The 520,000-acre Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania is anything but a real forest. It’s a virtual pincushion of oil and gas wells, as this DailyKos posting discusses. Arguably, no federal public land in any of the 50 states has suffered more from resource extraction activities than the Allegheny. Be sure and take a look at the aerial photos this link will point you to.
And a collection of on-the-ground photos of resource extraction destruction on the Allegheny can be viewed here.
December 29, 2006 at 10:36 pm |
Hey, if you are interested in learning more about the Allegheny National Forest…check out my friend Mon@arch’s blog. Alot of neat stuff here.
December 30, 2006 at 2:28 am |
Good post, cool blog!
Neath
January 3, 2007 at 9:15 am |
From all the information here, it looks like they should change the name of the Allegheny National Forest to the Allegheny National Tree Farm.
Thanks for the links.
January 3, 2007 at 6:28 pm |
That’s exactly what it has become, Mike. The trashing of public lands by resource extraction activities is by no means limited to the West.