Siding with Club, CO's Gov Ritter Protests Roan Drilling Lease

In response to feedback from sportsmen and other environmentalists, Colorado Governor Ritter officially filed a protest against the Bureau of Land Management's leasing out of 55,000 acres of elk, bear, and trout habitat for oil drilling on Colorado's Roan Plateau. 

The Sierra Club ran an ad in the Grand Junction Sentinel asking Governor Ritter to protest the drilling lease earlier this month.  In addition, hundreds of Sierra Club activists sent in messages to the Governor asking him to protest the Roan Plateau leasing.  Read the Grand Junction Sentinel's article on the action. 

YOU CAN ask Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, who oversees the BLM, to respect the wishes of our Western Governors and support their efforts to protect wildlife corridors from drilling, and other forms of habitat destruction, HERE!   

Thank you Governor Ritter!  Keep up the good fight!

The federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has the next move... the lease is scheduled for August 14.