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Show MOUNTAIN TOWN NEWS Mining history moved one truckload at a time By ALLEN BEST Record contributing writer River running big, but mostly stay in britches developer of a hotel that will create artificial hot springs vows to break ground this summer, but nonetheless found financing of his venture to be "very challenging." house gas emissions. Moose becoming more common in Summit FRISCO, Colo. - Moose are TELLURIDE, Colo. - Runoff becoming more common ip this year from the big snowpack in Summit County. The Summit Colorado had the potential for WHISTLER, B.C. - The home Daily News says increased nummayhem. Sand-bags were readied, fires are getting more expensive ber of sightings has caused state and homeowners advised to get from Colorado to British wildlife biologists to warn that the their flood insurance. moose, if curious looking, can also Columbia. Instead, heat and cooling alterIn Colorado, the story is a be dangerous. nated, resulting in rivers that con- newly completed pipeline that Moose are not aggressive, but sistently roared - and roar even starts in the natural gas fields will charge humans to defend now - but seem rarely to have about 90 miles southwest of their turf and offspring, Colorado overflown their banks. It has been Steamboat Springs. The Rockies Division of Wildlife spokesman one of the more remarkably sus- Express Pipeline has reached Randy Hampton told the newspatained runoffs in memory, a full Missouri, and may yet be extend- per. month now of mountain spring- ed to Pennsylvania. Moose were not unknown in time music. This will lower prices for natu- Colorado during Euro settlement Still, runoff has had its horrors. ral gas in the Midwest and in the mid-19th century, as they The Arkansas River, center of increase it in the Rockies. The wandered in occasionally from Colorado's commercial whitewa- Steamboat Pilot & Today gives a Utah and Wyoming, but there was ter activity, has had six deaths this report from its neighborhood. The not a breeding population. Moose year. Two people have died after cost was $5.50 per million British were transplanted beginning in being spilled from horses while thermal units of heat last 1978 to North Park, about 50 crossing creeks. The most recent September. Now, it's at $13 per miles from Frisco and later near case was at Beaver Creek, on a million Btus. Further increases are Creede, in the San Juan crossing used thousands and thou- expected this winter. Mountains. Populations have consands of times. Prices are rising in British tinued to expand, despite hunting At Telluridc, high water prob- Columbia too. There, the propane and occasional deaths on highlems mounted to no more than a for the typical Whistler home is ways. nuisance, if that. The Telluride expected to rise $323 per year, Watch says that one of Telluride's reports Pique newsmagazine. A Tahoe expecting to see marriage water-treatment plants had to be similar increase of 17 percent has boom shut down because of high flows in also been approved for customers the San Miguel River. Add to that in Revelstoke. LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The the fact that the town was full California Supreme Court ruling A carbon tax set to take effect because of Bluegrass Festival, and July 1 in British Columbia will fur- that allows same-sex marriages the situation, was one of "water, ther increase heating and trans- may revive the faltering wedding water everyone, but not enough to portation costs. That carbon tax is industry at Lake Tahoe. The take a long, luxurious shower, being applied to all fossil fuels, Sierra Sun says that 10 same-sex wash the car, or water the lawn." including gasoline, diesel and nat- couples have secured marriage licenses, in Nevada County, on the Construction steady in Ouray, but ural gas. The tax begins at a rate north shore of Lake Tahoe. of $10 per ton of carbon dioxide prices fall PlumpJack Inn, located at emissions and will rise $5 per year Squaw Valley, hosted a same-sex for the next four years. What this OURAY, Colo. - Although wedding ceremony several years carpenters in many places have means for a typical home in the ago, and sales director Rob hung up their hammer guns for Vancouver area is $50 more this McCormick said the inn welcomes the time being, not so in Ouray. year to the heating bill, and $140 gay and lesbian nuptials "with The town, located on the northern per year by the year 2012, reports open arms." The inn is partly flanks of the San Juans, near the Revelstoke Times-Review. The tax is being levied with the owned by San Francisco Mayor Telluride, is holding steady with Gavin Newsom. years past in new construction, goal of encouraging conservation "Things have been slowing and efficiency, with the ultimate reports the Ouray Watch. down in the Tahoe wedding indusgoal being reduction of greenStill, asking prices for real estate are dropping discernibly. The town's famous Beaumont Hotel, gussied up to its original Victorian splendor in recent years, is on the sales block. The price has dropped from $8 million to $3.2 million in recent months. Down-valley at Ridgway, the n Listen online at nicolemadison.com " 307.690.6190 A ROUNDMP OF NEWS FROM OTHER WESTERN MUNITIES Heating costs soaring from Vail to Whistler YOUR rfllUr.YOIIR MUSIC. A-7 The Park Record WedyThurs/Fri, June 25-27, 2008 try over the last two years," said Alice Ross, a North Lake Tahoe wedding minister who agreed to officiate same-sex marriages in Nevada County. "The wedding industry is not what it used to be, and I imagine this would help." HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING Save Some Green on Your Utility Bills! Commercial & Residential 615-1857 Park City Professional Private Airport Transportation Victor L. Hill - Owner 435,649.9420 My carbon footprint is smaller than yours! GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. - It works in sports. So why not introduce competition into the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That's the idea from Dan Richardson, a private-sector energy consultant who was the first director of the Canary Initiative, Aspen's greenhouse-gas reduction program. "I think as Americans what we thrive on most is competition," he said. Richardson made the comment at a meeting in Glenwood Springs where a new group called Clean Energy Economy for the Region shared its ambitions. The Glenwood Springs Post Independent reports that 60 to 100 people attended the meeting, suggesting just how much interest there is now in shrinking community carbon footprints. The group estimates that the valley from Aspen to Parachute, a length of about 80 highway miles, spends $250 million a year for electricity, natural gas and transportation fuels. A guest speaker from California suggested that energy use could be cut by 30 percent. Ironically, part of that region especially the Rifle and Parachute area - is among the nation's major energy producing regions, and increasingly a poster child for natural gas drilling. The Roan Plateau is adjacent to the valley. If such competition does occur, however, it would not be the first. T\vo Utah towns. 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