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.

SPECIAL REPORT: Hunting & Fishing Imperiled Learn how irreponsible oil and gas drilling threatens 10 irreplaceable fish and wildlife habitats on America's most cherished public lands.

Men's Journal Writes about the Roan Plateau

This month, the Men's Journal has written a story about the Roan Plateau in Colorado. The article summarizes the fight between energy companies that want to drill 3,200 gas wells on the Roan, and the sportsmen, local outfitters, ranchers, and other outdoor enthusiasts that want to save this precious landscape and the wildlife and game species that depend on it. Ken Salazar, the Secretary of the Interior, can overturn the leases but so far, he hasn't taken any action to protect the Roan. CLICK HERE to read the article about this threatened sportmen's paradise.

Sportsmen Praise Salazar for Setting the Record Straight and Calling for Balance in Public Lands Management

DENVER – A sportsmen coalition today commended Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for reminding oil and gas industry officials that America’s public lands are not an entitlement for them to do with as they want.

“Despite what the energy industry may think, public lands aren’t their sole domain,” said Kate Zimmerman, senior policy specialist with the National Wildlife Federation, a leader of the Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development coalition. “Public lands belong to all of us.”
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Sportsmen Praise BLM Decision to Defer Oil and Gas Lease

CRAIG, Colo. – By deferring an oil and gas lease in northwest Colorado that could have jeopardized native trout, the Bureau of Land Management has signaled a new day for energy development in sensitive fish and wildlife habitats, a sportsmen’s coalition announced today.

Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development was troubled by oil and gas development proposed for the 900-acre parcel due to its potential impacts on two populations of Colorado River cutthroat trout, a species of special concern in Colorado. The public land in the proposal, located 25 miles northeast of Craig, encompasses Cataract Creek and the Roaring Fork of Slater Creek. It was originally reviewed for leasing in 1991.

Men's Journal Writes about the Roan Plateau

Sportsmen Praise Salazar for Setting the Record Straight and Calling for Balance in Public Lands Management

Sportsmen Praise BLM Decision to Defer Oil and Gas Lease

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