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I passed by this area of Wyoming several weeks ago. I fact I remember stopping at a rest areas right on the Powder river. While it has a certain stark beauty to it, it is also appears extremely desolate with some of the weirdest landscape I've ever seen. Drove for miles from Spearfish, S.D. to Buffalo, Wyoming without seeing man and few cattle. Did take a side visit to Devil's Tower. If you want a desolate spot to drill in the lower 48, here's the place. Brown grass, eroded gulches, mesas, buttes, and rattlesnakes by the millions.

. If you want a desolate spot to drill in the lower 48, here's the place. Brown grass, eroded gulches, mesas, buttes, and rattlesnakes by the millions.

Exactly correct. Anybody who has driven from Gillette to Buffalo, KNOWS that this area is as desolate as they come. Gillette to Buffalo takes you right through the heart of the thousands of earth=raping wells they talk about. Taking that route. you will probably not see more than about 50 wells (ouy of 12,000).

The article also does not address how many ranchers have seen this as a windfall monetarily.

For example, the average ranch in that area is at least 2,000 acres. 2000 divided by 80 acre spacing equals 25 wells, times .125 per cent royalty, times $2.00 per mcf times 100 mcf per day average times thirty days equals approximately $18,750 per month for that rancher.

The wells around the Gillette area average close to 500 mcf per day and the total field average is around 175-200 mcf per day, so I have been conservative.