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Jackson Hole News - Week of May 5th
Posted: 5/8/2008 by Mary Lynn Wilmore
Jackson Kayakers Anticipate Stellar Summer
After a winter of record snow falls, Jackson boaters' thoughts have turned to the summer season. Currently the Snake River is running below average, but experts believe it will rise quickly once the weather turns warmer. Though cautioning safety first as the waters rise, whitewater devotees eagerly anticipate flows that could equal 1999's historic run of above 20,000 csf flows.
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Elk Antler Hunters
Jackson Hole News and Guide writer, Amanda Miller, follows 2 elk antler hunters into Jackson's Elk Refuge as they race to find newly shed antlers. The hunters line up the night before in preparation for the Refuge's annual antler hunt. The prize heads and antlers go to the first in line, so hunters arrive early for the best positions.
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Jackson Hole News - Week of April 28th
Posted: 5/1/2008 by Mary Lynn Wilmore
Wolf Killings Provoke Suit
12 groups have filed suit in US District Court in Montana for an injunction against state wolf management. The suit states that the animals should be returned to Federal protection until the population, which is currently at 1,500 animals, has reached a sustainable size. 37 wolves have been killed since de-listing from the endangered species list in late March.
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High Density Development Controversy Continues
Teton County Meadows, a 500 lot affordable housing development, proposed for the South Park Loop area continues to cause controversy. Teton County Commissioners resumed their review of the proposal on Tuesday, denying a request by the development's attorney for a continuance. 30 community members spoke during the meeting, all but 1 against the project.
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Boulder hits home, truck
Posted: May 12th, 2008
A massive boulder bounced down East Gros Ventre Butte, broke into large pieces and smashed into a home and vehicle early Saturday morning...
Construction begins on Wilson affordables
Posted: May 12th, 2008
The Teton County Housing Authority broke ground on eight affordable homes last week in Wilson, adjacent to the Old Wilson Schoolhouse...
Wolf-kill total reaches 16
Posted: May 12th, 2008
Wyoming Game and Fish Department officials say a hunter has reported a wolf killed May 5 near Daniel in Sublette County...
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Building a New and Sustainable Residential Model
Posted: May 10th, 2008
About a year ago, a client of mine came to me and asked me to design a house that would have no energy bill -- a "Net Zero House," producing as much energy as it used. During the same year, I found that my energy bill for my own house was beginning to become much more of a burden on our family budget. These two events led me to research energy costs and how those costs are impacting the average American household. It was immediately clear from the research that energy prices are outpacing income and our current way of building houses will create energy bills that will not be sustainable for the average household.
The Family Farm, Version 2.0
Posted: May 9th, 2008
I spread my sleeping bag on the floor and crumpled my coat for a pillow. I put the bag where my bed used to be.
The room still smelled the same. Aside from the echo, there was something homey, something warm, the smell of a vanilla candle still lingering in the empty walls. My brother and I were at the now vacant house for the night. It was Thanksgiving, and we wanted to stay somewhere familiar. The land had sold, but the house hadn't yet, so we would stay the night on the floor in my old bedroom.
Facing me, in the wall, was a small hole about the size of a heel. My brother and I had been fighting about something teenagers fight about and, in a tantrum, my foot connected with the wall. My brother had laughed. I was 16 at the time.
I had forgotten about the hole, hidden by a dresser long ago. As I ran my fingers over it one more time, my brother walked in, shaking his head. He always told me I was too sentimental about this place. It's just a house, just a farm. They're just walls. It's just dirt.
He didn't believe it either.
The Grid Gets a Brain
Posted: May 9th, 2008
If all goes as planned Boulder will become the world's first fully integrated Smart Grid City, says regional utility Xcel Energy. Envisioned as the first true innovation in electricity distribution in close to a century, the Smart Grid movement is essentially developing ways to bring digital Internet-based technology to power lines, giving utilities and business and residential customers greater control and efficiency in the flow of electricity.
Ultimately, once the Smart Grid takes over a significant chunk of the existing power distribution infrastructure, utilities and governments will be able to use the power of the Web to better manipulate how electricity is generated and delivered.
In other energy news: Democrats ready populist energy legislation; Colorado eyes fine print on electricity bills; and O&G executives foresee oil-price downturn by the end of the year.
Rigged: Alexandra Fuller's The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
Posted: May 9th, 2008
The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
By Alexandra Fuller
The Penguin Press
202 pages, $23.95
In her extraordinary new book, The Legend of Colton H. Bryant, Alexandra Fuller does a cruel thing. She makes readers fall in love with a Wyoming boy in the space of a few pages, carries us through his life, which leads inevitably to a dangerous job on an oil rig, and makes us stand as witnesses to his end, however much we wish we could turn our heads away. I still feel heartsick a few weeks after finishing it. Fuller writes with simple grace and a cowboy twang, taking a rather unconventional approach for nonfiction by composing the book of the private conversations and intimate scenes that are the turning points of Bryant's short life, and though she must have spent months with his family and friends, the author stays offstage, disappearing into a bracing, honest voice that is motherly in its tenderness toward her subject.
Fuller will discuss her book at the Tattered Cover (LoDo) in Denver on Monday, May 12 (7:30 p.m.), at Borders in Portland on May 13 (7 p.m.), and in Evanston, WY at the Uinta Library on May 16 (5 p.m.)
Missoula County Asks Mark Rey to Halt Plum Creek Talks
Posted: May 8th, 2008
Wednesday the Missoula County Commissioners sent a letter to Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey asking him to drop consideration of the forest road easement amendment until the documents proposed for amendment have been identified and made available to the public.
The commissioners wrote: "...the failure to identify, review, and properly reference the easements to be amended will make the proposed Easement Amendment legally void, and the process leading up to your expected approval fatally flawed."
Rey, overseer of the Forest Service, said during a meeting last week with officials from western Montana that he would not make the paperwork available and invited a lawsuit, which appears imminent.
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