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New Alliance Fights Energy Search in Wilderness
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Valle Vidal [N.M.] has become a battleground in the drive to expand energy exploration on public land, attracting the attention of a growing coalition of hunters, anglers, environmentalists, ranchers, homeowners and politicians across the ideological spectrum. Here and elsewhere in the Western United States, this coalition is starting to resist the push for energy exploration in some of the nation's most prized wilderness areas. (Washington Post [1], Tuesday)
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Protecting Precious Resources [2] by Scott McPherson
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[1] Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/24/AR2006072400951.html
[2] Protecting Precious Resources: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=4059
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