Former Interior Secretary wants protective zone around Chaco ruins

Opinion: Oil and gas development threatens Chaco Culture National Park

 

A call is being made to put a 10-mile no energy-leasing zone around the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico.

The call comes from Bruce Babbitt, the former Secretary of the Interior Department. In an opinion piece in Writers on the Range, Babbitt said “a surge of oil and gas development threatens this ancestral site.”

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