Anderson Butte Safety Project
Project Information
Project Description
The Anderson Butte area has a long history of local community residents frequently enjoying public lands for a wide variety of uses, including hiking, horseback riding, hunting, riding off-highway vehicles and recreational target shooting. As the Rogue Valley''s population has continued to increase, so has the recreational use of the Anderson Butte area, as well as an increase in home construction in close proximity to the public lands that lie within it. These increasing pressures have resulted in a number of public safety issues and recreational user conflicts from public land visitors participating in a variety of recreational target shooting activities. There have been reported instances of these activities resulting in bullets hitting nearby private residences, other private property and bullets passing over hikers heads while on designated Bureau of Land Management (BLM) trails. The development of this EA will assist the BLM in the development of alternatives to address the issues identified above.
What's New
On September 20, 2022 the Federal Register Notice was
published for the Anderson Butte Safety Project. The 11 sites described in the
notice will be temporarily closed to recreational target shooting for 2 years
from 12:01 a.m., October 20, 2022.
Please see the ‘Federal Register Notice’ tab under
the Documents section of this site to see the notice and map of the closed sites.