Volume 4 Number 2 Summer 2000 - Grand Canyon Private Boaters
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Volume 4 Number 2 Summer 2000 - Grand Canyon Private Boaters
★★ Special Everyone’s Suing the Park Edition/Katie Lee/Poetry/Excerpts From River Bible ★ ★ y THE Waiting List Volume Four Number Two A Forum For Independent River Runners the Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association Quarterly Summer, 2000 / $3 oo ★ ★ T HE breakdown of the Colorado River Management Plan (CRMP) process, terminated by GCNP Superintendent Robert Arnberger has generated two lawsuits. The first, filed by Attorney John Wells, of Albuquerque, on behalf of himself and a group of private boaters, seeks to address the access and allocation problem, citing the GCNP as negligent in addressing what has become the obvious shortage of allocation for private river trip hopefuls. A second lawsuit, filed in June by the Grand Canyon Private Boater Association (GCPBA) seeks to restart both the Colorado River Management Plan and the Wilderness Management Plan processes. Named in the Wells lawsuit are both Superintendent Arnberger and Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt. The suit was filed on March 9,2000 in Federal Court in Albuquerque, two weeks after the cancellation of the three year old CRMP project by the Superintendent. In his lawsuit, Wells asserts that the government has been negligent as there has been no adjustment in the allocation ratio between user groups. He asserts that the CRMP adopted in 1989 “assumed that the 1979 Environmental Impact Statement was still valid” and that “Every Colorado River Management Plan ... since 1979 has required or anticipated that the allocation between commercial and non-commercial users would be periodically reviewed and adjusted to reflect the most recent information available with respect to demand for commercial and non-commercial use. “Since 1979, a period of over twenty one years, defendants have consistently failed and refused to review the most recent and up to date information available concerning demand for use or to adjust the allocation between commercial and non-commercial use despite having knowledge of a dramatic increase in demand for non-commercial use. “Defendants [GCNP, ed.] failed to conduct a ‘comprehensive plan review’ before the end of 1999 as required by their 1989 plan.” According to GCNP statistics cited by Wells in his filing, the park has been negligent in making sure all the current allocation assigned to private use has been used, with the result that the ratio of private to commercial user days used has been as high as 80% commercial with as little as 20% private, failing to achieve the goal of 67% commercial and 33% private. As part of the filing, Wells asks that the river concessionaires contracts, which expire on December 31, 2002, not be renewed until the access and allocation issues are resolved. Wells writes, “Plaintiffs are entitled to judgment of the court enjoining defendants from negotiating or entering into any new contracts or extending existing contracts with the commercial users until the issue of fair and equitable allocation between commercial and non-commercial users has been adjusted in a fair and equitable manner.’ According to an intervention filing on behalf of the Grand Canyon River Outfitters Association (GCROA) by the law firms of Van Ness Feldman, P.C., Washington, D.C. and Barlow & Kinney, P.A., Albuquerque, GCROA’s “allocation of rights to use these resources [the Grand Canyon river corridor, ed.] is of critical importance. “ In their filing, GCROA attorneys go on to say “If plaintiffs [Wells, et al, ed.] were to prevail in this action and the Court were to grant the requested relief, ... members could be prevented from renewing their contracts and potentially be required to cease operating as providers of boating and rafting services in GCNP.” The Intervention filing recognizes that the Wells lawsuit is intended to secure a greater share of total allocation for private boating “possibly at the expense of the allocation currently apportioned to ... [GCROA, ed.] members.” Rulings in cases of similar intent lead the GCROAattorneys to conclude that the outfitting industry “cannot expect its interests to be adequately represented by the United States. “ (continued on next page) THE (continued from front page) In January of this year Wells wrote to the Superintendent demanding that GCNP take steps to adjust the commercial private user allocation by February 15, 2000. In his February 9th response letter to Wells, the Superintendent stated that GCNP was working on a “‘Backcountry Management Plan’ which will replace the 1989 CRMP” and that until the CRMP revision process and relevant studies were complete, “attempting a major reallocation would be premature.” Superintendent Arnberger announced on February 23 that work on the CRMP project would be stopped. At a meeting with representatives of the GCPBAon the same day, the Superintendent stated that he hoped that many of the identified problems relating to private boater access issues could be solved through administrative actions, and expressed a desire to work with the GCPBAand other identified user groups to attempt to craft solutions. In a subsequent communication, Arnberger advised that due to the filing of the Wells lawsuit, he and his staff would be unable to continue working with the Private Boaters Association. Since the Superintendent canceled the planning process, the GCPBAhas both publicly and privately encouraged a reinstatement of the planning process for a variety of reasons. Reinstatement has been sought, primarily because the organizations members have had faith in the ability of the NPS to prepare a balanced and fair resolution to the various issues utilizing public input as a guide to shape policy making. Members of the GCPBA and the boating public, in general, have invested thousands of hours of work in grappling with problems confronting the boating community at large. Along with park officials, and outfitters interested in the future use of the river corridor, we have sought to craft solution to the seemingly unsolvable issues. Involvement in the public arena carries with it the Waiting List large risk that no one group is going to get things the way they want them, and that is a risk GCPBA has been willing to take. On April 7, 2000, GCPBAattorneys Hank Lacey and Robert Lippman wrote xthe Superintendent on behalf of the club, asking that the Park resume the CRMP planning efforts, as well as the Wilderness Management Plan (WMP), “GCPBA strongly desires to continue working with NPS and GCNP management to improve the agency’s handling of these problems. GCPBA remains willing to offer constructive participation in the work to fully integrate Colorado River and wilderness planning into GCNP’s comprehensive management plan development. “In that spirit, we hope you will reverse the decision to terminate the CRMP and WMP efforts at GCNP not later than April 21, 2000. Should DOI, NPS, and/or GCNP fail to do so on or before that date, then GCPBA is prepared to ask a federal court to compel such a re-initiation of planning activities.” Superintendent Arnberger responded to the GCPBAletter on May 9, 2000 , stating that while he would be willing to meet to discuss substantive issues, he also issued the following comment, “...I remain convinced that all of the decisions about which your clients complain are within the range of the National Park Service’s legitimate discretionary .... Accordingly, I am not reversing my decision to suspend those planning efforts.” Seeking to reopen the long term planning process to public involvement, attorneys Lacey and Lippman filed suit on behalf of the GCPBAagainst the GCNP in late June, in Phoenix Federal Court.. The following highlighted statement was issued by GCPBAPresident Willie Odem. Richard “Ricard o” Martin The Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association has filed suit in Federal district court in Phoenix, Arizona against the Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent, Robert Arnberger and Department of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. The suit alleges that the defendants have violated Federal law by discontinuing mandated planning processes for river and Wilderness management. Manifestations of this arbitrary and capricious behavior include failure to adjust use allocations between concessions industries and self-reliant (private) boaters, and failure to provide any allocation for non-profit groups. Further, the defendants’ failure to properly manage and limit commercial use, especially motorized use, causes significant and enduring damage to wildlife, aesthetic and natural recreational qualities, and pristine attributes of the Colorado River through the Park. Plaintiffs seek as relief, among other things, an order compelling the defendants to restart the mandated river management and Wilderness planning processes. These processes should include the equitable adjustment of use between commercial and non-commercial users, in light of both established and new data regarding public demand and preferences, and the reduction of motorized raft travel, which are both clearly stated in the Park’s own planning documents and mandates. Legislation cited in the complaint includes the National Park Service Organic Act of 1916, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1980, the Grand Canyon Park Enlargement Act of 1975, and the Redwoods Amendment of 1978. The suit also cites the 1979 EIS and CRMP, the LAS1989 CRMP, the 1993 GCNP Final Wilderness Recommendation, and the Park’s 1995 General Management Plan. From the Editor’s Deck Twenty Twenty Hindsight F OR more than twenty years that GCNP management has been attempting to deal with the “rock garden” of private allocation, commercial use and the ramifications of potential “Wilderness” designation for the river corridor. In that time the wait list, instituted in 1979, has grown to a twenty year wait. On page nine of this issue is a chart showing the steady increase in wait times. In essence, an additional year of waiting, for each year of flumoxed planning. Now the river channel is littered with lawsuits. This is a most regrettable situation. Lawsuits cut off communication, they take additional time, and they entrench adversarial relationships. None of that is nearly as much fun as taking a dip in the river. So why have lawsuits? That’s a question we have asked ourselves since the formation of the GCPBA. We had hoped we would never be involved in such an activity. To be sure, folks who had participated in earlier attempts at “river access reform” (with their perfect “20/20 hindsight”) had warned us this would be the inevitable outcome of all those meetings and brainstorming sessions everyone participated in under the aegis of the Colorado River Management Plan revision umbrella. I remember so clearly walking into my first work session in Salt Lake City. A smiling “facilitator” welcomed all of us to the meeting. We were private boaters, outfitters, commercial guides, commercial patrons ... the whole spectrum of the river community, together, looking for solutions to whatever we perceived the problem to be. Our facilitator told us “we are not here to find solutions, we are looking to define the problem.” with the 20/20 hindsight I have incidentally acquired through four