Wilderness Workshop

08/26/2026

The Roan Plateau is one of the last intact, wild landscapes in western Colorado, and it is at risk again.

Its high forests, sagebrush parks, rugged canyons, and spring-fed creeks provide vital habitat for elk, mule deer, black bears, and other wildlife. The Roan is also home to rare plants found almost nowhere else and some of Colorado’s purest remaining populations of Colorado River cutthroat trout.

The Trump Administration’s BLM is proposing to open nearly 5,000 acres atop the plateau to oil and gas leasing. The BLM is taking one final round of public comments, and time is running out to make our voices heard on this harmful proposal. Speak up for the wildlife, clean water, and wild character that make the Roan so special.

Tell the BLM to keep the public lands atop the Roan Plateau undrilled.

Take action: https://secure.everyaction.com/vX4heGtHGUK-pah60tg3Og2or

Big thanks to 🎥 Rig To Flip

08/19/2026

Should the BLM ignore local communities, hunters and anglers and allow drilling to spoil the wildlife habitat, clean water and quiet landscapes on the Roan Plateau? Fill out this week's Post Independent poll to add your voice. (scroll down to the poll on the left side of the homepage)

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08/12/2026

It happened today. The Roan Plateau is once again at risk.

Despite decades of opposition from western Colorado communities, hunters, anglers, and other public land users, the Trump Administration’s Bureau of Land Management is moving forward with a proposed oil and gas lease sale that includes parcels on top of the Roan Plateau.

The BLM has opened a 30-day public comment period on the lease sale, and we need to make some noise.

Submit your comments now at 👉 bit.ly/blm-roan

OR stay tuned to our channels for an action alert next week that will make it easy to speak up.

Western Colorado has stood up for the Roan before.
Together, we can do it again.

08/12/2026

🚨Two more days to comment! 🚨

The Department of the Interior is conducting a sweeping nationwide review of long-standing federal wilderness stewardship policies that threatens protections for more than 100 million acres (the size of California) of wilderness-quality lands across the West, including 2.7 million acres of Bureau of Land Management wildlands here in Colorado. This review threatens landscapes at the very heart of western Colorado and could open them to industrial roads, logging, and motorized vehicle use. These wildlands support elk, mule deer, greater sage-grouse, peregrine falcons, bald eagles, bighorn sheep, mountain lions, rare plant communities, and countless other species that depend on large, unfragmented habitats to survive.

We thank our partners at Act Now for Public Lands and Rig to Flip for helping spread the word. Comment on the DOI review now. The deadline is August 14. Make your voice heard! https://actnowforpubliclands.org/take-action


Rig To Flip

07/31/2026

This week, Colorado Congressman Joe Neguse and Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper stood together to oppose oil and gas leasing on the Routt National Forest. They join Wilderness Workshop, our conservation partners, and residents from across the region in valuing wildlife habitats, watersheds, and outdoor recreation over oil and gas drilling in northwest Colorado.

Read the letter here: https://neguse.house.gov/media/press-releases/neguse-bennet-hickenlooper-raise-concerns-over-forest-service-proposal-lease

07/23/2026

Leasing requirements passed last year stripped the Bureau of Land Management of its authority to reject oil and gas lease proposals on , limiting its ability to consider impacts to clean water, wildlife habitat, outdoor recreation, and other important values. The , introduced by Rep. Joe Neguse and Sen. Ben Ray Luján, would restore a meaningful public input process so communities can once again advocate for the places that matter most to them.

Join us in saying thank you! Tag Congressman Joe Neguse in the comments for championing the and protecting the public's voice in public lands management.

Want to know more? 👉 Visit https://neguse.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-neguse-senator-lujan-introduce-local-input-act

Bureau of Land Management

07/14/2026

Here is an opportunity to take action! 🚨🚨

Colorado’s roadless forests are worth protecting.
The Forest Service is considering 10 new oil and gas leases in the Routt National Forest, putting roadless forests, wildlife habitat, clean water, and sensitive wetlands at risk.

We have until July 17 to make our voices heard. Join us in telling the Forest Service that our public lands deserve protection, not new oil and gas development.
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Submit your comment here👉 https://secure.everyaction.com/jh1g4m0ss0iV23_DpVbVHQ2