Salazar announces new appointment to council

RBC I Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the 2011 appointments to the western Colorado citizen-based Resource Advisory Councils (RACs), which advise the Bureau of Land Management on public land issues.
The two RACs are each composed of 15 citizens chosen for their expertise in natural resource issues to help the BLM carry out its stewardship of 245 million acres — the largest land portfolio of any Federal agency. The BLM has established 29…