Area 127 covers the country in the southern Powder River Basin around Douglas and the country running north toward Wright and Gillette. Elevations run from about 4,500 feet on the basin floor to 6,000 feet on the higher prairie benches. The country is open Powder River prairie: rolling sage and bunchgrass, scattered ponderosa pine on the higher breaks, irrigated hay and alfalfa along the North Platte River and tributary creeks. The North Platte is the southern boundary corridor and runs cottonwood-and-willow bottoms through Douglas; the LaPrele Creek and Antelope Creek drainages cut north out of the Laramie Range foothills toward the basin. Coal-bed methane and oil-and-gas development is widespread; pumpjacks and lease roads pattern the country. Douglas itself sits at the corner of I-25 and WY-59 and serves as a regional hub. BLM, state trust, and significant private ranch and energy holdings share the country with HMA and Walk-In access. I-25 and WY-59 frame the access. Douglas is the supply town with gas, motels, real grocery, and the Wyoming State Fair grounds; Gillette is the larger metro hub north. Cell service is fair on I-25 and reasonable through the developed energy country. Antelope rifle in October is the headline; the open prairie holds strong pronghorn density. Mule deer in the breaks and pine-edge country; whitetail in the river bottoms. Energy traffic is constant. The wind off the Laramie Range is the southern Wyoming wind machine in full effect.