Western Colorado's wilderness is dotted with the "oil boom" right now AND they want to open a bunch more for oil shale exploration. That is what brought my parents here in the 60s and it was a bust by the 70s. The landscape, now, is terrible to look at...everywhere there are too many people building too many enclaves of BIG boxes, taking over the wild spots, and the oil rigs are everywhere present, plopped out in the middle of vast stretches of what used to be prime grazing lands, ranches, forests, wilderness, etc. now subdivided and fighting with nature's creatures for space and resources. I don't know what the answers are but we have to quit raping the land for our greed or any other reason for that matter.

It irks me to no end that in "Sunny Colorado" we aren't ALL using solar power; there is no excuse for not making it affordable and, even, mandatory, imo.