Round-Up: Oil and Gas Leasing Reforms, Poaching, and more.

Several environmental groups in Colorado and Wyoming are praising the Interior Department's onshore oil and gas leasing reforms as long overdue...GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes says he made a mistake when he asked his campaign manager to give him $5,000 a month in cash from January through April to cover travel expenses...A Fort Carson soldier has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for preventing a friend's suicide in Iraq...and, the Colorado Department of Wildlife is offering up to $1000 for information on recent pronghorn poaching incidents in Kiowa County.