Home On the Range?

hat are they thinking?

I was surfing google maps wondering where along a certain route I may be able to see birds came across this green patch on the map, 
The Pawnee National Grasslands...
SO I said "AWESOME" went looking for more info and found this review (I copied and pasted) from someone who visited a yr ago:

avid Auerbach

11 months ago-This used to be a beautiful, peaceful prairie with nothing but native grasses, sunflowers, llizards and other wildlife along with the Buttes seemingly popping out of nowhere. That was about 5 or so years ago. We just went back there again in spring 2014 and it's a sad sight. The Pawnee National Grassland could now be called the Pawnee National Gasland as it's become an industrial wasteland thanks to fracking EVERYWHERE. Drilling, flaring, waste pits where "produced water" aka carcinogens are evaporating into the air you breathe. Not to mention big rigs burning their diesel and hauling wastewater, flying across every dirt road around with no concern for speed. It's a shame we live in a corporate controlled country that allows this to happen to our lands.

and from a visitor 5 months ago:

Brandon C

5 months ago-I have only been here while working for a fracking crew. I quit months ago but i had a hard time working on a national grassland; helping to destroy what was once beautiful land. It has become arid and dusty with little to no wildlife due to all of the activity and traffic the fracking has brought.

Samantha Teng

a year ago-Black and the other day to see you are not the way

And it brought to mind this...

"never is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day"

This is extremely discouraging to me, I've been waiting my whole life to have the chance to explore and travel, I will be 62 in about 60 days and finally I will have the time and hopefully the funds to travel at my leisure, while I've been whiling away my time paying into a tax system, look what they have been doing with my money?

All I can say is "THOSE BASTARDS" Im sorry but this is not acceptable...
How sad is this? RUINED before I could get there to see and enjoy it...
Wonder what else I will discover that I IN TRUSTED to my government, has not taken care of with my tax dollars? GREED brings nasty, nasty Earth, nasty Sky, nasty Words.
*SIGH*

Can we fix Nasty?