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Show Page A12 - THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HarkTheHerald.com), Provo, Utah, Sunday, June 3. 2001 I MM uu Opponents of park flights wary of impact '11' 20-yea- il' Joe Albright has seen eagles, deer and moose around the guest ranch, a few miles from the Grand Teton National Park boundary, that he and his wife bill as "Your Own Private Wilderness." He hopes, things don't change if helicopters carrying sightseers start flying. St. VI Ga.-base- g i ..m 'tWi... Aw l i - iL- - 1H B'ECKY BOHRER. The Associated Press Looking out below: Marcia Kunstel and Joe Albright take in the sounds of singing birds and rustling grasses on federal land near their guest ranch outside of Jackson, Wyo. They say they worry about the effects planned scenic helicopter tours may have on local wildlife and their business, Park National Service, many of them parks, said Marvin Jensen, manager for the service's Soundscape Program Center in Fort Collins, Colo. At Grand Canyon National Park, 90,000 air tours are flown each year and las many as 653 are flown a day during the peak of the summer season, said the park's Ken Weber. "There is an impact to a resource, and that resource is quiet," said Weber, branch chief of social science research in the Science Center. "People come here for solitude and quiet and reflection." At Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, where there were concerns about a potentially large number of air tours, a ban scenic overflights began on assisr management; tant at Grand Teton. "And in 1997, Peter Allen, a ; helicopters, or any other spokesman, said. kind of scenic flight, could last Congress year interfere with that." passed the National Parks Steve Bassett, president Air Tour Management Act, of the U.S. Air Tour Associawhich sets guidelines for air tion, said air tours allow tours. It also allows for visitors who are older, dismanagement abled or on a tight schedule plans, developed with pub? to see more of a park than lie comment by the Parle Service and Federal Aviathey otherwise might. The issue around the tion Administration, in jagged peaks of the Tetons areas where operators want is not an isolated one. to dp business. Options Commercial air tours fly range from allowing tour over about 50 units of the flights to .banning them' - Hel-fric- KNOXVILLE, Tenn.' Except for a common garden planted between them, the two newest homes in Easton Meadow subdivision resemble their modest, -story neighbors. But there are subtle differences. There are no stairs inside or out. Doorways are wider. Wall outlets are higher. Kitchen cabinets are lower. The bathrooms are larger and the numbers on the thermostat dials are about an inch in height. Americus, Habitat for Humanity International and its 1,600 affiliates have erected more than 100,000 volunteer-buil- t homes over the past quarter century. But these are the first "designed by, for and built by seniors," said Scott Busby, past president of the East Tennessee chapter of the American Institute of Architects. "It has taken tljp concept of handicapped accessibility and .made it more adaptable," he said. "The house designs are flexible so seniors will be able to age in h, ' park-specif- ic over certain parks. Teton Aviation Center, of has Idaho, Driggs, expressed interest in flying tours over Grand Teton National Park when a management plan is done, said Steve Phillips, who is in charge of the flight department. The company, which uses airplanes and gliders, is keeping its popular tours west of the park now, he said. It has not received complaints about its operations, he added. The FAA had ruled, in the case of Vortex, that the air tour act would not apply because the company plans to fly outside the park. Officials say Grand Teton is the only national park with a jet airport within its boundary Jackson Hole Airport from which Kauffman proposes taking off and landing. But he said it should be no more upsetting to people than the steady stream of airplanes at the airport the parks as bisoa, elk, birds or trees. Visitors, Jensen said, want to hear them. "To assume there's no noise ever, whether it's trainsitory or fleeting, is a stretch," said Roy Resav-agepresident of Helicopter Association International, a trade group for the civil helicopter industry.' Sen. Craig Thomas, has proposed legislation banning commercial air tour flights, aircraft and helicopters, over Grand Teton and i, fixed-win- g chapter. Each architectural team included at least one senior member. Ultimately, two designs were selected, one by Martella Associates and the other by RossFowler, both of Knoxville, so Habitat built one of each. Pat Wallace, a and ld d great-grandmoth- greeter at t, will soon move into one of them.. Wallace invested 500 hours of "sweat equity" into her , Michael Willard, Habitat of director program enhancement, - praised Knoxville Habitat for "showing how folks can work together and form partnerships to meet critical needs of our seniors." Two competing hospitals with active geriatric programs, Baptist Health System and St. Mary's Health System, each contributed $20,000 to sponsor the affiliates national b If Air- mi J ) On the Net: I I Grand Teton National : 40 heather Sofas ' 150 Leather Choices Discount Prices nps.gov I grte I htty.: index.htm Built on a rectan- 1,000-square-fo- responsibly, he added. 1 1 www. the through office. foundagular, concrete-slation, the homes have two bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room and a central bathroom large enough for a wheelchair. craft are getting quieter and operators do act Park:. Wal-Mar- home and other Habitat homes to be eligible. After raising six children on her own and a lifetime living in apartments, she is ready for a home of her own. "Thank God," she said. "I said if I ever had a house he would make a way for me to have it." Sandy Jones, 52, and her son will move in next door. Jones works at Sertoma Center, an agency that helps the mentally impaired, and also has never owned her own home. The home plans will --be available to all Habitat place." But Bassett said the act can management add ress local concerns. st r, mitted by architects in Busby's East Tennessee single- Environmentalists and low-flyin- ' . Associated Press Writer GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. homes, which will be sold to their new Habitat owners for $40,000 and financed with mortgages. A national panel of architects picked the winning design from 10 entries sub- By DUNCAN MANSFIELD Associated Press Writer By BECKY BOHRER some local residents want to ban helicopters that would give tourists a bird's eye view of the area's rugged beauty, saying the airnoise and craft could disturb animals and tourists who want quiet. Those claims frustrate Gary Kauffman, manager of Vortex Aviation Services, which "plans to start flights this month from Jackson Hole Airport. The airport is within the boundary of Teton National Grand Park. "They make it sound like it's something new to the area," Kauffman said, noting that tours have been conducted in the area before his. He doesn't plan to fly over the park or "hover" on his proposed routes, and the helicopters are relatively quiet, he said. Opponents say allowing one operator into the area could lead to more, and disturbances. Officials with Grand Teton and Yellowstone ' national parks say there are other ways to sightsee. 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