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The Notch Peak Intrusive
October 2005 by Alan J. Chenworth
Located about thirty miles west of Delta, Utah, just to the north of Highway 6-50, is a tall rocky crag with an apparent notch missing from the peak. This is Notch Peak.
IBLA Limits Patent to Mineral Rights in Wild & Scenic River Corridors
The following was excerpted from a published decision of Interior Department Office of Hearings and Appeals
What Is Incidental Fallback?
Police Extend Detention of Newmont Executives
Five executives from the American mining giant Newmont will continue to be jailed while facing pollution charges in Indonesia, police said, despite test results that show “normal” mercury levels near a former gold mine.
Feds Sue California over Sales of Public Lands
They cited concerns that the Trump administration would allow more logging, oil drilling, mining or development on some of the 46 million acres controlled by the federal government in California.
Roads Protecting Grizzlies Reopen
U.S. Forest Service officials are drawing criticism from environmentalists for reopening some back-country roads that had been closed to protect threatened grizzly bears.
Over the Divide
Elaine Schrader
1935 - 2003
Sage-Grouse Won't Get ESA Listing For Now
The Obama administration announced on March 5 its decision not to list the sage-grouse as threatened or endangered at the moment, though it left the door wide open to future listing.
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