Google Earth is revolutionizing the way people see change on the Earth’s surface. In this case is it the massive amount of oil and gas development in Wyoming.
On your own or watching the short video at www.skytruth.org, it can revolutionize your view of cumulative environmental impacts.
For those of you that have seen “An Inconvenient Truth,” and the ponds that formed before the breakup of the big ice shelf in Antarctica, move your cursor to Greenland. Scroll to the highest elevations on the great interior ice field there. Zoom in. What do you see?
Picturing Landscape Change. The Truth from Above. By Richard Martin. New West.
Ralph Maughan
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.
