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THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2002

A plan to allow more oil and gas drilling in the Jack Morrow Hills of Wyoming's Red Desert has been met with enormous opposition, including concerns by tribes.

The Bureau of Land Management released a draft plan in June 2000 and received more than 12,000 comments, the most in the agency's history. Tribal members are concerned about protection of sacred sites.

Get the Story:
Energy interests want Red Desert (The Billings Gazette 1/10)

EIS on Jack Morrow Hills:
Jack Morrow Hills Coordinated Activity Plan [pdf 15.4mb] (BLM)

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