An overdue and much-needed management plan has been publicly released to balance the economic, natural, cultural, and recreational values of 3.6 million acres of public lands in southwest Wyoming.

Called the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan, it protects sensitive habitats, secures the public’s access to world-class hunting, fishing, and recreation areas, and supports cultural sites and ancestral homelands of manyTribal nations.

WITH NEARLY ONE THIRD OF THE MANAGEMENT AREA ALREADY LEASED FOR OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT, the plan strikes the right balance to maintain the health and public’s accessibility on the other X.X acres of important natural landscapes.

Tell the Bureau of Land Management you support this community-informed and balanced plan.

The plan protects the recreational economic opportunities that public lands create for local communities as well as Wyoming’s Northern Red Desert – a vast, unfenced area of public lands that include the longest migrations in the lower 48 and the most intact sagebrush steppe ecosystem in the West, and home to large and small mammals, birds, and reptiles.

America’s public lands are natural and national treasures and your voice of support for managing them carefully and thoughtfully matters.

Thank you for proposing a resource management plan for the Rock Springs Field Office that strikes a balance among the competing priorities of how to manage and protect our natural resources.

The plan protects sensitive habitats, the public’s access to world-class hunting, fishing, and recreation areas, and cultural sites and ancestral homelands of many Tribal nations. And it protects areas with low potential for oil and gas from new fossil fuel development.

Importantly, I support the plan because it protects Wyoming’s Northern Red Desert – a vast, unfenced area of public lands that includes the longest migrations in the lower 48 and the most intact sagebrush steppe ecosystem in the West, and home to large and small mammals, birds, and reptiles.

America’s public lands are natural and national treasures and this balances local infrastructure and energy needs with our collective responsibility to maintain the health of natural landscapes now and for future generations.

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