Major energy corridors may cross parkland.Environmentalists and land management organizations have become concerned recently with talk that power line and pipeline corridors across western U.S. states will likely cross wide swaths of public land, including parkland. Utility companies have proposed corridors through Death Valley, Joshua Tree Joshua tree: see yucca. and Lassen Volcanic National Parks Lassen Volcanic National Park, 106,372 acres (43,081 hectares), N Calif., at the southern end of the Cascade Range. Proclaimed as Lassen Peak and Cinder Cone national monuments in 1907, the two were incorporated into a new national park in 1916. , Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, c.639 sq mi (1,655 sq km), S Calif., occupying most of E San Diego co. and neighboring portions of Riverside and Imperial cos.; est. 1933. , Mojave National Preserve Mojave National Preserve: see Mojave Desert; National Parks and Monuments (table). and a number of national forests. The Department of Energy and the Bureau of Land Management will approve thousands of miles of these energy corridors by August 2007. Congress set this deadline in its 2005 Energy Policy Act, which could place routes through 11 western states. Some proposed routes are as wide as five miles and 2,000 miles in length. |
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