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Show MOUNTAIN TOWN NEWS Grizzly bears rapidly dying in the Banff-Canmore area By ALLEN BEST TRUCKEE, Calif. -Ten years Record guest writer ago free parking ended in Aspen. BANFF, Alberta - A new study Now, it's ending in Truckee, where reveals an alarming increase in the the town council has purchased 35 mortality of female grizzlies during "pay and display" meters. Town the past two years in the Bow River officials expect kinks in the new Valley after nine years of stability. system, which includes solar-powIn reporting the deaths, wildlife ered traffic meters. Key business biologist Stephen Herrero is calling owners in the rapidly changing for the designation of grizzly bears downtown district have been pushin both Alberta and British ing for paid parking for year. Columbia as "threatened." The Rocky Mountain Outlook •Green lights for two new reports that Herrero stopped short base area real estate plays of blaming human-grizzly conflicts in the Bow Valley on land developMT. CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. ers, but he said that people must - It was already a big year for baselearn to share the land with the griz- area real estate projects in ski zlies if grizzlies are to survive. towns. Now, the ropes have Nowhere else in North America dropped for yet two more big projwhere they still survive are grizzlies ects. as threatened, he said. At the base of the Crested "We must identify areas where Butte ski area, town officials in Mt. bears can be secure and those Crested Bulte have given final where people can be secure," he approval for the $200 million Town said. He recommends seasonal clo- Center project. The project will sures in areas where interaction is add both lodging and conference likely. space, but more generally will tidy Many of the killed tears were up a base area that could look and considered nuisances, because they function better than it does. had become habituated to areas Ski area officials see this as an where they were likely to have con- important first step toward creatflicts with people. However, many ing a somewhat larger and much bears are killed by hunters. Herrero more inviting product to entice was divided in whether he wanted destination visitors. Yet to come is to see hunting end, as hunters are the formal proposal for a new ski also responsible for conservation of area, called Snodgrass, that would habitat. However, Nigel Douglas, a offer bundles of intermediate ski conservation specialist with the terrain, something Crested Butte is Alberta Wilderness Association, shy of. called for a suspension of hunting. Meanwhile, the Teton County commissioners have approved a •Ketchum tinkers with historic major expansion of the base area preservation at the foot of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. This comes after KETCHUM, Idaho - Ketchum two years of debate, including a was first a mining town and then a rejection only two months ago. major center for sheep ranching The developer, Snake River before finally, in the 1930s, becom- Associates, pared the proposal and ing the first destination ski resort in sweetened the pie before returning the West. As such, it has lots of old to the commissioners. The new buildings - some 30 alone eligible plan contains 225 affordable and for national recognition, historic employee housing units, 18 golf preservationists say, plus hundreds cabins, free-market 59 houses, and deserving local recognition. 10,000 commercial square feet. • And the towns planning comElsewhere this year, Snowmass mission wants to take steps to Village approved a $400 base area ensure they do get preserved. The plan. In Vail, work got underway in Idaho Mountain Express reports earnest on $1 billion in real-estate that one idea is to allow people redevelopment, while plans were buying the houses to transfer densi- announced for a $300 project at ty potential to other sites, presum- the foot of Beaver Creek. In ably in the downtown area. That California, work has also begun on way, they will not want to raze the a major base-area development at old homes and build to maximum Northstar-at-Tahoc. heights. •Tahoe-area resorts had very, very good winter NORTH TAHOE. Calif. - Are the Truckee-Tahoe ski resorts soon to inherit the crown as the center of skiing in North America? A big winter has at least one economic development official talking such talk. "We are on the edge of the next best thing," said Andy Chapman, tourism director of the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association. Colorado and Canada have had their turns, and now it's Tahoes turn, he told the Tahoe World. What inspired such optimistic talk was a winter that arrived early and stayed steady, even as resorts to the north faltered. As a result, collections of the lodging tax - a good barometer of the