A public opinion poll out this week found that 57 percent of Pennsylvanians oppose fracking for natural gas in state forests. But thousands of Marcellus shale wells will be drilled in the forests over the next decade. How will this drilling affect the wildlife that calls these woods home? The Allegheny Front's Reid Frazier went up and over one of these forests to answer this question. (Photo by Martha Rial.)
The Gas Boom Comes to the Forests
By REID FRAZIER
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October 14, 2011