years of intense participation in this project, I guess I should have seen that statement as meaning a whole lot more than I could have ever dreamed at the time. The planning process for the Grand Canyon is littered with sincere participants, great ideas, and frustrated management. Start and stop, start and stop, each effort finally trickling out like the Colorado River in it’s now pitiful delta at the head of the Sea of Cortez. What is different about the current planning process from it’s predecessors is the addition of another group to the process. The private boaters of passion organized to seek audience for the message of “fair and equitable access for everyone.” Instead of planning being a two way war between inspired park management and commercial operators battling for the status quo, it became a three way war. It seems that the NPS has a way with setting fires. They burn on the rim and they burn in the planning sessions, and they burn on the river. The river burns in the heart of those that love her. Why a lawsuit? Because our twenty twenty hindsight has shown us much. We have seen patterns of indifference, collusion, broken promises, arrogance, greed, jealousy ... you name it, it’s all there, cloaked in a benign coat of “what’s best for the canyon.” It’s obvious that the NPS needs help. After all of this talking, waving of arms, plotting ideas on blackboards ... well, Diana Ross and the Supremes said it best, “Stop! In the Name of Love.” No matter what the decision, it’s time to let a judge decide. Private boaters are here to stay. ~~~~~~ Several months ago a large box arrived at the tiny Jerome, Arizona 86331 post office. What could it be? Eager fingers tore open the paper and inside that box was a fabulous collection of photos from “Solo Sojourner,” Bruce McElya. Thanks very much Bruce for the opportunity to publish those photos. The GCPBA printing budget is small, our “camera ready” copy comes off a laser printer. We cannot hope to match the quality of printing of, say, National Geographic, but every time I open that box I am thrilled to be able to select some photos that take me and our readers back into the Canyon. Thanks again to you ... whose feet are those, anyway? By the way, I’m still looking for photo’s of privateer’s boats. Send me a picture of your boat, any kind of picture, and I will feature it in a future edition of the Waiting List. Ricard o y THE Waiting List Letter From Our President, Willie Odem RESTARTING THE PUBLIC PROCESS In late May a good friend of mine and GCPBAmember from Kentucky came through Flagstaff on his way to start his long-awaited Grand Canyon river trip. He waited ten years and three months, eight months longer than I did. The Park administration and its protected river concessionaires frequently note the ‘high’ cancellation rate from the private boaters group (30% average according to Ranger Hattaway). Lost in that broken whine is the astounding fact that 70% of the private boaters have persevered through all of the Park’s continuously mounting disincentives, which are intended to squelch demand by private boaters. When was the last time you intended to do something 10+ years hence, and were able to fulfill that intent? Further, the Park never notes that even those who cancel have kept up with the capricious waiting list requirements right up until the very end. This is like running 26 miles of a 26.4 mile marathon and bonking right before the end. Those that finish the marathon are then assailed for those that weren’t able to. Hmmm. Hand-in-hand with the diversionary cancellation quibble goes the claim that private boaters that agitate for a fair access distribution system are simply ‘cheater repeaters’ who are trying to dominate the system. My fellow 70%’ers and I strongly disagree. In fact, an unofficial poll shows that many of the cancellation grabbers, presumably repeaters, are in fact river guides in the employ of the concessionaires, trying to enjoy this splendid experience on their own terms. This once-proud legion of river runners has been forced to accept an array of demeaning conditions, from drug testing to editorializing for their employers, to becoming more and more pampering of their clients. Let us not limit these Grand guides to only running the river as paid and unpaid employees. Let us recognize that those that are able to run the Canyon and know it regularly are in fact its greatest protectors and advocates. In the group with the Kentucky trip leader was another friend and his sons, from Los Alamos NM, freshly singed from the recent fires that destroyed his parents’ (his boyhood) home. This veteran river runner and former Grand Canyon guide, a forceful proponent for self-reliant boaters, carried a fresh and heightened animus for National Park Service decision-making and policies. One of the poignant facts brought forth by the recent prescribed-turned-wild fires at Bandelier National Monument and Grand Canyon National Park is that Superintendents in the national park system are overwhelmed by an astounding and bewildering array of responsibilities. Consider that the GCNP Superintendent deals with 5 million visitors per year, must oversee development of a new transportation system, conducts negotiations with a number of tribal governments, deals with local and state governments, manages concessions programs worth many millions of dollars annually, has a staff of hundreds, responds to political and legal pressures from many sides, and must make critical decisions regarding natural resource management. This heavy load was one of the reasons named in rationalizing the abandonment of the public planning process for the Colorado River Management Plan. However, it is just this reason, this extraordinarily heavy load of responsibilities, which argues for the superintendent to be insistent on a strong public participation process for prescribing the management of the river and backcountry. Because the national parks were established for the American public and their guests, it is fitting that the public define their preferred management goals in an open process and, with the support of science and monitoring, for the Park to implement these goals. It is truly unfortunate that the Department of Interior, through the Superintendent of GCNP, abandoned its responsibilities to manage the Park in accordance with NPS and GCNP mandates and policies. It is also unfortunate that, once again, adding to a management history littered with lawsuits and threats of lawsuits, the courts must be asked to intervene in the management of Grand Canyon National Park. The Park has the dedicated and expert staff that can conduct the public participation process and can distill and implement the results of that process. The Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association calls on the Secretary of Interior and the GCNP superintendent to restart the public process for the 2000 Colorado River Management Plan. This is the only fair and defensible way to develop an appropriate river management plan for the next decade. Willie Odem “... The Park has the dedicated and expert staff that can conduct the public participation process and can distill and implement the results of that process...” y NEWSWIRE QUARTERLY REVIEW The editorial board of the Arizona Daily Sun, the daily newspaper of Flagstaff and Coconino County, introduced their perspective on the river allocation issue in an editorial published on March 15, 2000. Presented here, with permission from the Daily Sun, is the complete text of the editorial which recognizes that the 70% commercial allocation status quo is “not acceptable” and that “something has got to give.” COLORADO RIVER SHOULD BE EQUALLY ACCESSIBLE TO ALL What’s wrong with this picture? The secretary of a corporate board wants to stage a week-long retreat via rafting trip down the Colorado River. He calls a commercial outfitter, pays several thousand dollars per person, and has a date reserved in two months. A Boy Scout leader wants to take his troop on the same kind of trip, only the boys want to paddle their own rafts and can only afford to pay several hundred dollars apiece. The leader contacts Grand Canyon National Park to reserve a trip date and is told he will have to wait between 11 and 22 years. If you believe that money should talk, then we suppose that nothing is wrong with the scenario above. But if you believe, as we do, that a resource like the Colorado River should be accessible to as broad a spectrum of people as possible, then something has got to give. That “something” is the way in which rafting permits are allocated. Right now, 70 percent go to the commercial outfitters, which can carry more people because they use motors and, hence, bigger rafts. The so-called “private” boaters - like the Boy Scouts - generally disavow motorized travel in favor of rafting dories, kayaks or smaller rafts, which lowers the cost but takes them more time to cover the same distance as the commercial trips. As a result, the Park Service gives them fewer permits because they are spending more nights on the river. Some hardliners want all motors banned from the Colorado River inside Grand Canyon National Park in keeping with its proposed wilderness designation. After all, they point out, a “motorized wilderness” is an oxymoron if ever there was one. The commercial boaters contend they have invested millions of dollars in equipment - including quieter motors and trained personnel to maintain at least the status quo. They’re willing to give the private boaters more days on the river, as long as it doesn’t come out of their allotment. Caught in the middle is Park Superintendent Rob Arnberger, who last week essentially decided to get out of the crossfire. So polarized are the two sides on the issue of wilderness and rafting permits that he saw no point in continuing to try to craft a comprehensive management plan for the river. There may be ways to tweak the permit system, he said, but he’s going to leave it up to Congress to decide what constitutes wilderness. Arnberger raises an interesting question: Does wilderness have to be legislated or do appointed officials who are given responsibility for a watershed have the power to control various uses (such as rafting motors) as if the watershed were a wilderness? Ideally, it would be Congress that would act on broad designations, then delegate to officials such as Arnberger the power to work out the details. The fact that Congress has not done so in the case of the Grand Canyon’s Colorado River is no reason not to attempt to work out a comprehensive solution. Arnberger has taken the first steps, and at least he has gotten all sides to lay their cards on the table. But if Congress eventually is going to undermine any such plan, it may be better for private boaters and others to focus their lobbying efforts on Congress, not Arnberger. The status quo now favors the commercial boaters, not the Boy Scouts, and that’s not acceptable. If Congress can set a standard of “substantial quiet” for Canyon overflights, it can set a standard for rafting through the Canyon, too. It’s time it got busy — the Boy Scouts shouldn’t have to wait forever. The Arizona Daily Sun© 1999, Pulitzer Community Newspapers, Inc. gcpba NEWSWIRE FATEFUL JOURNEY Released April 7, 2000 ISBN 1-884546- 02-1 by Dr. Thomas M. Myers, Lawrence E. Stevens, and Christopher C. Becker. After 11 years of study, this