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Creating a guiding policy document for management of public lands in Sublette County Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online! The Sublette County Commissioners spent 4-1/2 hours in a workshop session with Cat Urbigkit on Wednesday, May 7, to hammer out more revisions to the wording of the Sublette County Public Land Use Policy. The policy is intended to be a guiding document to lay out Sublette County’s official policies on the management of public land within the county. Eighty percent of the county’s nearly 5,000 square miles is public land. Urbigkit was hired by the commissioners under a contract to help them write the policy document. The policy will apply only to public land, not private property. Next step: The commissioner’s changes and more comments from other consultants will be incorporated into the document over the next couple of weeks. Then there will be another review period and work session with the commissioners. After those revisions, it is expected the document will go out for public review and comment, which is expected to be in July sometime. Urbigkit gladly accepts public comment and input as she works on the document. Residents are encouraged to provide input, either by mail, e-mail or phone. All commenters are asked to provide their name and contact information. Cat can be reached at PO Box 1173, Big Piney, WY 83113, cat@pinedaleonline.com, 307-276-5393 (between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. – no earlier or later, please). For more information on the process, see this page on Pinedale Online: Sublette County Public Land Use Policy Process Pinedale Town Elections (posted 5/6/08)
For display on prehistoric artifacts from Jonah Field Bureau of Land Management (Pinedale) Ted Rentmeister, Jonah Interagency Office (JIO) project manager, presented the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale, Wyo. with a letter approving their project application worth $50,000 at the museum’s annual opening on May 1, 2008. The money will be used to educate the public about prehistoric and/or historic artifacts found in the Jonah Field and to display them in a user friendly way. The project will entail building/purchasing one permanent display case and building/purchasing a traveling exhibit. “I think this project is very important,” said Sam Drucker, BLM archaeologist and paleontologist. “It will be great for the people of Sublette County to have the opportunity to learn about the kinds of artifacts that are coming out of Sublette County. I think the exhibits will provide an excellent way for students, companies, and everyone else to learn about the amazing history we have here.” The JIO provides overall management of on-site monitoring and off-site mitigation activities, one of which is cultural/historic mitigation. The off-site mitigation goal of the JIO for cultural/historic mitigation is to investigate and gather archaeological or paleontological data from the project area to provide an integrated, holistic, and meaningful view of the archaeology or paleontology of the Upper Green River Basin. For more information, please contact Ted Rentmeister at (307) 367-5363, or visit the Pinedale Field Office. Related Links: Museum of the Mountain Man Jonah Interagency Office (JIO)
The Missoula Children's Theatre After a week of auditioning and lengthy rehearsals, students from Pinedale K-12 schools performed "Cinderella" on Friday, May 2, and Saturday, May 3 in the Wrangler Gym along with The Missoula Children's Theatre. Click on this link for photos from the performance: Cinderella (19 photos) Sublette County artists win awards (posted 5/6/08)
Helena Linn Brandy Kosmann, Mary Colton, and Haley Lockwood have been chosen to attend the 66th session of American Legion Auxiliary Wyoming Girls State to be held on the campus of Northwest College in Powell June 7-14, 2008. American Legion Auxiliary Girls State was established in 1941 and is an annual program designed as a practical experience in self-government, based on Wyoming State Government. Wyoming Girls State was not held in 1944 and 1945 due to WWII. Girls State is non-partisan and non-political in that no existing party is promoted. The program emphasizes the importance of government in modern life and educates young women in the duties, privileges, rights, and responsibilities of American Citizenship. It awakens a sincere conviction that a well informed, intelligent, participating citizenry is vital to protect and preserve our American institutions and our democracy. These goals are achieved by actual participation in a simulation of the political and governmental process. Brandy, Mary, and Haley were selected for their outstanding achievements within their school and community, and they are sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary and the American Legion of Big Piney. Photo courtesy Helena Linn
Peaceful Protest Sue Sommers About 60 men, women and children assembled at the Pinedale BLM office building at noon Sunday to take part in a peaceful demonstration expressing dissatisfaction with the environmental impacts brought by gas development in Sublette County. This action was primarily inspired by the numerous ozone alerts this winter and the pervasive feeling of distrust those events engendered, but people seemed equally worried about wildlife, soil and water quality and the future health of the area’s children. Participants brought or made posters in the parking lot. Some displayed their placards alongside the highway to passing traffic, eliciting a few honks. Then everyone quickly carpooled and formed a caravan for the trip to the Anticline. By about 1:30 everyone had arrived at the Questar site, which had been previously approved by the company and the BLM. The site was an enormous scraped-off area surrounded by high mounds of soil. The location dwarfed the group, which would have filled most of a meeting room in Pinedale. Two large pits occupied the north edge of the site, but there was no major equipment or active work occurring. People pulled out folding chairs and blankets and collected around a small trailer that had been equipped as a speaker’s platform. An acrid smell irritated eyes, noses and throats throughout the two-hour sit-in. Security was provided by two BLM rangers and a Sublette County Sheriff’s deputy. Questar donated two porta-potties for the gathering. Event organizer Elaine Crumpley cheerfully greeted the crowd by saying, “Welcome to my pad!” Then, a number of informed locals spoke, including Horton Spitzer, Rollie Sparrowe, Bob McCarty, Mary Lynn Worl, Sally Mackey, Linda Baker and Tracy McCarty. Several people presented original music inspired by gas development issues. Jared Rogerson performed “Boomtown,” which summed up about all the impacts a resident might be experiencing right now in Pinedale. Vee sang a ballad about a dwindling and ill-fated antelope herd that finds itself amid subdivisions and gas wells at the end of its migration. A troupe of Pinedale High School girls sang “Please Leave Our Range,” a song addressed to the BLM and the gas companies. It asked, in the plaintive and innocent voice of youth, why these entities don’t seem to care about what is happening to the land and community, and why they lie so much. The pointed lyrics moved many to tears. In a refreshing break from the expected, Morgan Holz performed a skilled reading of Dr. Seuss’ famous environmental bedtime story, “The Lorax.” The concluding message of the tale, urging children to take better care of the land than their forebears have, was a sobering one given the number of youngsters, from toddlers to teens, in the audience. It wasn’t exactly “Rigstock,” and it might not change the world, but it seemed to do these folks a world of good to show up, be counted, and share their efforts and ideas. Click on this link for more photos: Peaceful Protest Sit-In on the Pinedale Anticline (15 photos) 2nd Annual Frozen Mallard Ducks Unlimited Banquet May 17 (posted 5/5/08) 8th Grade Math Program for Parents and Students May 8 (posted 5/5/08) Dig It!: Rock Gardening (posted 5/4/08) |
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