Denver Post
October 18, 2011, Bruce Finley

After a decade of deliberation, federal land managers Monday unveiled their new plan for balancing oil-and-gas exploration and other uses across 2.4 million acres of northwestern Colorado — and drew immediate sharp criticism from conservationists, landowners and industry.The Bureau of Land Management plan opens 90 percent of the Little Snake Area to drilling, effective today, while setting limits around sage grouse breeding areas, the Vermillion Basin canyonlands and a 22-mile stretch of the Yampa River that has been deemed suitable for an official "wild and scenic" designation....

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