team of a doctor who works at Grand Canyon, a scientist who studies in Grand Canyon, and a statistician, has released an exhaustive study of injury and death as they relate to river running on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. As all (or nearly all) helivacs went to the GC clinic, this scientific study contains a very (continued on next page) THE Waiting List (continued from preceding page) tight data set. They also received survey information from private boaters, which was a separate data set for unreported injuries. You can now impress your friends with these fun facts taken right from the text: • There was no significant difference in injury frequency between the three user groups among off-river versus on-river injury mechanisms. [commercial passengers, commercial crew and private river runners] • Injury frequency on Colorado River trips is remarkably low. • Overall injury frequency did not very greatly among trip types. On commercial trips, 2.41 injuries per thousand passengers or employees were reported (1 in 415). Private river runners were somewhat less likely to sustain reported injuries as compared to those on commercial trips, with 2.04 injuries per thousand (1 in 491). • A total of 89.9% of all helicopter evacuations occurred on commercial trips, whereas evacuation of private trip injuries was low, only occurring in only 10.1% of the cases. The slightly higher frequency of evacuations on commercial trips may have been related to increased liability concerns and large motor rig flips, whereas the lower frequency on private trips may have included reduced concern about liability (e.g., lacerations were sometimes sutured on-river and fractures were occasionally treated in the field), the high cost of helicopter evacuation, and more motivation to complete a trip for which participants endured a lengthy waiting period. • Overall, we report that modern-day Grand Canyon river running is a rather low-risk outdoor sporting activity. [From fig.13.1, list ranking sport severity from hi to low]: football, softball, commercial employees, all GC river running, commercial passengers, surfing, swimming, all private, tennis, golf, all off-river, commercial off-river, private off-river, archery, commercial on-river, all on-river, private on-river, bowling. • Our data indicate that risk of accidental death on river trips is low and continues to decrease over time. • These data indicate that commercial motor trip fatality frequency is 2.7 fold higher than that on commercial oar powered trips. The book is full of great photos, lots of data for the scientifically inclined, and is a must read for Canyon river runners looking for tips on river travel safety. This informative text is distributed by: Red Lake Books, PO Box 1315, Flagstaff, AZ 86002-1315 and is also available at McGaughs Newsstand [email protected] in Flagstaff, AZ and 5 Quail Books West [email protected] in Phoenix AZ gcpba NEWSWIRE STOLEN GEAR April 28, 2000 Dear Fellow Paddlers: We have noticed a large jump in the stolen boats in our area. We all know that Paddlesports has grown quite a bit in the last couple of years and the theft of boating gear is probably to be expected. We want to catch these boat thieves. To help make this possible, we have added a stolen Paddlesports page to our web site. Please post any stolen Paddlesports gear that you may know of, and pass our site on to others with stolen gear. Then view the list of stolen gear before buying any used gear. If we can get people to use this site, we might be able to catch these PaddleSport thieves. Our postings and viewing of our site is all Free. Go to BOC123.com, websitemap, and then post or view stolen gear. Thank You for your time. Eric Bader Boulder Outdoor Center 303-444-8420 email: [email protected] web: www.boc123.com gcpba NEWSWIRE CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS May 4, 2000 As many of you know, the Colorado River in Grand Canyon will be flowing at 8000 cfs this summer, primarily to evaluate the impact of low steady flows on native fish. The Grand Canyon River Guides is involved in studying ancillary impacts, primarily economic impacts to the recreational users of the river. These might be manifested in lost equipment or rescues etc., due to the low flows. Andre Potochnik, former GCRG president, has contacted GCPBA to see if we could find any private boater volunteers to participate in this. It would require hanging out at one of the major rapids for a few days and documenting ‘problems’ or incidents as a Park VIP, or Volunteer In Park. This may not be as romantic as a full river trip, but nevertheless an opportunity to pay back to the resource we all love so much. Volunteers may have to hike in, maybe snag a ride down river, hang out, hike out or float out, depending on logistics. Likely rapid sites include 24.5 Mile, Hance, Horn Creek, Dubendorf, Crystal(?), and Lava. The logistics as to dates, times, gear required, and transportation are yet to be worked out. If you are interested in participating in this volunteer program, we’d like to get your name and e-mail into a volunteer data base. Please contact: Dave Osterbrink, GCPBA Volunteer Co-ordinator at: [email protected] gcpba NEWSWIRE ALLOCATION COURT CASE UPDATE May 13, 2000 The Justice Department has answered the early March Complaint for Judicial Review filed by Albuquerque Lawyer John Wells. The Well’s lawsuit alleges, among other things, that the National Park Service has failed and refused to take any action whatsoever to adjust or modify allocation between the American public and the Parks river concessionaires in a fair and equitable manner for the last 21 years. The suit claims that the regulations promulgated are arbitrary and capricious, and constitute an abuse of discretion. The suit also claims due process has been denied to American citizens seeking access to Grand Canyon without the aid of commercial river concessionaires. The Well’s suit is based partly on Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Rob Arnberger’s February 23 decision to halt any further work on the Colorado River Management Plan. In the 6 page Answer, U.S. Attorney’s (the defendants) deny all or part of 42 of the original 54 allegations. Some of the denials are based on lack of knowledge or information. The defendants admit a few points in the Well’s case, like Rob Arnberger is the Superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, the Park lets concessions contracts, and factual references to the 1979 Colorado River Management Plan. The Answer goes on to cite statute of limitations and lack of subject matter jurisdiction as some of the reasons to bar the Wells claim, and finally asks that the Plaintiff’s case be dismissed. Meanwhile, the Law Firm of Van Ness Feldman has informed Mr. Wells that they have been retained to intervene on behalf of The Grand Canyon River Outfitters Association. The Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association emphatically supports the Wells lawsuit. The GCPBAweb site, at www.gcpba.org, will contain the full filings of both the original complaint, the Justice Department Answer, and any interventions, as soon as we can get this material up on the web. gcpba NEWSWIRE SPECIAL INTERESTS PURSUE SPECIAL TREATMENT May 16, 2000 For more than 3 years, American Outdoors, the national guiding and outfitting trade association, has been pushing a bill that attempts to streamline the permitting and renewal system for outfitters, guides and packers. Called the “Outfitters Policy Act”, this legislation will effect all federal lands outside of National Parks. The original version of the bill, Senate Bill 1489 first appeared in 1997 and was quickly dubbed “The Outfitters Welfare Act.” The original bill would have created a private property right out of permits awarded to outfitters with no competition for the permits come renewal time. The bill would have established life long permits, performance evaluations with many restrictions on the agencies who need to perform the evaluation, guaranteed protection from economic downturns, and a broad collection of liability protections. Most troubling to hikers, boaters, equestrians and climbers, the bill granted outfitters the right of access to resources without addressing allocation between the various user groups. Due to strenuous public objection, Senate Bill 1489 has gone through two rewrites and has resurfaced as Senate Bill 1969. Sponsors of the bill now include the following Senators: Gordon Smith (R OR), Orin Hatch (R UT), Rod Grams (R MN), Frank Murkowski (R AK), Craig Thomas (R WY), as well as the bills original sponsor, Larry Craig (R Id). On Wednesday, March 29, 2000, Senator Larry Craig held a hearing before the Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Testimony was presented by American Whitewater and American Canoe Association. American Whitewater submitted testimony suggesting conditional approval of the bill if access safeguards were in place for fully participatory paddlers. Since the hearing, Committee staffers are once again rewriting the bill, and it is anticipated that language forcing agency guarantees of outfitter profit will be removed, along with language changes in outfitter exclusion from liability language and the revamping of section 5, the section dealing with access issues. According to Dave Jenkins, of the American Canoe Association, “The areas we have concern with are being rewritten. We will have to wait and see what the rewrite looks like.” Officials with the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management are looking for language so that automatic renewals will be subordinate to resource planning and conflicts with other user groups. As currently written, this bill has the potential to create a negative management environment favoring outfitted visitors over the general public. This could affect all National Forest and BLM visitors by limiting the public’s opportunities to hunt, fish, hike, boat, climb or even visit public lands without using guided services. Jason Robertson of American Whitewater notes “There are positive signs in that agencies and boaters are on the same page with respect to what changes we all want to see in this bill.” The Washington DC based organizations that are following this bill note that if there is no rewrite by June 1, odds of passage of the bill are greatly reduced. THE We are publishing this list to remind all the folks concerned with management of the Grand Canyon that the wait list is not just an abstract, easy to dismiss “number” waiting for some mythical launch date. These are real people who have a strong desire to lead a Grand Canyon river trip, and bring along as many as 15 of their family and friends. It would cost $56,000 to take 16 people on a 14 day commercial trip, in contrast, a similar private trip would cost $9,000. This is the list from 1999, your year 2000 number has been sent to you. Thanks to Bob Marley, this list was obtained via Freedom Of Information request. 