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Show Saturday, June 6, 1998 The Park Record A-11 1 Heard Around the West s Many federal bureaucrats like hiding behind a desk. Jim Furnish is admittedly gregarious. He also loves the Oregon coast and hopes eight citizens from around the United States will want to join him for an expense-paid weekend of brainstorming while taking hikes along the cliffs. Furnish .makes no bones about needing help. Supervisor of the Siuslaw (pronounced Sigh-ous-slaw) National Forest, a 630,000-acre gem that stretches along the Oregon Ore-gon coast, he has five recreation-fee recreation-fee pilot projects going at places like the Oregon Dunes and Mary's Peak. Now, he'd like to talk about them, and about elimi-inating elimi-inating more roads and finding j ways to fund a publicly owned forest where logging has been f drastically reduced. "I'm looking for ideas," he says. To "win a weekend on the Oregon Coast! AWith Jim Furnish!" as a flyer announces, buy a $25 annual Siuslaw Sius-law Recreation Fee permit and write a 250-word essay explaining "why you value the Siuslaw National Forest." A panel still to be selected will choose the eight people for the Sept. 25-27 weekend. Write Public Affairs Specialist Joni Quarnstrom at the Siuslaw National Forest, 4077 Research Way, Corvallis, Ore. 97333 (541750-7075). The deadline dead-line is Aug. 1. Not to be outdone in the public pub-lic outreach department, the Nevada Test Site invites people to the desert June 9 to tour its bomb craters "and the many relics remaining from nuclear weapons tests," leaving at the cool morning morn-ing hour of 7 a.m. Make reservations reserva-tions with Brenda Carter at 702295-0944. That's not all,' folks. A bright yallow flyer announces a film festival on the following day, featuring "New, Never Before Publicly Released Film Footage!" of 50-year-old atom bomb tests. Festival impresarios are the Nevada Operations Office of the Department of Energy. Contact them at Box 98518, Las Vegas, Nev. 89193, or call Sandra Smith, 702295-4059 or e-mail her at smithsanv.doe.gov t Yet another public agency has dared to be different, or at least provocative. Under the headline "Live to fish another day," the Idaho Department of Fish and Game notes that "Drowning will " ruin your fishing career..." Writer "Sack 'Trueblood says ' one remedy , ts a life vest. 1 , l ff l VCondosd f " mmghMuffi.. PW ITER I '' ' ;''' " - ARK .'k-' tcLX-1 Sun PeatV f 'v;' Absolutely the H :, 7;McioU:Open'June:15;.v- A'sfH homes feature safe, energy .J-.. 'i deficient neural gas (appliance ; 0 " lu.mf irwm t rliirr llintrnn Sometimes you have to go mano a mano with a lion that won't give up. One big cat, lunging lung-ing at a 24-year-old hiker in the Denver area's Roxborough State Park, backed off when the hiker stabbed it with a Swiss Army knife. Then, when the lion attacked again, the hiker "jabbed his thumb in the lion's eye," reports The Denver Post. That worked better than the knife. The lion retreated and the hiker ran down the trail, yelling, "Call 91 1." Just a month earlier in the same paper, mystery writer Nevada Neva-da Barr talked about her new book, "Blind Descent," featuring the plucky park ranger, Anna Pigeon. Barr said she hates to preach; instead she hopes that the cause of conservation "will just slide into people's awareness." She is frank about her bias. When it comes to a choice between nature and humans, Barr said, she votes for nature. "We Americans aren't scared about dying in car accidents. We're blase about that. But when a mountain lion eats one lousy jogger, everyone goes crazy." And, she added, with a bit of sarcasm: "When people ask, 'What if they eat children?" I say, 'There're lots of children.'" Portland, Ore., has not given up on people even people who steal the yellow free bikes the city gave away to cut down on motorized motor-ized transportation. Though the bikes disappeared or were "beaten "beat-en into oblivion," Associated Press reports, organizers of the 1994 pilot program will try again. This time there will be more volunteers, vol-unteers, bike shops doing free repairs, and bikes that lack a middle mid-dle bar "to discourage young male riders who do most of the stealing." A man in Three Forks, Mont., wasn't happy about getting ticketed ticket-ed $195 for a commercial trucking weight violation, the Great Falls Tribune reports. He was even less happy when the local paper reported he'd been arrested for deviate sexual conduct, a felony. Now, the 22-year-old trucker is suing both the High Country Independent Press and Gallatin County,, where the computer glitch occurred, because "this is an ongoing thing. I've heard every sheep joke you can imagine." imag-ine." He learned of the mistake from his family, and says that after he strenuously denied the report, his parentswife and sister all concluded he was "in denial" , 1 hfiT-. ,!-&t)"M 'Sr ifi . 1 Ym.nirj. nest in a Pnrh fitv limnv Townhoines from; $198,000 i and urged him to seek treatment. The paper has printed a prominent promi-nent correction. Some people love to live dangerously. dan-gerously. Mountaineer Stephen Koch had climbed to between 11,000 and 12,000 feet on Wyoming's Mount Owen recently, when an avalanche let loose, sweeping up the 29-year-old snowboarder and sending him some 2,000 feet down the mountain. moun-tain. Koch plunged over several small cliffs and badly damaged both knees and his back, reports the Jackson Hole Guide, though he was never buried by the flying snow. Rescued by helicopter, he says he still hopes to be the first to snowboard the tallest peaks on all seven continents. Golden parachutes, when they open publicly, can be humiliating. 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