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...percent in the past 15 years, with earnings rising 62 percent. Furthermore, current mining plans will result in 92-foot long double trailer trucks rumbling through Southern Utah every five minutes, 24 hours per day. And local companies will scarcely benefit. Andalex, the most likely corporation to mine this land, is Dutch...
...wilderness of Southern Utah is one of America's most spectacular national treasures. But is is also one of our most threatened. If Congress passes pending legislation, much of this land will be opened to development, stripped for coal and bulldozed for mining. This pristine wilderness will become a desert wasteland...
Legislation introduced in Congress by Utah's Republican delegation--H.R. 1745 (Rep. Hansen) and S. 884 (Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Bennett)--would take the 22 million acres of public land in Utah currently administered by the Bureau of Land Management and allow 20.2 million acres to be drilled, mined, dammed and cleared...
Anyone who has been to southern Utah knows the unique beauty of the land. Millions of years of wind and running water have carved deep canyons in the soft sandstone--from thin "slot" canyons 10 feet wide but more than 1,000 feet high, to the magnificent Grand Canyon. Anasazi Indian ruins hide in the sandstone depths. Many species of endangered wildlife live in this wilderness. When the sun sets, the mesas glow fuchsia, gold, violet...
...implications of the Hatch-Hansen bill extend beyond the irreversible harm to the redrock wilderness. First, the bill would cripple the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964, the law which is the foundation of all of our nation's protected wilderness areas. So-called "hard release" language specifies that this land can never receive wilderness designation, even if future generations wish to preserve it. Second, the passage of the Hatch-Hansen bill would establish a precedent for similar legislation which would open public lands across the nation. This is not just a regional issue...