It doesn't mean we have to like them. Also if we have the ability to drill away from National parks or recreation areas we should before we worry about drilling on or near the parks. That being said the Uinta oilfield is probably one of the "least offensive" of the oil fields overall.
And important thing to do is to realize your impact so you can learn to do what you love but also minimize that impact. For example I also eat meat but I'm not a glutton about it or bullying vegans for not liking it. I know that it's better to eat a little and enjoy every bite because something died for every bite. Rather than just shove as much possible in my face because the internet told me it was cool and then yell at people who want to create alternatives that don't involve killing. Likewise protecting the best parts of this country for their beauty is important even if there is oil underneath it. I drive a truck because it's the only method to get to see the beauty (if there was a zero fossil fuel alternative I would be the first to champion it). If people destroy the beauty just to get at the oil it defeats the purpose of the oil getting me to these places. I'm not against drilling. I'm just against destroying the most beautiful and rare parts of our country so a Canadian conglomerate can increase their profits by 2%. Especially when it's already been set aside and protected because its so unique.
Yep Yep. Been wanting to go back there since... 1973, loooong time ago. Came thru with a buddy and both swore we'd make it back someday. My Bud made it back in 03, but I still have too: One More Time! We were Geology Majors there to check out the dinosaur part and fell in love with those canyons right off... and a hundred others on that trip, but really meant it as it made quite an impression. Thanks much for exploring it. Like said have watched bunches of these sites and your the first one to go to Dinosaur NM. Thanks again.
Last time I drove to Echo Park in the early 70's, I drove my Bug. What a blast! Had been to that area a couple of times on raft trips, but my friend and I wanted to go there for some fishing. We were sound asleep in our tent, just a ways from the river, when it started raining really hard. We put the seat down in the Bug and slept there until the ranger woke us to say we needed to get out of the canyon because there was a danger of flooding. The Bug took the muddy road up like a pro. Never had a chance to go back.😥
It does seem a shame to see the wells, as we do in many parts of the U.S., but that car you were driving depends on it and gets you in to those incredible places.
Wonderful video, Thanks! I've only travelled southern Utah but now I will go up north. Yes, Glen Canyon was a trade-off for Dinosaur NM by Reclamation's Floyd Dominy so he could build Lake Foul, the mistake. Hopefully, it will be decommissioned soon as it is at 23% capacity, unneeded, and almost at dead pool. PS, Big Oil is the enemy the earth and its people. Boycott them as you can and drive EV.PSS Keep the great vids coming
Very well done video, I appreciate hearing the history of a place. In defense of that woman, she may have walked up there on stone or sand which did not contain microbial life.
I understand your desire to maintain wilderness, but places like Glen Canyon provide enormous amounts of clean electricity and enormous amounts of clean drinking water to millions of people in the Southwest. That outweighs the need to protect every canyon and scenic spot over thousands of square miles.
When it comes to the choice between preserving the landscape and providing services to cities the new question is... "Why not both?" In the 1940's it was difficult, we didn't have the knowledge or the capabilities. Now we have new and better ways to produce electricity and efficiently use water that cause much less secondary and tertiary problems. Technology has come a long way in the last 70 years, the efficiency at what we're capable of now makes something like the big hydro-electric dams seem kludgy now. The challenge of the 20th century was to overcome nature. The challenge of the 21st century is to work with nature and still live the same lifestyle as we were before.
Overall the trips are between 600-900 miles traveled but the majority of that is freeway and highway road-trips from home to the destination or trail-head, but I never count the drive over. This trip I started the trip recorder when driving down to Strawberry Pinnacles and shut it off at Vernal on the way home. That was 351 miles traveled. But much of that was paved. The part through Dinosaur NM was about 60-70 miles long and driving that part that was bumpy dirt road probably took as long as most of the rest of the highway miles combined. 70MPH on pavement passes much easier than 10-20MPH on a bumpy winding dirt road.
The air does not smell like rubber around oil wells. Don’t try to blame dead horses on the oil wells either and if you hate the oil roads so much quit driving on them. Good overall video though,
Oh it definitely smells, the power of the smell varies by what is going on but it's noticeable. I was just in the area again this spring photographing comet NEOWISE and noticed it again. This time it had more of a "burnt tar" tang to it than rubber but I wasn't as close to the evaporation ponds this time. Kind of like when they re-do the asphalt on your street, but a bit more faint, like the way it smells a day or two later.
