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Management Plans
Management Planning Policies:
Integrated Resource Policy (IRP) (PDF 678KB)
2007 Change to IRP (DOC 26KB)
Plans in Development
(includes draft documents, meeting notices, meeting minutes, and related materials)
Fifteen-year Plan Updates:
- Flagstaff Region - Fifteen year review underway
Five-year Plan Updates and Reviews:
- Aroostook Hills Region - 2nd Five-year review and update completed
- Central Penobscot Region - 2nd Five-year review and update is underway
- Downeast Region - 2nd Five-year review and update completed
- Eastern Interior Region - 2nd Five-year review and update completed
- Amherst Mountains Community Forest - 2nd Five-year review and update completed
- Kennebec Highlands - 2nd Five-year review and update is underway
- Northern Aroostook Region - 2nd Five-year review and update completed
- Moosehead Region - 1st Five-year review and update completed
- Pineland Public Lands and Bradbury Mt. State Park - 2nd Five-year review and update completed
- Seboomook Unit - 2nd Five-year review and update completed
- Upper Kennebec Region Plan - 1st Five-year review and update is underway
- Western Mountains Region - 2nd Five-year review and update completed
Completed Plans
- Allagash Wilderness Waterway 15-year Management Plan Available
- Androscoggin Riverlands State Park 15-year Management Plan Available
- Aroostook Hills Region 15-year Management Plan Available
- Central Penobscot Region 15-year Management Plan Available
- Crocker Mountain Unit Plan Eight-year Management Plan Available (amendment to Flagstaff Region 15-year Plan)
- Downeast Region 15-year Management Plan Available
- Eastern Interior Region 15-year Management Plan
Available
- Amherst Mountains Community Forest 15-year Management Plan Available
- Flagstaff Region 15-year Management Plan Available
- Kennebec Highlands 15-year Management Plan Available
- Moosehead Region Plan - 15-year Management Plan Available
- Northern Aroostook Region 15-year Management Plan Available
- Pineland Public Lands and Bradbury Mt. State Park 15-year Management Plan Available
- St. John Uplands Region 15-year Management Plan Available
- Seboomook Unit 15-year Management Plan Available
- Spednic Lake/Upper St. Croix River 15-year Management Plan Available
- Tumbledown / Mt. Blue Region 15-year Management Plan Available
- Western Mountains Region 15-year Management Plan Available
Related Maine Natural Areas Program (MNAP) Reports Online:
Ecological Reserve Monitoring (PDF 774 KB)
Management Planning Process
The Bureau regularly seeks public input through the management planning process which is updated for all Public Lands on a rotating five-year schedule. For additional opportunities to comment, submit management suggestions or to appeal a decision of the Bureau or Public Lands, please call (207-287-2163) or email Jim Vogel and include your name, email and/or phone number, and a summary of your interest or concern.