Nature lovers ride to rescue


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. BLM had planned to lease the public land May 8 in two large blocks flanking the Rio Grande where it flows from the town of South Fork to Del Norte.
Big-game hunters know the area as Game Management Unit 79 and GMU 80. Anglers know it for its quality river trout fishing and 10 Rio Grande tributaries designated Wild Trout Waters.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/may/07/dentry-nature-lovers-ride-to-rescue/

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