02200 BERGSTROM BRUCE CARLETON 02201 PHILLIPS ROGER L 02202 MCCANN ARTHUR GERALD 02203 BENTON LORI PHOEBE 02204 HEINRICH JOHN BURNS 02205 OTIS STEVEN FRIAR 02206 THEOBALD JOSEPH CLAYTON 02207 MICHELS JEFF ROBERT 02208 HOAG PATRICIAMARGARET 02209 BENEDICT JEAN ELLEN 02210 BARBOULETOS THOMAS NICK 02211 WESTCOTT PETER TODD 02212 ORD JONATHAN MARK 02213 DANGBERG STEPHEN GRANT 02214 PINKHAM RICHARD DAVID 02215 RUSSELL DAVID JEFFREY 02216 MCLEAN MICHAELSEAN 02217 RUFFENNACH STEVEN 02218 BUHLER ULRICK FREDERICK 02219 RILEY MAUREEN PATRICE 02220 EASTMAN JOHN ANTHONY 02221 WOLLJR. JOHN WILLIAM 02222 THOMAS CHARLES MERTHYN 02223 LATHRUM DANIELDOUGLAS 02224 LOMBARDI MICHAELJOSEPH 02225 REED BERNARD WARREN 02226 PASCOE RUSSELLALLEN 02227 FALANYTHERESAROSE 02228 SCHMITZ STEVEN HERB 02229 JONES RANDALLTHOMAS 02230 PARSONS JOHN RANDOLPH 02231 SCHEFFING ROBERT ANDREW 02232 HARRINGTON ROBERT DOUGLAS 02233 MITCHELLROBIN DEE 02234 BECHDEL SUSAN KING 02235 BUDDIN JR. CECILEDWARD 02236 DIETRICH SHAWNALEE 02237 TERRY JR. 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Congratulations on your patience! For more than forty years American Whitewater has been first in whitewater conservation, access, safety, recreation and events. We work tirelessly to promote whitewater sports, protect and restore whitewater rivers nationwide. By joining American Whitewater you’ll be supporting our efforts, and you’ll stay on top of the latest whitewater news with our bi-monthly journal, American Whitewater. Let’s work together towards the next millennium. Annual membership is $25 • Your contributions are tax deductible Update on Obtaining Cancelled Launch Dates As announced last October within the Continuing Interest Newsletter, on 12/l/99 the River Office switched to a new process for releasing cancelled launch dates. We are pleased to announce the process is working well, and eligible callers are reaching us with little effort. You may remember that of the 40 launch dates released in the months before this change, 90% were claimed by people with waitlist numbers larger than 5000. Now the opposite is true. Since implementing this change on 12/1/99, 29 launch dates have been released. Of these, 6 dates were taken by people with waitlist numbers smaller than 1000, 7 more in the next 1000, and 6 more in the next 1000. In other words, over 65% of dates released through the new system have been claimed by people with waitlist numbers smaller than 3000. This is good news for you, because when someone on the list ahead of you takes a launch date, you move up one position. If you would like to participate in this process, the River Office cancellation line phone number is 1-800-959-9164 menu option 4. Please check the recording over the weekend to hear the dates that will be released during the following week. During business hours please do not call to check on available dates, we need to keep the line open for those eligible to call on that day. The phone message is updated each day around 5:00 p.m. You are welcome to call during nonwork hours (after 5:00 p.m. or before 8:00 a.m.) to listen to the recording and learn what dates remain available. Typically those with waitlist numbers 1 to 999 can call in on Mondays; 1 to 1999 can call on Tuesdays; 1 to 2999 on Wednesdays; 1 to 3999 on Thursdays; and anyone on the list on Fridays. Eligible callers may call in between 8:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Launch dates are given out on a first-call, first served basis. We wish you LUCK! Steve Sullivan Permits Program Manager If you order your copy of “Day Hikes From the River” from GCPBA, you’ll be helping out, as proceeds from any book ordered through the GCPBA support the club’s activities. “... Martin’s book is a useful volume to tuck into your dog-eared boat library, whether you are seasoned runner or taking your first trip ... private boater or professional guide” Boatman’s Quarterly Review, Winter 2000 Cover price is $16.95 and the shipping is $3.05, for a total of $20 even. (US and Canada, add $1.05 shipping for each additional book, AZ residents add 6.8% sales tax. Sorry, no credit card orders or cash please). Mail your order to : Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association, PO Box 2133, Flagstaff, AZ 86003 - 2133. We’ll send your copy out right away. THE Waiting List, is published quarterly by the Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association, Box 2133, Flagstaff, AZ 86003 - 2133. 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Made on a speedy, cool, G4 Mac, with a special thanks to Diane Rappaport and Tom Martin for their help. Send editorial contributions to: [email protected] or [email protected] or Editor, GCPBA, Box 43, Jerome, AZ 86331 GCPBAis a 501c3 Corporation. Contributions are tax deductible so give us all your money .... now! Hey! Do it! For advertising information, write: [email protected] All contents © 2000, Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association unless otherwise noted. THE Waiting List “Ice-ssay’s,” Begging & Your Ice Boils My Blood D uring a private Grand trip in 1970, after I had run my last Grand trip as a guide, we ate sparely, some would say insanely, for which the Purina company thanks us, though their products were only on the menu once. We used no refrigeration and we carried no bottled or canned drinks in the belief that cheap is good. What we showed, more than thrift, was that an experience inviting the senses of the moment - heat, cold, taste-smell-sound-touch of river - is a good trip and irreproducible when convenience is too common. We were natives of the floater clan who grazed on pine nuts, handouts, spare blankets from Phantom Rangers, and rides across the stench of lake. The conveyance and convenience were afforded us by our interrogating the environment and making do with what we found there. The 1993 private trip it was different. We ate a lot. We packed ice. We went through the transition from iced meals to other kinds of meals in a well planned move about the 12th day and it was liberating. There was, nearby to us, a leisurely private trip on which there was a man with modern commercial connections. Some of his friends with twenty years less experience than our own were stacked into Havasu where he employed “the secret trick” of asking Heidi, Jared, or Skye for their spare ice, knowing that it was otherwise going to waste on their next day’s run out. He offered us some and we politely took it and then ditched it overboard because we didn’t want to get our coolers full of clothes wet and because we had happily finished with our duties as koolermeister. At the takeout he made a show of giving me an iced beverage from his cooler. I politely took it and appreciated it — after all, there was the road, the cars, the civilization. In 1999 my big boat carried our crapper, a lot of food, some coolers, and those damned bags full of drinks that people think should be dragged behind the boats as bolas. I was a grouch and refused to hang those leg traps on a line more than 2” long lest there be a fatal entanglement. Not once was there a complaint about the temperature of the sugared water even though it sat safely stowed inside the boat all day. Again, we weaned ourselves from ice on about day 12. On day 15 of this last trip a deadhead motored up to us and bombed us with ice. We redistributed loads, we cleared cooler space, we scrounged for leftover drinks to chill. There was an initial buzz about how wonderful it was to have ice and how kind it was of those boys to give it to us. Then all of us, even the16-year-olds, settled back into the shade with our warm drinks and our books until it was hiking time. At the takeout we ditched the remaining ice and let the chilled drinks warm up as we put them into bailing buckets for the ride home. The ice goeth, man. Just suppose a deadhead had given Kenton Grua a ride down the river so he wouldn’t have to walk those few miles from Kanab to Havasu. Just suppose somebody had offered J.W. Powell a ride through Separation Rapid. Just suppose somebody blew up Quartzite Falls to make portages unnecessary. Just suppose somebody interfered with my trip by putting me into the mind space of day 6 and its tyranny of ice preservation when I was really on ice-free day 15. Thanks, but no. I would rather take the favors and challenges of nature, and the ice only if I ask for it. If a selling point for the presence of heavy duty fast trips is based on ice deliveries to private trips, it is a weak point. Maybe something else justifies the industrial mode, but free ice doesn’t - not for everybody. David Yeamans Editor’s Note: Some of the following letters were gathered from [email protected] GCBoaters provides an internet communication portal for river topics, including private trip date exchange cancellations and other river related topics. For information see http://songbird.com/gcboaters Etiquette, or ... Need Ice? I just returned from a 12 day commercial trip and felt the need to express concern over a couple incidences that involve private boaters in the canyon. They all have to do with begging. I have worked in the canyon for 27 years and never have I seen and had to endure so much begging from private trips for ice and other non-essentials. At one point a bunch of clowns disruptively invaded our camp, dancing around in stupid costumes and informed us that they were told “commercial trips would give us ice if we came in to party with them.” Another time a private was camped at upper 220 and as we passed, put on a marvelous show the center piece of which was a “NEED ICE” sign. We would have taken the lower camp but did not want to have to endure another onslaught of idiocy. I have no problem helping privates and have done so for years. Ask for essentials, have a medical emergency and any commercial trip will help if they can. However, it gets to the point now that when I pass a private I avert my gaze so as not to get waved in, out of the current, and asked for ice. Give them ice and the next thing you know they are in your garbage. Dave Foster ... I don’t go on the river to cross paths with other parties and I DO get offended by begging and such. ... In emergency circumstances it is certainly appropriate to ask other parties for assistance. Other than that, wait to be invited. Making signs, dancing through other’s camps, begging, or any sort of behavior of that sort is totally unacceptable ... Warren ... jerks are equally distributed across all segments of the user groups - no one group has a monopoly. The vast majority of people you meet on the river are good folks who want to do the right thing. The important thing is for all of us to work to educate those river folks who are ignorant of good river etiquette so that we can all enjoy our trips and not infringe on other groups. As for the water bazooka question.... as a private boater in a small oar boat on a less than hot morning on my last trip, I was NOT pleased when a commercial motor rig zipped up next to us so their passengers could attack us with a water gun and then zoomed off down the river. I urge people to keep water fights within their own group unless they are sure the other groups wants to participate. There’s no way to know if someone on another boat may be trying to keep an injury dry, have an expensive camera out or whatever. Common sense is usually the best approach - if you’re not sure, either ask or leave them alone! Bev .... avoid the jerks...?? ... enjoy the jerks! Most of us wouldn’t have anything to talk about, to make us feel good about ourselves.... hell, I always try to include at least two jerks on my list of participants.... otherwise... I end up feeling obligated! GOOD GOD! don’t tell me that some of you out there have never been a jerk before! You don’t know what your missing... most