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Related: The great giveaway Brand-new resource management plans from Utah’s BLM welcome ATVs and energy development onto some of the state’s most fragile land.; Dust on the rocks The results of a scientific study on the effects of dust on rock art are somehow “lost” in the haze of Barrett Corporation’s drilling in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon.; Stargazer aims his scopes at gas industry Astronomer Perry Walker uses his stargazing tools and skills to work with the oil and gas industry to prevent air pollution in Wyoming; Oil and gas drilling clouds the West's air Air pollution from oil and gas drilling is on the increase in the Rocky Mountain West, and environmentalists and energy companies are trying to prevent it from getting any worse; Gas drilling blamed for smog Scientists say that oil and gas drilling is responsible for creating high levels of smog-forming hydrocarbons in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, New Mexico and Colorado

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The HCN Wire Our Editor's picks from around the West: Utah auction draws few oil and gas drillers; Idaho Power's cloud seeding efforts keep water flowing over dams | Idaho Statesman; Wyoming antler collectors butt heads over proposed law -- latimes.com; Bishop: Environmental rules impeding border security - Salt Lake Tribune; More

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