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Contact your senators and representative today! On Feb. 6, 2012, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a notice in the Federal Register affecting 2.4 million acres of public land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. The BLM decided to take a "fresh look" at land-use plans in the aforementioned states dealing with oil shale and tar sands leases. Even though this announcement deals with energy-related leases, the BLM will consider "wilderness characteristics" in determining any future disposition of public land in the affected areas.
"Wilderness characteristics" was the definition of the Department of the Interior's (DOIs) "Wild Lands" policy.
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