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High Country News
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The Voice of the American West
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When I went off to war and came back
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I looked up at that red 'beat and said, I'm home
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I don't like to fight, but I will if I think I'm right
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When it comes to the land that has given so much to me
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I will fight with everything I've got
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I've spent most of my life trying to make sure
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that our public lands are well managed
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and that our special lands are conserved
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for the next generation.
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I believe we need wild lands.
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We need them for places to retreat and heal.
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But we also need them to feed our imagination, and spirit.
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I was a school teacher at the time that they discovered
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uranium out somewhere in the hills,
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and It was rather ironic - I think my salary was 200
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bucks a month.
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You know you're always looking for another way to
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make money.
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Boy, within six month, we were out there.
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Staking claims like crazy. You know, we were going to
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make some money.
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The bad part was in order to [?] up on these claims
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the only way to show that, with uranium, when it was
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? down underground was to take a bulldozer and dig
