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© Darren Huski<br />
www.wilderness.org<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is a fast-moving mining initiative underway at south-central New Mexico’s<br />
Otero Mesa, home to more than a thousand native species (including a prize<br />
pronghorn herd), thousands of ancient archeological sites, and more than half a<br />
million acres of wilderness-quality lands. Mining would also jeopardize the Salt<br />
Basin aquifer, the state’s largest, untapped freshwater resource.<br />
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