CHACO ALLIANCE

In 2007 the Chaco Alliance was part of a coalition of groups that stopped Cimerax from putting wells on state land just below the border of the park, south of Fajada Butte. In 2009 the Chaco Alliance alerted the Hopi Preservation Department that the BLM intended to offer for lease almost 10,000 acres of land just outside the park. In October 2009, the BLM withdrew its lease proposal thanks primarily to the efforts of the Hopi, working in concert with the Chaco Alliance, San Juan Citizens Alliance, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Director of the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office wrote to the BLM: "Because the Hopi Tribe and other Pueblo tribes have not been consulted, appropriate consultations have not been concluded…Therefore we protest this lease sale and request that it be canceled or postponed until appropriate consultations have been concluded." In early 2010 the Chaco Alliance and San Juan Citizens Alliance were granted consulting party status under Section..

Also known as: The Chaco Alliance

Primary location: Farmington United States