A NATIONAL TREASURE THREATENED
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| UTAH'S REDROCK WILDERNESS:
A NATIONAL TREASURE THREATENED |
"FACTORIES, POWER PLANTS, RESORTS WE CAN MAKE ANYWHERE. WILDERNESS, ONCE WE HAVE GIVEN IT UP, IS BEYOND OUR RECONSTRUCTION."
- Wallace Stegner
Dirty Devil, Hiker in narrows at mouth of Happy Canyon. © JAMES KAY | DIRTY DEVIL. Southeast of Hanksville, Utah, the Dirty Devil River has carved a labyrinthine canyon system covering nearly 300,000 acres, including about 50,000 acres within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Featuring a 90-mile stretch of wild river, superb habitat for antelope and desert bighorn sheep, colorful rock formations and sheer-walled canyons of exceptional beauty, the entire Dirty Devil Canyon system is one integral natural area. H.R.1745/S.884 would leave open for development a block of over 100,000 acres precisely in the center of the proposed Dirty Devil Wilderness. Reason for the omission: a proposed 54,000-acre tar sands mining complex which would entail, over the life of the project, the drilling of 35,000 injection and recovery wells, the construction of at least 100 miles of associated roads, 30,000 acres of soil disturbed, 14,000 acres of vegetation stripped and 2,000 archeological sites disturbed or destroyed. |
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