[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 19 (Friday, January 28, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-1845]


[Federal Register: January 28, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[MT-930-4320-01]


Notice To Cancel Intent To Amend the Dillon Management Framework 
Plan; Butte District Office; Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice to cancel intent to amend the Dillon MFP.

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SUMMARY: The Butte District issued a Federal Register notice on 
November 29, 1993, announcing a Notice of Intent to Amend the Dillon 
Management Framework Plan (MFP). The Butte District is canceling the 
intent to amend the Dillon MFP. The decision to use only aerial 
shooting of predators in this area will continue to be in effect until 
it is reviewed on an ecosystem management basis during the preparation 
of the Dillon Resource Management Plan (RMP) scheduled to begin October 
1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sandy Brooks, Project Lead, Montana State Office, P.O. Box 36800, 
Billings, Montana 59107; or contact by phone at (406) 255-2929.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Dillon MFP, it was decided that 
selective aerial predator control be the only means by which predatory 
animals, other than wolves be removed from the BLM land between the 
town of Lima and Bloody Dick Creek. The rationale was that the most 
positive indication of gray wolf occupancy recorded at that time had 
been documented in the Lemhi Pass area. Since then, however, the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service has better defined occupied wolf 
habitat in Montana. The area between Lima and Blood Dick Creek is not 
considered occupied wolf habitat at this time. The proposed Dillon MFP 
Amendment would have allowed for Integrated Pest Management in the 
described area, where predator control was limited to aerial shooting 
of predators. However, due to the preparation of an RMP in the Dillon 
Resource Area beginning in 1997, the Butte District has decided to 
cancel their intent to amend the Dillon MFP and review the decision on 
an ecosystem-wide basis as part of the Dillon RMP.

    Dated: January 20, 1994.
Robert H. Lawton,
State Director.
[FR Doc. 94-1845 Filed 1-27-94; 8:45 am]
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