Gov makes good case to protect Wyoming Range. By the Casper Star Tribune Editorial Board.
Once the gas companies have a public land oil and gas lease, they have purchased not just the right to drill, but the right to develop; and now they have leases near the Hoback River on the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
To the local residents the gas companies low-ball the chances of hitting a big field, but as the editorial says, to the their investors it is a different story.
Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University with specialties in natural resource politics, public opinion, interest groups, political parties, voting and elections. Aside from academic publications, he is author or co-author of three hiking/backpacking guides, and he is past President of the Western Watersheds Project and the creator of The Wildlife News.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these Hoback Ranches residents have stock in some of these drilling companies.
The bird coming home to roost….literally.