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A plan to build a four-lane highway through a national conservation area in Utah has conservationists worried about the future of the endangered Mojave desert tortoise and other wildlife.
The plan to build the Northern Corridor Highway through Red Cliffs National Conservation Area has been in the works for more than a decade, but the US Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Service last month released a draft environmental impact statement saying the highway would be "biologically devastating" to the tortoise and other wildlife, reports the Salt Lake Tribune.
"This highway is an ill-conceived idea that needs to go away once and for all," says Holly Snow Canada, executive director of Conserve Southwest Utah, one of a number of conservation groups opposing the highway.
"We urge BLM to reject the highway and prevent the bulldozing of critical habitat for the threatened Mojave desert tortoise," says Desiree Sorensen-Groves, VP of land and habitat conservation for Defenders of Wildlife, per the Center for Biological Diversity.
The environmental impact statement is the first step in a process to determine whether the highway can be built, reports the Salt Lake Tribune.
The agency will announce a public meeting on the draft SEIS in the coming weeks.
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