Image by: Reid R. Frazier/Allegheny Front
Making way for the Marcellus
Fracking the Forest: Pennsylvania's Woods are Fair Game
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age
From: Reid Frazier
Length: 00:07:46
The state needed money. And it got hundreds of millions of dollars to plug a budget hole by leasing out 700,000 acres of forests, including some of the biggest tracts of contiguous forest in the East. How is fracking in Pennsylvania's forests changing the ecology of Penn's Woods?
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The state needed money. And it got hundreds of millions of dollars to plug a budget hole by leasing out 700,000 acres of forests, including some of the biggest tracts of contiguous forest in the East. How is fracking in Pennsylvania's forests changing the ecology of Penn's Woods?
Transcript
Thousands of Marcellus shale wells will be drilled in Pennsylvania's forests over the next decade. How will this drilling affect the wildlife that call Penn's woods home? The Allegheny Front's Reid Frazier went up and over one of these forests to answer this question. That's where his story begins.
Pilot: Lock Haven, This is Cessna 6621 Delta…
FRAZIER: I'm flying about 1,000 feet over Northern Pennsylvania. Sitting next to me is Nels Johnson of the Nature Conservancy.
JOHNSON: This is the biggest expanse of contiguous forest in Pennsyvlania.
FRAZIER: We are flying over an area called the Pennsylvania Wilds. It's a chain of state forests and game lands, just north of Interstate 80. Johnson is studying the ecological impact of the gas boom. He describes the scene below us.
JOHNSON: Large blocks of forest that have only a few highways going through them... Read the full transcript
Pilot: Lock Haven, This is Cessna 6621 Delta…
FRAZIER: I'm flying about 1,000 feet over Northern Pennsylvania. Sitting next to me is Nels Johnson of the Nature Conservancy.
JOHNSON: This is the biggest expanse of contiguous forest in Pennsyvlania.
FRAZIER: We are flying over an area called the Pennsylvania Wilds. It's a chain of state forests and game lands, just north of Interstate 80. Johnson is studying the ecological impact of the gas boom. He describes the scene below us.
JOHNSON: Large blocks of forest that have only a few highways going through them... Read the full transcript
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