This week the Durango Herald discussed the steadily declining production of methane gas from wells in southern Colorado’s La Plata County and what impacts there will be when the wells go dry.
Unfortunately, the article focuses only on the economic implications and goes nowhere on the topic of what the landscape will look like when those companies pull up stakes for new pastures. Even if all the well pads are reclaimed, which would be a miracle, what kind of rangeland and habitat will these parts of the West be left with when the boom is over?
