Comments on: You Want the Oil Underneath the National Park? Sure, That’s Cool.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:58:28 +0000

Thanks Ben. It’s always nice to hear someone call you a star in a movie.

By: joey

joey — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:27:12 +0000

Rocky, I realize you’re just a blogger and not a journalist, but sometimes your lack of understanding on outdoor issues is incorrigible. Your story is about a forest, not a national park. The national park and national forest services have entirely different goals (i.e. national forest land is used for activities like mining, logging and ski resorts all the time, whereas the point of national park designation is to protect the land). Your use of “national park” in your headline and blog makes you look like a goddamn fool.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:18:01 +0000

Anyone here seen the movie Idiocracy? It’s starring Brian and Mark.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:55:51 +0000

I agree with Mark. If we don’t have gas we can’t get to beautiful places, because oil and gas are needed for transportation. It is about time that we accepted the fact that we are at war and gave up on beautiful places. I say so long as the burgerking will allow me to sleep in their dumpster and eat discarded burgers, and that’s a big IF, then big oil can have their parks/forests/”wilderness”. As far as I know the outside if full of bears and not full of delicious hamburgers.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:29:28 +0000

But Mark then our national parks / forests won’t be the reason we all go to them in the first place. They were set aside FOR THE PEOPLE from the beginning because our gov’t decided these places were too damn beautiful to let anyone else get their hands on. I agree we need oil and gas to visit the places and for our society to function in general but we do not need to find it in places set aside to never be used in such a manner.

By: mark

mark — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:28:23 +0000

It is a national forest and not a national park. Without oil and gas, we could not drive our nice mini vans and suvs to our beautiful forests and parks.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:46:06 +0000

Hydraulic fracking - The drill site will be outside park boundaries, they will drill down about a mile and do a 90 degree turn entering underneath the park boundaries. As a result your local park water fountain will be able to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01EK76Sy4A&feature=related

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:50:00 +0000

Just job create-ers being job create-ers.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:20:54 +0000

Write a comment…I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!!!!!

By: 'MERICA

'MERICA — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:01:09 +0000

I can’t wait until some oil company buys the mineral rights to my property and gets to bulldoze my house to get to them.