The Bureau of Land Management is in the process of amending its management plans across Colorado to better protect big game. Your voice can strengthen this plan and help us to better protect big game habitat. Comments are due Tuesday, February 6th.
Author: Alison Gallensky
Protest Period Open for Upcoming Utah Oil and Gas Lease Sale
Protests are due on July 27 for Utah Bureau of Land Management's September 2023 Federal Oil and Gas Lease Sale. Use our resources to submit yours.
Bureau of Land Management Public Lands Rule
The Bureau of Land Management has proposed a Conservation and Landscape Health Rule. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to support public lands conservation.
Oil & Gas Operators Must Clean Up their Messes
Rocky Mountain Wild's interactive map shows dozens of Colorado oil and gas producers skirting financial assurance rules risking clean water and clean air.
What’s Up with K.P. Kauffman?
Interactive maps shows the location and production of 1,206 K.P. Kauffman oil wells, and the location of the 279 spills it has had since 2020.
Lease Sale Results Show Need for Rulemaking
In late June, the Bureau of Land Management held its first oil and gas lease sales since early 2021. These sales incorporated several commonsense reforms. Rulemaking is needed to make these changes permanent.
Report: Sharp Decline in Demand for Oil & Gas Leasing on Federal Lands
Rocky Mountain Wild’s new report shows oil and gas companies currently hold leases on more than 20 million acres of federal land in the Mountain West, and data trends show a sharp decline in interest for additional leases in many states for 2020 and 2021...
Oil and Gas Rules Protect Wildlife Story Map
Interactive story map shows how oil & gas rules effective January 15, 2021 protect wildlife habitats.
2020 Highlights
See a story map highlighting some of Rocky Mountain Wild's accomplishments in 2020.
2020 Maps of Oil and Gas Development
See where drilling is occurring and what lands have been leased in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. The high resolution maps are suitable to be printed as posters.