Colorado · Area of Critical Environmental Concern
South Beaver Creek ACEC
BLM found a wildlife resource and a natural process here, and its plan calls for special management. BLM's records place 1 right of way inside the line today, and two grazing allotments cover part of it. It covers 4,545 acres and was designated October 17, 2024, in the 2024 Gunnison Sage-Grouse RMP Amendment. In the plan's name, RMP stands for resource management plan.
One of the 1,120 places the Bureau of Land Management has designated an Area of Critical Environmental Concern. This page shows its line, what BLM found there and what sits inside it.
The line
The rights of way
1 right of way sits inside the line. BLM files 1 under non-energy facilities.
- Holder not listed by BLM1right of way
Grazing allotments
2 grazing allotments cover part of this line. Their permittees aren't named here yet.
- Iola59,429acres
- Gold Basin20,826acres
The nearest areas
- Chance Gulch ACECColorado · 13,804 acres · at least 3 active mining claims, 6 rights of way, 3 grazing allotments covering part of it5miles
- West Antelope Creek ACECColorado · 29,045 acres · 11 rights of way, 7 grazing allotments covering part of it9miles
- Sapinero Mesa ACECColorado · 17,242 acres · at least 39 active mining claims, 2 rights of way, 5 grazing allotments covering part of it14miles
- Dillon Pinnacles ACECColorado · 940 acres · nothing placed inside17miles
- Slumgullion Earthflow ACECColorado · 1,317 acres · 5 rights of way, 3 grazing allotments covering part of it36miles
More from BLM's Colorado office
Every area BLM's Colorado office holdsThe proposed rule
A proposed rule, RIN 1004-AF53, would change how BLM drafts every land use plan, and how it designates ACECs like South Beaver Creek ACEC. The comment window hasn't opened: the proposed rule wasn't in the Federal Register at our last check. The Watch sends one email the day it prints.
The rule's abstract
The purpose of this rulemaking is to establish in regulations an updated process for the approval of the development, revision, amendment, and maintenance of land use plans, as provided for by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Additionally, this rulemaking will provide clarification of the process the BLM uses for designating Areas of Critical Environmental Concern.Unified Agenda entry for RIN 1004-AF53, Publication ID 2026, reginfo.gov (OMB OIRA), read Oct 18, 2026