Well, all of them except this one:
This trail will be temporarily closed while Columbia Gas is working on the well clearings. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Like most state forests, I'm sure that Mohican has had wells in place for a while. I just can't help thinking that I'll be running in to closures like this pretty often now that Marcellus drilling is ramping up.
I went back to check it out, and the gas company had cut about a 30 foot wide swath of trees out. I assume it was for a pipe line.
Leasing popular park land to a gas company is like renting a church for a porn convention. There are some places that should be off limits.
But at least the notice was polite.
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Seriously, "Leasing popular park land to a gas company is like renting a church for a porn convention." should have been in your Post-Gazette article!
Mohican County is almost 75+ west of the Marcellus, and same goes for the now popular Utica oil shale ...but I do agree. Public parks, County, State, or National, should be off limits, even if their was an active lease on the land before it was public land.
I meant running into it a lot back home in PA.
But yep. Parks should just be parks. There's plenty of other land
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