Ryan Zinke, Donald Trump's Pick for Interior Secretary, and the Rising American Land Movements

In 1981, an oilman named George Mitchell developed a fixation on a geologic formation called the Barnett Shale, near Fort Worth, Texas, in which some promising drilling prospects were locked under seemingly unbreachable rock. His company held a long-term contract with a pipeline business that would pay high prices so long as Mitchell could keep supplying natural gas, but his company's fields were drying up. He focussed his efforts on the Barnett formation, which happened to be near his company's...