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. 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.
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.