Jeremy Parriott, center, with dog Roxy and friend Thomas Koch, left, stand Friday, April 15, 2005, at the entrance to a uranium mine test tunnel, near Area BFE, an off-road vehicle park Parriott opened below the La Sal mountains in the desert a dozen mile

Jeremy Parriott, center, with dog Roxy and friend Thomas Koch, left, stand Friday, April 15, 2005, at the entrance to a uranium mine test tunnel, near Area BFE, an off-road vehicle park Parriott opened below the La Sal mountains in the desert a dozen miles south of Moab, Utah. After a uranium mining bust in the early 1980s, Moab has reinvented itself as a recreation mecca, attracting conflicting groups of mountain bikers, off-road drivers, climbers, hikers and rafters. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)

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Jeremy Parriott, center, with dog Roxy and friend Thomas Koch, left, stand Friday, April 15, 2005, at the entrance to a uranium mine test tunnel, near Area BFE, an off-road vehicle park Parriott opened below the La Sal mountains in the desert a dozen miles south of Moab, Utah. After a uranium mining bust in the early 1980s, Moab has reinvented itself as a recreation mecca, attracting conflicting groups of mountain bikers, off-road drivers, climbers, hikers and rafters. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)