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Colorado Plateau ecoregion and oil and gas footprints

By Western Geographic Science Center
A series of figures depicting the Colorado Plateau ecoregion with photos of depicting the footprints oil and gas wells
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Location map of the Colorado Plateau ecoregion; ecoregion detail (A) with individual well sites identified by a black dot; Google Earth Pro aerial photography showing the footprint of oil and gas development at the landscape scale as small light colored patches (B); Google Earth Pro close-up of well pads and roads (C). Source/Usage: USGS Multimedia Gallery/Public Domain.

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Public Domain.