
"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 www.publicbroadcasting.net
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