Wyoming's last desert wildlands

We need your immediate help to save one of Wyoming's last desert wildlands -- also known as Adobe Town -- from the oil and gas industry.

Located in the Red Desert, Adobe Town is filled with breathtaking canyons and badlands. But its 200,000 acres of wilderness-quality lands are now targeted by the Bureau of Land Management for destructive oil and gas development.

Please tell the BLM to spare Adobe Town from oil and gas drilling. Time is short, because leasing and permitting of these lands to oil and gas companies is moving forward now.

As the crown jewel of Wyoming's high desert wildlands, Adobe Town is home to several wildlife migration corridors and one of North America's most intact sagebrush ecosystems.

Just as importantly, Adobe Town's cultural and historic qualities simply can't be replaced. The Cherokee Trail, once traveled by pioneers, runs through this desert landscape, and the real-life Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid used the area's stunning rock formations as a natural hideaway.

Despite the fact that Adobe Town is a Citizens Proposed Wilderness Area, the BLM wants to sell it to the highest bidder for oil and gas drilling. Opening these lands to development would destroy pristine wildlife habitat, increase air pollution, and ruin unparalleled recreational opportunities.

With industrial wells already dotting large swaths of the Red Desert, it would be a disaster to sacrifice yet another natural treasure to oil and gas companies.

NRDC is prepared to go to court to stop any drilling in Adobe Town, but we need you to make your opposition known to BLM officials right away. Tell the BLM you oppose any oil and gas leasing in the Red Desert's Adobe Town wilderness.

Thanks for taking action to protect Wyoming's last open spaces.

Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council