Word: anschutz
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...Bureau of Land Management, its landlord, the sandstone canyon southwest of Billings, Mont., is known as Weatherman Draw. The BLM leases the mineral rights to the site for $1 per acre per year, or $160--about the price of an average downtown parking spot. To the Anschutz Exploration Corp. of Denver, which holds a permit to drill for oil there, the canyon is designated as Federal Lease MTM-74615. Should the company's wells pan out, the canyon could be worth millions. Finally, to the numerous Native American tribes that revere the canyons' ancient rock drawings of warriors, shields...
...their quarrels over public resources, how can Westerners find common ground when the ground itself has so many different names? This remote Montana canyon may hold some answers. Last spring, when the Interior Department ruled that Anschutz had a right to drill here, it touched off a negotiating process as complicated as a Native dance. Tribes from the Comanche to the Crow, who had long used the canyon as place of worship and regard it (as do anthropologists) as a living link to their collective pasts, petitioned Washington to reverse its policy. The BLM stood pat, so the tribes went...