Is Moab worth 5 minutes?

On March 28'th the Bureau of Land Management held a dog and pony show to show us their plans to lease large portions of Moab to the oil and gas industry. Check out the map here...http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/ut/moab_fo/mlp0.Par.39161.File.dat/MLP%20Map.pdf


I want you to picture an oil well here...

From March 2012

or here...

From March 2012

or a flashing strobe light on a tower competing with the moon here....

From March 2012

I want you to imagine competing with industrial traffic to get to the Slick Rock Trail...

From March 2012

...like this...

From March 2012

...and beautiful Moab sunset pictures...like this....

From March 2012

...and imagine star gazing while gas flares light the night...like they currently are doing in North Dakota seen here by satellite...

From March 2012

...and imagine these ancient water holes filled with industrial run-off...

From March 2012

And the proposed area's surround Arches National Park...SURROUND IT! Think about that...

From March 2012

Think it can't happen? Make sure it doesn't! Let the BLM know that Moab is off limits. All the info you need is here...http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/moab/MLP.HTML If you won't take 5 minutes to write a quick email in defense of this place, then they've already won.