tourism economy - were up 21 percent in the Thanksgiving-December period, while the first months of this year were up 10 percent. •Free downtown parking soon to end in Truckee A-7 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, July 23-26, 2005 •Aspen sizzles while Crested Butte gushes ASPEN, Colo. - It wasnt hot enough to fry an egg on the pavement. Hie Aspen Times tried it. But the 91 degrees reported in Aspen on July 15 was within a sizzle of the town's all-time record of 93 degrees. Meanwhile, about 20 miles south and 1,000 feet higher in Crested Butte, temperatures were reported to be only in the high 70s. Nonetheless, Crested Butte residents were gushing water on their lawns. The Crested Butte News reported that the water used by the town's 1,500 residents on July 9 was roughly equivalent to each of them filling up a 10-by-18-foot swimming pool with four feet of water. Despite the splurge, the town had water to spare. Not so at Park City, where officials told The Park Record that the town was "barely getting by" with its water supplies. The supply was such that violators of watering restrictions were to be given $50 tickets, not the custom- ary warnings. Meanwhile, in Colorado, the Rocky Mountain News examined what cities were using the most water per capita. While perhaps not at the head of the class. Aspen was reported to be among the leaders in profligate use. McNamara and Margy's, in the famed 10th Mountain Division siring between Aspen and Vail. While also in his 80s, he continued to ski into the huts until relatively recently. •Scientists hope Tahoe will establish timeline LAKE TAHOE, Calif. Scientists are mapping a study of Lake Tahoe that could yield the most definitive timeline yet of climates in North America during •Aspen announces lift prices the last two million years. of$78 Because the lake is so deep and so old, sediments provide a history ASPEN, Colo. - It's an old say- of ash from volcanic events, earthing: price your lift tickets for what quakes, and of the incursions of you consider to be their value, man with such things as logging then discount, discount, discount. and leaks of chemicals from gas In Aspen, the sticker price will be stations. Cores of those sediments $78 next year, although ski area can also tcN about weather cycles. officials expect Vail to inch above Thin, sandy layers indicate dry that level. However, buying five years, and scientists have already days brings the price at Aspen found evidence of a 70-year down to $69/day. drought. "Lake Tahoe is a North •Eagle County talking slow- American record." Kenneth ing development Verosub, professor of geology at the University of California, EAGLE COUNTY, Colo. - Davis, told the Tahoe Daily Eagle County commissioners are Tribnne considering a moratorium on new In this study, which may cost $2 building proposals in unincorpo- million to $5 million, scientists also rated areas, which include suburbs hope to arrive at the answer of of both Vail and Aspen. "what is normal" for Lake Tahoe. Already, there arc 16,000 hous- By all accounts, clarity of the still ing units approved but not built, deep-blue lake has diminished reports the V«fl Dally, and the during the last 100 years as a result moratorium would not affect those of the activities of people. But. if units. Two of the three county those activities can be restrained commissioners seem to favor the or modified, what should the lake idea. look like? What is normal? "It's pretty much a given that our population is more than likely •Lynx in Colorado have to double," said Commissioner bumper crop of kittens Peter Runyon. "What all of this is about is what happens after that SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS. point.'" Colo. - Evidence continues to Another commissioner, Arn accumulate that Canada lynx are Menconi, said he wants to cool the- re-establishing themselves in construction of luxury homes in Colorado. Two years ago wildlife the more rural areas. "I dont want researchers found 16 kittens, and to hear, 'If we're not growing, last year they found 39 kittens. we're dying' anymore," he said. This year the number 46 kittens What legal justification would were found. be used for the moratorium? That Lynx disappeared from isnt clear, but at least one builder Colorado during the 20th century, of high-end homes, R.A. "Chupa" with the last confirmed lynx being Nelson, seemed undisturbed by killed in 1973. However, more than the idea. "It would impact the con- 200 lynx have been reintroduced struction industry by slowing it into Colorado since early 1999. down, but that's not necessarily Most of the lynx remain in the San bad with as overheated as the real Juan Mountains, where they were estate market is right now," he told reintroduced and where biologist the Dally. thought the best habitat exists. 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