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Conservationists Urge BLM To Protect Adobe Town
By The Associated Press
GREEN RIVER (AP) � Biodiversity Associates has asked the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to protect more than 40,000 acres in southwestern Wyoming.
The Laramie-based conservation group wants the land near Adobe Town designated as a wilderness study area. The 200,000-acre Adobe Town is south of Wamsutter and home to wild horses, badlands and desert.
Eric Molvar of Biodiversity Associates said a BLM report recently identified the wilderness-quality land. Wilderness study areas are protected until Congress decides whether to develop them.
The agency has taken �an important first step in identifying and protecting some of America�s best remaining wildlands for the public benefit,� he said.
Conservationists have said a seismic mapping project could lead to more oil and gas drilling in the region. About half of the Adobe Town area is off-limits to development.
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