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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, April 24-27, 2010 The Park Record A-11 M OUNTAIN TOWN NEWS A Roundup of News from Other Western Ski Resort Communities By Allen Best Record contributing writer body discovered by a canoeist in the Bow River. Unlike so many carnivores in the BanffCanmore area, it had died Telluride to breathe a more or less naturally, of old bit easier with backup age or perhaps breaking TELLURIDE, Colo. - through ice while chasing an ' After a decade of wrangling elk. That the cougar had occaand some scary power outages, Telluride will get a new sionally lived and hunted on electrical transmission line the periphery of human settle-from the outside world later ment in the Banff area for a number of years without incithis year. Just last Christmas,- the dent was testament, said lights went, off, putting the researchers, to the idea that high-end holiday crowd into carnivores and people can candlelight and cold cuts. But coexist. Ironically, the killing of a the gnawing fear of some in Telluride was that everything cross-country skier by a cougar near Banff in 2001 caused might get shut down for days. wildlife researchers to become Two transmission lines familiar with Doug. They reach Telluride. One is vulnerable to avalanches and wild- decided they needed to better fires, and the second is 60 understand the behavior of years old, near the end of its cougars. To do this, they attached radio monitors to 12 productive life. cougars. One particular cougar Tri-State Generation and was chased by tracking dogs transmission, the wholesale up a series of Douglas fir trees, cooperative provider, wanted and hence the name: Doug. to replace the old line, but the Researchers discovered proposed routing involved lines across the rolling, calen- that Doug hunted in the most dar-perfect mesas near unlikely places close to develTelluride. Homeowners there oped areas. That worried wanted the line put under- Banff officials, but cougar ground, and ultimately that is experts said it was ideal to have a large, dominant male what will happen. Undergrounding costs con- willing in an area without siderably more, however, and showing any aggressive toward that's where compromises people or domestic animals. Steve Michel, humanwere finally struck, reports the wildlife conflict specialist in Telluride Daily Planet. Banff, explained that it's often younger males, both bears :ind Sun Valley manager says cougar, who cause trouble with resort needs a branding people, because they haven't SUN VALLEY, Idaho - honed hunting skills or don't Tim Silva, with his first season have the maturity of an adult. under his belt as general man- The dominant male k-jpt them ager of the Sun Valley Resort, out. Banff officials believe the has been trying to nudge some cougar's existence has proven life into the perhaps stodgy the effectiveness of their manresort. The ski mountain infra- agement strategies involving structure' needs no upgrades wolves, cougars and people, all for the time being, he told sev- of which compete with one eral hundred people at a another for turf. "There is no question that luncheon. "They've been on quite a binge here," said Silva, in the very rare circumstance, who arrived at Sun Valley last cougars can post a threat to year after stints at California people and domestic animals," said Banff's Michel. resorts. But he suggested Sun "But this is also a good examValley does need easier access, ple of how rare those situabroader demographic appeal, tions are, and just because a cougar is around and using an and a firmer brand identity. In a sense, none of what area close to people doesn't Silva stfid was new. Others in mean he is going to get into a Sun Valley and Ketchum have conflict with people." been saying the same thing for years. For example, the resort Grocery ordered to community at Ketchum and quit selling raw milk Sun Valley has been stewing over a new airport that would JACKSON. Wyo. - The be farther from the resort than locovore movement has been the existing airport, but with rebuffed in Jackson Hole, where a purveyor of organic improved reliability. Demographics also remain foods called Jackson Whole problematic. On Bald Moun- Grocery has been ordered by tain, the prime venue for Sun local health authorities to quit Valley resort,' the average selling milk from a nearby skier's age is 53. Snowboarders organic farm. Health inspectors from make up just 9 percent of the Teton County said Wyoming resort's visitors. As for branding, he said state law bans the sale of Sun Valley needs a precise unpastuerized milk that was brand that clearly and immedi- not refrigerated. ately tells people what defines Sun Valley. The personality of Sun Valley isn't clear, he said, and neither is the brand. Grocery owner Bob Arndt told the Jackson Hole News&Guide that the decision to carry raw milk was made in response to an overwhelming number of customer requests during recent years. "It's going back to what our roots are in food," Arndt said. "We're getting back to what food really is. Our food supply is getting more sanitized and corporate. People need to taste a real tomato or a real peach or real milk." The milk came from a 200acre organic and biodynamic dairy farm at Victor, .Idaho, just west of Jackson Hole. The milk producers cited their efforts to prevent the milk from being contaminated. But Dr. Tracy Murphy, the Wyoming state epidemiologist, said drinking unpasteurized milk is a gamble. Raw milk can cause food-borne illnesses such as salmonellosis, E. coli, and brucellosis, he said. Railroad fans plan a museum at Granby GRANBY, Colo. - For a railroad museum, Granby makes considerable sense. The town, incorporated in 1905. shortly after railroad tracks came through. The railroad was also instrumental in advancing tourism, at both Winter Park and indirectly at Steamboat Springs. The railroad was an effort by Denver boosters to get a more direct link to Salt Lake City. Instead of the detour through Wyoming, they wanted to blast directly northwestward, deriving revenues from transport of coal, wheat and other commodities. But the challenge of hoisting rails at nearly 12,000 feet across the Continental Divide at a windlashed crossing called Rollins Pass was formidable. That effort cost the considerable fortune of Denver banker David Moffat, whose wealth had been acquired in Colorado's silver mines, and also his health. And, in the bigger scheme of things, his vision fell short. The rails have never reached more than a few miles southwest of Craig, Colo., well short of the Utah state line. But, in a sense, Winter Park - located 17 miles from Granby - can trace its skiing roots to the railroad. And the skiing culture of Steamboat Springs can be linked to the railroad. So can the summer tourism of Grand Lake, at the west entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park and 16 miles form the Granby stop. Grand Lake was a Vail of the railroad era. The Sky-Hi Daily News reports that a 8,000-squarefoot Moffat Road Railroad Museum have begun fundraising and have secured a sevenacre site. 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