Navajo Nation won't allow uranium transport across Big Boquillas Ranch

The Big Boquillas Ranch is well known in Northern Arizona.  Quite far to the west of the vast Navajo reservation, it was purchased some years ago by the Navajo Nation.  Long, long before that, and a few years before he connected with our family at Flagstaff at the beginning of the 1950s,  Frank Dolphin, who had been a radical organizer in the California farm fields in the '30s, worked as a cowpuncher for the Boquillas. Later he worked in the same vicinity for the Diamond A ranch, was seriously injured when a horse threw him, became a cow camp cook, and, with my father's art guidance, became a fine Western artist.  He often described to me the geological turf of that region and it wasn't surprising to me when uranium was struck in that area.  (H)


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Navajo Nation won't allow transport of uranium across ranch
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Filed Under: Environment 
More on: arizona, navajo, uranium
    



      The Navajo Nation won't allow the transport of uranium through a ranch the tribe owns in Arizona, the Associated Press reports. 

      The Big Boquillas Ranch surrounds a site on state-owned land that could be used for uranium development. The tribe said it won't grant access if that happens. 

      "We have no intention of allowing them to cross Navajo lands unless they have appropriate access rights," Navajo Deputy Attorney General Dana Bobroff told the AP. 

      The ranch is not part of the reservation but the tribe has banned uranium mining on its lands. 

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      Navajo Nation plans to deny uranium mining company permission to transport ore on tribal land (AP 5/27) 
     

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