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Show SIERRA CLUB TRIES TO BLOCK OIL DRILLING The Sierra Club has filed a notice of appeal with the U. S. Forest Service that apparently could halt all oil and gas exploration in road- less areas of 11 national forests in Montana, Wyoming, Wy-oming, Utah and Idaho. The area includes the ' "over-thrust belt" that runs from Utah northward through the Rocky Mountains into Canada. "We want no. more leasing leas-ing in these roadless areas until the Forest Service completes their wilderness review," Stokes said. Stokes saidtheSierraClub also asked the Forest Service Ser-vice to request the BLM to void and rescind leases issued is-sued after Jan. 1, 1970, in roadless areas administered by the Forest Service in the overthrust belt. Leases and lease applications appli-cations would be affected in Montana; in Wyoming; in Utah; and in Idaho. |