Public Lands Information

General Information

• What are public lands?
• How is Oil and Gas Developed on Public Lands?

Hunting and Fishing on Public Lands

• Hunting within BLM's National Landscape Conservation System

Bureau of Land Management Information

• What is the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)?


• How does the BLM conduct its land use planning on public lands?


• BLM planning process flowchart


• BLM plans currently in revision
  
  Colorado
  
  Wyoming
   
• State BLM Agency Links
  
  Colorado BLM
  
  Montana BLM
  
  New Mexico BLM
  
  Wyoming BLM
   
• BLM Press Releases:
  
  Colorado
  
  Montana
  
  New Mexico
  
  Wyoming
• BLM Public Land Access Guide

Basics of Energy Extraction

Oil and Gas Basics

• Oil and Gas Drilling 101
   
• Articles
  • Drilling Operations Reshape Landscape (Rocky Mountain News)
• Diagrams
  
  • The Technology that Fuels the Boom (Rocky Mountain News)
  • At the Drill Site (Rocky Mountain News)
  • Hydraulic Fracturing (gregdrilling.com)
• Videos
  • Tour of a Natural Gas Rig (CNN)
  • A Morning on Rig 177 (Rocky Mountain News)

Coal-bed Methane Information

• Articles
  • No one is neutral in water fight
  • No precedent for rights to abundant coal-bed methane runoff
• Handbook on Best Management Practices for Coal-bed Methane
• Diagrams
  • Water quality and quantity in the Rocky Mountain Region
  • Coal-bed methane extraction process
  • Some of the dominant oil and gas operations in the Rocky Mountain Region
  • Treating coal-bed methane water
• Aerial Photos
  • View aerial photos from coal-bed methane drilling in Wyoming, Montana and Colorado

Oil Shale Information

• Oil Shale Information and Diagrams

Impacts

• Articles
  • Oil, gas well effects hard to pin down (Rocky Mountain News)
  • Study shows GarCO has increased levels of cancer-causing compounds (Grand Junction Sentinel)
  • 5 Key Environmental Concerns (Rocky Mountain News) 
  • Well pits draw citations (Rocky Mountain News)
  • County warned of pollution from drilling (Aspen Daily News)
• Diagrams
  • Gasping in the Gas Fields
  • Losing Water, Seeping Gas
• Videos
  • Flight Over Pinedale

Reducing the Drilling Footprint

• Articles
  • Stepping More Lightly on the Land (Rocky Mountain News) 
  • Concentrated Effort (Associated Press via Casper Star Tribune)
  • Exxon Mobil lengthens its reach (Houston Chronicle)
• Diagrams
  • Reducing the Drilling Footprint (Rocky Mountain News)
  • Directional Drilling (Questar)
• Mat Drilling Photos (Encana)
  • Photo 1 - Laying the Mats
  • Photo 2 - Activities on Mats
  • Photo 3 - Full Screen Mats
  • Photo 4 - Vegetation

Legislative Hearings on Oil and Gas Development

• Access Denied: The Growing Conflict Between Fishing, Hunting, And Energy Development On Federal Lands (March 27, 2007)
  
  Testimony by Rollin D. Sparrow, Board Member, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership


• Oil and Gas Provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (April 17, 2007)
  
  Testimony by Ann Morgan, Former State Director, Colorado, Bureau of Land Management and Current Vice President for Public Lands, The Wilderness Society
  
  Testimony by Oscar Simpson, Public Lands Organizer, National Wildlife Federation
   
• Land-Use Issues Associated With Onshore Oil And Gas Leasing And Development (April 26, 2007)
  
  Testimony by John Emmerich, Deputy Director, Wyoming Game and Fish Department

Wildlife Responses to Energy Development

• Myths about Wildlife Responses to Oil and Gas Development

Wildlife Disease Information

• Links to websites and news articles

Invasive Species Information

• Links to websites and news articles

Do you have a question about public lands? Email us at info@ourpubliclands.org and we will post your question and answer.