Alternative A

• Focus on protecting and enhancing natural ecology while emphasizing the protection of sensitive wildlife areas and ecological resources

• Establish the greatest number and extent of specific measures to protect or enhance resource value to the surrounding community

• Focus on utilizing uses and restrictions to minimize impacts on natural resources

Alternative B

• Emphasis on preservation of Chacoan and cultural landscapes, and cultural properties—includes specific measures proposed by stakeholders

• Development scenarios for allowable uses (such as mineral leasing) would emphasize protecting the natural and cultural landscapes

• Appropriate and allowable uses and restrictions would emphasize avoiding or minimizing impacts on resources

Alternative C (Preferred Alternative)

• Focus on balancing community needs and development while enhancing land health

• Emphasize Tribal and local perspective of landscape and traditional lifeways

• Allow development to occur in harmony with traditional, historic, socioeconomic, and cultural lifeways

• Prioritize management with fewest impacts on human communities around oil and gas development

Alternative D

• Maximize resources that target economic outcomes while sustaining land health

• Development of fluid mineral resources would be promoted

• New uses would be accommodated to greatest extent possible

• Maximize resource production and increase royalty income for the landowners while avoiding, minimizing, or otherwise mitigating impacts around communities

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