Colorado faces a federal oil and gas leasing fire sale. One man on a Moffat County mountain is fighting back.
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BAKER’S PEAK RANCH — From his bare-bones cabin on a little mountain thick with forests and laced with streams near the Wyoming border north of Craig, Joel Mayne is waging a one-man battle against the Trump administration’s push to sell oil and gas leases.
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What happened
BAKER’S PEAK RANCH — From his bare-bones cabin on a little mountain thick with forests and laced with streams near the Wyoming border north of Craig, Joel Mayne is waging a one-man battle against the Trump administration’s push to sell oil and gas leases.
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