Anderson Butte Safety Project

Project Information
DOI-BLM-ORWA-M060-2019-0005-EA
Anderson Butte Safety Project
Environmental Assessment
Completed - Completed
Ashland FO
09/21/2022 00:33:52 MDT
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.

Application Information
Recreation and Visitor Services
None
Project Dates
06/10/2019
03/10/2022
03/10/2022
Project Office Information
Ashland FO
Ashland FO, Medford DO
Project Location
Contact 1
Lauren Brown
lpbrown@blm.gov
(541) 618-2232