On Dec. 19, Tim DeChristopher, 27, walked into a Bureau of Land Management building in Salt Lake City where an auction was being held. The federal government was selling drilling rights on 164,000 acres of land in Utah's Red Rock Country. Earlier that month, several environmental groups--including the [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Modern-Day Monkeywrencher
During the final days of the Bush administration, Tim DeChristopher's civil disobedience drew attention to a rushed federal auction for Utah drilling rights.
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