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RESOLUTION 98-35-CC
Int�rior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Man�gement Project
WHEREAS, the President oF the United States, by executive order, initiated the Interior
Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (ICBEMP) to create a scientifcally sound, legally
defensible ecosystem management plan, and
WHEREAS, ICBEMP was to be a broad-scale, 12-inonth project that would give general
direction to public land managers for ecosystem inanageinent, but has become a top-down, highly
prescriptive set of manageinent directives, and
WHEREAS, ICBEMP will � directly affect manageinent of 16 Bureau of Land Management
districts and 30 national forests administered by USDA Forest Service, all located in western states,
and
WHEREA�, ICBEMP covers 104 counties of which Grant County is one, 144 inillion acres
(including 72 million acres of private land) and will directly and indirectly affect the livelihoods of
millions of citizens in �he planning area, and
WHEREAS, the citizens of western states have a direct interest in the management of its public
lands which produce payments in lieu of taxes that contribute significantly to funding of public schools
and roads, and
WHEREAS, the citizens of the United States and communities throughout the western states
depend on the managed stewardship, sustained-yield, even flow production of goods and services froin
multiple-use management of public lands located in those states, and
WHEREAS, there is increasing demand within the United States and the world for renewable,
recyclable goods and services including recreation, wildlife, fisheries, food, fiber, clean air, clean
water, and
WHEREAS, ICBEMP draft EIS documents fail to adequately and truthfully disclose the
economic, environment and social effects of implementation of ecosystem management practices
embodied in the Draft EIS documents, and
WHEREAS, ICBEMP represents a top-down management paradigm shift which reduces or
eliminates efFective local input in natural resource management and environmental decision mal�ing,
and
WHEREAS, ICBEMP has become a six-year, $35 million project, with no end in sight,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: ICBEMP should be terminated, with no Record
of Decision being approved and that the data developed by the project be communicated to the
Counties, States, BLM district managers and National Forest supervisors located in the Project
boundaries for consideration of public input in statutorily scheduled environmental land and resource
management plan revisions, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Grant County Commissioners strongly support
natural resource planning and environmental management which feature site-specific decisions made
by local decision makers, local citizenry and parties directly and personally affected by environmental
land and resource management decisions.
This Resolution was unanimously adopted by the Grant County Farm Bureau Board of Directors at
its meeting in Moses Lake, Washington, January 22, 1998.
Grant County Commissioners
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Dated this 31st day of March,1998 Leroy ison
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Helen Fancher
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Tim Sne