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In Colorado, an unlikely alliance between hunters and environmentalists against drilling

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The Roan Plateau in Colorado has become the subject of disputed real estate, much of it public land that the Federal government's Bureau of Land Management is selling to energy companies interested in drilling for oil and gas in the mountainous region. John McDaniel writes, in his contribution to the Christian Science Monitor (14 May 2008), that the B.L.M. have offered to open up 73,000 acres -- or 70-percent -- of the Roan Plateau Planning Area for oil and gas drilling, a decision initiated late last year.

Deer and elk hunters who have pursued game in the Roan Plateau area between the Colorado Rockies to the Utah border, have aligned with environmentalists to voice expression against the B.L.M.'s plan to sell once-protected areas of the Roan Plateau for energy development.
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2 responses // In Colorado, an unlikely alliance between hunters and environmentalists against drilling

  • Hunters and environmentalists aren't really at odds. They both want to see habitat and the animals preserved. Not pheasant-farm, Dick-Cheney hunters. To hunt used to mean you cared about the land and what you hunted. Actual connection with the land and with what you eat...imagine that...
    24French
  • If two people with opposite views can work together, why can't the world come together and defeat global warming?
    ipodrulz

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