TIADAGHTON STATE FOREST - The sign on the Mid State Trail in Lycoming County stopped me in my tracks Tuesday morning during a three-day backpacking trip in north central Pennsylvania.
The posting by the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources said: "Environmentally Sensitive Area. Hiking Only."
Yet just a few hundred yards west of the trail, machines were bulldozing the mountaintop for a natural gas well in Pennsylvania's latest natural-resources bonanza, the Marcellus Shale, which resides more than a mile underground.Read More...
