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Links to the USFWS Comprehensive Conservation Plan for the Bandon Marsh

Download the Bandon Marsh NWR Final CCP/FONSI by section:
 - Refuge Vision Statement, Finding of No Significant Impact, and Table of Contents (4.3 MB PDF)

 
- Chapter 1. Introduction and Background (3.1 MB PDF)

 
- Chapter 2. Management Direction(5.8 MB PDF)

 
- Chapter 3. Physical Environment (1.6 MB PDF)

 
- Chapter 4. Biological Environment (2.3 MB PDF)

 
- Chapter 5. Human Environment (3.6 MB PDF)

- Appendices (6.1 MB PDF)
Bandon Marsh NWR Final CCP/FONSI PDF
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Brochure of The Bandon Marsh Expansion Download File
Here is a "NO Bandon Marsh Expansion Sign" 
Public Meetings on PEG TV 
NO Bandon Marsh Expansion at The Bandon Barn---02/11/2012
NO Bandon Marsh Expansion with Don Chance---12/03/2012

BME Brochure
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NO BME Paper Sign 8 1-2x11.
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We Won!

for now....

The USFWS was forced to Suspend the Bandon Marsh Expansion

USFWS Press Release Bandon Marsh Expansion Suspended
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Planning Timeline

November 2010 - CCP process initiated and Planning Update 1
issued

November-December 2010 - Public scoping meetings

November 2011 - Public review and comment on preliminary draft
alternatives
and public meetings on the preliminary draft alternatives 

February 2012 - Bandon Marsh NWR Land Protection Planning study separated from
Refuge's CCP process



September 17, 2012 - Draft CCP/EAs released to the public and public review/comment
period begins


October 22, 2012 - Public review/comment period on Draft
CCP/EAs ends

December 21, 2012 - Findings of No Significant Impact
(FONSIs) signed by the Service's Pacific Region Regional Director

May 2013 - Final CCPs released to the public

Winter 2013 - Release and public review/comment
on Draft LPP/Environmental Assessment

Winter 2013
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Additional  opportunities for public involvement

Schedule  dates are tentative and subject to change as the planning process progresses.

Maps of the planned expansion for the Bandon Marsh

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This is a map of how the Bandon Marsh looks today.
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This is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife planned expansion for the Bandon Marsh.
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New Bandon Marsh Maps showing the 7 Priority Stages and the Winter Lake Project



STOP THE BANDON MARSH EXPANSION!

If you want to help us stop this land grab by the USF&WS, then you need to write an email or letter addressed to all the congressman and senators in the committees on federal lands in both houses of congress.   
Click the link for the Natural Resources Committee in the US House of Congress.  
https://naturalresources.house.gov/contact/

Federal Land Subcommittee

Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee

Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
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Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge-preliminary draft alternative c
File Size: 3440 kb
File Type: pdf
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Important Players in The Bandon Marsh Expansion:


Dept. of the Interior
Secretary of the Interior

Secretary of the Interior
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington DC 20240
Phone: (202) 208-3100
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Web:
Feedback form
US Senator
Sen. Ron Wyden District: 0S1
911 NE 11th Ave
Suite 630
Portland, OR 97232
Phone  (503) 326-7525
Fax:   (202) 228-2717
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www.wyden.senate.gov  
US Represtative
Rep. Peter A. DeFazio
District: 004
Oregon, 4th District
Coos Bay Office
125 Central, Suite 350
Coos Bay, OR 97420
Phone: (541) 269-2609
www.defazio.house.gov
USFWS
USFWS
South Coast Refuge Office 


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Important Links

Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex

Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge

Bandon Marsh, Nestucca Bay, and Siletz Bay National Wildlife
Refuges Comprehensive Conservation Planning


Public Comment Form

FAQ'S About The Bandon Marsh Expansion

Where is there a map of the Bandon Marsh Expansion?

What is the County/Federal Coordination Policy Compact?

Where is there a list of the Members of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests?

Where is there a List of the Members of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests & Public Lands?

Where is there a paper trail of The Bandon Marsh Expansion?

Why is Bandon Marsh Refuge Considering an Expanded Boundary?
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