Bill Belitskus (left), Board President, Allegheny Defense Project, Paul Burroughs (center) - Presque Isle Audubon Society, Bob Keller (right) - LightHawk Pilot, discuss flight waypoints at Bradford Regional Airport prior to flight over Allegheny National Forest.
In 2005, the Forest Service produced a document for the revision of the forest plan that was occurring at that time...
...the document, titled "Areas Falling Below Existing Scenic Integrity," identified five areas as the "Most Threatened Areas"...
...the five most threatened areas are the Westline area, Sackett area, Salmon Creek area, Rocky Gap ATV Trail area, and Longhouse National Scenic Byway. ADP partnered with Presque Isle Audubon and LightHawk to document these areas.
Allegheny National Forest / South Branch Kinzua Creek - Clearcut, stone pit and oil and gas development on ridge
Allegheny National Forest / Windy City Area - oil and gas roads and well sites encroaching on old growth forest in Tionesta Scenic and Research Natural Areas. These areas are listed as Important Bird Habitat by Audubon Pennsylvania.
Allegheny National Forest / Windy City Area - oil and gas roads and well sites fragmenting forest.
Allegheny National Forest / Windy City Area - Rock pit - unlined brine pit - oil and gas storage site
Guffey - Kinzua Creek. Note Rt. 219 in upper left
Stone pit in Windfall Run area
Meade Run - Marsh Ponds - clearcuts and oil and gas roads
Meade Run area. Oil and gas roads and tank farm in left road clearing.
Tallyho area looking north on ridge above Wintergreen Run with recent oil and gas development.
Clearcut and stone pit north of Kinzua Creek flying west between Wintergreen and Westline.
Tank farm and oil and gas development on north ridge of Kinzua Creek flying west between Wintergreen Run and Westline.
Forest fragmentation on north ridge of Kinzua Creek flying west between Wintergreen Run and Westline/Turnup Run
Allegheny National Forest / Stone pit - OGM development - forest fragmentation - ridge on north side of Kinzua Creek flying west between Wintergreen Run and Westline / Turnup Run
Allegheny National Forest / Stone pit - OGM development - ridge on north side of Kinzua Creek flying west between Wintergreen Run and Westline / Turnup Run
Allegheny National Forest / OGM development - Stone pit - brine storage pit - road fragmentation - ridge on north side of Kinzua Creek flying west between Wintergreen Run and Westline / Turnup Run
Allegheny National Forest / OGM development - Stone pit - brine storage pit -road fragmentation - ridge on north side of Kinzua Creek flying west between Wintergreen Run and Westline / Turnup Run
Allegheny National Forest / OGM development - tank farm - road fragmentation - ridge on north side of Kinzua Creek flying west between Wintergreen Run and Westline / Turnup Run
Allegheny National Forest / OGM development - road fragmentation - ridge on north side of Kinzua Creek flying west between Wintergreen Run and Westline / Turnup Run
Allegheny National Forest / OGM development - road fragmentation - ridge on north side of Kinzua Creek flying west between Wintergreen Run and Westline / Turnup Run - entire ridges in watershed have been severely impacted
Allegheny National Forest / OGM development - Stone pit - road construction - ridge on north side of Kinzua Creek flying west between Wintergreen Run and Westline / Turnup Run.
Allegheny National Forest / OGM development - tank farm facility - road fragmentation - ridge on north side of Kinzua Creek flying west between Wintergreen Run and Westline / Turnup Run.
Allegheny National Forest - Kinzua Creek / Turnup Run - OGM development - road fragmentation on ridge north of Westline.
Allegheny National Forest / Kinzua Creek (south side) - OGM development - rock pit / surface mining - flying west from Westline to South Branch of Kinzua Creek.
Allegheny National Forest / Kinzua Creek (south side) - OGM development - tank farm - flying west from Westline to South Branch of Kinzua Creek
Allegheny National Forest / Kinzua Creek (south side) - OGM development - rock pit / surface mining - forest fragmentation - flying west from Westline to South Branch of Kinzua Creek
Allegheny National Forest / Kinzua Creek (south side) - OGM development - rock pit / surface mining - flying west from Westline to South Branch of Kinzua Creek
Allegheny National Forest / Kinzua Creek (south side) - OGM development - rock pit / surface mining - tank farm - flying west from Westline to South Branch of Kinzua Creek
Allegheny National Forest / Kinzua Creek (south side) - OGM development - roads fragmenting forest - flying west from Westline to South Branch of Kinzua Creek.
Allegheny National Forest / Kinzua Creek (south side) / Meade Run area - OGM development - tank farm facility - flying west from Westline to South Branch of Kinzua Creek.
Allegheny National Forest / South Branch Kinzua Creek - Clearcut, stone pit and oil and gas development on ridge - Route 321 on right side of picture in valley.
