Idaho · Area of Critical Environmental Concern
Windy Bay RNA
BLM found a natural system and a natural process here, and its plan calls for special management. Nothing that BLM's records place sits inside the line today. It covers 16 acres and was designated June 29, 2007, in the Coeur d'Alene RMP 2007. 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
Ground: USGS The National Map, topographic tiles. Boundaries: BLM's own, read Oct 20, 2026.Inside the line
Nothing sits inside this line that BLM's records place: no mining claim, lease, right of way or grazing allotment.
The nearest areas
- Pulaski Tunnel ACECIdaho · 27 acres · nothing placed inside45miles
- Lund Creek RNAIdaho · 3,220 acres · nothing placed inside55miles
- Cottonwood Islands RNAIdaho · 43 acres · nothing placed inside67miles
- Coal CreekOregon/Washington · 764 acres · 5 rights of way, a grazing allotment covering part of it72miles
- Lower Lolo CreekIdaho · 3,679 acres · 5 grazing allotments covering part of it86miles
More from BLM's Idaho office
Every area BLM's Idaho 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 Windy Bay RNA. 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