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Destroying Precious Land for Gas / Sean Lennon, New York Times,  the Opinion Pages, 28/08/2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/opinion/sean-lennon-destroying-precious-land-for-gas.htmlON the northern tip of Delaware County, N.Y., where the Catskill Mountains curl up into little kitten hills, and Ouleout Creek slithers north into the Susquehanna River, there is a farm my parents bought before I was born. My earliest memories there are of skipping stones with my father and drinking unpasteurized milk. There are bald eagles and majestic pines, honeybees and raspberries. My mother even planted a ring of white birch trees around the property for protection...