Demand the BLM protect Dinosaur National Monument!

Despite President Biden’s promise to address the Bureau of Land Management’s practice of selling off public lands to corporations, BLM is moving forward with a new drilling plan near iconic public lands -- Dinosaur National Monument on the Utah-Colorado border.

Dinosaur National Monument contains petroglyphs and pictographs marking the history of Indigenous people in the region. It’s also home to a prehistory dating back millions of years – fossils from more than half of the dinosaurs that lived in the Late Jurassic period in North American can be found here.

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Dear Bureau of Land Management:

I write to urge BLM not to approve the proposed drilling project on public lands adjacent to Dinosaur National Monument. The proposed development will worsen air quality for local communities, harm priority habitat for the imperiled greater sage-grouse, and degrade agency-identified lands with important wilderness characteristics. The drilling proposal, with its potential impacts on these irreplaceable resources and its certain contribution to the global climate crisis, is contrary to all of the stated goals and objectives of the Biden administration.
 
The BLM must also deny the company’s request for a waiver of the protective "no surface occupancy" stipulation which is attached to the lease currently proposed for development. It is unacceptable that the BLM is even considering this request. The company knew about the stipulation when it acquired the lease and should be required to develop, if at all, in a less environmentally sensitive area.
 
Once again, I ask you to reject this terrible proposal for the sake of our our last wild places, our climate, and the health of our planet.

Sincerely,
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