"If oil and gas development continues at the pace it has recently in Sublette County, our home will look significantly different in 5 to 10 years. Some local kid, who decides to move home after college, is going to take a look around at all the destruction and ask, 'Who let this
happen?'" - Pinedale Roundup Editorial (October 2, 2003)
The Pinedale Anticline
Natural Gas Field in the Upper Green River Valley is being developed in one
of the valley's most important winter range and spring birthing areas.
This area is also in the center of one of the nation's longest
and most ancient big game migration routes, a crucial link for
animals in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem traveling between
Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks and Wyoming's Red Desert.
The Bureau of Land Management has approved
the development of 700 well pads in the Pinedale Anticline Project,
most of which will soon be constructed.
Time-lapse satellite imagery reveals the fast
pace at which oil and gas overcomes a landscape once industry is given unrestricted
access. If current trends continue, much more of the Upper Green
River Valley could be transformed into similar high density gas fields
with traffic, dust, noise, and diminished air and water quality. Learn
also about the nearby Jonah Natural
Gas Field.
