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Gr 9 Up—In the waning days of the George W. Bush administration, the Bureau of Land Management gave a last gift, perhaps illegally, to energy and oil companies in the auction of 100,000 acres of a Federal Land Preserve in Utah. Tim De Christopher, a college student and environmental supporter, attended the auction with the intention of staging a peaceful protest, but instead entered bids with which he won the rights to 22,000 acres and for which he had no means of payment. The incoming Obama administration invalidated the auction and preserved the land, but nonetheless indicted, tried, and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More