Chaco Canyon National Historic Park

Protestors gathered outside the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Santa Fe on Wednesday on the last day for public comment on the federal agency’s proposal to remove or shrink a 10-mile buffer zone around Chaco Canyon for oil and gas drilling.

New Mexico's tribal leaders and the entire federal congressional delegation urged residents to make their voice heard to help protect Chaco Canyon, an UNESCO world heritage site, from drilling and mining during what Sen. Ben Ray Lujan called "one of the shortest" public comment windows he has seen for a law that would rollback protections around the historically and culturally significant ancient ruins.

Pueblo leaders and environmentalists are angry that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management released an environmental assessment on Wednesday with the intent of eliminating a buffer around Chaco Culture National Historical Park that has prevented oil and gas leasing. BLM is offering just two weeks for public comment on the report.

On Tuesday, the New Mexico congressional delegation and pueblo leaders held a press conference outside the Capitol in Washington D.C. to urge Congress and the Trump Administration to continue upholding protections for Chaco Canyon against oil and gas drilling.

How the remote, ancient landscape became the center of a debate among Indigenous groups weighing the value of ancestral sites against the economic potential of their future.

The Bureau of Land Management is holding a series of listening sessions on whether to ban oil and gas leasing around Chaco Canyon for the next 20 years

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