The Crested Butte Land Trust, the High Country Citizens’ Alliance and local property owners in the Trapper’s Crossing subdivision have all filed statements of opposition in the Gunnison District Water  Court over the filing by U.S. Energy of its conditional water rights. The town of Crested Butte decided not to file such a protest. The Land Trust owns hundreds of acres of property that could be impacted by water being diverted for a mine. The Land Trust owns the wetland parcel just north of Crested Butte on Highway 135 that is fed by the Slate River and it owns a major parcel east of Kebler Pass near the Y-intersection with Kebler Pass Road and the turn to Irwin.

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