of my jerking-off has led to some form of growth, albeit painful, but never the less it is how I learned to recognize my kind! It amazes me sometimes that I can be such a jerk and not be killed in the process (murdered). If someone comes and squats on yer fire... enjoy the view, hell it may never happen again and you won’t have it to talk about later! My experience, in twenty-too many damn years on the rivers is that, myself excluded... the high majority and I mean 99.9% of the folks I meet on the river commercial, private, pirates and geeks are all good folk who enjoy the river life, in there own way... and if I do run into the .1%-ers out there I just enjoy the shit out of them too! As far as someone treating me poorly, I am in control of how people treat me (of how I respond), there is an old Biblical principle of ‘returning good for evil’... the book says it is like ‘heaping hot coals on their heads’.. and for me that is getting even enough. When I face that ugly fart in the aluminum reflector, I can laugh out loud... something each of us should try once a day... at that reflection, and pity the shit out of that poor bastard who got all burned up trying to treat me poorly. Hayduke On the other hand, it is not unusual at all for commercial trips (motor rigs mostly) to pull up to a kayaker and offer him/her a beer to roll for the entertainment of their customers. However, equitable commerce between commercial trips and privates can be mutually beneficial. Common sense and good manners should be exercised at all times. Len Well...when we get as much *practice* living down there as our commercial brothers and Richard o do we’ll likely get much better at planning. Jeff Scroggins (continued on next page) THE Waiting List “... focus on the positive things that happen ...” Anyone who has been in Grand Canyon very long can come up with a story or two of jerks being jerks. They come in many forms - private, commercial, park service, research, hikers... I've got my own. But luckily for us, there are a lot of very cool people on the river - private, commercial, park, research, hikers - and there are far more positive encounters than negative ones. I was on a commercial dory trip once, and a private group stopped to help us unwrap a baggage boat from a really goofy place; we would have been hard pressed to have done it on our own. I've helped right overturned private boats. An ARR trip helped us get our shit together once after I crashed a dory. And Georgie offered to let us camp with her, and gave us ice for a woman who hit her head when we turned a boat over in Lava. Ten years ago Western gave us toilet paper when we were just about to resort to using tortillas. Last month Western asked me for toilet paper. It goes around. Last week an OARS trip lost a guy in Cataract in a flip in Big Drop 2. As the evacuation was taking place downstream, most of the group was milling around at Ten Cent. A Sherri Griffith trip was passing, noticed that things weren't right, and pulled in. They set up camp for the OARS trip, and made them dinner. Very nice. I've heard some negative things about that outfitter in the past, but in my book they are all outweighed by that one very kind act. Avoid the jerks; embrace the many more wonderful people we find on the river. Let's help each other when we can, focus on the positive things that happen down there. How about some of those stories for a while? Jeri The exchange of goods on the river does not have to be a nuisance. If I have enough to spare, I’ll gladly share it with others. Don’t expect commercial trips to have extras until you get down to Diamond Creek though. On my last trip we gave coffee to guides at Lees Ferry, and 5 days later got 3 pounds of coffee in return. We gave TP to another private, and sugar to yet another. all of these trades where a pleasant experience that left me feeling good about my fellow boaters. Rob Boyle We were at 220 floating along real low on beer when a Western motor rig came along with nothing but guides and offered us fresh beer they had a cold keg of beer onboard and so we tied up all 8 rafts and spent a few hours drinking and shooting the breeze, what a great day it was to get resupply that way ... Carl “Motorhead” Anderson ... I HATE water fights. I consider that for one person to force their idea of “fun” on someone who does not wish to participate is assaultive/sadistic/aggressive behavior. What goes for tickling helpless children, snow-in-the-face, etc., also goes for water fights. unsigned ... Seems like water fights are a bit like sex, if “both” parties are willing its generally fun. The corollary is obvious and punishment for the guilty party (at least as dealt out in the minds eye) might include scorpions in the togs. Brad ... Commercial groups tend to launch more trips closer together and tend to run on a more rigid schedule. Flexibility and respect for others are the keys to reducing conflicts. Begging just adds fuel to the fire by making the private sector seem incompetent. What may seem like fun behavior to you may look pretty lame by the end of the summer to a commercial guide.Water fighting may seen like innocent behavior but not every trip you pass enjoys the interaction ... Private trip participants by their participation, invest more energy, both physical and mental into the trip. They tend to expect this effort to be rewarded by having the prefect trip. Conflicts, when they occur disrupt this and may be blown out of proportion. Just try to keep things in perspective. Try to communicate and remember that you will see other groups, have them effect your trip, and hopefully come away with a positive exchange. If not then hey, you tried, it isn’t your problem. Rich Bryant “Plan A,” “Plan B,” and Sometimes “Plan C” One way to tell a wise and experienced Grand Canyon boater (public or private) down in the lower end is when he/she opens the conversation with “Is there anything you need?” Things do get left behind, lost, wet, spoiled, etc...and the only way to resupply is from another trip. So the governing principle among experienced boaters is that if you are asked for something that you have to spare, you hand it over. Next time it might be you who is out of toilet paper, dish soap, charcoal, or whatever. At the same time, we all strive to be self-sufficient and and build up positive karma while we can, ‘cause God knows we might need to call on it later. In the summer months, a good place for these interactions is at Havasu: lots of folks there, and by that point of the trip you should have a good what surpluses and/or shortages exist on your trip. It’s cool to ask about something you need, but it’s not cool to PLAN ON ASKING for something you “plan on needing” before you start your trip. A similar understanding and cooperative spirit is useful in all contacts with other parties...including visits to attraction sites and discussions over camping. It’s realistic to expect that - in spite of all the traffic - you’ll get some of your preferred campsites. But it’s not realistic to expect that you’ll get them all...other folks may have the same plans, so you need to be as flexible as you hope the other guy is. I find it useful to copy the launch schedule off the bulletin board at the boat ramp and try to keep track of where other trips are likely to be ... slower trips in front of me, and faster trips catching up from behind, as well as anybody on more or less the same schedule. My day starts with formulating “Plan A,” “Plan B,” and sometimes “Plan C.” I tell my (commercial) passengers that: 1.) the NPS gives us a lot of freedom in how we run these trips, in terms of where we go and where we camp; but we - and everybody else - has to work out the details on a day to day basis; 2.) we will be sharing the canyon with a bunch of other commercial and private trips, who are trying to see a lot of the same stuff as us; 3.) at some point on this trip, we may alter our plans to avoid excessive contacts with other groups; 4.) everybody else is in the same boat, in this respect. Drifter “I toast you with my luke-cool beer” F or much of my 25 years a guide, people’s fixations with cold stuff has given me chilblains. It was a delight to go to work for Martin Litton in the late seventies. We ran 18 to 22 day trips without ice. We started out with a bag of frozen meat which lasted maybe four days. The rest was canned, dried, or often fresh produce which stays quite happy below decks without ice, thank you very much. As do cheese and eggs and bread and tortillas. And we grew our own sprouts by the bushel as we floated. The food, day 1 through day 22, was just fine. In the mid-eighties the NPS informed us that we would henceforth be required to take a cooler. So we bought a big Gott cooler and put it in the baggage boat. Trouble was, we couldn’t think of anything to put in it. For the first season or so, we would put a few tubs of yogurt, a block of ice, and a few things that wouldn’t fit anywhere else. Somehow we just couldn’t wrap our minds around the concept. That all changed when OARS bought out the company. The foodpack changed dramatically, growing two-fold in volume and weight, then four-fold. We went from one unused cooler to two crammed full, then added a second baggage boat with two more coolers. Then ... a newer bigger, heavier cooler that weighs more empty than a Gott weighed full. Coffin Coolers, they are called. They, honest to God, have to be loaded in the truck with the forklift, then winched down into the raft. Dangerously heavy, and I have long predicted that one will either permanently disable or kill a guide one day. And the menu? Good food, day 1 through day 18, same as before. But there is far more waste using all the fresh stuff—stuff that wouldn’t keep that well for three weeks at home in the fridge either. The difference: now we can advertise “gourmet food” and charge $300 a day for a tour. The fact is, ice does not mean better food. It means more waste, weight, and worry. As for beer, river cool has always seemed more civilized than numbingly cold to me, be it above or below the Rez. And cocktail ice? Keep it. Spoils the flavor. I have always had to walk away when the topic of conversation drifted to “who are we going to get ice from,” or “Here’s how we can make the ice last even longer.” Much the same as the guides who talk about how to get the biggest tip send me off the deep end—as if that was the whole point of the exercise. But the worst yet were the guides who kept the secret stash of ice-cold beers for crew only, which inevitably caused tremendous and inexcusable resentment in the ranks. Why all this irks me so is unclear even to me, but I think it has something to do with the current mentality of “how much can we insulate ourselves from the experience we so desperately need to have in our lives?” I wrote an essay about it in the BQR years ago, trying to find the balance between Powell’s soaked and starving men, and the overstuffed, over insulated commercial client of the nineties. One party is too miserable to experience the beauty and magic, whereas the other is so wrapped up in all their shit that they don’t quite know where they are. It’s just like Cleveland. The search is for the balance. And ice, I always felt, was just another distraction, something else to worry about, something utterly unnecessary and in the way. Anyhow, I’ve always felt like the Lone Ranger in my hatred