Environment

From the top of Grass Mesa, it’s hard to feel much threat from the gas development spreading across the lands below. Garland Anderson’s modest one-story home commands a grandiose view of the Colorado River Valley, from the Grand Hogback cutting a jagged ridge to the east to the Roan Plateau’s sheer bluffs to the...
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  Six miles down winding roads that carve through the mesas south of Silt, the sound of gas flaring is a quiet whisper. Distant derricks jut above the ridgeline, and flames from gas flares flicker over the piñon- and juniper-spotted hills that ring an expanse of green meadows. Three years ago, Peggy and Bob Utesch...
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