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TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2002

The Department of Interior's Board of Land Appeals has ordered the Bureau of Land Management to rewrite parts of a gas drilling plan in Wyoming.

The board said the plan has to consider ways to minimize damage to the Red Desert. Five energy companies want to drill up to 56 gas wells on the land, which environmentalists oppose.

Get the Story:
BLM ordered to consider environmental alternatives in Red Desert (AP 1/22)

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

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