Chaco Canyon: Using Public Lands to Generate Revenue | Our Land

Learn about the Greater Chaco Landscape and the portion protected by Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Coalitions of Indigenous and environmental groups want to protect the Chacoan landscape from increased oil and gas drilling, and the federal government has ideas for a ten-mile buffer around the park to protect it from becoming completely industrialized. These protections are vital because of the negative ways oil and gas development is affecting the land and water where people live, especially on the Navajo Nation.