A lot of drilling pads are showing up across America, and in Pennsylvania, in places where only forests or sagebrush previously grew.  These were relatively untouched wildlife habitat and clean watershed areas, and the sudden appearance of these facilities naturally caused people to become upset.  That is because the high level of visual disturbance in such remote places is significant and harsh on the eye, and often the nose, too.  Places that required hard won first-hand knowledge through careful exploration for hunters to access safely are now accessed every ten minutes by huge rumbling trucks on wide gravel roads.  Getting the products from these drill sites to market then requires long pipelines and their rights-of-way, often also running through once pristine de facto wild areas, or through scenic farming areas closer to civilization.  Without careful management, invasive plants and animals then aggressively exploit these new...(Read Full Article)