Mining debris from the erly 20th century in Yankee Boy Basin, San Juan Mountains, south of Ouray, Colorado.

Historic mining mill near Ouray, Colorado.

Yankee Girl Headframe on the San Juan Skyway, San Juan Mountains between Silverton and Ouray.

Shiprock, New Mexico before coal-fired power plants began to obscure this sacred Navajo landmark.

Wagon ruts on the Ute Trail, White River National Forest near Dotsero, Colorado.

Large haul trucks for strip mined coal near Craig, Colorado.

The interior West generates electricity for the West Coast and receives all the pollution.

Oil shale cliffs near Parachute, Colorado.

Gas rig sets up for the gas boom in Garfield County, Colorado, 2006.

The Roan Plateau Cliffs at sundown soon to be the site of major gas drilling in a pristine area, Garfield County, Colorado.

Increased heavy truck traffic on I-70 because of the oil and gas boom in Garfield County, Colorado, 2006.

Mine buildings Ouray County, Colorado.

Trapper's Lake, Colorado, the birthplace and cradle of the wilderness movement, White River National Forest east of Meeker, Colorado.

One hundred coal cars in a large coal train near Yampa, Colorado.

Energy development in Western Colorado has had a huge impact on deer and elk populations.. Sign in the Picenance Basin, Rio Blanco County, Colorado.

Collapse of the First National Bank, Rifle, Colorado during the oil shale bust in May 1982.

Energy workers living in trailers during the oil shale boom of the 1980s, Parachute, Colorado.

Energy lies deep in dark layers of mahogany shale from the specimen in front of the Parachute, Colorado Town Hall.

One of the mittens, Navajo Tribal Park, Utah.

Precious moisture moves over sandstone cliffs in Navajo Tribal Park, Utah.

Low, special clouds move over sandstone cliffs, Navajo Tribal Park, Utah.

Historic mine site Ouray County, Colorado.

Yankee Girl headframe, San Juan Skyway, Red Mountain Pass, Colorado.

Tracks lead to the mine dump, Ouray County, Colorado.

Trapper's Lake, Colorado cradle of wilderness.

The Chinese Wall into the Flat Tops Wilderness, White River National Forest, Colorado.

Worker housing rented for $650 each in Parachute, Colorado during the oil shale boom in 1982.

Historic mining building, San Juan Mountains, Red Mountain Pass, Colorado.

Pool along the Missouri River where Capt. Lewis found water to recussitate Sacagawea who was dying in 1805.

Ancient grandfather trees on Lolo Pass, Montana may have been young when Sacagawea passed through.

Pine trees along the Lewis and Clark Trail in Montana.

Historic house in Ironton Park, now a town park for Ouray, Colorado.

Granite crosses mark where firefighters fell in the 1994 Storm King Fire near Glenwood Springs, Colorado/

Burned ridge tops photographed six months after the July 1994 Storm King Fire.

Echo Park, Colorado and river runners at the site of a proposed dam in Dinosaur National Monument which failed in 1956.

Enjoying a waterfall and microclimate along the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument.

Historic mine building near Chattanooga, Red Mountain Pass, Colorado.

Lodore Canyon entrance for river runners on the Green River which flows through Dinosaur National Monument.

Sunset in the Columbia River Gorge in the Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area.

Former grizzly bear habitat near Three Forks, Montana.

Nez Perce sacred stone cairns at the Smoking Place in Idaho's Bitterroot Mountains.

Setting a 5 ton B&O Caboose in the Lima, Ohio square as a project of Train Town.

One of the oldest mining structures along Red Mountain Pass in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado.

A sacred Blackfoot waterfall in Glacier National Park, Montana.

Indian Camp Pass, White River National Forest, Colorado.

Ancient Ute bison hunting blind on the Flat Tops Mountains, White River National Forest, Colorado.

Trapper's Lake, Colorado the cradle of wilderness.

Bison roam free on springtime flowers in Grand Teton National Park.

Red Mountain in the Red Mountain mining area, San Juan Mountains, Colorado.

Sacred Blackfoot waterfall in Glacier National Park, Montana.

Restored 5 ton B&O Caboose being placed on trucks in Lima, Ohio.