CLIMATE JUSTICE - Bruce Farnsworth Photography, Conservation, EcoTourism, Upper Am

$Boundary issues and conflicting land use are interpreted in this aerial photograph over the eastern edge of Teddy Roosevelt National Park, South Unit (TRNP-South). As the early morning sun grazes the land, a fence demarcating the park's eastern boundary is seen clearly at the left of this image. The sprawl of oil & gas development is now led by the fracking boom of North Dakota's Bakken region. In this view, several access roads radiate out, fragmenting the habitat, as wells approach the national park.Photograph by Bruce Farnsworth with aerial support provided by LightHawk$
$Site of one-million gallon spill of fracking wastewater in July 2014. Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, upper Missouri River valley.$
$Vance Gillette, tribal elder and attorney, smells wild bergamont (Monarda fisutlosa) while holding a bundle of silver sage (Artemesia cana) collected near the site of the summer 2014 Arrow pipeline spill which contaminated a drainage above Bear Den Bay on Lake Sakakawea with over a million gallons of fracking wastewater.Vance is collecting plants on the hills above the drainage. I assisted tribal leaders in documenting the impacts and collecting water samples for independent analysis. The stem in Mr. Gillette's hand crosses an orange object in the background. That's a pump placed by an industry contractor to pull out contaminated water that collected above a beaver dam in the impacted drainage. Gillette is family of the late Russell Gillette, who was forced by the Department of the Interior in 1953 to sign away the rich agricultural bottomlands of the upper Missouri River valley prior to the construction of the Garrison Dam which fllooded much of Three Affiliated Tribe land.$
$Contaminated pond downstream from the million gallon fracking wastewater spill$
$The view from 21,000 feet: A philosophers's take on fracking$
$Getting the mail in fracking country$
$A wild horse lays killed by fracking-related traffic on Hwy 23 on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. Pieces of broken plastic tail lens lay beside the bloodied body which has been pushed clear of the roadway.$
$Radioactive fracking socks$
$On March 3, 2014, over 100 55-gallon plastic garbage bags of radioactive fracking filter socks were found illegally dumped in this abandoned auto repair shop near the Canadian border. Noonan, North Dakota$
$Radioactive fracking waste$
$A fracking well site is reflected in the wing of a vintage 1953 Cessna flying near Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Photograph by Bruce Farnsworth with aerial support provided by volunteer pilot Chris Boyer and LightHawk$

$Boundary issues and conflicting land use are interpreted in this aerial photograph over the eastern edge of Teddy Roosevelt National Park, South Unit (TRNP-South). As the early morning sun grazes the land, a fence demarcating the park's eastern boundary is seen clearly at the left of this image. The sprawl of oil & gas development is now led by the fracking boom of North Dakota's Bakken region. In this view, several access roads radiate out, fragmenting the habitat, as wells approach the national park.Photograph by Bruce Farnsworth with aerial support provided by LightHawk$
$Site of one-million gallon spill of fracking wastewater in July 2014. Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, upper Missouri River valley.$
$Vance Gillette, tribal elder and attorney, smells wild bergamont (Monarda fisutlosa) while holding a bundle of silver sage (Artemesia cana) collected near the site of the summer 2014 Arrow pipeline spill which contaminated a drainage above Bear Den Bay on Lake Sakakawea with over a million gallons of fracking wastewater.Vance is collecting plants on the hills above the drainage. I assisted tribal leaders in documenting the impacts and collecting water samples for independent analysis. The stem in Mr. Gillette's hand crosses an orange object in the background. That's a pump placed by an industry contractor to pull out contaminated water that collected above a beaver dam in the impacted drainage. Gillette is family of the late Russell Gillette, who was forced by the Department of the Interior in 1953 to sign away the rich agricultural bottomlands of the upper Missouri River valley prior to the construction of the Garrison Dam which fllooded much of Three Affiliated Tribe land.$
$Contaminated pond downstream from the million gallon fracking wastewater spill$
$The view from 21,000 feet: A philosophers's take on fracking$
$Getting the mail in fracking country$
$A wild horse lays killed by fracking-related traffic on Hwy 23 on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. Pieces of broken plastic tail lens lay beside the bloodied body which has been pushed clear of the roadway.$
$Radioactive fracking socks$
$On March 3, 2014, over 100 55-gallon plastic garbage bags of radioactive fracking filter socks were found illegally dumped in this abandoned auto repair shop near the Canadian border. Noonan, North Dakota$
$Radioactive fracking waste$
$A fracking well site is reflected in the wing of a vintage 1953 Cessna flying near Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Photograph by Bruce Farnsworth with aerial support provided by volunteer pilot Chris Boyer and LightHawk$

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