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Urge Congress to Protect Wyoming Range
The Wyoming Range is one of those rare places where people of every background can agree on one thing – it's too special to drill. That's why Congress is considering a bill to protect the Wyoming Range from oil and gas drilling.
Please tell the Forest Service to cancel and withdraw all of the 44,700 acres of contested leases along the eastern flank of the Wyoming Range.
Personal emails and letters matter most in this process. But if you don't have time to send your own letter, please add your comments to our letter below, then click on Send this Message.
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Subject: Leasing SEIS
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
The Wyoming Range is one of those rare places where people of every background can agree on one thing - it's too special to drill. The public strongly expressed this when they protested the sale of the Wyoming Range's eastern flank several years ago, and the same holds true today.
If anything, the public perception that the Wyoming Range should be protected has grown in strength, and we now have legislation moving through Congress that would effectively withdraw all un-leased lands in the Wyoming Range from future oil and gas drilling.
The 44,700 acres you are re-visiting for leasing need to be included among these protected lands. This can best happen if the Forest Service leasing EIS selects the "no action/no leasing" alternative today. We don't want to have to go down that road of additional unpopular drilling plans that are legally challenged and then possibly retired through the buy out of drilling rights.
The landscape of northwest Wyoming has changed drastically since the Bridger-Teton National Forest first identified these lands as suitable for leasing. The Jonah and Pinedale Anticline fields to the east continue to expand at a rapid pace, impacting wildlife habitat, the visibility of class I airsheds, water resources, and most recently, the very health of local citizens.
In light of the impacts of expanding energy development elsewhere in Wyoming the need for some areas to be spared drilling has become ever more important. The Wyoming Range can be such an area if you take a hard look at this decision, and cancel and withdraw all lease offerings in these 44,700 acres.
If you take this course, not only would you be leaving these national forest lands to a higher and better use, but you would be honoring the Wyoming Range Legacy Act and helping ensure our nation's important outdoor traditions remain for the next generation.
Thank you for your consideration,
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