Thursday, May 7, 2009

COURT DECISION: OTERO MESA


http://wilderness.org/files/TWTD-NM-Otero.pdf
http://wilderness.org/content/otero-mesa-drilling-court-decision


Our victory on New Mexico's Otero Mesa this week took a turn for the pithy in the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision rejecting the Bureau of Land Management's drilling scheme for the mesa.
If you're not familiar with Otero Mesa, it occupies a blank spot on the map between Las Cruces and Carlsbad, and, at 1.2 million acres, it's the largest untouched Chihuahuan Desert grassland found anywhere in the United States.

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