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Land managers have scheduled two more public meetings and extended the comment period on a proposal that would prohibit oil and gas development on federal land surrounding a Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico that Indigenous communities consider culturally significant.

Archaeologists, historians and environmentalists are joining New Mexico's congressional delegation and a coalition of Native American tribes in asking…

The preservation and protection of Native American cultural sites would be a priority of U.S. land managers under one of the options up for consideration…