All the federal oil and gas leases offered at the Colorado Bureau of Land Management’s quarterly sale were bought Thursday. But the 7,847 acres of public land leased were a far cry from the roughly 224,000 acres of minerals originally on the block.

The sale of the leases, mostly in western Colorado, netted a total of $981,143 in rent and fees, which will be split between the federal government and the state of Colorado.

In September, the BLM said it would offer leases on parcels totaling 224,341 acres. The agency then pared the offering a few times in response to requests from Gov. John Hickenlooper, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and local elected officials and residents in the North Fork Valley of southwest Colorado. They raised concerns about the potential impacts of drilling on wildlife habitat, tourism and agriculture and approval of leases before the BLM finished updating its resource management plan for the area including the North Fork Valley.

Another development was a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge in Idaho in a lawsuit challenging changes the national BLM office made to shorten the time periods for public comment and revise requirements for environmental review to streamline and speed up leasing. The ruling in September by Chief U.S. Magistrate Ronald Bush in Pocatello, Idaho, temporarily replaced part of the Trump administration’s policy on the leasing of public lands in greater sage grouse habitat.

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Colorado BLM officials have said the oil and gas leases pulled from Thursday’s auction could be offered at a later sale.

“The parcels that were pulled were pulled for a variety of reasons. There are also a lot of reasons not to put them back up for lease,” said Nada Culver, senior counsel and director of The Wilderness Society’s BLM Action Center.

The BLM hasn’t fully addressed questions about whether federal laws requiring public input and sufficient environmental review will be adequately followed going forward, Culver said.

Representatives of 24 outdoor businesses in Colorado wrote a letter Wednesday to Jamie Connell, the state BLM director, objecting to the Trump administration’s policy of increasing drilling on public lands.

“Our businesses contribute to Colorado’s $28 billion outdoor recreation economy, which depends on Colorado’s world class public lands. Yet these lands are under increasing pressure from the current administration’s ‘energy dominance’ policies, which are poised to do irreparable damage to Colorado’s outdoor industry through the prioritization of oil and gas development,” according to the letter. Related Articles Colorado regulators OK one-of-a-kind rule to track emissions beginning with oil and gas wells’ construction

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However, Kathleen Sgamma, president of the oil and gas trade organization Western Energy Alliance, said federal officials have balanced the uses of public lands, which are supposed to accommodate multiple purposes.

“There are over 200 million acres of public lands completely locked away from any oil and gas development in the form of wilderness areas, national parks and other designations,” said Sgamma. “There are also hundreds of millions of acres of working landscapes that are appropriate for oil and gas development and those are types of lands the BLM is moving forward to lease.”