Here is more on the striking decline in air quality in the Pinedale, Wyoming area.
Pollution blamed on drilling industry. Associated Press
More on May 12. Once-idyllic Pinedale is ground zero in debate over energy quest, quality of life
By Brandon Griggs. The Salt Lake Tribune
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.
Wendell Berry in Harpers magizine “Faustian Economics” (Hell hath no limits) describes this delimina of our contemporaty civilization as: “It is this economy of community destruction that, wittingly or unwittingly, most scientists and technicans have served for the past two hundred years. These scientists and technicans have justified themselves by the proposition that they are the vanguard of progress, enlarging human power and knowledge, , and thus have romatized both themselves and the predatory enterprises that they have served. As a consequence, our great need now is science and technologies of limits”.