now, a lot of people look across canyon land, say, in southeast utah where this picture is, and it's not really clear how you get around, how you get from place to place. but if you know this place well enough you know right over this lip of white sandstone, if you go right over the ledge and hang your foot over this side, you can't see it but you can feel it with the tip of your foot, there's a little toe hold down there, then if you get on that toe hold you drop your other foot down and there's another toe hold. it happens a thousand years ago somebody carved just a series of toe holds down this rock face. and you climb down those and they lead to a ledge and the ledge wraps around underneath here and it drops down into another spot that you go through a saddle and around to the other side and through another saddle and down and around. it's this circuitous route that's constantly carrying you down deeper and deeper and this is the landscape is just covered with these. i don't take maps out there any more out into this place because it's all memory. this place is the map. i went do

now, a lot of people look across canyon land, say, in southeast utah where this picture is, and it's not really clear how you get around, how you get

he pointed out land near utah's desolation canyon, where the bureau of land management recently approved 1,298 new wells for the natural gas company gasco. >> the desolation canyon stretch of the green river is truly one of the gems of american public lands. it's this remarkably wild landscape, one of the largest roadless areas in the lower 48. and that is going to be lost. the level of development will be significant. it will significantly impact that area. >> suarez: the decision was a huge disappointment for bloch, who says, once these places are developed, there's no going back. though new leases require companies to leave the land the way they found it, a desert is very slow to heal and hard to reclaim. >> brown: you can view more of our reports on energy online. >> brown: finally tonight, a new government report finds disturbing rates of h.i.v. infections among young americans. hari sreenivasan is back with that story. >> sreenivasan: researchers from the centers for disease control said they are worried about the latest findings. out of 50,000 infections, one out of every four str

in 2010 and 2011 the recreation park department and trust republic land held a series of meetings regarding improvements to glen canyonark. this project is the as a result of that public process. the content plan for the glen canyon trail system, which includes creek side trail loop was approved by recreation park commission in august of 2011. we expect the bid and award for this to happen later this year, or in early 2013. and construction to be scheduled in spring of 2013. the state park grant funds provided through this program will be used mostly to the existing creek side trail. the state park grants require grantee to provide public access for period of 20 years for property that benefits from the grant program. the legislation authorizes director to record memorandum of unrecorded grant agreement for this purpose. in closing i'm requesting committee recommend to the board of supervisors to accept and expend the grant and to authorize the director of real estate to record the memorandum of unrecorded grant agreement. i'm available to answer any questions. >> thank you very much for the presentation. for this ite

in 2010 and 2011 the recreation park department and trust republic land held a series of meetings regarding improvements to glen canyon park. this project is the as a result of that public process. the content plan for the glen canyon trail system, which includes creek side trail loop was approved by recreation park commission in august of 2011. we expect the bid and award for this to happen later this year, or in early 2013. and construction to be scheduled in spring of 2013. the state park grant funds provided through this program will be used mostly to the existing creek side trail. the state park grants require

land to milpitas. one of the slowest 80 rise i can remember seeing. this was backed up because of problems on the dumbarton bridge reproached with flooding. that has been cleared. mudslide in canyonon the guadalupe parkway has traffic backed up all the way to highway 85 leading northbound. there ride on the meadowlands that it will be slow conditions here for the usually trouble-free interstate 280. 1 01 slow the entire length of the drive from sfo down to mountain view. one of the few bright spots has been the 1 01 commute from marin county. ho >> mike pelton is live in castro valley >> a steady downpour of rain still pounding the area here in castro valley. it has look like this for much of the morning. you can see on your screen that the rain continues to fall. i am along castro valley boulevard just east of crown canyon road. we have seen this for much of the morning. i have not seen any sort of lead over the past three or four hours. this allowed of drivers have their windchill wipers turned on. a lot of people have come out of their homes this morning with the mls and thick jackets. despite the gloomy conditions some nice folks out here tell me they welcome the rain. >> i l