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~ ~ iii iiiiiiiiiiii iii <br />~. ~orsrt ~csse~im <br />r <br />-_ _ ~ts~a e~~~ ~es~cim <br />7260 Snow mess Drive <br />Black Foro sf <br />C olon do ipring s, Colors da 80908 <br />December~21, 1977 - -_ <br />Mined Land Reclamation Board <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Colorado - 80203 <br />Dear Sirs: <br />I have today attended the hearing held by you here <br />in Colorado Springs. I am writing as a private <br />citizen-.ta suggest to you tvo lines of inquiry,' <br />vhich appeared to receive inadequate attention <br />during the time vhen.I vas in attendance. I hope <br />your staff will find it possible to explore them, <br />if they have not already done so. <br />Let me begin by stating my position on the quarrying <br />activities of the Castle Concrete Company-in the <br />Rampart Range. Primarily-because these activities <br />have a detrimental effect on the visual surroundings <br />of the people vho are concentrated in the Pike's <br />Peak region, I am firmly opposed to their continuation. <br />A great many people choose to live in this area. <br />because of the natural beauty of the nearby mountains. <br />The aesthetic impact of these mountains is, in my <br />view, directly dependent..upon their being left un- <br />marred by human activities. To give approval to <br />strip-mining operations carried out on the most` <br />visible side of vhat may be the best-known: mountain <br />in Colorado, therefore, is to encourage the <br />indoctrination of one-quarter of a million people <br />in their Capacity to tolerate ugliness. <br />Having acknowledged my conviction that you should <br />disapprove the currently pending applications from <br />Castle Concrete, I should like to describe tvo <br />factors which support this viewpoint. <br />The first has to do xith the impossibility of <br />reclamation. Assuming that the Company.-were <br />genuinely~con~nT of the value of reclamation-- <br />an assumption belied by the activities of the <br />Companx on Pike's Peak to date--there fa no <br />~conom}cally feasible vay, even xith the best of <br />intentions~to "re-blend the site into its surroundings" <br />,Y`\ <br />~~ <br />n <br />