High Country News Vol. 24.18, Oct. 5, 1992
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l Dear friends, 1 , HCN goes to Seattle board and staff would like The board and staff of the High to see accomplished. Country Foundation gathered in Seattle These include preparation Sept. 19 to hold iheir final meeting of the of an integrated index, year. The meeting, which was organized putting HCN in full text by board member Maggie Coon and vol- on an electronic data base, unteer Louise Stonington, with help from publication of college Vic Sher, toek care of business from 9 readers based on articles a.m. to 5 p.m. and then adjourned to a that have appeared in the potluck gathering with 50 or so readers at paper. and publication of the Elliott Bay Bookstore in downtown guides or books, also /, Seattle. based on already pub- While the meeting went well, the lished articles. party went wonderfully, thanks to a book- By themselves, each ish and yet comfortable setting and enthu- of these projects seems siastic readers eager to tell staff and board doable. and over the past IDGH COUNTRY NEWS about stories the paper should cover. year or so, staff has (ISSN/OI91/5657) Is pUblished There was plenty of food and three hours attempted to do them. biweekly. except for one Issue during of intense conversation. Unfortunately, they Jnly and one Issue during January. by The board meeting itself focused on haven't gotten done. the High Country Foundation. 119 the 1993 budget and on the management RaJher than conclude that Grand Avenue, Paonia, CO 814Z8.Sec- structure of HCN. The budget discussion we're lazy, staff suggest- end-class postage paid at Paonia. Colorado. was routine. But the discussion of the way ed to the board that the in which HCN is operated was not. POSTMASTER: send address changes paper's present organiza- to HIGH COUNfRY NEWS.Box 1090. Basically, the present structure and tion may not be capable Paonia, CO 81428. personnel are adequate for the present of taking on additional Subscriptions are $28 per year fo .. task of publishing High Country News. major tasks. And that led individuals and pubUc lIbrar Ies, $38 But there are several additional projects to a wide-ranging discus- New Intern Krlsty Ratliff per year fo.. institutions. Slng1e copies sion of what kinds of $1.50 plus postage and handilng. Spe- changes may be needed to make Jhe paper while wiJh the Des Moines Register. cla1lssues $3 each. better able to accomplish the additional Forturiately for HCN and all oJher projects. No conclusion was reached, but newspapers. Risser is not seeking a third TomBeD Pulitzer. He is now director of the John S. Editor emeritus the talk was very helpful. Knight Fellowship Program, which each Ed Marston In fact, board and staff agreed that it PNbMsluw was an especially useful meeting. Because year offers 19 or so joumalists from Betsy Manton eight of the 10 board members in atten- around Jhe world nine-month sabbaticals Ed_ dance were women, it was suggested that at Stanford University, in Palo Alto. Calif. Unda Bacigalupi A.uodate publisher perhaps women are better than men at Risser was traveling through the Florence Williams board meetings. Other theories were also West in early September with his son SfnUrepcwrer advanced. John, and stopped in Paonia to check up c.LRawlins Poetry edikw The next meeting of the High Coun- on the doings of two ofthe program's " Diane Sylvain try Foundation board will be in Carson recent alumnirEd 'anlJ'Betsy Marstoh~·''"·''··'' Pr'oducUofflgrapbics .~i'~? p.t !""'")r City. Nev., January 23. ,,'j' .' ,-:"~..... : ~".-._",?-..~, ;r~~'f:!T;~"" ........::~a\?! ClndyWchUng ····A·new,inte.l'n..,,;:c .:.; "'0,""'''':. .,,:!,.;,; DesldOp pubUsblng AnnUbich New intern Kristy Ratliff comes to Typeseni..g Fruit and game High Country News from a long line of Gretchen Nicholoff Cin:ula'ioJI Thanks to HCN's new office, we English Americans who settled in Win- Zaz Hollander' don't need a calendar to tell the season. chester. Kentucky. Rumor has it that her Kristy Ratliff ,....... We can simply look in our parking lot, grandfather brewed moonshine for a liv- ing before finding a more respectable Vktoria Bootberry,FONJs,vIJJe, o.JJf. which these days is filled with cars Maggie Coon, SHinle, W....". belonging to people working in the fruit livelihood as a furniture maker. While she Judy Donald, Wtlsbi"&'O"> D.C packing shed across the street. Normally, seldom gets the urge to skin a 'coon or Michael Ehlers. JloII.lJer, Colo. Bert