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Can wildlife weather the gas boom? |
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Written by FRANCISCO THARP, High Country News
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
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In northwestern Colorado’s Piceance Basin, the sage and juniper landscape is home to flocks of the dwindling greater sage grouse and one of the country’s largest migratory mule deer herds. It also happens to hold one of the nation’s largest natural gas reserves. Now, Colorado Division of Wildlife researchers are beginning a $1.3 million-per-year study on how gas companies can minimize their impacts on the basin’s wildlife.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 20 May 2008 )
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