FILE - This Feb. 28, 2011 file photo environmental activist Tim DeChristopher leaves the Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse in Salt Lake City. DeChristopher is giving up appeals of his conviction for bidding on oil-and-gas parcels he couldn't pay for at a federal auction in Utah. DeChristopher said Friday he was dropping appeals after being turned back earlier this month at the Denver-based 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart, File)
