Feds move ahead with oil and gas leases on southern Utah lands rich in ancient Puebloan ruins

Study of acreage spanning Recapture and Jenny canyons goes to public comment as the Bureau of Land Management pushes Trump’s ‘America First’ energy strategy.

(Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo) A cliff dwelling in Recapture Canyon, Thursday September 8, 2016. The Bureau of Land Management proposes selling oil and gas leases here and other archaeologically rich parts of San Juan County, including Mustang Mesa, Alkali Ridge and Montezuma Creek at its March 2018 auction. These public lands contain the remnants of Ancestral Puebloan culture, which flourished here 800 years aog. The BLM had closed Recapture Canyon, east of Blanding, to motorized use in 2007 after discovering an illegally constructed trail had damaged some of its archaeological sites.

Feds move ahead with oil and gas leases on southern Utah lands rich in ancient Puebloan ruins

Study of acreage spanning Recapture and Jenny canyons goes to public comment as the Bureau of Land Management pushes Trump’s ‘America First’ energy strategy.

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