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.

Sportsmen Release Responsible Oil and Gas Recommendations

On July 21st Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development released our Recommendations for Responsible Oil and Gas Development. The recommendations are based on our May 2008 symposium which featured expert land managers, scientists, and planners who met in Wyoming to develop a framework for implementing responsible energy development across the West. This report is the product of that unprecedented event and outlines sportsmen’s recommendations for oil and gas development that provide for our energy needs without sacrificing our Western heritage. If you are a reporter interested in covering the recommendations please contact our communications team. To download a PDF of the document click on the image to the right.

Dentry: Natural gas drilling hurting land

The industrial takeover of the West is not about oil or the price of gasoline at the pump. Domestic oil production, in fact, has suffered from a shell game.

Nearly all the drilling on public lands is, in fact, about methane: natural gas. The booty at the wellhead is methane and stockholder cash.

The victims are taxpayers who own public lands - especially hunters and anglers, who've watched as a national legacy is slaughtered like bison. Read more.

Sportsmen: Rein in energy development

By MATT JOYCE
Associated Press writer

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:07 AM MDT

CHEYENNE -- A coalition of conservation groups dedicated to preserving public lands for hunting and fishing said Monday that the government should tighten rules for oil and gas development in the Rocky Mountain West.

Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development released a list of recommendations that members said would allow for energy development in the resource-rich region without sacrificing wildlife and water resources. Read more.

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Sportsmen Release Responsible Oil and Gas Recommendations

Dentry: Natural gas drilling hurting land

Sportsmen: Rein in energy development

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