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Interior Dept. Cancels Utah Wilderness Selloff

HeadlineFeb 05, 2009

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has canceled a controversial last-minute Bush administration attempt to auction off nearly 150,000 acres of wilderness in southern Utah. On Wednesday, Salazar said he had canceled the leases to drill for gas and oil on the seventy-seven parcels of public land. The sale was initially delayed after university student Tim DeChristopher posed as a bidder and bought up thousands of acres.

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