of the ice-fixation, so am delighted to find a kindred spirit. Brad Dimock THE Katie Lee ~ Waiting List Holding To The Vision I T pours over my flushed, hot face — a chilling, cold gift that flows from a breathtaking place in that burnished desert. Even though my eyes and the bridge of my nose are numb and aching with the cold, my cheeks and lips burning under this icy fountain, I do not pull away. I’m locked in a painful kind of ecstasy. Random drops sprinkle my hair. I feel the soft tickle of moss against my cheek — its caress like loving fingers. Tilting my chin higher I part my lips to taste the gift. At first I do not swallow, but let it tumble, thrash and overrun my mouth until my teeth ache with the chilling sweet- ness. Now I open my throat and swallow the rapture, hungrily. I open my eyes and. Thru rippling water, see bobbing maiden- hair fern, smooth flesh-tinted canyon walls, clinging moss and glistening rock above this spring of gracious water. But this is only one of many streams to sooth the burning— there are hundreds of cataracts to lounge on, many languid water- falls to be drenched by in these glorious canyons along the Glen. Lost Eden—Driftwood—Cathedral—Little Arch—Grotto— Hidden Passage—Dungeon—Music Temple—Cascade—Moki—Iceburg This time it is Driftwood. Crawling, cautiously, up the slippery slide, I come to the edge of the pool, wade in and reach up—reach up to turn on the cold water faucet in my bathtub. Then I push my face into the flow and say aloud a different Canyon’s name. And each night that is where I am. © April, 2000 - Katie Lee photo by Bruce McElya The much beloved river runner Katie, is the author of All My Rivers Are Gone, a wonderful book about a magical place and her magical life. The book may be ordered through Katie, at: Katydid Books and Music, Box 395, Jerome, AZ 86331, $18 for an autographed copy. CD and cassettes of her performances and songs area also available. $14. River Poetry ~ Benjamin Howard Brzeski NIGHT MOON We step up the wash as shadows, river gravels under our feet. We carry in our knapsacks the remains of our bodies, and float out into the night river, waves the simplest of sounds. Stars sting at our skin. We are swimming the stillness. I move quiet up the path and find a place among the rocks. Every sediment of wanting washes back of my spine, each trickle drops to the canyon floor. CANYON SONG Little soils under root systems. A tremor of hot and cold. There are swimmers in the canyon, rowing with their arms. Time Falls Rock drops into the friction of cut, cut down, down river flowing. Juniper piñon dryness. Shade on the ledges is peeling back into itself. A raven scree-cry is carried on wind waves. Breeze rests on the tilt of my head. The author, Ben Brezski, a native of Wisconsin was a partici pant in Northern Arizona University’s Fall, 1999 “Grand Canyon Semester” which included a river trip in the Canyon. Welcome aboard Ben! THERE ARE FIFTEEN DAMS ON THE COLORADO RIVER River, I ride you, the life within, the matter at your hands. In the push of foam and rubble I find an eddy, calm. Upstream I know you are silenced. Cement grip, hand to neck, bone-stripped, rock chipped into the roar of hydro-turbines, floodgates, and water. Rush of browns and greens, flood of geologic time, you are still breathing slowly, crashing on rocks. I hear your wailing, the dream of a child running, born of wilderness, nature, the words no longer. From the Way Back Machine River Trip Abandoned ARIZONA DAILY SUN (Flagstaff, AZ) June 24, 1954 A trip by life raft down the Colorado River was abandoned today by a party of four. The water has dropped to a point where jagged rocks jut out across the river falls. Two members of the six-man party quit because of illness four days ago. The others decided to walk out of the canyon depths because of the low water level. The decision was made by John Pederson, head football coach at Arizona State College at Flagstaff; Dale Slocum, Flagstaff; J. E. I’Anson, Pasadena, Calif., and Bill Towne, Sedona. I’Anson injured a leg, and Towne and Slocum left for aid. They planned to return with mules today. THE Waiting List The Second Book of Hollanders (from The River Trip Bible) First Instructions to Believers In the beginning was the food and the food was without form and raw. The food was in the beginning with the Boatman and the Boatman comprehended it but the dudes did not. The reason that the dudes did not comprehend the food is that they did not understand the Boatman. That same Boatman became Cook and created the Meal for which he had also planned the food, though the food, at this time, remained raw. This latter man, the Cook, was sent to the dudes so that they might comprehend the Boatman and also the planned works of his hand, the Meal, which was created from the raw food; the food was planned from the beginning in the first book of the Informational Memoranda written by the hand of the Trip Leader who, together with the Boatman, created all plans of the trip and the appurtenances thereof. The Trip Leader and the Boatman caused there to be a fire pan upon the face of the trip for it is written in the book of the Law, “All trips burning charcoal shall provide for the burning thereof a pan to contain the briquettes. The pan shall be approved and shall be of four sides; two thirds cubit along the east side and two thirds cubit along the west side; and likewise two thirds cubit along the north side and two thirds cubit along the south side. The height of the fire pan shall be half a span, and the pan so formed of two thirds cubit along each side and a half span high shall be approved for the containing of burning briquettes.” The people loved the Law in those days, but there came upon them evil thoughts which caused them to disobey and make unto themselves their own laws. They began to reason among themselves, If we carry not a fire pan for the burning of charcoals, shall the Ranger of Parks be able to find us? Shall He see us? For behold, we have left the Ranger of Parks even at the Ferry of Lee where he surely continues to proclaim the law. His arm is shortened and He shall not see our deeds when we are within the Canyon. And they built fires upon the sands; they carried not firewood with them from outside the Canyon between the first day of the fifth month unto the thirtieth day of the ninth month, and they burned wood that they found within the Canyon; they carried not their ash and residue from the Canyon. And Lo, the Ranger of Parks sent an angel in a kayak unto the evildoers and the angel espied the abominations and was wroth. The angel asked, How camest thou in hither not having a fire pan? And they were speechless. And the angel said to the lawless ones, The Ranger of Parks, even the great high proclaimer of Laws who knows no influence from private boaters but is beholden only to the hosts of Congress and the minions of commercial outfitting has discovered your evil deeds and shall punish you. From this day forth unto the second year thou shalt be cast into outer darkness where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth until such time as the restoration of your place at the back of the waiting list shall be accomplished. Mammon shall be required of you as well and thou shalt not lead a trip in the Canyon again until the full measure of your waiting time has been fulfilled ( a score and five years. Therefore, the Cook came to bear witness of the following of laws and the lighting of the fire: that true fire which was carried through the void as cold charcoal until the full number of the briquettes had been set forth and their heat had been revealed in these last times. And the number of the briquettes was a score and five from the Living tribe and legion more from the Extra tribe whose job it was to ignite the Living briquettes and to provide fuel wherewith to burn the garbage of the trip after the food had become the Meal. The briquettes, whose number was a score and five plus legion, were dark, and darkness was upon the face of the fire pan wherein were placed the briquettes, the score and five plus the legion, as a pile; and the Cook stirred in the depths of storage and brought forth lighter fluid. Between the fluid and the briquettes there was a great Gulf®. And the Cook said, Let the fluid be gathered together in two measures upon the charcoal. And the Cook cried out, Hear me, O Boatman, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Boatman, and that thou hast turned this wretched coldness unto heat. Whereupon the Boatman said, Let there be light, and he cast down fire from his hand into the fire pan and there was a great fire and smoke upon the briquettes and in the air such that all who stood too near were scorched. Even the soil of the earth would have been scorched in those days had not the Boatman commanded the fire pan to be suspended above it by rocks or iron. All this was done in the first minutes before creating the Meal. And the fire ruled the fire pan for a score of minutes before it’s time and times and half a time had been fulfilled, during which interval a great feast was prepared. Now the feast was prepared in this wise. When the fire had been brought down to the fire pan in the days after lawlessness, behold, there came the cook crew bearing the raw food wherewith to make the Meal. The Cook spake and the crew brought forth the food and stood in reverence as the Cook commanded them in all the ways of the fire. He spake thusly. Speak to the rowers of boats and their passengers that they may bring me an offering which ye shall take of them; aluminum, yea fine aluminum, from the Bauxites of the Caribbean and iron from the Hematites of Mesabi. Ye shall cause it to be forged into Dutch ovens, two thirds cubit across, round, with sides a span high and with a handle of finest iron mixed with carbon, and with a lid having a rim for holding the burning briquettes. Ye shall keep the Dutch ovens in the Box of the Kitchen so that they may be ready whenever I desire them for creating a Meal. Ye shall take the Ovens and heat them upon twelve briquettes plus five for two minutes. Likewise shall ye also heat the lid for two minutes with the heat of eight briquettes stacked upon it. Then shalt thou pour into the ovens the batter which the priests have prepared from instructions printed by the sages of old upon packages. Half an omer of batter shalt thou place into each of the fiery ovens. But heed this, O, ye stiff necked people. Do not let the ash from the lid settle into the batter, nor even shalt thou set the lid of the Ovens upon filth as did the followers of BA during the Clueless Years, for from such setting down and picking up shall filth travel from the lid and settle into the batter. For only a little filth makes the entire loaf dirty and useful for nothing except to be trampled under the feet of men. Thou shalt pick up the fiery lid, using pliers from the Box of the Kitchen, and place it upon the Oven. Then shalt thou begin counting the time of cooking. There shall remain twelve plus five or six briquettes under each Oven and eight or seven briquettes upon each Oven lid, and the heat therefrom shall convert to 375 F. If the instructions of the sages declare it, the heat may be changed by adding or removing briquettes. Likewise, learn from the sages the amount of time that the half omer of batter shall be within the fiery Ovens before it becomes the Meal. While