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Show A-5 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, September 18-21, 2004 MOUNTAIN TOWN NEWS A Roundup ofNews o U other-Western s T H SLJM/Vf Happy Birthday SSAFC! To celebrate our 1st year, we're offering 10% off all annual memberships through the month of September! IT- Snowboarding bad for Kerry's image used to pay for pollution controls. Thai, in turn, could loosen Record guest writer some construction rules. COLUMBUS. Ohio - John 'Hie agencies are going heavy Kerry is not getting the traction in the front-end public involvewith the working class in Ohio ment, in hopes of avoiding the that many people think he legal challenges that were mountshould. Instead, the state is edg- ed after thd existing plan was first ing toward Bush, It is, says one released in 1984. campaign consultant who has Michael Donajioc, of the worked in Ohio Tor 30 years, a Tahoe Chapter of the Sierra matter of presenting the wrong Club, said the project, called image - things like snowboard- Pathway 2007, because it is to be ing. complete by 2007, has "incredi"I smell the same New ble potential" to help Lake England genius that I smelled in Tahoe's future. He warned the Dukakis campaign in 1988," against giving too much weight to Gerald Austin of Cleveland told local business interests. "Most of The New York Times. "Kerry the people in this basin want to wants to run as a man of the peo- protect the lake, but you have a ple, and where do they put him few that still see it as their own for photo opportunities? profit center. For them, it's for Snowboarding in Sun Valley, sale," said Donahoe. "The shooting skcet in the Ohio Valley, preservation of this lake ought to and windsurfing off that great be primary." working-class vacation paradise. Nantucket. Democrats - at least • Gold-mining from 1850s Ohio Democrats - play Softball continues to poison fish and touch football." LAKE N ATOM A, Calif. •Strategy revised in effort to Some 150 years ago the immigrant gold miners into the halt Lake Tahoe decline California foothills used an estiLAKE TAHOE. Colo. - Work mated S.5 million pounds of merhas begun on a new strategy to cury lo separate gold from ore. reverse the decline of Lake Now, new immigrants are Tahoe, which has lost one-third being warned not to cat the fish of its clarity since the late 1960s. from some lakes and rivers east Scientists say the decline could of Sacramento because of danbecome irreversible unless reme- gerously high levels of mercury. dial steps are taken during the Preparing brochures in several next 15 to 20 years. different languages, health offiA consortium of local, stale, cers are targeting Asian, Russian, and federal agencies are respon- and Latino anglers, people who sible for protecting the 1.645- tend to eat a lot of the fish that foot-deep lake, which straddles they catch. the California-Nevada border. Tests show mercury levels as The lake's quality is tied closely high as 1.02 parts per million in to the activities on land around bass and 1.89 parts per million in the shore. channel catfish, reports the To reduce pollution, the Sacramento Bee. That's three to Tahoe Regional Planning Agency six limes the threshold estabhas tightly restricted develop- lished by the Environmental ment, allowing only 225 new Protection Agency. homes per year in the basin. Salmon and trout, two of the Local jurisdictions are given per- most popular local sport fish, mits based on their progress tend to accumulate relatively low toward achieving key environ- levels of mercury, say scientists. mental goals, explains the Reno As a result, most people can safeGazette-Journal. ly eat those fish three times a The new strategy will be week, although women of childgeared' toward finding new ways bearing age can eat them only to control sediment and settling once a week. dust, reports the Contra Costa Times. Automobile driving in the •Even resort areas are blotTahoe Basin could be restricted, ting out night sky while property owners could see new build ing limits. On the other SUMMIT COUNTY. Colo. hand, developers could be Climb the highest mountain, and allowed to pay fees that will be you still can't get away from light By ALLEN BEST pollution. Thai's the report in the Summit Daily News, which tells about an observatory atop Mount Evans, a 14,000-fool peak located about halfway between Breckenridge and Denver. Among the observatory's disks is to track near-earth asteroids, which periodically in the past have crashed into the Earth. One such collision about 65 million years ago caused the extinction of most earthly life forms. But the observatory's work is increasingly disrupted by light pollution. While the pollution t'rom Summit County is still relatively small, it has grown measurably in the past 10 to 15 years. Dr. Robert Stencel, director of the observatory, has quantified the increase in pollution and will present his findings at a community workshop. Before thai community meeting local astronomy enthusiasts had organized a public star-gazing party, with the intent partly being to educate local,residents about the impacts of light pollution and how to prevent the pollution. •A bummer year for gathering 'shrooms TELLURIDE, Colo. - In the San Juan Mountains the summer passed by dry and extraordinarily cool. The result was "maybe the worst year on record," reports time fungofile Art Goodtimes. whose experience in such matters in Telluride goes back about 20 years. "Devoid of almost all fruiting bodies. Not a pretty fungal picture this year," he reports in The Telluridc Watch. •Halt this war on the floral non-natives! ' Leisure/family pool * 6 lane lap pool 'Divine well " T h e Rock" climbing wall 't Cardio area * Aerobics & dance studio TELLURIDE, Colo. - In Telluride and the San Miguel Valley, the invasion of exolic plant species is taken seriously. The front page of The Telluridc Watch each week has an "invasive of the week" featuring such plants as leafy spurge and musk thistle. Invasives were brought to North American from Eurasia and are now crowding out the natives. 'Hie problem, say some scientists, is even more menacing than that of global wanning. But one Telluride resident says too much already! llenc Barlh says a town employee informed her thai neither the town nor the county was happy about the tansy, an invasive nonnative plant, growing in her yard, and that the plant should be removed. Well, said Barth, she is also non-native, and the peaches she favors arc non-natives. 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