Thompson Divide

Thompson Divide Public Meetings Announced – May 2023

2023-05-05T22:36:26-06:00

The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) have announced public meetings next week for the proposed Thompson Divide Administrative Mineral Withdrawal. Please attend (in-person or virtually) and show our federal agencies that we remain Unified For the Thompson Divide! What: Public Meetings about the proposed Thompson Divide Mineral Withdrawal When: Tuesday, May 9 (Delta) & Thursday, May 11 (Gunnison & Virtual); sessions begin at 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. Where: Bill Heddles Recreation Center (531 N. Palmer St., Delta, CO 81416) & the Western Colorado University Ballroom (1 Western Way, Gunnison, CO 81231) or virtually (register [...]

Thompson Divide Public Meetings Announced – May 20232023-05-05T22:36:26-06:00

Years of hard work culminating in cancellation of the East Willow Leases

2023-04-06T20:26:35-06:00

Filled with verdant aspen forests, beaver streams, and abundant wildlife, the Willow Creek area straddles portions of Pitkin and Mesa counties and includes three roadless areas originally prioritized for protection by the Thompson Divide Coalition. Despite the area’s rich ecology, 6 oil and gas leases covering more than 8,600 acres were issued in 1996. Recognizing the threat and looking for opportunities to protect this place, in 2008 we started filing Freedom of Information Act requests to learn everything we could about why the 12-year-old leases hadn’t expired. Oil and gas leases are issued for 10-year terms and are [...]

Years of hard work culminating in cancellation of the East Willow Leases2023-04-06T20:26:35-06:00

20 years of protection in the works for the Thompson Divide

2023-04-06T20:28:04-06:00

In 2009, an Aspen Times headline - “Conservationists, cowboys team to oppose gas leases near Carbondale” - announced the formation of a new group: the Thompson Divide Coalition (TDC). Wilderness Workshop was a founding member and ever since we’ve played a critical role in the efforts to permanently protect some of Colorado’s most spectacular wildlands from oil and gas development. Together, we’ve made the Divide a landscape known far beyond Colorado and had some major wins along the way: cancellation of 25 illegal leases in the heart of the Divide; adoption of an Oil and Gas Plan [...]

20 years of protection in the works for the Thompson Divide2023-04-06T20:28:04-06:00

Tens of Thousands Urge Biden Administration to Protect the Thompson Divide

2023-04-06T20:05:18-06:00

Mineral withdrawal would provide interim protections for beloved area January 19, 2023 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  CARBONDALE, CO – Coloradans and supporters from across the U.S. are urging the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to move forward with a proposed 20-year administrative mineral withdrawal – which would ban future oil and gas leasing and mining –  of 225,000 acres of public lands in Western Colorado known as the Thompson Divide. This call comes after the BLM closed a 90-day public comment period earlier this week; administrative action to protect the Thompson Divide was announced by President Biden the same day [...]

Tens of Thousands Urge Biden Administration to Protect the Thompson Divide2023-04-06T20:05:18-06:00

President Biden Takes Action for Camp Hale and the Thompson Divide!

2023-04-06T20:37:09-06:00

Colorado has a new national monument and the process has begun to protect 225,000 acres of the Thompson Divide for 20 years! From the Winter 2022 Issue of Wild Works. It still feels a bit surreal to write that sentence, but the Wilderness Workshop team is proud to report two landscapes we have been working to protect for over a decade achieved major victories after President Biden used his executive authority this fall! For many years we’ve worked on various pieces of federal legislation that would protect lands throughout the White River National Forest, including the Thompson Divide [...]

President Biden Takes Action for Camp Hale and the Thompson Divide!2023-04-06T20:37:09-06:00
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