New Mexico has sold 4 million acres of land to oil companies and development

New Mexico has sold 4 million acres of land to oil companies and development

Posted by on Mar 24, 2017 @ 12:08 pm in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: March 24, 2017

  A Wilderness Society report finds that in a little over a century of statehood, New Mexico has liquidated about 30 percent of the land originally granted to it—nearly 4 million acres—and sold it to cattle ranchers, oil and gas companies, railroads and other development interests. The report underscores again why we should be skeptical of politicians’...

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