Show V- fc AS — Tie Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday September ''fJ r I ii( t marker moved again but Denver isn't rising ' '' si? v- f h 4 - h toewluses It is also two steps below the original marker installed in 1909 using less precise tools and data That marker was stolen so many times it was replaced with an inscription — “One Mile Above Sea Deal between Leavitt Norton implemented Level”— in 1947 The marker draws thousands of tourists each year and the nickname is so closely associated with the state’s largest city that Denver trade-markthe Mile High Stadium name in 1998 It negotiated to leave it in the name of the Denver Broncos new home Invesco Field at Mile High believing the identify helps promote the city through nationally televised football games So is the new plaque in the rX- -' rK- -' v r‘ 'y “ - ') WASHINGTON ?' APptalO off-ro- ad off-limi- The geoid replaced sea level Irene Neal already has a picas the starting point because ture showing her in front of sea level changes and isn’t the the 1969 marker from a visit 28 years ago same around the world said “We’re always looking for Hubert W Stoughton head of ' the surveying and mapping something different and it is” friend Eula Clarkson said after State at program Metropolitan snapping the photograph College The US Geodetic Survey The next visitor popped the used millions of elevation marker out of the stone step markers combined with an reminding surveyors they weren’t quite dime They soon improved knowledge of the earth’s gravitational pull to affixed the plaque with die glue-lik- e reach the new standard Rockite with two said Stoughton experts using a level to make Irene and Bob Neal of sure the line across the middle — which officially marks die Madison Ind paused for a photograph at the new marker elevation — was on the mark : right spot? It is within 2 millimeters of mark based on the 5280-fothe latest calculations of the geoid an imaginary line used to start measuring elevation calculated in 1992 The last comprehensive survey was completed in 1929 and those standards were used to place the 1969 plaque ot (AP)— New guidelines issued Monday by the Bush administra- tion could allow oil and gas vehicompanies and cles on federal lands that had been to protect their natural qualities The policy directives were ' sent to BLM state offices to implement an agreement Interior Secretary Gale Norton struck with Utah Gov Mike Leavitt in April to resolve a lawsuit the state filed against die department The settlement rescinded protection for 3 million acres in Utah and millions of additional acres across the West Leavitt has since been nominated by President Bush to head die Environmental Protection Agency The backroom deal has been questioned by Democrats challenging his fitness to lead die agency Under the directives issued Colorado Gov BS Owens left sets a new "Mile HighT marker in place on the steps of the Capitol in Denver oh Monday as Ttay Ed center and Mike Greer look on The new marker is on the 13th stept ‘ 5 steps below the last mailing ' ed spot Surveyors set out this spring to find where the marker really should be after new more accurate measurements revealed that parts of Denver — including the Capitol — were actually 3 feet above the mile marker The new plaque on the 13th step of a stone stairway facing the Rocky Mountains is five steps below the most recent measurement done in 1969 i - ?r Mile-hig- h DENVER (AP)— The Mile High City isn’t really higher than it used to be But Gov Bill Owens dedicated a new plaque on the steps of the state Capitol Monday that is 3 feet lower than the old matter Officials say Denver isn’t rising they just have better technology to figure out elevation And the new marker they say is really at 5280 feet give or take a couple of millimeters “So are we going to get it right today?” Owens quipped to Mike Greer a member of the Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado who volunteered to help find the new ‘r EZ & Tho West 0 Utah V 30 2003 Vi - : ts Monday die Bureau of Land Management can still decide to preserve die pristine natural qualities of lands but those decisions will be made in a planning process for each parcel and weighed on opial fobting against potential mining grazing timber and recreation uses said Jim Hughes deputy director of die Bureau of Land Management Tfcd Zukoski an attorney for Earthjustice said it could open up important ecologically sensitive stretches of land for development in Utah Colorado Arizona and Cali- ' foraia “This is die Bush administration continuing its policy to hand over America’s wild places and openspaqes to the timber and cl and gas mining lobbies” he said A wilderness designation prohibits motorized recreation and permanent development of the lahd including the building of roadspower lines and pipelines It is meant to preserve pristine lands “untrammeled by man” according to die 1964 Wilderness Act li CTof yjj - mm m m m mmmmmmM m m Women’s Clothing 1145 N Main Logan - ' 'M THE NEW SPOT IN TOWN SPECIALIZING IN FINE LADIES CLOTHING W zjy? - Alfred Dunner Telluride Carol Anderson Nomadic Traders AtThe OldfiournsBuilding 1000 West 1400 North 3 September Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Friday 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Thursday Noon - 7:00 pm Woolrich Erin London Koret- 29-Octo- Today’s Fashion with Good Old Fashioned Sendee H' Come Check Us Out Today! 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