"Methane Development Film to air Thursday"
December 12, 2005, Missoulian

“Powder River Country” will air at 7:30 pm Thursday on Montana PBS, KUFM. This will be the broadcast premiere of the High Plains Film about coal bed methane development in Montana and Wyoming.

From the peaks of Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains stretching northeast over eleven million acres, the Powder River Basin is a landscape of rolling hills, big skies, and subtle beauty.

For nearly 200 years, generations of homesteaders have ranched and farmed these high plains. “Powder River Country” documents the rush for a new source of natural gas and the transformation of this remote region through energy development.
NewWest.net recently reviewed the documentary. “Zugel (Director) is working here on the model pioneered by High Plains Films’ founder Doug Hawes-Davis with an eccentric soundtrack juxtaposed to action shots of drilling rigs and heavy equipment and aerial footage of wastewater ponds and gas development scattershot into what used to be empty rangeland,” the online publication wrote.