I went with my boss and a guy who works for me to the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania this week. This is the third forest we have visited after the Deschutes in Oregon and the Bitterroot in Montana. The Allegheny is a pretty nice forest for the east. It has a big reservoir and a wild and scenic river. The other thing they have is a crap load of oil and gas development. Those with subterranean rights supersede those with land rights. The Forest Service only has land rights. The oil companies come in and drill wherever they want. Each drill needs a road. It’s a huge impact on the forest. There are thousands of them and thousands more being proposed. The Forest Service can’t keep track of all the drills and roads and the oil companies don’t maintain them. Hopefully we can help them out with a bit of mobile technology. After staying at the Microhotel in small little Marionville we found a nice new Hampton Inn in Warren. The residents of Warren had chairs already lined up on the Fourth of July parade route. It must be a pretty exciting parade. The forest is about a six hour drive from DC. No quick way to get there.
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