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Show Park Record Thursday, July 26, 1990 Page A13 A " 1 - .' 1 Coyotes cause rabies scare in Mammoth area Review-Herald Close encounters between coyotes and humans led to a short-lived rabies scare that almost caused a quarantine of Red's Meadow Valley near Mammoth Lakes during the Fourth of July weekend. Four coyotes killed in the wake of incidents were found to be free of rabies. The area remains open for human use, though the number and boldness of the resident coyote population has the U.S. Forest Service stepping up its public awareness campaign. In particular, the Forest Service and California Department of Fish and Game are once again asking the public to not feed any animals. The Forest Service's Jim Morrow said humans have created the problem by feeding coyotes and leaving food out in campgrounds. A coyote reportedly bit a young girl on the head as she slept outdoors in Pumice Campground in the early morning mor-ning hours of June 29. According to. Morrow, the coyote's uncharacteristic action may have been provoked by the presence of candy can-dy and vomit in the area. Another child had thrown up earlier that night, and while the mother apparently cleaned the sleeping bag, it is possible that some strong-smelling strong-smelling residue may have drawn the coyote into camp. That incident, and two other reports of coyotes nipping at people in the vicinity of the campgrounds, led Madera County health officials to call for a quarantine the same day. Margaret Gorski, Forest Service recreation officer, said those officials had no information at all about previous occurrances of rabies in the area. The area is about 60 miles from the county seat in Madera, and much of it is roadless. The Madera County foothills which are on the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas have apparently seen some reports of rabies in small mammals. The quarantine notice would have closed the area already filled to capacity for the holiday weekend- and required its evacuation. But Forest Service officials and Madera health officials worked out a compromise to keep the area open while quickly determining whether the coyote's behavior indicated a rabies threat. Two federal trappers were called in to trap and kill coyotes to send to a pathologist for diagnosis. A total of four coyotes were killed under the health department's authority. They were immediately airlifted to pathologists by a California Highway Patrol helicopter. The report came back negative for rabies, so Madera allowed the Forest Service to keep the valley open. $THr3SsL TRAIL Moreover, proponents claim the system is integral in providing a link between affordable housing down valley and the resort hubs at Vail and Beaver Creek. Aside from easing the demand for parking spaces, they say the bus provides an environmentally sound alternative to single-passenger automobiles. Leopard court Creek in In arguments before District Court Judge Robert Brown recently, developers accused San Miguel County officials of letting political concerns sway a planning decision in their denial of a housing development along the Leopard Creek corridor. Developers Raymond Coffey of Montrose and Keith Lindauer of Telluride sued San Miguel County following that land use decision, made by the County Commission Dec. 7, 1989. Judge Brown took the verbal arguments under advisement advise-ment and asked attorneys for both sides to draw up separate orders by July 16, detailing the facts and law supporting the opposing rulings, in order to speed disposition of the case. Brown indicated that he would then make a decision, issuing the order consistent with his decision. Attorney Earl Rhodes of Grand Junction, representing the county as defendant in the suit, disputed the applicability ap-plicability of legal precedents cited by the plaintiff, calling call-ing them irrelevant. He suggested that overwhelming citizen opposition to the density of the plaintiff's proposal pro-posal substantiated the county's denial, since limited density was one of the county-imposed criteria for development in the Leopard Creek corridor. Rhodes further argued that the developers' offer to deed restrict two lots to affordable housing for six months mon-ths on a trial basis clearly did not meet the county's need for affordable housing, although he admitted it was "less clear" what would have met the affordable housing hous-ing criteria. I lackson Hole Guide i Grazing policy threatened A National Park Service policy aimed at ending cattle grazing oh park lands will virtually "wipe out the Porter Trust's 840-acre South Park ranching operation near Jackson Hole. Under federal laws regulating grazing on public lands, the Porter Estate will lose cattle-grazing rights on 11,550 acres of Grand Teton National Park when the current grazing permit holder, Jeannine Porter Gill, dies. Public Law 81-787 mandated that successors of those people who held valid park grazing permits on Sept. 14, 1950, would be the last to hold those permits. The law governing grazing leases explains the family's eagerness to see some of its South Park ran- Bus vote is stalled It's going to take time to convince Eagle County residents to vote for a half-cent sales tax increase to fund a county-wide bus system. That's what the Eagle County Commission and a group of representatives recently admitted when they agreed that a sales tax election in August, as originally scheduled, would probably fail. The group opted to hold the election with the nhianrt nnnpYPdtn the town of Jackson for develoDment November general election, hoping that by then they now, estate representative Kelly Lockhart said, could convince voters of the value of the Eagle County According to Lockhart, the 11,550 acres represent the Express and of the merits of using sales tax instead of majority of the family's grazing lands, and their loss is property tax to finance it. The county says it has too cause for speculation about the future of the South Park many other financial obligations to support the bus ranching business. system, and if interim funding can't be found, the ser- "That's pretty much it" in terms of the family's graz- vice will come to a halt on Sept. 30. ing &nds, Lockhart said. "That's where the majority of Proponents of the system say ridership has increased the cattle are grazed." steadily since 1986, when Eagle County Express began. "From our perspective, losing the permit obviously is It served 355,666 riders the first year. Ridership climbed something to worry about. When that goes away, it's goto go-to 416,199 as of the 1989-90 ski season. In addition, rider- jng to be a real problem for us to.. .maintain ranching," ship on some routes went up by as much as 20 percent in the attorney said. the shoulder seasons. , t -;-. w V, - 4 . ; i r.-v - - n..r hAfnri. the DeDeche Mode concert on Tuesday, there was a three-car accident in ffl ta-Ww V 224. Concert Security as well as the Highway patrol ponded to the call. No injuries were rcPui res; Quality Homes ' Under Construction LOCATED ON GOLF COURSE WITH VIEWS OF POND & SKI AREAS New homo being constructed on the Park Meadows Golf Course. 4 bdrm, 3.5 bath, 2 fireplaces, 3 car garage and vaulted 18' ceiling. Walk-In closets off of every bedroom, jetted tub In master, pantry In kitchen plus lots more. Built by Richard Kennedy. $395,000 iiLjTtjfi?! 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