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Environment & Energy

WoodyD

(215 posts)

7. Me too

Reply to misterhighwasted (Reply #4)

Sat Sep 6, 2014, 02:52 PM

Sep 2014

I grew up on a farm in northwestern North Dakota. Clear skies, clean air, endless fields of wheat, green pastures, the Milky Way and the gorgeous northern lights, Lake Sakakawea stretching out blue and sparkling to the horizon. It was beautiful then. Now, I stay away.

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"The Crop Is Dying As We Watch It": ND Farmers Trying To Cope With Fracking Waste, Toxic Dumping [View all] hatrack Sep 2014 OP

It's only the beginning of the disasters to come montanacowboy Sep 2014 #1

Please Please Please -- This truly does NOT have to do truedelphi Sep 2014 #5

That's what I hear is happening also. misterhighwasted Sep 2014 #10

... progressoid Sep 2014 #2

salting the earth phantom power Sep 2014 #3

Appreciate this Post hatrack..I grew up there. It is as red a state as they get. misterhighwasted Sep 2014 #4

The change you describe in a single generation is heartbreaking BrotherIvan Sep 2014 #6

Sad isn't it. I guess stories will be told untill there are no more elders to speak. misterhighwasted Sep 2014 #8

Yes BrotherIvan Sep 2014 #11

Me too WoodyD Sep 2014 #7

Hello neighbor! Then you know exactly what I speak of. We were blessed. misterhighwasted Sep 2014 #9

"Sacrifice Zones" - coming soon to states near all of us . . . hatrack Sep 2014 #12

Aww the western Dakota badlands. Where the buffalo still roam. Thanks to preservationists. misterhighwasted Sep 2014 #14

k and r and bookmarking to depress myself later. niyad Sep 2014 #13

Oh dear hatrack. Sorry. misterhighwasted Sep 2014 #15