Oil fields all around us are taking their toll.  There are many flare stacks, brightly lighted derricks, storage tanks, and lighted work yards to the North and even a few to the south on the National Grasslands just outside the Park.  If I adjust my gaze just right, I can still get a view that pretty much excludes those eyesores.  It is difficult though.  What is already impossible to escape is the noise.  There is a constant drone of equipment 24 hours a day and the ongoing rumble of heavy truck traffic in daylight hours.  There is a part of this wilderness experience that is quickly being lost.  What is it worth to hear the animals, birds and bugs awakening with the sunrise?  What about a dark night sky with twinkling stars and the Milky Way splashed across it?