Salt Lake City has succeeded in its long, controversial
bid to host the Winter Olympics - but now that the Games are only
four years away, many Utahns are having second thoughts about them
- and the city's already rampant growth.
Magazine
March 16, 1998
An introduction to the issue points out that Salt Lake City's intense and seemingly uncontrolled growth actually stems from deliberately planning - both to develop the city and to prepare for the Olympics.
Feature
Sidebar
In 1972, Colorado became the first city ever to win the
right to host the Olympics only to change its mind and slam the
door on them.
In his own words, John Cushing, mayor of Bountiful,
discusses his dissatisfaction with the Salt Lake City Organizing
Committee and his doubts about the Olympics.
Once a funky former mining town, Park City is now a
booming ski resort and bedroom community, and some locals worry
that the Olympics will only make things worse.
Editor's Note
An introduction to the issue points out that Salt Lake
City's intense and seemingly uncontrolled growth actually stems
from deliberately planning - both to develop the city and to
prepare for the Olympics.
Essays
Club 20's report on "The Decline of the Aspen" fails to
convince that the only way to save western Colorado's aspen groves
is to log them.
Disparate worlds collide in the second-hand clothing
stores the writer buys her wardrobe from.
The strange dysfunctional state of Idaho - with its
neo-Nazis and child abuse and stubborn isolation from the rest of
America - leads the writer to leave the state after 15
years.
Book Reviews
The Forest Service will hold 25 open houses about its
proposed 18-month moratorium on building new roads in
forests.
Reservations for camping in Glacier National Park may be
made up to three months in advance, beginning March 15,
1998.
All media in Colorado that have covered the issue of
sustainability are eligible to apply for a media award from the
University of Colorado's Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community
Development Policy.
Heard Around the West
El and Al Nino; Sabino Canyon's gun club neighbor; term
limits reconsidered; greens lack political clout; Mary Dalton vs.
Forest Service; first grader pardoned for candy passing; exploding
urinals in D.C.; deer crossing and iceberg lettuce.
Dear Friends
Congratulations to Greg Hanscom and Tara Thomas and
others; newsletters galore; mailing list policy.
News
The Preble's meadow jumping mouse, which thrives in the
same habitat as houses and developments, could bring growth on
Colorado's Front Range to a halt if it is listed as
endangered.
None of the current bills in Congress to rewrite the
Endangered Species Act are pleasing to all environmentalists,
developers or the politicians debating them.
The federal agency that approved the merger of the Union
Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads may reconsider its decision
in the face of economic and industrial troubles caused by railroad
gridlock and inefficiency.
Santa Fe Mayor Debbie Jaramillo loses to Larry Delgado;
Wilma Mankiller honored; Babbitt under investigation; Sierra Club
voting on immigration; lawsuit over Arizona flash flood; People for
the West now for the USA.
Park historian Richard West Sellars is not flattering when
he examines the history of the Park Service in his book "Preserving
Nature in the National Parks."
The state of Wyoming wants to vaccinate 2,000 Yellowstone
area elk against brucellosis, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service has its doubts.
Chronic wasting disease, a relative of mad-cow disease, is
killing deer and elk in Colorado and Wyoming.
Members of five Native American tribes are protesting the
government's plan to store nuclear waste in Ward Valley,
Calif.
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