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Show A-14 The Park Record – STUNNING VIEW LOTS FOR SALE – Q U A R R Y M O U N TA I N R A N C H M Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, July 21-24, 2018 OUNTAIN TOWN NEWS A Roundup of News from Other Western Ski Resort Communities ALLEN BEST 3777 Quarry Mountain Road Lot 30, Park City 5.28 Acres | $2,545,000 3667 Quarry Mountain Road Lot 31 , Park City 7.02 Acres | $2,395,000 Quarry Mountain Ranch is a 210-Acre gated community with just 36 homesites superbly located in the Old Ranch Road area of Park City. For a private showing of these or any other Park City properties, please call Scott. Scott Maizlish REALTOR® 435.901.4309 scott.maizlish@sothebysrealty.com scottmaizlish.com This material is based upon information that we consider reliable, but because it has been supplied by third parties, we cannot represent that it is accurate or complete, including price, or withdrawal without notice; square footage is an estimate only. ©MMXVIII Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Sotheby’s International Realty® is a licensed trademark to Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates, Inc. An Equal Opportunity Company. Each office is independently owned and operated. Copyright© Summit Sotheby’s International Realty 2018. Mountain Town News Should we look at wildfires through new set of lenses? ASPEN, Colo. – Wildfires continue to be the story last week in Colorado, California, and other western states. As of Sunday, 56 fires had burned more than one million acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Taking a broad view, fire historian Stephen Pyne suggested that the conversation about fire was wrongly framed. “Every major fire rekindles another round of commentaries about ‘America’s wildfire problem,’” Pyne wrote in The Conversation. “But the fact is that our nation does not have a fire problem. It has many fire problems, and they require different strategies. Some problems have technical solutions, some demand cultural calls. All are political.” Pyne suggested the wonky phrase wildland-urban interface miscasts the reality. “It’s a dumb name because the boundary is not really an interface but an intermix, in which houses and natural vegetation abut and scramble in an ecological omelet.” We tend to think of such places as houses in wildlands. Better, he said, is to think of them as urban or exurban enclaves with peculiar landscaping. “Defining it as an urban problem makes solutions quickly apparent.” One of those intermix zones is Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley. There, the Lake Christine Fire had burned nearly 7,000 acres as of Monday after being triggered by two shooters at a range on July 3. Some 1,800 residents were evacuated from 664 homes in and around Basalt and El Jebel, an area heavily covered by pinyon and juniper forests located 20 miles down-valley from Aspen. Only three houses burned down, however, and no one Making a difference was killed. In Oregon, there’s discussion of a bill that would allow chainsaws in a wilderness study area near Bend to thin juniper trees on about 800 acres. The sponsor of the congressional bill, U.S. Rep. Ron Walden, says the bill would make it easier to keep fires from spreading near an unincorporated subdivision with about 5,500 full-time residents. Dan Morse, of the Bend-based Oregon Natural Desert Association, told the Bend Bulletin that he sympathized with the threat perceived by the homeowners. However, he said, what needs to be done is manage risk through land use and fire-management planning. What is clear enough is that the number and scale of wildfires has been increasing in recent decades. While past forest management policies probably have something to do with that, as people like Pyne have been saying for decades, so does the changing climate. In California, Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones told a science reporter for KQED that the growing risk of climate-related disasters is already hitting the insurance market. Insurers are developing ever-more sophisticated fire-risk models. “So they look at things like topography, slope, wind direction. It used to be that insurers had more generic approaches to try to figure out these risks. They would look at whole zip codes or whole counties or whole area codes. But now they’re able to do it on a home-byhome basis.” Should the state have a role in deciding where people live, in order to minimize risk to wildfire and other disasters. “There’s no question that the state of California, like every other state, does a lousy job of making land-use decisions,” Morse replied. “One of the big disconnects that’s resulting in more businesses and people living in harm’s way is that decisions about whether to put new subdivisions or new homes, new businesses, into a floodplain or a high-risk fire area or on top of an earthquake fault, are made by local governments. And those local governments are not required, nor do they have any financial liability for, those decisions. Probably the The Mogul Financial Group congratulates our clients with 2018 graduates by donating to the following education-based organizations: – Park City Education Foundation – Financial Aid Fund at Deerfield Academy – Scholarship Fund at Skyline High School – Scholarship Fund at Juan Diego Catholic High School – General Scholarship Fund at James Madison Memorial High School Please see Mountain Town, A-20 SEMI-ANNUAL SALE UP TO 70% OFF! We offer Utah’s most complete selection of quality handwoven rugs and tribal kelims at consistently lower prices because we import directly. During our semi-annual sale, take up to 70% off our already low prices! The Mogul Financial Group has 70 years of combined experience. Greg Golding was recognized by Barron’s for the fourth time, having been named one of its Top 1,200 Advisors in the U.S. for 2018. Glen Mintz Managing Director– Wealth Management Senior Portfolio Manager Anglers asked to give trout a break in hot days of summer STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. – It was a hot, blistering June, but rain has finally arrived in Colorado. Fish in the Yampa River should appreciate that. Last week state authorities asked for anglers to quit fishing the river, which flows past downtown Steamboat Springs. Low flows and hot temperatures together resulted in less oxygen in the water. The river has reached low flows of 14 percent of average this summer, reports Steamboat Today. Trout are cold-water fish that have evolved to function best in 50 to 60 degree (Fahrenheit) waters, according to a press release by the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife. Upper lethal limits range from 74 to 79 degrees. Water temperatures in the Yampa River in early July exceeded 75 degrees later in the day. “When water flows are minimal, fish become concentrated in residual pool habitat and become stressed due to increased competition for food resources,” said Kris Middledorf, a wildlife manager. “Because the fish are already stressed by poor water quality conditions, any additional stress from being hooked could make them even more vulnerable to disease and death even if returned to the water quickly.” In addition to low flows, it was hot in June. The average temperature in Colorado was 4 degrees warmer than the average from 1981 to 2010. Nationally it was the third warmest June on record. Becky Bolinger, Colorado’s assistant state climatologist, reports that that June 2018 was tied with June 2016 for the third warmest June in the state’s 124-year record. Only those in 2012 and 2002 were warmer. For January through June, Colorado was also notably the warmest. The two warmest first-six-months of years were set in 2002 and 2012, both of them drought years. 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