"The potential for industrial incursion into habitats that prized ungulate populations depend on to reach their seasonal ranges in the Platte, Little Snake and Green River basins comes via the Bureau of Land Management's lease sale of more than 250,000 acres in Wyoming. It's a sale that's now in the early "scoping" phase and could still change, but what's been proposed is to auction more than five dozen parcels totalling 88,000 acres that overlap the state's first three deer migration corridors and its in-the-works pronghorn corridor."
"That's a premise Steve Degenfelder, a landman for Kirkwood Oil and Gas, disagrees with. He's seeking to acquire at-issue leases in the Green River Basin that intersect with migration paths used by the Sublette herds of pronghorn and mule deer, but says he intends to use horizontal drilling and existing roads to minimize damage to the corridors."
""Wildlife folks can have their cake and eat it, too," Degenfelder said. "They can have the activity occur far from these critical spaces and still enjoy the tax revenue.""
A Bureau of Land Management lease sale is proposing more than 250,000 acres of leasing in Wyoming, with over five dozen parcels totaling about 88,000 acres overlapping established deer migration corridors and a developing pronghorn corridor. The sale is in an early scoping phase and remains subject to change. Environmental groups express strong concern about potential industrial intrusion into seasonal migration routes used by ungulates in the Platte, Little Snake and Green River basins. An industry landman seeking leases says he will use horizontal drilling and existing roads to limit corridor impacts, and revenue considerations are cited by proponents.
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