Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development

Who We Are

Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development is a coalition of more than 500 businesses, organizations and individuals dedicated to conserving irreplaceable habitats so future generations can hunt and fish on America's public lands. The coalition is led by the National Wildlife Federation, Trout Unlimited and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.

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Recent News from the Range

Sportsmen’s coalition says energy legislation would derail leasing reforms, spur conflict

Washington, DC. – A coalition of sportsmen’s groups is calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to reject bills that would derail attempts to balance responsible energy development on public lands with the conservation of fish and wildlife and the protection of air and water quality.

Three bills intended to speed up and expand energy development would, among other things, undermine common-sense leasing reforms and shut out the public in decisions about public lands at a time when oil and gas production are at record or near-record rates, members of Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development said Wednesday.

BOULDER, Colo. – At the urging of Trout Unlimited, the Colorado Wildlife Federation, Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development, NWF and Barbara Vasquez, retired chemist/engineer and CWF member, The Denver Post did a follow-up to a story on an oil spill in North Park focusing on the long-stalled statewide standards for riparian setbacks promised in 2008-09 when Colorado’s oil and gas rules were overhauled. North Park is the headwaters of the North Platte River, which supports communities, agriculture and blue-ribbon and gold-medal fisheries in Wyoming and Colorado.

Click Here to Read Denver Post Article: Colorado urged to toughen drilling rules near waterways

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