Wagon Wheel InformationCommittee Records 1960-1996

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Wagon Wheel InformationCommittee Records 1960-1996

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The Wagon Wheel Information Committee formed in1971 to halt the proposed use of underground nuclear blasting for natural gasexploration south of Pinedale, Wyoming. The collection contains materialrelated to the committee's successful efforts to keep Project Wagon Wheel fromoccurring.

8.5 cubic ft. (20boxes)

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Wagon Wheel Information Committee

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The Wagon Wheel Information Committee was formed in 1971 in response to the establishment of Project Wagon Wheel by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The project would give $12 million to El Paso Natural Gas Company to conduct nuclear explosions twenty miles south of Pinedale, Sublette County, Wyoming to determine if they would lead to the production of natural gas from the Pinedale gas field. The Committee used meetings, petitions, flyers, school surveys, fund raising "blasts," straw votes and...