{"id":814,"date":"2016-11-21T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T22:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/?p=814"},"modified":"2016-11-21T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T22:22:07","slug":"30000-acres-in-paradise-valley-in-yellowstone-protected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/30000-acres-in-paradise-valley-in-yellowstone-protected\/","title":{"rendered":"30,000 acres in Paradise Valley in Yellowstone Protected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Blocked-Mining-Yellowstone.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-815\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Blocked-Mining-Yellowstone-1024x778.png\" alt=\"Mining blocked near Yellowstone\" width=\"630\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Blocked-Mining-Yellowstone-1024x778.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Blocked-Mining-Yellowstone-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Blocked-Mining-Yellowstone-750x570.png 750w, https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Blocked-Mining-Yellowstone.png 1488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel has announced that U.S. officials are blocking new mining claims in 30,000 acres north of Yellowstone, an area called Paradise Valley. While this is just a short-term ban for 2 years, they are recommending considering a long-term ban. This was in response to two\u00a0proposed mine locations \u2013 one by a Canadian company called Lucky Minerals who applied to explore for gold and other minerals north of Yellowstone near Emigrant, Montana. The\u00a0second proposed mine location was from Washington-based Crevice Mining Group\u00a0who was seeking\u00a0permission to explore for gold\u00a0in Yellowstone\u2019s northern boundary. The two-year prohibition would not explicitly block the two pending mining proposals on private lands, but it could make large-scale mining more difficult if the projects were expanded onto public lands.<\/p>\n<p>Interior officials also recently blocked new oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean and cancelled 15 oil and gass leases in Montana and 25 oil and gas leases in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope this protection will continue in the future, and that we will keep adding more protections\u00a0for the\u00a0wildnerness\u00a0\u2013 the old excuse that protecting our environment comes at the expense of jobs and economic development is a poor one, we need to protect what&#8217;s left of our natural lands now for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>We have the technology to create power with\u00a0relying so much on\u00a0oil and gas, so let&#8217;s start applying new technologies now and cease the further exploitation of our environment for the sake of money.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel has announced that U.S. officials are blocking new mining claims in 30,000 acres north of Yellowstone, an area called Paradise Valley. While this is just a short-term ban for 2 years, they are recommending considering a long-term ban. 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