The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
August 12, 2009, Gary Harmon

The Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area sets a pattern for modern public-lands management and, perhaps, for new solutions to American divisions, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday during the dedication of the NCA. Speaking to more than 100 people atop a bluff overlooking the Gunnison River hundreds of feet below, where Mesa and Delta counties join, Salazar, a Democrat, praised Republican county commissioners as the drivers who pushed through the designation of the conservation area....

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