<PERSON> | The Salt Lake Tribune <PERSON> and <PERSON> in the BLM's Salt Lake City office on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. National protesters mobbed a routine oil & gas lease auction Tuesday at the Salt Palace, where <PERSON> tried to bid on parcels with the hopes of keeping them from being drilled. She ended up submitting an offer after the auction on a parcel that failed to attract the minimum $2-an-acre bid.