You must be an oil exec. The horses died from either the oil wells since the companies are knows for there spotless clean up or some assholes just out shooting them.
Without Glen Canyon Millions of people would be without water. Also, you tell people to be careful to not disturb "Biological Crust Soil" but you drive like an A-hole down that dirt road silting up the plants road-side with not a care in the world. You did more damage on that drive than anyone walking through would have caused. Also you're complaining about the Oil.. but you're driving around in a Truck.. made by oil, powered by oil. Not to mention, Those oil well properties are the only thing keeping miles of homes from being built. I'm not going to tell you how to live, but the hypocrisy in this video is annoying. Otherwise I enjoyed the views.. I'm a big fan of this area of the nation.
Yeah the dust kicked up on plants is bad. But I stay on the trail and I stay within the speed limits (typically 35mph, sometimes 45 on conditioned roads). Like driving something consumes that oil, it's a necessary evil. If it was feasible to hover over the whole road in a zero emission craft I would but technology isn't there yet. So for now: stay on trails, minimize impact, and try not to be a glutton about what you do consume. It's not possible to eliminate your resource consumption, but it's important to be self aware of what is being sacrificed for your use.
Native people use the term for themselves due to the fact they needed a colloquial term for all of their people, rather than each tribe. It was a term that was used for so long that they adopted it themselves. If you go to an ACTUAL RESERVATION where natives still live, you would actually come to find out that they resent the term ‘Native American’
Those oil wells allow you the opportunity to explore.
It doesn't mean we have to like them. Also if we have the ability to drill away from National parks or recreation areas we should before we worry about drilling on or near the parks.
That being said the Uinta oilfield is probably one of the "least offensive" of the oil fields overall.
Didnt you drive to get there and travel it? Oil! Horses are most likely wild.
And important thing to do is to realize your impact so you can learn to do what you love but also minimize that impact.
For example I also eat meat but I'm not a glutton about it or bullying vegans for not liking it. I know that it's better to eat a little and enjoy every bite because something died for every bite. Rather than just shove as much possible in my face because the internet told me it was cool and then yell at people who want to create alternatives that don't involve killing.
Likewise protecting the best parts of this country for their beauty is important even if there is oil underneath it. I drive a truck because it's the only method to get to see the beauty (if there was a zero fossil fuel alternative I would be the first to champion it). If people destroy the beauty just to get at the oil it defeats the purpose of the oil getting me to these places.
I'm not against drilling. I'm just against destroying the most beautiful and rare parts of our country so a Canadian conglomerate can increase their profits by 2%. Especially when it's already been set aside and protected because its so unique.
Yep Yep. Been wanting to go back there since... 1973, loooong time ago. Came thru with a buddy and both swore we'd make it back someday. My Bud made it back in 03, but I still have too: One More Time! We were Geology Majors there to check out the dinosaur part and fell in love with those canyons right off... and a hundred others on that trip, but really meant it as it made quite an impression. Thanks much for exploring it. Like said have watched bunches of these sites and your the first one to go to Dinosaur NM. Thanks again.
Last time I drove to Echo Park in the early 70's, I drove my Bug. What a blast! Had been to that area a couple of times on raft trips, but my friend and I wanted to go there for some fishing. We were sound asleep in our tent, just a ways from the river, when it started raining really hard. We put the seat down in the Bug and slept there until the ranger woke us to say we needed to get out of the canyon because there was a danger of flooding. The Bug took the muddy road up like a pro. Never had a chance to go back.😥
Love these videos man! Keep 'em coming!
It does seem a shame to see the wells, as we do in many parts of the U.S., but that car you were driving depends on it and gets you in to those incredible places.
Wonderful video, Thanks! I've only travelled southern Utah but now I will go up north. Yes, Glen Canyon was a trade-off for Dinosaur NM by Reclamation's Floyd Dominy so he could build Lake Foul, the mistake. Hopefully, it will be decommissioned soon as it is at 23% capacity, unneeded, and almost at dead pool. PS, Big Oil is the enemy the earth and its people. Boycott them as you can and drive EV.PSS Keep the great vids coming
The area around the dinosaur quarry became a monument in 1915. The surrounding 238,000 acres was added in 1938.
Terrific and informative! Thanks for espousing low impact recreation! Keep up the good work!
beautiful area. getting me excited to explore the southwest.
Great video, I live in this area, and am still surprised as to how many places I have yet to explore.
Me too.
