The B-L-M has hit reverse on oil and gas leasing decisions in the Red Desert’s Adobe Town. Five leases have been pulled totaling about 54-hundred acres. The leases had been protested by the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance and The Wilderness Society on the grounds that the area had wilderness qualities that should be protected. B-C-A’s wildlife biologist, Erik Molvar, praises the decision.
Molvar says his group and others have been working for years to keep industrial projects out of the area’s natural rock formations and Native American sacred sites. His says this victory, plus expiring leases, are benchmarks of progress.
Most of the leases outside Adobe Town will go forward. The news comes during this week’s ‘Red Desert Week’ celebration, with events throughout the state.
Molvar says his group and others have been working for years to keep industrial projects out of the area’s natural rock formations and Native American sacred sites. His says this victory, plus expiring leases, are benchmarks of progress.
Most of the leases outside Adobe Town will go forward. The news comes during this week’s ‘Red Desert Week’ celebration, with events throughout the state.
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