Protect Crucial Pronghorn Habitat

Every year, pronghorn embark on the longest land migrations of any animal in the continental United States.  They face incredible challenges along the way as roads, fences, and development encroach on their increasingly narrow migration corridors.

Energy development could become an insurmountable challenge for pronghorn migrating in Colorado's North Park.  This high-elevation valley, carved by glaciers and ringed by mountain ranges, is a major migration corridor for pronghorn, and also provides them with crucial year-round habitat.

However, pronghorn may soon lose much of their habitat in North Park to oil and gas development.

Until Tuesday, January 17^th, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is accepting public comments on their Resource Management Plan for North Park, which will determine the location and extent of energy development in the area.  The future health of pronghorn in North Park will depend on the BLM’s decision.

Pronghorn are an integral part of our Western landscape, and the only wild pronghorn herds in the world live on the plains and grasslands of North America.  North Park provides a rare mixture of the right vegetation, elevation, climate, and open landscape that pronghorn require to survive.

North Park is also home to moose, mule deer, elk, bears, mountain lions, bobcats, river otters, badgers, greater sage-grouse and more than 200 species of birds.  It is the headwaters of the North Platte River and is crisscrossed by rivers, streams and creeks that sustain agriculture as well as premier fisheries.

There are not many truly wild places like North Park left in our country. Now is our chance to ensure North Park stays this way.

TAKE ACTION! Tell the BLM that energy development must be balanced with the protection of crucial habitat for pronghorn in North Park.

Protect Wildlife Migration Corridors

The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) was established to protect wildlife and fund new public land purchases. LWCF is vital to creating wildlife migration corridors, allowing migratory elk and other wildlife to move between their summer and winter habitats. LWCF also helps expand national parks, protects hunting and fishing areas, and funds local projects like city parks and playing fields.

TAKE ACTION: Ask your representatives in Congress to fully support the Land and Water Conservation Fund to protect migration corridors for elk and other wildlife, and to preserve the public lands that we all enjoy!