Yes, the oilmen are back at it, Janie. We are fighting tooth and nail to preserve some of our most pristine mountain plateaus,such as the Roan Plateau, in Western Colorado. There are photos there which show what the destruction has been like down below next to the interstate highway. We're trying to keep them from doing the same to the tops. This whole area is in boomtown status, now, with colleges students unable to find any housing,rents and home prices skyrocketing, and good workers leaving their long-time usual jobs for the lure of prime pay in the oilfields. I hear the same is going on in Wyoming. My sister works with homeless families. A dad came in just the other day with three and four year old kids. He was far from home, had sole custody and couldn't find a rental anywhere.

One good thing I heard on NPR, the oilmen are taking care to secure all foodstuff, etc, and training their people on how NOT to engage with bears. I even heard an oil rig safety officer tell his worker, "We're in the bear's territory and he's only trying to make a living same as us." That's a real change!