Oil drilling right outside of national parks?
What will they think of next? Ugh. Should I expound on why the BLM frustrates me to no end? This article kind of does it for me:
The view of Delicate Arch natural bridge — an unspoiled landmark so iconic it’s on Utah’s license plates — could one day include a drilling platform under a proposal that environmentalists call a Bush administration “fire sale” for the oil and gas industry.The U.S. Bureau of Land Management plans an auction on Dec. 19 of more than 50,000 acres of oil and gas parcels alongside or within view of Arches National Park and two other red-rock national parks in Utah: Dinosaur and Canyonlands.
The BLM is NOT a good steward of public land. Why do you ask? There are many many examples of how BLM would rather control and keep wild animal populations to a very low low level so that cattle ranchers can use/lease public/government land. Wild animals such as the Black-Footed Ferret, Wild Mustangs, Wolves, etc. Now the BLM wants to allow drilling right outside national parks. Just another example of how they are not good stewards of the land they manage.
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