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<br />THE DESVER POST Wednesday, April 8, 199il"
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<br />"I know they need a place for
<br />training. But why not train over
<br />federal property? The federal gov.
<br />ernment owns 86 percent of Neva.
<br />Ida, 66 percent of Utah."
<br />For the U,S. military, the Colora.
<br />do Airspace Initiative is one of doz-
<br />erul causing puhlk-relatiorul heart-
<br />hurn and delays that cost hundreds
<br />of thousands of taxpayer dollars.
<br />The 102 proposals facing the
<br />FAA are a response to changing
<br />training needs, community de.
<br />mands and international security
<br />conditiorul, said Lt. Col. Jay De..
<br />Frank at the Pentagon.
<br />''There is a national strategy in
<br />that we have to train the way we
<br />need to fight," Defrank said. "It
<br />has to be rt'alistic. We are respond-
<br />ing to weapons changes, to force
<br />structure changes."
<br />Yet Opponents are making their
<br />views heard. In the past two years,
<br />puhlic outcry foreed plallDers to
<br />put OIle project in the Northeast
<br />and another in Southern California
<br />on hold. Airspace initiatives in Wis-
<br />consin and Iowa were withdrawn.
<br />The military keeps huilding
<br />more planes, said Dale Ahlquist of
<br />the National Airspace Coalition, a
<br />natiOnal opposition group. "Air Na.
<br />tional Guan! units keep getting hig-
<br />ger planes that they want to fly
<br />faster and farther,"
<br />FAA officials this week were
<br />trying to setUe OIl dales for fact.
<br />gathering public meetings in Den.
<br />ver, Colorado Springs and La Junta
<br />this month.
<br />In early May, additional meet.
<br />ings will be held in C.mon City,
<br />Westcliffe and Moffat.
<br />"This represents an extra effort
<br />and is costly," Melland said. "Nor-
<br />mally, we have just two meetings,
<br />But it's all over the state they are
<br />doing this. It's a lot of military air.
<br />space."
<br />The meetings will be open for all
<br />trpes of comments and questions.
<br />Melland said he11 focus all above-
<br />ground safety aspects of the mili.
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<br />"All I want to hear are aeronau.
<br />tical comments," Melland said.
<br />"But whatever people say. I'm go-
<br />ing to try to write it down. This is
<br />informal. I do not make tape-re--
<br />cordings."
<br />If FAA officials approve the
<br />plan, Kogovsek said, opponents
<br />will fight it in court.
<br />The plan violates the spirit, if oot
<br />the letter, of federal wilderness
<br />laws hy allowing flights near the
<br />Sangre de Cristo Wilderness area,
<br />he said.
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<br />The opponents - backed hy
<br />shampoo magnate.turned-Colora.
<br />do-hohby rancher Tom Redmond
<br />- have hired lawyer Brian
<br />O'Neill, who WOll $5 hillion in puni.
<br />tive damages against Euon after
<br />the 1989 EDnn Valdez oil spill.
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<br />Rep. Scott Mcinnis, R-Colo.,
<br />might caU for a congressional in.
<br />quiry into the plan, said McInnis
<br />spokesman Will 80s.
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<br />"That's certainly something he
<br />might consider," be said. "He'll
<br />wait to see the results of the meet.
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<br />Pro-rail faction moves forward
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<br />RID from Page 1 B
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<br />of the transit network outlined in
<br />last fall's failed Guide the Ride
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<br />apply tbat money to the west
<br />corridor througb the Central
<br />Platte Valley and along West
<br />13th Avenue.
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<br />ing for the special meeting. "It is
<br />a rehuke. His chairmanship will
<br />be watered dOWll if tbis thing
<br />passes,"
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<br />80 percent
<br />support land
<br />preservation
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<br />BLM trom Page 66
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<br />If BL\f decides the puhlic wants
<br />further study on how the lands
<br />should be used, there would be an-
<br />other comment period, and it
<br />would be at least a year before a
<br />recommendation to consider the
<br />land as wilderness could be given
<br />to Collgress, Finstick said.
<br />It's imperative to protect the
<br />land before wells are drilled and
<br />roads are huilt, said Rep. David
<br />Skaggs, a Boulder Democrat.
<br />"If they art' not protected now
<br />and given appropriate scrutiny,
<br />they're not going to available for"
<br />wilderness designation, be said.
<br />The results of the poll, which
<br />were released now to coincide with
<br />the BLM's review of the puhlic
<br />comments, isn't a surprise, said
<br />Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver
<br />Democrat.
<br />"That's because we all care
<br />about preserving the important
<br />values. That's why we all live.
<br />here," she said. :
<br />Skaggs and DeGette both said,
<br />they plan to introduce wilderness '
<br />hills this session.
<br />
<br />Historian
<br />remembers
<br />mining days
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<br />HISTORY from Page 66
<br />Recently, his wife of 63 years,
<br />"Mac," visited one of the old bars
<br />with a granddaughter.
<br />"Tbere was a big sign outside
<br />warning 'No shoes, DO shirt, no set....
<br />vice.' Inside, however, the young.....
<br />ster spotted a painting of a near1i
<br />naked woman on the ceiling," sh
<br />recalled with a smile.
<br />Working underground was datt
<br />gerous, and Vanderwalker di11;
<br />what he could to ease the pressure'
<br />as boss of a mine crew. "I never let.
<br />a man work {or me. He worked
<br />with me. The best policy is to let a '
<br />man be a man and let him do the
<br />jOh working with you."
<br />He always tried to pair compati_
<br />ble workers. "With the right part-.
<br />Der, you can get that man up and
<br />on his feet and get him going like a
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