Over 4000 more gas wells to go onto the Pinedale Anticline, pretty much spelling the end to wildlife in the area

How fast on the Anticline? By Whitney Royster. Casper Star-Tribune.

The demands of the oil and gas industry are endless and their assurances meaningless, as this vast increase shows. It’s the end of wildlife and clean air in the Green River Basin. Their will be far more gas wells in the county than people (at least before the gas workers came in).

BLM Silent as Agency Criticized. Guest columnist asks. Have We ‘Nuked’ Pinedale’s Big Game Herds? By William Alldredge. New West.


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Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan’s Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of “Hiking Idaho.” He also wrote “Beyond the Tetons” and “Backpacking Wyoming’s Teton and Washakie Wilderness.” He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.

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