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Report On Oil, Gas Leases Shows Flaws That Must Be Fixed

Last December, the Bureau of Land Management auctioned off for drilling some of America's most spectacular wilderness landscapes.

Remote country dominated by towering cliffs and serpentine slickrock canyons right on the doorstep of Canyonlands and Arches national parks and Dinosaur National Monument, popular recreation areas bordering the famous Monitor and Merrimac buttes north of Moab and lands that the BLM itself found to have wilderness value -- all were going to be handed over to oil companies who are already sitting idly on nearly 4 million acres of leased public lands.

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune

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