The White House had once counted on a sense of emergency to persuade Congress to allow drilling on more protected lands and to change or abandon some regulations seen as impeding energy production.
"Certainly, the sites are more appealing if there is protected land around them".
Cliven Bundy has grazed his cattle on protected land for more than two decades, and ignored fines and court orders since 1993.
With more than 40% of the country designated as protected land, it is not hard to find a deserted forest trail just ripe for the hiking.
With 3,420 acres of protected land, plus another 5,600 acres of farms, more than a quarter of Marbletown's area is undeveloped.
Indigenous lands contain 5 times the land area of fully protected parks and form the majority of protected land in highly contested areas [30].
This is protected land, and no one is supposed to build here – yet more than 1,000 illegal tombs have appeared in the desert since January.
The locations were not on protected land, and the collections did not involve endangered or protected species.
These locations were not on protected land and the field collections did not involve endangered or protected species.
