Post Carbon Fellow Gloria Flora’s work in protecting the Rocky Mountain Front was reported in this article about new threats to the environment from shale oil and gas.

From the article:

Which brings us to Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front — a sweep of sheer-cliffed peaks that virtually explode upward from the gentle swells of the High Plains. Its northern stretch is the subject of a stunning environmental victory: In 1997, a decades-long protection effort culminated with then-Lewis and Clark National Forest Supervisor Gloria Flora banning new oil and gas leasing all along her forest’s section of the Front for 10-15 years. The move — which is difficult to imagine taking place in the current drill-here-drill-now political climate, especially with an election coming up — not only safeguarded the area’s unequaled vistas, but also the last place in the contiguous U.S. where grizzlies still wander onto the High Plains, and where one of the nation’s largest elk herds still roams. In late 2006, Congress permanently protected federal lands and minerals in the area from further oil and gas leasing.

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