NEW GUIDANCE FROM INTERIOR DEPARTMENT WOULD GIVE WESTERN ICONS A SECOND CHANCE:

Colorado’s Roan Plateau, New Mexico’s Otero Mesa, Arizona’s Aravaipa Canyon and many
other magnificent, wild landscapes throughout the West that have been proposed for wilderness designation have been vulnerable as a result of the “No More Wilderness” policy.



Numerous BLM land use plans issued after the 2003 policy and before the end of the Bush administration left wilderness-quality lands riddled with roads and open to oil and gas drilling.



If the No More Wilderness policy were not revoked, these plans will extend the Bush administration’s antiwilderness policies for another 15-20 years, the lifespan of the plans.

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