As part of a federal lands mineral lease from decades ago, Equitable Resources of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has notified the Forest Service that they intend to drill multiple gas wells and construct several roads and pipelines throughout the length and breadth of the 4,756 acre North Fork of the Pound roadless area, one of the largest remaining roadless areas in the entire Cumberland bioregion. More information about this proposal may be found on our Clinch Ranger District webpage.

PHOTOS

North Fork of Pound Roadless Area:
Old Giants near the path of proposed gas development road site (in the Original 2002 Proposal)

Gas development on federal lands south of Pine Mountain
(Flannagan Reservoir-Corps of Engineers). Below Photographs courtesy of CIDC