This Proposed Resources Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement describes and analyzes the Proposed Rio Puerco Resource Management Plan for managing the public lands and resources in the Rio Puerco Resource Area, New Mexico. The Proposed Plan is the Balanced Management Alternative from the Draft, slightly modified.

Documents the effects of adopting standards for public land health and guidelines for livestock grazing management on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) administered land in New Mexico. The standards and guidelines would be incorporated into eight BLM resources management plans (RMP) that cover approximately 13.5 million acres. In addition, for each alternative there are existing land use decisions that are in conformance with the standards. These decisions would be changed to bring them into conformance"--Page xiii.