Saving Wyoming's Hoback : the grassroots movement that stopped natural gas development / Florence Rose Shepard and Susan L. Marsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shepard, Florence R., author.

Marsh, Susan (Susan L.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gas well drilling--Wyoming--Hoback River Watershed.

Gas well drilling.

Gas well drilling--Environmental aspects--Wyoming--Hoback River Basin.

Protest movements--Wyoming--Hoback River Region.

Protest movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, [Utah] : The University of Utah Press, 2017.

Summary:

Winner of the Wallace Stegner Prize in Environmental Humanities In late 2012, more than one hundred people gathered to hear a long-awaited announcement: the Trust for Public Land had succeeded in preventing natural gas development in the remote Hoback Basin of Wyoming.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Maps

Preface and Acknowledgments

Glossary of Acronyms

Chapter One. We Did It!

Chapter Two. The Hoback

Chapter Three. From Timber to Gas Wells (1946-1990)

Chapter Four. Drill, Baby, Drill (1990-2006)

Chapter Five. The Perfect Storm (2006-2010)

Chapter Six. Too Special to Drill (2010-2013)

Notes.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-60781-513-3

OCLC:

1012270499