
To the U.S. Forest Service

Please support Alternative B. It is important that we keep our roadless areas intact.  If you must allow additional leasing, then do it where there is already a disturbance from existing oil and gas. We value our backcountry more than a destructive, polluting industry. The oil and gas industry creates toxic emissions, and when added up, they create huge amounts of air pollution. We live here because the air is still relatively clean. Please don't open up our backcountry to an industry that will change that.

Please keep all leasing out of the entire Thompson Divide area.

 All future leases should have "no surface occupancy" stipulations, and operators should have to develop any new leases from areas with existing disturbance.

Michael Gorman
1021 Parkwest Dr
Glenwood Springs, CO 81601

