dear old friends about the sorry state of our campaign. With a grave expression on his face, Ted looked across the sparky campfire at me, and intoned words I have never forgotten over these four decades: "Tom, no matter who wins this fight, WE lose." Ted was right, but only up to a point. We DID get our National Lakeshore under the NPS, instead of "industrialization of the Lake Michigan Crescent" We did lose a lot to the steel and utility interests, but we did save "the birthplace of the study of ecology in North America," first recognized by Dr. Henry Chandler Coales. And the exercise produced a respectable handful of heroes, such as the late IUinms U.S. Senator Paul H. Douglas (and I might Frank Moss, who was a stalwart supporter of a National Park). But mention that was back when the Rocky Mountain states were still producing great statesmen like Frank Church, Clinton Anderson, Ernest Gruening compared to the crap you now send to DC But as I say above, my family and I have a great love of the Rocky Mountain states, if not of its politicians-thou- gh through their reactionary hostility, they may yet serve that interests by giving region such a bad name that us rich easterners (I was important New raised in and bom Jersey, though partially redeemed with a BS from Iowa State) would just as soon not want to go there to spend money, just like we stayed away from Quebec a couple of years ago because of its separatist proclivities. We have our deep secret hideaways in Wyoming and southwestern Montana that we don't tell ANYBODY about. Every time I see a magazine article entitled "My 10 favorite camping places," I just write them off of any potential visiting sites. We know a lot about Wyoming, in particular, thanks to an Iowa State classmate (from Pennsylvania) who married the daughter of a homesteader in Jackson Hole, and then moved and settled there, eventually to take a job in the information department at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. He got to know Dr. Dave Love very well there. Love is the premier paleontologist of the northern Rockies, whose family was the center of a book Rising from the Plains. Anyway, Love told our friend all the intriguing microplaces to visit in Wyoming, and HE told US; and WE tell NOBODY!! And there are almost no "tourists" at alL Maybe an occasional fossil hunter. Well, enough of this, Jim. I am writing because I don't want you to become discouraged in your devotion to the holy place of Utah. 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