There is a lot of information and mis-information being spread around this great country of ours about "the environment" and it's interaction with the human race, including energy development. Wyoming's Pinedale Anticline is no exception. You be the judge. Here are some photos of mule deer that were taken during the Winter of 2005-2006 from a drill pad on "The Mesa" just a few miles south of Pinedale, Wyoming. Thanks to continually developing and improving state of the art technologies, including environmental, the Pinedale Anticline contains the 4th largest newly discovered natural gas reserves in the United States. These are very large natural gas reserves contributing substantially to both Wyoming and this great nation's well being, jobs, tax base and quality of life. It is also an area where mule deer winter, hence development of these reserves has been deemed "controversial". It is a problem requiring sound, scientifically intelligent technological solution, not the wild-eyed steeped in technologically illiterate emotional laden 15 second sound byte rhetoric that is so commonly seen in the media these days. We need these clean burning natural gas reserves to help keep the cost of energy used to heat our homes, fuel our power plants and industry affordable. Any impacts this development and others like it will have, must continue to be intelligently and economically minimized and taken out of the political arena.

I apologize for the quality of this web site. I am an independent registered professional petroleum engineer, who is a deeply caring Wyoming native, living in the Rocky Mountain west my entire life. I am quite proud of my record in the oil and gas industry, being one who is actually responsible for doing his best to intelligently and economically solve the great energy and environmental problems required to maintain our affluent american middle class. Obviously, I am not a journalist, editor or web site designer. I started working in the oil and gas industry in 1964, when I was still in high school and am intimately familiar with oil and gas development and the state of the arts technologies required to solve environmental problems associated with development and use of this nation's great energy resources.

As time permits, I will continue to post photos and information about my personal experience with energy development in Wyoming. It's not going to be fancy, but hopefully it will yield useful information from an engineer's problem solving perspective that is rarely, if ever seen in the media or espoused by the great multitude of politically active, typically technologically illiterate "environmental" groups.