the batter is becoming the Meal thou shalt sing the praises of the Cook and thou shalt not behold the inside of the Ovens until the fullness of time is complete. Only when the time declared by the sages of old has been completed shall thou remove the fiery lid from the fiery Oven to behold the miracle wherein the food has become the Meal. However, if the Cook is caused to smell an evil incense from within the Ovens before the fullness of time, he alone shall be allowed to look upon the food. Blackness upon the face of the Meal I despise, declares the Cook, and so do I also despise rawness. Both are an abomination unto me and shall not be tolerated. The crew, greatly fearing the wrath of the Cook, shall adjust the time and the heat of the cooking so that the Cook shall be pleased. During those days of the river trip wherein the Trip Leader dwelt among the passengers, the cooking was excellent and the Cook was pleased. The pleasure of the Cook was noticed by the Boatman. And the Boatman’s pleasure was also in the Trip leader, and the Trip Leader and the Boatman were as one in their pleasure. They invited the Cook into their pleasure and gladness was upon the face of the trip. Gladness was in the hearts of the crew as they ate, for they had changed the food into the Meal. King James Version - David Yeamans Modern English Version - Paul Bash y photos by Bruce McElya THE Waiting List BLASTS FROM THE PAST, PART III: HISTORIC RADIO USE, OFF THE RIVER I n “Blasts From the Past, Parts I and II,” we noted four trips on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon that carried radios: the 1923 USGS “Birdseye” Expedition; the 1927 “Bride/Pride of the Colorado” film trip; the 1937 “Carnegie-Cal Tech” geological mapping trip; and the 1940 “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” broadcast with Emery Kolb and Barry Goldwater live from a boat on the Colorado River. “Blasts, Part III” will highlight radio use off the river. But first some notes concerning the previous two installments. In “Part I,” KDKA(920 Pittsburgh) made the first regular broadcasts in 1920, after being licensed in August, 1916, as 8XK (later 8ZZ). Interestingly enough, on February 18, 1921, Warren Gamaliel Harding, the President whose death notice the 1923 river survey trip received, was the first President heard on the radio on, you guessed it, KDKA. On December 6, 1923, Harding’s successor, Calvin “Silent Cal” Coolidge, broadcast the first presidential message to a joint session of Congress, his voice being received over telephone wires (http://members.aol.com/jeff1070/chrono1.html). Los Angeles station KHJ, also heard by the “Birdseye” Expedition, had a slogan in the ‘20s of Kindness Happiness Joy (http://members.aol.com/jeff560/call192x.html), but by the ‘60s was “Boss Radio” (http://www.drakechenault.com/). KZN (on the air in May 1922) and KSL out of Salt Lake City are the same station with a change of call letters (also KFPT in between). KFFU (Colorado Springs) should probably be KFFQ. The 1927 “Bride/Pride of the Colorado” film crew ended their trip at Hermit Rapids. Leaving the boats there, the Hyde rescue party of 1928 used at least one in searching for the lost couple. Brad Dimock is currently working on the definitive book on the Hydes, so I’m sure he will fill us all in on those boats. The Carnegie-Cal Tech trip in 1937 received broadcasts from KNDO at the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. Michael Quinn, Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP) Museum, could not find any information for me about this station. He did, however, supply a photograph of radio operation in Havasu Canyon that will be featured when we get to the heart of “Blasts, Part III.” Using the Internet to search radio station call numbers, I could not find that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ever assigned KNDO. While writing “Blasts, Part I,” a January 6-12, 2000 issue of Flagstaff Live ! (Vol. 6, Issue 1) featured “Ham Radio: The Voice Heard ‘round the World” by by Q.S.O. Abyssus Bruce Grubbs. Listing the Coconino Amateur Radio Club (CCAC) website (http://www/qsl.net/ccarc/), I emailed a query to Newsletter/Webpage Editor Tom Gewecke (W7THG) who came by to look at the photographs in response to my query about short-wave radios. Because of the lack of image clarity, Tom could not say for sure that the radios were short-wave, but that it was possible. From CCAC links to radio history sites on the Internet, I contacted Jeff Miller via e-mail, who led me to Tom White. Both are well-known radio historians but both came up empty-handed regarding KNDO, just as I had. White replied that “in 1937, there were only 8 broadcasting stations in the entire state of Arizona: KCRJ-1210 Jerome; KSUN 1200 Lowell; KOY-1390 and KTAR-620 Phoenix; KYCA-1500 Prescott, KGAR-1570 and KVOA-1260 Tucson; plus KUMA-1420 Yuma.” Miller and White posed some possibilities, but not probabilities for various reasons. “Before FM, there used to be ‘carrier current’ stations broadcast only in dormitories of colleges and these stations had call letters,” which the FCC may or may not have known about (Miller). They use very low power, “with their signal fed into the local power lines, thus you can only pick them up if your receiver is located within a few hundred feet of one of the power lines carrying the signal. In the 1930s, most carrier current stations were operated on college campuses. Carrier current stations aren’t regulated, thus KNDO would have been a self-assigned slogan, rather than a call sign officially assigned by the FCC” (White). There were no provisions until the 1970s for anything like the low power Traveler’s Information Stations around today; probably not shortwave as the call sign does not match the standard amateur calls, which always included a number in them and that hams (amateur radio operators) weren’t supposed to operate as broadcast stations; and that someone may have set-up a small transmitter “in the middle of nowhere” and never got an official authorization (White). While visiting the GCNP Museum, Quinn asked me if I had considered that KNDO may have been a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC, or 3-Cs) operation, as they worked at and in the Canyon in the ‘30s. Mackie Clark, National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni (NACCA) Chapter 44, gave me some 3-Cs background information as well as the name of Fred Holsclaw, a radio operator who is also a Chapter 44 member. Although Holsclaw was stationed in South Dakota and not at the Grand Canyon, he was able to supply me with some important information about CCC radio operation. Call letters he gave me for South Dakota (WUCV and WZM) and Nebraska (WVU) used by the CCC are also calls not noted in the historical lists. So, it appears that the FCC may have assigned calls to CCC radio operations that have never been used prioror post-CCC. Thus, KNDO may have been one of those. Louis Lester Purvis’ The Ace In the Hole: A Brief History of Company 818 of the Civilian Conservation Corps (1989, Columbus, GA: Brentwood Christian Press) indicates that there were four 3-Cs companies working for the Environmental Conservation Works (ECW) in the Canyon: 818, 819, 847, and 2833. A CCC alumni website (http://www.cccalumni.org/states/arizona1.html) also includes Co. 843 and lists 2833 as being out of Williams, Arizona. Dates of occupation are by campsite: NP-1 at Grand Canyon North Rim (Neil Spring Canyon (5/1933) to Bright Angel Point near Transept Canyon (7/1933); NP-2 at Grand Canyon Village (5/29/1933); NP-3 (10/1933) at Bright Angel Creek near Phantom Ranch; and NP-4 (10/18/1934) near Grand Canyon Village. Co. 818 left NP-3 in October 1936 for Phoenix. Co. 2833 moved to their summer home at NP-1 in Spring 1937, alternating with their Winter home at Desert View. Other than Co. 818, I do not know when the other companies left Grand Canyon, but it is possible that one of them was at the South Rim in October/November to broadcast as KNDO, a likely scenario. Calls to Purvis have so far been unsuccessful. A query to the Nevills’ girls about whether Norm ever carried radios on a trip resulted in a negative answer. Neither Joanie Nevills Staveley nor Sandy Nevills Reiff can recall that their dad ever had radios on the river. Tom Gewecke also said “that Barry Goldwater was a ‘ham’ from 1921 on, with his first call sign being 6BPI. Later on he used K7UGA, but I don’t know when it changed.” Enough static about “Blasts I and II.” Now, finally, on to... “Blasts, Part III” “...and down Doheny way...” (Brian Wilson/Chuck Berry, The Beach Boys “Surfin’ U.S.A.”) Michael Quinn, GCNP Museum, sent me a file of the accompanying photo (left, file reconfiguration by Chris Muhlenfeld, NAU Cline Library) of a member (could be Fred V. Shaw or Elvin Scoyen) of the 1924 Doheny Expedition to Havasu Canyon looking for dinosaur petroglyphs. A sign on the side of the radio, perched on a blanket, advertises: “C.R. Parker, Authorized Radiola Dealer, 1216 So. Hill St., Los Angeles Calif.” The “definitive” report of this exploration may be found in The Doheny Scientific Expedition to the Hava Supai Canyon, Northern Arizona, October and November, 1924, Compliments of Oakland, Museum, Oakland, California, Sponsor and Patron, E. L. Doheny. This exploration deserves an article of its own, but I will quote a bit from Samuel Hubbard’s “Introduction”: “The Doheny Scientific Expedition to the Hava Supai Canyon in Northern Arizona, was organized for the express purpose of bringing before the scientific world, certain discoveries relating to pre-historic man made by the writer, in three previous visits to this isolated region. It so happened that Mr. E. L. Doheny of Los Angeles, who sponsored this expedition, had visited this canyon as a young prospector, in 1879. He and his party were among the first white men to venture into this wild place, and the hardships they endured, and the dangers they faced were made apparent by the fact that one of their party, a sailor named Mooney, lost his life while trying to descend below the fall which to this day bears his name.” James, or Daniel W., Mooney (once a sailor who grew weary of that life, he settled in Prescott and became a miner) lost his life here probably in 1880 (Nancy Brian, River to Rim, 1992, 111). After 1876, “Doheny went west to search for silver and gold, first travelling to the San Juan mining district of southwestern Colorado.” Sometime in the late 1870s, Doheny moved to Prescott, Arizona. (Dan La Botz, Edward L. Doheny: Petroleum, Power, and Politics in the United States and Mexico, 1991, 4). These are not the only connections Doheny has to the Canyon. “Doheny left the (continued on next page) THE (continued from preceding page) mine fields of New Mexico in about 1890.” In 1892, Doheny was in Los Angeles and saw a wagon pass by dripping some black ooze. It was brea, the Spanish word for tar. Doheny, knowing that where there was tar there should be oil, and his partner “found a tar pit near Second Street and Glendale Boulevard. They leased the land, and in what was then the middle of residential Los Angeles, they literally dug for oil,” the first well in Los Angeles city limits. At that time, the world was still in the “Kerosene Age.” In 1897, Doheny and his partners “carried out some successful experiments to substitute oil for coal in the railroad locomotives