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Public Lands: Who Owns the West?

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A Growing Interest In Mining Prompts Calls For Clean Up

Environmental groups say there’s a growing interest in mining in California. They say that’s part of the reason they’re pushing to clean up old mines.
California Public Radio

An Ugly Prospect

Mining claims encroaching on Western population centers
Grist

From Bad To Worse

Austin Is The Bomb
Texas Observer

Mining for Votes

The National Journal

New York Times: The Power to Say No

New York Times

Tucson Citizen: Calamity at Canyon

Uranium exploration permit near Grand Canyon park underscores need for reforms
Tucson Citizen

ST. Louis Post-Dispatch: Keeping the Grand Canyon grand

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Las Vegas Sun: Stop mining giveaways

Drilling permit near Grand Canyon brings mining law’s obsolescence intofocus
Las Vegas Sun

New York Times: Uranium Exploration Near Grand Canyon

New York Times