The Boom: Pinedale, Wyoming in Transition

"The Boom" is a collection of Pinedale, Wyoming residents' reactions to the recent natural gas boom in surrounding Sublette County. Townsfolk reflect on the swiftness with which the drilling began and the changes -- both positive and negative -- that it has brought to the community.

The audio and visual piece was put together by Claire Woodard, a research assistant for the Bill Lane Center for the American West's Rural West Initiative at Stanford University (ruralwest.stanford.edu). Photographs in the visual collage were taken by: John McChesney of the Rural West Initiative; Leslie Waggener and Rick Walters, of the University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center; and Bruce Gordon, of Ecoflight via Skytruth.org.

A slightly different version of the audio collage was recently aired on Open Spaces, a program from Wyoming Public Radio. A link to that segment can be found at http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wpr/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICL....

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• The Boom
• finished large

[joeinfo]

great piece! fascinating subject, empathetic folks, great little sight 'n' sound (aya for clawhammer banjo) package... thumbs up (on the piece, not the issue).

[peggygrossman]

Wow, this is a great piece and tells an important and moving story.

Nice work.