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Show MOUNTAIN TIMES Midway OKs New Resort MIDWAY — The city council in this little, Heber Valley town, has just approved the “Zermatt Resort,” including a 218-room hotel, 15,000-squarefoot convention hall and 15 shops modeled to look like they are right out of Switzerland. The council, which has approved several large condominium projects recently in this historical farming community, apparently hopes to boost the town’s’ tax base. Developer Robert L. Fuller recently completed the 142-unit Swiss Oak Condominiums that will be adjacent to the planned resort. Fuller was quoted News as saying, in The Deseret “We don’t want it to be another Park City with T shirt shops and bars.” Instead, a miniature golf course is planned around tiny models of Swiss Alps. Park Chief Blasts Study WEST YELLOWSTONE — Park Superintendent Mike Finley is criticizing an environmental study on a Montana gold mine proposed near Yellowstone National Park as being rushed at the expense of good science. Finley told 400 people at a recent meeting of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition that a draft environmental impact statement being prepared by the US Forest Service and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality is “deadline driven, not quality driven.” Finley warned the members of the coalition that the analysis is flawed. “You deserve the truth... and you're not going to get it.” A Canadian company, Noranda, plans to mine for gold near the northeastern corner of the park. The company’s subsidiary, Crown Butte, has proposed a 72-acre tailings pond in the Fisher Creek drainage. At risk are pristine waterways, including the Clark Fork River. Environmental News water treatment plant, and then into Davis County before descending near North Salt Lake The proposal will be controversial said Mike Sieg, District Ranger, Wasatch-Cache Forest National because the plan calls for the pipeline to cross many sensitive areas, including watersheds in Parleys and City Creek Capsules WHO’S ON FIRST? Canyons. Survey: Don’t Close Parks Utah Hits 2 Million SALT LAKE CITY — Move somewhere, the two millionth resident was born last month. over, Utah At least 60 percent of the state’s population boom is from births. No surprise, Utah’s birthrate is one of the highest in the country - 20.4 births per 1,000. The national average, by comparison, is only 16.3 births per 1,000. The state presently is averaging an overall 2.2 percent growth rate. In 1991, in-migration of new resi- dents reached a net gain of 18,961. Births, by contrast, numbered 27,039 greater than deaths. That year, the overall population grew by 46,000. That trend has continued, but by 1995 in-migration cooled to an estimated 15,139, while births continued at a net gain over deaths at 27,861. The population grew by 42,000 Those numbers are in sharp contrast to overall population growth in the mid-1980s when Utah grew by only 15,000 in 1987; 12,000 in 1988; and 16,000 in 1989. Flying Goats to Nebo NEPHI Wilderness — may The Mount Nebo be home to 15 to 20 shaggy mountain goats this summer if state biologists go forward with a new proposal. During the past 30 years, the shag- gy goats have been introduced to a number of Utah locals, including Lone Peak, Mount Timpanogos and the Uinta Mountains. There are estimated to be 500 goats statewide. But Duane Atwood, assistant herbarium curator at BYU says too little is known about rare alpine plants in the Nebo area to know whether transplanting goats into the area is a good thing. Division of Wildlife biologists plan to go ahead with the transfer in August, however, citing the state’s goat management plan: “Mountain goats provide a unique addition to the biota of our state . . . and should be a valued part of our wildlife resource.” Controversial Pipeline KIMBALL JUNCTION — A Denver company is proposing a 27-mile long pipeline from Kimball Junction to North Salt Lake to deliver crude oil The pipeline, proposed by Anschutz Ranch East Pipeline Inc., would follow I-80 west to Parleys Summit. There, it would angle north to Little Mountain and follow Emigration Canyon down to Salt Lake Valley, where it is planned to cut through This Place Is The Park and Red Butte Arboretum. The pipeline route would then run behind the University of Utah, through City Creek Canyon below the WASHINGTON — Most Americans oppose closing any National Parks and want Congress to propose bigger budget for our increasingly troubled national treasures, according to a recent of all Americans feel national parks are an important issue when they vote for Congressional representatives Recently, Utah’s Rep Jim Hansen had proposed creating a parks closure committee. That measure failed. The survey also found that 61 percent returning wolves to favored Yellowstone Park, and that 72 percent favored stopping a new gold mine near Yellowstone. Klay Anderson Audio In Q‘AUDIO SALESAND SERVICES a PARK G) ACL R. 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