OnEarth, September 22nd, 2002
IN WYOMING'S RED DESERT BEGONIAS BLOOM IN THE SAND, FRESHWATER PONDS SPRING UP IN THE DUNES, AND MOUNTAIN SAGEBRUSH GROWS 12 FEET HIGH. "THE BIGGEST WIDE-OPEN SPACE IN THE LOWER 48" NOW, THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WANTS TO ROLL IN THE DRILL RIGS
OF ALL THE PEOPLE I talked to about the Red Desert before I hiked into it, Leonard Hay was the most direct. Hay, a vulgar and charming Wyoming native of eighty-seven, is weathered but still tall and quick-witted. He peered at me through thick glasses from where he sat on the flowered couch in his Rock Springs, Wyoming, living room, and said: "It's a ha...
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