Review of the western coal boom in Wyoming & Montana

Review of the western coal boom in Wyoming & Montana by Gary B Glass Download PDF EPUB FB2

Author(s) Glass, G.B.; Wyoming State Geological Survey. Date Issued Collections. Wyoming State Geological Survey. The Montana-Wyoming water supplies are as precarious as they are precious; they will be irrevocably damaged by the breakup of ""overburden"" over hundreds of thousands of square miles, the removal of thick seams of coal which hold and filter ground water, the withdrawal of up to 50 percent (in dry years) of the Yellowstone's annual flow to meet.

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Review of Wyoming Coal Fields, () Click to enlarge. Review of Wyoming Coal Fields, () $ SKU: wsgsmp A coal train rumbles through central Gillette, Wyoming in February. Alan Propp, Bill Lane Center for the American West By Alan Propp In the heart of the Powder River Basin — the wellspring of more than 40 percent of the coal mined in the United States — nearly every coffee shop and restaurant displays a poster that reads: “Stay Strong, Gillette.”.

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“The ranchers who own minerals are all for it,” said Roger C. Rice, the graying senior exploration geologist for the Western Energy Company, Montana Power's coal mining subsidiary. Still, Wyoming has the goods: oil, coal, methane, diamonds, uranium. And although Wyoming was the first territory to give women the vote, t his is.

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and clear-eyed observations on the hardscrabble parts of Wyoming and Montana. The Bozeman Trail was an offshoot of the Oregon Trail, a shortcut to the newly discovered gold fields of Montana Territory.

Cutting through the heart of. In recent years, Gillette has exhibited many symptoms of the trailer‐lined energy boom town that is scarring the Western land‐ scape—inflated.

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“Montana and Wyoming coal production is so much more efficient than in Appalachia,” said Chris Mehl of Headwaters Economics, a Bozeman, Mont.-based research : Climatewire.

Wyoming historian T.A. Larson estimated that by there were million cattle (about the same number Wyoming has now) on the range. The weather turned crispy dry in the summer and iron cold in the winter. A drought that began in Texas in the summer of crept north. Byeastern Wyoming and Montana were the driest in memory.

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A deceptively simple tale Review of Kindle edition Publication date: Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Language: English ASIN: BP6KR2 A great piece of American literature which happens to be a western but is much more than just a well written western story.

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OCLC Number: Reproduction Notes: Print reproduction. Description: 1 volume (various pagings): illustrations ; 28 cm: Contents: Coal hauler --the Montana, Wyoming and Southern Railroad --Twarted dreams --the story of the Montana Southern Railway --The Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway --Life line of Teton County --the Montana Western Railway --The Spartan White Sulphur Springs and.

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It reviews current and historic efforts to curtail flaring, venting and leaks in Alaska, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Texas and Wyoming.

The Western Organization of Resource Councils salutes the advances made, and in this.