Editing Paonia, Colorado (section)

===Coal mining===
The valley's principal coal mines are all now closed except for [[Arch Coal]]'s West Elk Mine,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uprr.com/customers/energy/coal/colorado/west_elk.shtml|title=Union Pacific|website=Uprr.com|access-date=August 20, 2017}}</ref> [[Bucyrus International]], a supplier of underground coal mining equipment, operates a small warehouse in Paonia for support of the underground longwall systems that are operating in the North Fork valley. [[Union Pacific]] provides service to the mine, loading 100 car trains in two hours. The most recent mine closure shuttered Bowie #2 Mine.

The community has mounted legal challenges to proposed oil and gas drilling [[Hydraulic fracturing|fracking]] in the surrounding North Fork Valley.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18122019/colorado-fracking-threat-sustainable-agriculture-industry-paonia-north-fork-valley|title=As Coal Declined, This Valley Turned to Sustainable Farming. Now Fracking Threatens Its Future.|last=Berwyn|first=Bob|date=December 20, 2019|website=InsideClimate News|language=en-US|access-date=December 21, 2019}}</ref>