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by Ted Wood

Linda Baker stands in front of compressors and a drill rig on the Pinedale Anticline, today one of the most productive natural gas fields in the West. Baker was a librarian when she first joined the Pinedale Anticline Working Group to help oversee energy development on the Anticline. Now she watchdogs industry as community organizer for the Upper Green River Valley Coalition.

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