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Gabe Scarlett/HERALD

Larry Gordy inspects for his cattle’s tracks at an abandoned uranium mine near his home on the Navajo Nation Reservation. Thousands of mines and waste sites lie unreclaimed and continue to poison the land and the people. As a child he remembers playing and sleeping near the site that releases dangerous levels of radiation.