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"Arizona's Outdoor Recreation Community Urges Interior Secretary To Protect Grand Canyon From Mining
Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on September 25, 2011 - 1:48am

http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2011/09/arizonas-outdoor-recreation-community-urges-interior-secretary-protect-grand-canyon-mining8790

This "postcard" is part of a campaign to urge Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to extend a moratorium on hardrock mining nearing Grand Canyon National Park.

It's not unusual to send postcards from national parks, but the card sent to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar not only encourages him to visit Grand Canyon National Park, but to protect it from hardrock mining.

Signed by more than 200 Arizona businesses that rely on outdoor recreation, the message was sent to the Interior secretary as the U.S. Bureau of Land Management nears an end to an environmental impact statement examining whether to pass a 20-year moratorium on hardrock mining near the park...'