Recent research indicates that there is an ongoing Uranium boom in the American West.   The Environmental Working Group recently reported that Interior Department records show a sharp increase in mining claims on Western public lands since 2002, driven by a seven-fold increase in the price of Uranium.  According to these records, mining interests staked just 300 claims for uranium in Colorado in fiscal year 2004, but in the two years since uranium interests have staked almost 3,500 claims in the state. 

A large number of these new claims are within the uranium rich Dolores River Basin.  Uranium mining on public land has the potential to degrade the native ecosystems and further threaten imperiled species in the Dolores River Basin.  We working to protect this special place from threats posed by Uranium mining.