Appoached by frackers and/or landmen? Before you sign anything please check out Sharon Wilson's Shale Survival Guide for those living in close proximity to fracking. Sharon Wilson (aka @TxSharon) until recently was a Texas mineral rights owner and she has been monitoring illegal methane emissions in Texas for a decade. She is intimately acquainted with fracking and its consequences.

The mineral rights podcast

• This podcast comes from a primarily from a pro-extraction perspective. However, if offers a lot of information on how to best manage mineral rights. Regardless of your views on extraction, if you are not managing your mineral rights, they are being managed for you by the extraction industry.

the fossil fuel landman is not your friend

For fun! Boomtown podcast

• “Boomtown is a limited-series podcast about the Permian Basin. Boomtown takes you to the heart of the historic oil boom that’s playing out in West Texas. An oil boom so big, it’s reshaping our climate, our economy, and our geopolitics.”

From Politico Magazine, “He Said I was a Fracking Heiress. I went to West Virginia to Find Out”, by Amanda Uhle

Erika Bolstad is the author of Windfall, a narrative nonfiction book out from Sourcebooks. Set on the prairies of North Dakota. Windfall begins with a mysterious email that arrives from my mother shortly before her death, saying she'd inherited mineral rights. Bolsted sets out at the height of the oil boom to unearth the story behind the bequest, in search of the source of the whispers heard on the Great Plains: We could be rich.