John,

Colorado’s high country is a land of awe-inspiring vistas, old-growth forests, vital wildlife habitat and crucial migration corridors. Bears, elk, mule deer — even Canada lynx, threatened with extinction — all call this place home. But without protections these spectacular public lands are vulnerable to destructive fracking and mining.

Fortunately the Biden administration has proposed a 20-year ban on fossil fuel fracking and hardrock mining on nearly a quarter-million acres in the Thompson Divide and around Mt. Emmons, aka Red Lady.

Comments from the public are being accepted on the proposed ban, called a “mineral withdrawal” — and that’s where you come in.

Tell the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service you want the Thompson Divide and Red Lady protected from industrialization, mining, and fossil fuel extraction.