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| | Biodiversity Conservation Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | In the Jack Morrow Hills, a person can climb to the top of ancient volcanic buttes and look out into the horizon across a wide-open landscape, watch a bull elk bugle to potential mates, or catch a glimpse of a ferruginous hawk - a rare bird of prey declining throughout most of the west. |
 | | The agency, under the anti-environmental Bush administration, is pushing to bring hundreds of new oil, gas, and coalbed methane wells into this spectacular area, along with the associated spiderweb of roads, pipelines, powerlines, and compressor stations. |
 | | Even if every acre of the Jack Morrow Hills were drilled and all technically recoverable oil and gas deposits were developed, well beyond the scope of this plan, the nation would be supplied with only 9 weeks of natural gas and 39 minutes of oil. |
| www.voiceforthewild.org /blm/alerts/a31may03.html (540 words) |
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