For the first time, ranchers, realtors, and hippies in Delta County, Colo., have a common enemy: coal bed methane exploration. Coal bed methane (CBM) is a form of natural gas, but accessing it is far more intensive than traditional natural gas exploration because it involves drilling multiple wells close together, then connecting them with a network of power lines, roads, pipelines, and compressor stations. The folks in Delta County are dead set against it, and a volunteer citizen's alliance has sworn to research every possible legal, regulatory, and constitutional avenue to safeguard the region from coal bed methane development. Writing from the heart of Delta County, Lisa Jones tells it like it is, only on the Grist Magazine website.