Preservationists: Gas drilling threatens carvings (AP)

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Preservationists: Gas drilling threatens carvings
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<p>You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginAP - Along Utah's Nine Mile Canyon lies what some call the longest art gallery in the world ? thousands of prehistoric rock carvings and paintings of bighorn sheep and other wildlife, hunters wielding spears, and warriors engaged in hand-to-hand combat. But now, a dramatic increase in natural gas drilling is proposed on the plateau above the canyon, and preservationists fear trucks will kick up dust that will cover over the images.</p><br clear="all"/>


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