South Park Master Leasing Plan
Ahead of the Bureau of Land Management’s South Park Master Leasing Plan (MLP) process, the Keystone Policy Center partnered with the Coalition for the Upper South Platte to host independent workshops regarding the area’s future. The workshops, which convened a diverse group of stakeholders, including ranchers and energy interests, built relationships and trust between the different stakeholders ahead of the planned South Mark MLP. Keystone’s process also created awareness of stakeholder interests and perspectives that may inform leasing decisions on other lands and built knowledge of and access to a common set of data and facts upon which MLP decisions could rely.
Keystone’s work resulted in a final report [PDF], finished in March 2015, outlining the various stakeholders’ interests and perspectives on issues — areas of agreement and disagreement — ahead of the BLM’s formal process.
