Do something everyday to make the planet a little safer for our children's children.  A little while back this is what Governor Polis did.  Governor Jared Polis challenged the BLM's decision to allow Zephyr Minerals to perform mineral exploration in the Grape Creek Wilderness Study Area.  In a letter to the Colorado Bureau of Land Management’s Director, Jamie Connell, Gov. Polis stated,

“The BLM’s decision to allow industrial solid mineral exploration activities within a WSA is unprecedented in Colorado, if not nationally, and very worrisome,” Polis said in the letter. “Section 603 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act directs the Secretary of the Department of Interior to prevent ‘unnecessary or undue degradation’ to WSAs that could jeopardize their suitability to be preserved as wilderness. While it’s highly unlikely that any plans to recover a solid mineral claim in the future would satisfy the ‘non-impairment’ criteria set forth in section 1.6.C of the BLM’s WSA Policy Manual, there is still a risk that the proposed exploration could pave the way for development down the road. This possibility only heightens the importance of opening up plans for industrial exploration within WSAs to public scrutiny.”

**As reported by the "The Mountain Mail" on Aug 11, 2020 
https://www.themountainmail.com/news/article_6aa0a524-db77-11ea-9cd5-df675741b03f.html