Planning Area

Quick Facts

• The Monument was designated through Presidential Proclamation 9131 on May 21, 2014.  The Monument consists of four units: the Organ Mountains, Doña Ana Mountains, Robledo and Sierra de las Uvas Mountains, and Potrillo Mountains Units. 

• Presidential Proclamation 9131 identifies resources, objects, and values as lands with visual, cultural, geological, ecological, paleontological, and scientific significance.

• The planning area is the geographic area within which the BLM will propose management decisions during a planning effort. The proposed management decisions would apply only to the Federal lands within this area. The planning area encompasses the 573,613 acres of land within the Monument boundary regardless of surface ownership or jurisdiction.

• The decision area includes all public lands in the planning area for which the BLM has authority to make land use decisions. The decision area includes the 496,591 acres of BLM-managed surface estate within the Monument.   

• The analysis area includes any lands, regardless of jurisdiction, for which the BLM synthesizes, analyzes, and interprets information that relates to planning for BLM-administered land. For the RMP/EIS, this includes all lands within Doña Ana and Luna Counties. regardless of jurisdiction or ownership.

For more information on the OMDPNM RMP/EIS please see the BLM’s website.