throughout the process, we will provide information on this website about upcoming public meetings or workshops and we’ll post project documents as they become available. Additionally, you can request to be placed on the project mailing list or submit comments by following the links.

Click on the link to the planning involvement summary to learn more about the CCP process and how you can be involved.

June, 2009

Keeping on track with the schedule shown to the right, the Refuge staff are dilgently working to have a Draft CCP/EIS completed by next spring.  Fine tuning objectives and strategies or means of achieving Refuge purposes and goals for Alternatives A, B, C, and D to help fulfill the Refuge System mission, and resolve refuge issues.  Please stay tuned in for the next round of public meetings dealing with the release of the Draft CCP. The website will be updated with dates, times and locations.  We look forward to hearing your input!

              

                         

Comments will be accepted in writing at:  Laurie Shannon, Planning Team Leader, Division of Refuge Planning, P.O. 25486, Denver, CO  80225-0486

Barron Crawford
Project Leader,
Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

 

                                                                                                                                                                           

Last updated: June 29, 2009