Land in Limbo: Mining in and Around the Petrified Forest National Park

Abstract

Potash mining will almost certainly come to Eastern Arizona. However, it remains to be seen what lands will be open to mining and what lands will be preserved in their current state. As it stands now, potash mining will likely occur on lands Congress authorized for expansion of the Petrified Forest National Park but never bought because the funds were never appropriated. Advocates for environmental preservation, however, are working to keep mining out of these lands.