Allegheny National Forest / Sackett area - OGM development - roads fragmenting forest
Allegheny National Forest / Sackett area - ARG oil and gas facility and tank farms located on public forest land
Allegheny National Forest / Sackett area - OGM development - roads - tank farms (left and center of photo) fragmenting forest
Allegheny National Forest / Sackett area - OGM development - roads - tank farms (center of photo) fragmenting forest
Allegheny National Forest / Sackett area - oil and gas facility / tank farms located on public forest land
Allegheny National Forest / Sackett area - oil and gas facility - tank farm - rock pit located on public forest land
Allegheny National Forest / Salmon Creek - OGM development - well sites, roads, tank farms, rock pits fragmenting forest on ridges above Salmon Creek.
Allegheny National Forest / Salmon Creek - OGM development - well sites, roads, rock pits fragmenting forest on ridges above Salmon Creek.
Allegheny National Forest / Salmon Creek - OGM development - well sites, roads, tank farms, rock pits fragmenting forest on ridge above Salmon Creek.
Allegheny National Forest / Salmon Creek - OGM development - well sites, roads, rock pit fragmenting forest on ridges above Salmon Creek.
Allegheny National Forest / Salmon Creek - OGM development - Rock pit, roads, fragmenting forest
Allegheny National Forest / Salmon Creek - OGM development - well sites and roads fragmenting forest in watershed
Allegheny National Forest / Salmon Creek - OGM development - well sites and roads fragmenting forest in watershed on both sides of Salmon Creek valley
Allegheny National Forest / Salmon Creek - OGM development - well sites and roads fragmenting forest in watershed above Salmon Creek
Allegheny National Forest / Salmon Creek - OGM development - well sites, roads, rock pit, tank farms fragmenting forest in watershed.
Allegheny National Forest / Salmon Creek - OGM development - well sites, roads, rock pit fragmenting forest in watershed.
Allegheny National Forest / Salmon Creek - OGM development - fragmenting forest in watershed.
Allegheny National Forest / Salmon Creek - Major OGM development - Rock pit, roads, tank farms, brine pits, drilling pollutants pit, retention pond fragmenting forest
Allegheny National Forest / Salmon Creek - May 10, 2007 (looking uphill)
Allegheny National Forest / Salmon Creek - August 11, 2007 - Same site as previous slide (downhill view). Note massive expansion since May - only 3 months.
Allegheny National Forest / vicinity of Rocky Gap ATV area - Forest Service identified "Threatened Area" from encroaching OGM development.
Allegheny National Forest / Rocky Gap ATV area - Forest Service identified "Threatened Area" from encroaching OGM development.
Allegheny National Forest / PAPCO gas processing plant / air pollution source Dutchman Run / Rogertown - either on the forest or a private inholding.
Allegheny National Forest / Rimrock Area - Route 59 National Scenic Byway - Minard Run OGM development fragmenting forest.
Allegheny National Forest / Lewis Run and Route 219 - Minard Run Oil Company - crude oil, condensate, tank farm facility
Allegheny National Forest / Lewis Run - stone pit
Allegheny National Forest / Lewis Run - well sites and roads fragmenting forest
Allegheny National Forest / Pigeon Run area - Minard Run OGM development fragmenting forest.
Allegheny National Forest / Pigeon Run- Minard Run - OGM development fragmenting forest.
Allegheny National Forest / Pigeon Run area - National Scenic Byway in top of photo - Minard Run OGM development fragmenting forest
Allegheny National Forest / Pigeon Run area - Route 59 National Scenic Byway - Minard Run OGM development fragmenting forest and damaging scenic Byway. -Top center of photo shows new OGM development / fragmentation in popular Morrison Trail Area -The Forest Service removed Morrison from "remote" recreation status because of OGM development.
Allegheny National Forest / Pigeon Run area - Route 59 National Scenic Byway - Minard Run OGM development fragmenting forest and damaging scenic Byway.
Allegheny National Forest / Morrison Run area - OGM development fragmenting forest
Allegheny National Forest / Hemlock Run / Forest Road 267 - OGM stone pit, tank farm and crude oil condensate storage pit.
Allegheny National Forest / Hemlock Run / Forest Road 267 - same OGM stone pit, tank farm and crude oil condensate storage pit, well site and roads fragmenting forest.
Allegheny National Forest / Hemlock Run / Indian Run area - OGM development - well sites and roads fragmenting forest.
Allegheny National Forest / Hemlock Run / Indian Run area - OGM development - stone pit, well sites and roads fragmenting forest.
Allegheny National Forest / Hemlock Run / Indian Run area - OGM development - rock pit, well sites and roads fragmenting forest.
Allegheny National Forest / Chief Cornplanter / Corydon cemetery at Willow Bay - Severe erosion of shoreline ignored for 40 years by Army Corps of Engineers and Forest Service. This is where local residents and Native American's ancestors were reinterned when the Allegheny River was dammed and their communities were flooded.
Allegheny National Forest / proposed Tracy Ridge wilderness area - while currently not fragmented, oil and gas companies want to begin drilling.
Allegheny National Forest / proposed Tracy Ridge wilderness / Indian Run area - while currently not fragmented, oil and gas companies want to begin drilling.
