Surprise District
District Background
Location: Northeast California and Northwest Nevada
BLM Surface Acreage: 1,409,000
Designated Wilderness Acreage: 130,531
Wilderness Study Area Acreage: 178,851
Citizen-Proposed Wilderness Acreage: 182,083
Resource Management Plan (RMP) Information
Northeast California RMP (Alturas, Surprise, Eagle Lake)
RMP in Revision? No
Last Action: Record of Decision (ROD) Published May 2008
Next Action: None
District Contacts
Alice Bond
The Wilderness Society
Presidio Building, P.O. Box 29241
San Francisco CA 94129
415-561-6641 x104 Email
Juli Slivka
The Wilderness Society
1660 Wynkoop St Ste 850
Denver CO 80202
303-650-5818 x 129 Email
Surprise BLM District Office
602 Cressler Street
Cedarville CA 96104
530-279-6101
Brent Shoradt
California Wilderness Coalition
1212 Broadway, Suite 1700
Oakland CA 94612
510-451-1450 Email
Wilderness Experts View All >
Sam Goldman
Sam has been with The Wilderness Society since Fall 2007. He came most recently from M+R Strategic Services in Washington, DC where he worked with national environmental groups to improve their online campaign work and field organizing capacity. Before that, Sam was the Assistant National Field Director for U.S. PIRG where he covered a variety of issues including the fight to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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