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Hey guys- I don't normally post this stuff here, but this is important. On Tuesday, February 6, your voice is needed at a Bureau of Land Management meeting on the Boise State University campus where the BLM will discuss a proposal for utility-scale solar energy development on public lands in Idaho.
February 6, 2024, 5:00-7:00 p.m. MST
Boise State University
Jordan Ballroom Student Union Building
1700 W University Drive
Boise, Idaho 83725
The plan allows for solar development across a total of 1.47 million acres of BLM-managed ground in Idaho, a move that could have broad impacts to deer, pronghorn, and other huntable species such as sage grouse and Hungarian partridge.
While most of the proposed acres do not conflict with priority big game habitat, the preferred alternative allows for extensive development in four mapped pronghorn and deer migration routes in southcentral and southwest Idaho, including over 24,000 acres in the Pioneer Mountain mule deer migration, which offers some of Idaho’s highest quality buck hunts in units 44 and 45. The potential solar development would also impact the Mountain Home (102,051 acres), Owinza (264,793 acres), and Gooding (60,244 acres) pronghorn migrations. Importantly, the majority of the development areas are located in winter range—a limiting habitat for these big game populations—the loss of which will have disproportionate adverse impacts.
The TRCP asks you to consider participating in Tuesday’s public meeting and to provide comments in-person or online to ensure that solar energy is developed responsibly on BLM-managed lands in a manner that conserves important wildlife populations and big game habitat.
Request that the BLM protect big game migration corridors from solar development. Check out the migration maps below. More information coming for other states.
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February 6, 2024, 5:00-7:00 p.m. MST
Boise State University
Jordan Ballroom Student Union Building
1700 W University Drive
Boise, Idaho 83725
The plan allows for solar development across a total of 1.47 million acres of BLM-managed ground in Idaho, a move that could have broad impacts to deer, pronghorn, and other huntable species such as sage grouse and Hungarian partridge.
While most of the proposed acres do not conflict with priority big game habitat, the preferred alternative allows for extensive development in four mapped pronghorn and deer migration routes in southcentral and southwest Idaho, including over 24,000 acres in the Pioneer Mountain mule deer migration, which offers some of Idaho’s highest quality buck hunts in units 44 and 45. The potential solar development would also impact the Mountain Home (102,051 acres), Owinza (264,793 acres), and Gooding (60,244 acres) pronghorn migrations. Importantly, the majority of the development areas are located in winter range—a limiting habitat for these big game populations—the loss of which will have disproportionate adverse impacts.
The TRCP asks you to consider participating in Tuesday’s public meeting and to provide comments in-person or online to ensure that solar energy is developed responsibly on BLM-managed lands in a manner that conserves important wildlife populations and big game habitat.
Request that the BLM protect big game migration corridors from solar development. Check out the migration maps below. More information coming for other states.
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