Industry to protest Pinedale plan LARAMIE, WYO. (wpr) - The Bureau of Land Management recently published its long-range plan for Pinedale.

It increases the amount of land that cannot be drilled by 150 percent, to nearly 440-thousand acres.

Kathleen Sgamma with the Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States says that was a bad idea.

"When you take something off the table, you don't necessarily know how much you're taking off," Sgamma says. "You can't really prove up a resource until you start to drill some wells and do some exploration."

Sgamma says the B-L-M has underestimated how much natural gas is under the ground.

Meantime, some environmental groups have praised the Bureau's plan, saying their concerns have been heard.
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