Very well done commentary
Great videography and narration
Great video... Thanks for the exploration.
I'm spending my vacation in Ashley National Forest. YAY!
This is a very good idea. Thanks!
Very well done video, I appreciate hearing the history of a place. In defense of that woman, she may have walked up there on stone or sand which did not contain microbial life.
I understand your desire to maintain wilderness, but places like Glen Canyon provide enormous amounts of clean electricity and enormous amounts of clean drinking water to millions of people in the Southwest. That outweighs the need to protect every canyon and scenic spot over thousands of square miles.
When it comes to the choice between preserving the landscape and providing services to cities the new question is...
"Why not both?"
In the 1940's it was difficult, we didn't have the knowledge or the capabilities. Now we have new and better ways to produce electricity and efficiently use water that cause much less secondary and tertiary problems. Technology has come a long way in the last 70 years, the efficiency at what we're capable of now makes something like the big hydro-electric dams seem kludgy now.
The challenge of the 20th century was to overcome nature.
The challenge of the 21st century is to work with nature and still live the same lifestyle as we were before.
@@exploresouthwest Exactly. Those dead horses are like canaries in the mine shaft. That was very sad to see, all about the oil $$$$$$
Can this national monument only be explored with a 4 WD? I plan to pass through there coming November...
Nice video, but imo turn-down the annoying music in the background.
This is an excellent overview and I like your statement on keeping oil companies out of Utah. Thank you for sharing this.
Wonderful video. Too bad they can't extract the oil and gas in a much less invasive way...
Tell us how many miles you drive on these trips. It can get lost just how big or small an area is.
Overall the trips are between 600-900 miles traveled but the majority of that is freeway and highway road-trips from home to the destination or trail-head, but I never count the drive over.
This trip I started the trip recorder when driving down to Strawberry Pinnacles and shut it off at Vernal on the way home. That was 351 miles traveled. But much of that was paved. The part through Dinosaur NM was about 60-70 miles long and driving that part that was bumpy dirt road probably took as long as most of the rest of the highway miles combined.
70MPH on pavement passes much easier than 10-20MPH on a bumpy winding dirt road.
Awesome. I hope your channel blows up. Great story telling
Were there any scary cliff-side drives?
The air does not smell like rubber around oil wells. Don’t try to blame dead horses on the oil wells either and if you hate the oil roads so much quit driving on them. Good overall video though,
Oh it definitely smells, the power of the smell varies by what is going on but it's noticeable. I was just in the area again this spring photographing comet NEOWISE and noticed it again. This time it had more of a "burnt tar" tang to it than rubber but I wasn't as close to the evaporation ponds this time. Kind of like when they re-do the asphalt on your street, but a bit more faint, like the way it smells a day or two later.
You must be an oil exec. The horses died from either the oil wells since the companies are knows for there spotless clean up or some assholes just out shooting them.
Beautiful, But any place that limits my freedom, Is no place for me. I'll never go there. You can keep your outdoor museum to yourselves.
H2S gas
Without Glen Canyon Millions of people would be without water. Also, you tell people to be careful to not disturb "Biological Crust Soil" but you drive like an A-hole down that dirt road silting up the plants road-side with not a care in the world. You did more damage on that drive than anyone walking through would have caused. Also you're complaining about the Oil.. but you're driving around in a Truck.. made by oil, powered by oil. Not to mention, Those oil well properties are the only thing keeping miles of homes from being built. I'm not going to tell you how to live, but the hypocrisy in this video is annoying. Otherwise I enjoyed the views.. I'm a big fan of this area of the nation.
Yeah the dust kicked up on plants is bad. But I stay on the trail and I stay within the speed limits (typically 35mph, sometimes 45 on conditioned roads).
Like driving something consumes that oil, it's a necessary evil. If it was feasible to hover over the whole road in a zero emission craft I would but technology isn't there yet.
So for now: stay on trails, minimize impact, and try not to be a glutton about what you do consume. It's not possible to eliminate your resource consumption, but it's important to be self aware of what is being sacrificed for your use.
Narration is cringe
Indians are from INDIA..!!!.. typical Colonizer using that term to reference Native People..!!!..
Native people use the term for themselves due to the fact they needed a colloquial term for all of their people, rather than each tribe. It was a term that was used for so long that they adopted it themselves. If you go to an ACTUAL RESERVATION where natives still live, you would actually come to find out that they resent the term ‘Native American’