Read this one quickly—they rotate their articles and don't archive—bummer.

Bearing Witness
by Terry Tempest Williams

FOR MANY AMERICANS, the Bush- Cheney Energy Plan is an abstraction at best, and at worst, a secret. For those of us living in the redrock desert of southern Utah, it is an earth-shaking reality as seismic explorations are underway in sensitive wildlands adjacent to Arches National Park and Canyonlands.

In a memorandum sent by the Bureau of Land Management to field offices on January 4, 2002, it stated, "Utah needs to ensure that existing staff understands that when an oil and gas lease parcel or when an application for permission to drill comes in the door, that this work is their No. 1 priority."
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