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Demand for natural gas is pitting the Old West against the New
All Fired Up: A natural gas boom is transforming public lands; pitting Westerner against Westerner.
By John G. Mitchell, National Geographic| July 2005
There are a number of places in the Rocky Mountains today where you will find the Old West grinding against the New, and Pinedale, Wyoming, is surely one of them. From hills roundabout you can see in the east the snow-dusted peaks of the Wind River Range, and the faraway Wyoming Range to westward.
This is vintage Old West scenery you're looking at. Soak it up while there's still a chance, for that other West, the New West of pipelines, thumper trucks, and drilling rigs, sits up there on the mesa and southward beyond it.
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