Fln.,erhut. Aspew; Colo. the lot looks mostly empty, so we're brew a batch of rotgut, Kristy isn't sure Tom France. MiuOM" MmrL grateful for the company .. what direction her life will take. Karll Frohboese.P""" City, UI~. She recently finished her degree-in Sally GonIon. ""Dolo, IVyo. If the additional cars don't give us Judith Jacobsen. BoNItIer. Colo. enough information, we can look out the English from Colorado College, where Dan Luecke. BoNWer. Colo. she discovered High Country News. But Geoffrey O'G ..... lAtuIer. Wyo. back window. There the butchering of elk Dlane}osephy PeaftY.c.in!oy, 1"110 behind our neighbor, the Paonia Food that leaves her with, well ... a degree in., ., ' James 8. Ruch, FIAg.tag; Anz. Bank, tells us that it's black powder/muz-, English,. Althoug/lsure she doesn't Wl\fll,~."': Farwell Smith. McLeoJ, MOffL Emily Swamon.1Jo.znuI .. MOffL zle-loading season. to bl:aprofessional.volunteer for Jhe·re.s.t·c·· Lynda S. Taylor. s..... Fe, NoM. of her .life, 'recent ,wQrkchistorjl:indica.aes,•.;·'." Mark Trahant. s.II /.ll1Ie CUy, UIab Andy Wlessner • .Delwer, Colo. otherwise: She spent the past two Stirn·' BofWfl of Dtreaors He won two mers working at a YMCA wilderness camp in northern Minnesota. During the Articles appearlnl In IHg. eo...,.", News are Indexed ~ E"virotI--.a1 pmoJict:W Bibllo~ If you are wondering why High next three months Kristy hopes to discov· pby. Environmental Studies institute. 800 Gar· Country News doesn't have a Pulitzer er whether journalism suits her. den Sl••Suite D, Santa Barbara. CA93101. AUrights to publication of articles In this Issue Prize, blame Jim Risser - he has two. He Ed Marston are reserved. Write for pennl1J5lon to print any received both for agricultural reporting - Ed Marston for the staff articles or Illustrations. Contribmlons (manu- JlmRlsser scripts. photos. artWork) wUl be welcomed ·wlth the understanding that the editors cannot be held responsible for 1088or damage. Enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope with aD UOfM)- HOTLINE BARBS liclted submissions to ensure return. Artkles and letters wID be edited and published at the dl8cre- lion of the editors. Advertising Information Is avaHable upon ij;~g~~~;a:~eD . .. ' .. ' ' '.' ......•·····~~~~~irh:~r~:dy.w.a. : requesL To have a sample copy sent to • friend. ·d:o.··;~d~~i~i send us his or her addtells. Write to Box 1090. ~1)lt.l' Paonia. CO 81428. 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'-:.":.-::}':/,';':':";': . 2 - High Country News - October 5, 1992 Miners stake out a golf course in Idaho HOTLINE KETCHUM, Idaho - A group of includes part of a green, a fairway and a retained the subsurface mineral rights. Janis environmentalists pounded a wooden sand trap. VanWyhe, associate director of the stake into the grass of a posh golf course ¥edberry said he apologized to Shoshone District BLM office, verified that here Sept. 23 to drive home a point. Kuolt, explaining the ICL was trying to the private land where ICL wants to stake Members of the Idaho Conservation dramatize that the 1872 Mining Law its claims is legally open to minerai explo- League were not bent on vandalism. They needs to be changed. Kuolt was not con- . ration. wanted to prove that even Sun Valley vinced. "Hell, no, I won't give them any All ICL has to do is stake its claims resorts are vulnerable to mineral explo- support," he said. He advised the would- and file an operation plan. Once federal ration under the nation's l20-year-old be miners, who have incorporated as the agencies approve the plan - and they mininglaw. Mine-All-Mine Mining Co.. to wear hard have little power to do otherwise - the Elkhorn resort owner Milt KuoIt hats "in case golf balls hit them in the miner can begin to dig, Medberry said. If :: ',~- made it clear he wanted environmentalists head:' valuable ore is discovered, he added, the off the golf course, but the law doesn't Bunny Wilson, a land expert for the claim can be developed without paying allow him to throw them off, said Mike Bureau of Land Management, said the , the government a dime. Medberry, an ICL staffer. Mine-All-Mine Co. has the legal right to There is one catch: Mine-All-Mine The group set up one comer marker stake claims on federal lands if the mineral Co. can't start excavation at the golf on the golf course, another on a utility rights have not been withdrawn by the fed- course or ski area - their next target - pole and two more just off the golf course eral government.