Via the Ted Williams blog, we learn the Upper Rio Grande watershed (including 10 streams which are designated Wild Trout Waters) has just barely averted destructive drilling development:
A cavalry made up of sportsmen, conservation groups and San Luis Valley residents have charged to the rescue of public lands along the upper Rio Grande just days before those lands were to be sacrificed to energy development.
Faced with a public outcry and 100 formal protests, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Friday backed down from leasing 144,000 acres in the Rio Grande National Forest to oil and gas corporations.
Included in the groups who got the Feds to back down were Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, the Colorado Wildlife Federation and a returning favorite — the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.
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