几年前，怀俄明州的Pinedale（派恩代尔）就已经注定成为富人们的一个夏季避暑胜地。
A FEW years ago, Pinedale seemed destined to become a summer retreat for the rich.
派恩代尔南面的一个台地是怀俄明州最繁忙的一块区域，四周散布着泥泞的道路，坑坑洼洼地分布着一些井眼和钻孔设备。
On a mesa south of Pinedale, Wyoming's busiest field is laced with dirt roads and pock-marked with well-heads and drilling rigs.
如果将来天然气的价格不断下降以至于开采活动已经无法承受的时候，派恩·代尔失去的不仅是经济的基础，同时也会丧失部分当地的美景。
And if the price of gas falls so far that drilling becomes unaffordable, Pinedale will not just lose the backbone of its economy. It will have lost some of its natural beauty, too.
但是，不管是森林管理局，还是公园管理局都无法控制在瓶颈处私人领地上发生的事，也无法控制在派恩·代尔南部土地管理局地块上的钻井地点发生的事。
But neither the Forest Service nor the Park Service can control what happens on private land at a bottleneck, nor on Bureau of land Management parcels within the drilling fields south of Pinedale.
随着钻孔机和油井工人的到来，派恩·代尔的命运和怀俄明州其他盛产石油和天然气的地区一起，在瞬间被改变了。
Then the drillers and roughnecks arrived and the fate of Pinedale, together with other oil - and gas-rich parts of Wyoming, abruptly changed.
随着钻孔机和油井工人的到来，派恩·代尔的命运和怀俄明州其他盛产石油和天然气的地区一起，在瞬间被改变了。
Then the drillers and roughnecks arrived and the fate of Pinedale, together with other oil - and gas-rich parts of Wyoming, abruptly changed.
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