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Impostor Disrupts Lands Bid

About 100 people, many from conservation and environmental groups, protest outside the BLM office in downtown Salt Lake City on Friday. (Al Hartmann/ The Salt Lake Tribune)

He didn't pour sugar into a bulldozer's gas tank. He didn't spike a tree or set a billboard on fire. But wielding only a bidder's paddle, a University of Utah student just as surely monkey-wrenched a federal oil- and gas-lease sale Friday, ensuring that thousands of acres near two southern Utah national parks won't be opened to drilling anytime soon.

Tim DeChristopher, 27, faces possible federal charges after winning bids totaling about $1.8 million on more than 10 lease parcels that he admits he has neither the intention nor the money to buy -- and he's not sorry.

Posted in Activism, conservation, Environment, protest