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By Jennifer Dobner
Salt Lake City, Utah (AP)
Conservation groups are asking a judge to block oil and gas drilling around trout streams and in roadless forests of northern Utah.
The groups are challenging lease sales held in 2004 and 2005. They contend a multiyear effort to resolve their complaints failed to produce a settlement with federal agencies. The leases cover 140,000 acres of public land, including 90,000 acres designated as roadless.
Salt Lake City, Utah (AP)
Conservation groups are asking a judge to block oil and gas drilling around trout streams and in roadless forests of northern Utah.
The groups are challenging lease sales held in 2004 and 2005. They contend a multiyear effort to resolve their complaints failed to produce a settlement with federal agencies. The leases cover 140,000 acres of public land, including 90,000 acres designated as roadless.
