Take Action: Protect Yellowstone and the Greater Rockies

Protect Yellowstone and the Greater Rockies

Tell the Bush administration to ban harmful drilling and off-road vehicle use in Colorado's Vermillion Basin.

Jeremy Casterson, Bureau of Land Management

Dear Mr. Casterson,

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I oppose the Bureau of Land Management's preferred alternative for the Little Snake Resource Management Plan, which would open up some of our nation's most pristine wildlands to damaging oil and gas drilling and off-road vehicle traffic. Instead, the BLM should adopt Alternative D with modifications, which would offer a balanced approach to protect the unspoiled wildlands of northwest Colorado, including the Vermillion Basin.

The Little Snake Resource Area and its outstanding wildlands provide vital habitat to an incredible array of wildlife, including pronghorn, elk, mule deer, white-tailed prairie dogs, greater sage grouse, golden eagles and peregrine falcons. It is also home to some of our nation's most important archeological treasures, ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

People from around the state, the region and even the world seek out northwest Colorado for outdoor recreation, wildlife viewing, solitude and natural beauty. These spectacular values will be lost if over one million acres of this wild corner of the United States are opened to industrialization. Instead, your land management plan for the Little Snake area should preserve the wilderness qualities of Vermillion Basin and all other proposed wilderness areas by prohibiting oil and gas drilling and off-road vehicle use on these lands.

Your plan must also restrict any approved oil and gas activity to one well per 640 acres and mandate adherence to best management practices that will protect wildlife habitat, as well as air and water quality, and human health. Off-road vehicles should be restricted to designated routes, and all 12 eligible areas of "critical environmental concern" should be designated to protect essential habitat for imperiled plants, greater sage grouse and prairie dogs. In addition, I urge you to protect all five eligible Wild and Scenic river segments of the Yampa River, Vermillion Creek and Beaver Creek.

Sincerely,

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