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Related: In New Mexico, a homegrown wilderness bill makes headway In northwestern New Mexico, the Coalition for New Mexico Wilderness is working with Zia Pueblo to preserve a rugged patch of the state as the Ojito Wilderness Area; Energy bill would pry open public lands If Bush’s energy bill passes, it will put major emphasis on public-lands energy development with a number of its provisions; Two decades of hard work, plowed under The Bush administration opens up wild lands to oil and gas drilling, pulling the rug out from under two decades of citizen wilderness activism; Lost in the wilderness of power politics The kind of democratic dialogue that creates viable wilderness proposals is impossible in the current wilderness of power politics; Location, location, location Power plant siting matters to Colorado communities.

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