of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad.” “The successful conversion of railroad locomotives to the use of petroleum fuel not only gave Doheny a growing market for his product, but it also opened up a new era of petroleum-fueled vehicles.” (La Botz, 4, 10, 11, 12, 14). Robert Brewster Stanton completed his railroad survey trip through the Grand Canyon in 1890. Organized by Frank Mason Brown and others, the Denver, Colorado Cañon and Pacific Railroad’s main purpose was to ship coal from Colorado to Southern California. Brown’s support for the project was extremely important, but he drowned in 1889 on the survey’s first attempt. However, the deciding factor in why the railroad was never built is that Doheny, among others, transformed the fuel industry with a successful strategy of conversion to petroleum, making shipments of coal west to California virtually unnecessary. Waiting List the Canyon, then it was abandoned for many years. Finally in 1935 the services were revived by Bertrand Cox. Since then they have been held annually”(The Coconino Sun, April 11 (sic), 1940). In 1935, the Arizona State Teachers College (ASTC) “A Cappella Choir” broadcast an Easter Sunrise Service for the first time from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon at a location commonly called “the Shrine of the Ages,” an “open air cathedral near the head of the Bright Angel trail, where, in a natural amphitheater, is a crude altar of stone surmounted by a rough, rugged cross” (The Coconino Sun, Friday, March 22, 1940). This annual event, and almost annual Choir performance, was broadcast by KTAR for over 25 years. [In 1950, Sunrise Service co-founder and announcer Howard J. Pyle became Arizona’s youngest governor.] “Easter Everywhere” (13th Floor Elevators) As stated in the April 12, 2000 Williams-Grand Canyon News, the first Easter Sunrise Service could have been in ‘02. “The Rev. Thomas C. Moffat, a Presbyterian minister from Prescott, made a two-day journey on horseback to the Grand Canyon back in the spring of 1902. Moffat secured a room at Bright Angel Lodge for a few days and while there, he offered to hold Easter Sunday services. According to the Williams News, Martin Buggeln, who ran the lodge, gave Moffat use of the establishment’s cozy parlor. An improvised choir was soon formed. An early morning service was held, mainly for those who were to leave on the train at 9 o’clock [Train service to the rim began the previous September.] There was another service at 11 a.m., with sermon. In the newspaper, folks intending to attend services were told the day was ‘not ideal for spring bonnets,’ meaning conditions were cold. It’s unclear as to whether the service was held indoors in the parlor, or outside near Bright Angel Camp (Brad Fuqua, GCN Editor).” “At this most beautiful spot in America, one of the seven wonders of the world, Easter sunrise services have long been traditional. In 1902 the custom started at The photograph above, ca. 1944 [NAU Cline Library Fronske Collection, NAU PH.85.3.00.256] shows the ASTC “ACappella Choir” performing an Easter Sunrise Service. In his regular column, “Opinion 2" (TDN, Sunday, April 15, 1984, B3), Howard Pyle explained some background on the broadcasts. “This was the era of special events broadcasting by radio as contrasted with today’s use of satellites for projecting transmissions around the world if need be. Remote control pick ups in those days had to have access to telephone lines and Arizona’s Grand Canyon was literally an outer limit in this respect. “The telephone circuitry into Grand Canyon Village on the south rim was limited to a single line. Since there were several subscribers between Williams and the Village the only way we could be certain the line would remain clear the duration of the Easter Broadcast was to actually disconnect all the telephones involved. “This required an understanding with the subscribers and a commitment to have the line back in normal service the very soonest. The cooperation of all concerned, especially telephone company service personnel, was faultless throughout all the years we did the service.” The Coconino Sun of March 15, 1940 stated that “the sunrise service from the banks of the Colorado river at the bottom of the canyon, is assured” ... “and Howard Pyle, announcer for KTAR, will give his description of the Canyon’s Easter sunrise while standing on the banks of the turbulent Colorado river, in the depths of the famous gorge. In past years, the description has been given from the rim. A feature of the program will be the choir’s singing of the famous Madrigal, ‘Out of My Soul’s Depths to Thee,’ by Campion.” If readers will remember from “Blasts, II,” the Kolbwater broadcast for Ripley’s occurred May 17, 1940, almost two months after 1940's Easter of March 22. Who will be the first to broadcast along the River from the depths of the Canyon? The Coconino Sun, March 22, 1940: “Richer in dramatic symbolism than ever before, the services will feature for the first time a broadcast from the bottom of the canyon. Howard Pyle will give a special canyon description from Phantom ranch located at the very depth of the globe’s greatest chasm. This spot is more than a mile below the Eolisic (sic) schist which is a visible marker of the earth’s earliest yesterdays. Each year Mr. Pyle has given a description of the ‘indescribable’ canyon sunrise and this year will be stationed ‘1000 feet below the beginning of time,’ at a point a short distance from the spot where the crystal clear Bright Angel creek converges with the muddy water of the turbulant (sic) ‘mighty Colorado.” The Coconino Sun, March 29, 1940: “College Choir May Broadcast For Ripley --- ‘Believe It Or Not’ Program Planned Inside Canyon --- If satisfactory arrangements can be made, the nationally famous A Cappella choir of Flagstaff State College will take part in a ‘Believe It Or Not’ broadcast on Friday May 12 (sic). Besides the technical difficulties which will have to be solved, it will be necessary to transport the entire 40voice group by donkey-back to the very bottom of the canyon. This will be the first time that a music broadcast has originated in the canyon itself.” The Coconino Sun, April 5, 1940: “‘Believe It Or Not’ Program Includes Choir --- Broadcast Will Tax Ingenuity Of Engineers --- James J. Lynch, genial, competent publicity director of the local college, reported yesterday that everything looks favorable for the choir to take part. For the first time in the history of radio, Mr. Lynch says, three means of communication will be used. They are telephone, short-wave and long-wave. With this innovation, radio engineers will be taxed to the limit to put the program over in good order. Watch for the date! It is believed the time will be May 17, but there has been no official confirmation.” The Coconino Sun, April 19, 1940: “College Choir Starts Sunday On State Tour --- Tentative plans also call for a second home appearance on Mother’s day, Sunday, May 12, and a projected national broadcast over Robert Ripley’s ‘Believe It Or Not,’ program from the bottom of Grand Canyon, sometime around the middle of May.” The Coconino Sun, May 3, 1940: “Choir Returns From Successful Spring Tour --- Nothing more has been heard from the Ripley ‘Believe-It-or-Not’ Grand Canyon broadcast in which the choir was to appear sometime in May.” The Coconino Sun, May 17, 1940: “Ripley’s ‘Believe It Or Not’ Broadcast At Canyon Tonight: Program To Be Split Between Bottom Of Gorge And South Rim --- Time, 7:30 --- By MRS. J. A. Shepherd, Sun Correspondent --- Mr. Ripley will tell of watching Emory (sic) Kolb pilot a small boat through one of the dangerous rapids of the river, and there will be other highly interesting features. Originally it had been tentatively planned to have the famous A Cappella choir of Flagstaff State college, which annually broadcasts an Eastern (sic) sunrise service from the South Rim, take part on the program, but it was later decided to have the all-Indian band from the Santa Fe railway shop at Winslow take part instead ... Because of the difficulties involved (the broadcast being the first involving a national hookup from the bottom of Grand Canyon) a great deal of labor, engineering and preparations have been necessary ... Twenty-five technicians, engineers, etc., were brought here from New York and Los Angeles, while representatives from the broadcasting company and the telephone company and local men, representing the Park Service, the Fred Harvey company, were called into service, to see that no point was overlooked. It required 25 of the Fred Harvey ‘college trained’ mules to serve the group as saddle and pack animals ... Ripley makes a quick trip by mule back to the river’s edge, to witness the most dramatic part of the program, the passage of a boat, in which the well-known Emory (sic) Kolb will be piloting. Mr. Kolb has had more experience with the Colorado river than any other person. In the boat with Mr. Kolb, will be Announcer Goldwater, who will be describing the sensation of shooting a rapids of (continued on next page) THE the most treacherous river in the world in a small boat. This will be done through a short wave transmitter. As they pass the point where Ripley stands, he will give his impression of the stunt.” So, whom was actually first, or were they both? The Coconino Sun had a funny habit of reporting planned events in detail prior to their occurrence. After the fact, they did not usually report the event, the facts, or the corrections. A draft press release from ASTC for 1941 made no mention of the Choir being at the River in 1940 for Ripley’s. However, it did mention the possibility of another Easter broadcast from the River, which printed press releases omit: “This year, for the second time, the description of the canyon will be made from the edge of the turbulent Colorado River, a vertical mile below the rim of the canyon where the other parts of the program will be presented. The description last Easter was the first broadcast ever made from the depths of the great gorge.” A 1942 draft press release indicates a possible change of venue, which I have not yet researched: “A sunrise description from a new observation post, the Indian Watchtower at Desert View, will be a feature of this year’s service, according to preliminary plans announced by Howard Pyle, program director for KTAR, who will make the description. In former years the description has been given a short distance west of Grand Canyon Village, and, for the past two years, from the edge of the Colorado River, a mile below the rim” (NAU Cline Library Special Collections and Archives, Vertical File “NAU - Choir”). As previously mentioned, I have yet to find a confirmation of this second Easter broadcast from the River. All that can be concluded at this time is that: the Easter Sunrise Service in 1935 was probably the first national radio broadcast from the Grand Canyon; the Easter Sunrise Service in 1940 was probably the first national radio broadcast from the edge of the Colorado (continued from preceding page) Waiting List River; and the Ripleys’ “Believe It Or Not Broadcast” was probably the first national radio broadcast from a boat on the Colorado River. It’s about time for this radio talk show to close. But there are a couple of brief notes to make. In 1949, the now Arizona State College at Flagstaff (name change in 1945) changed the name of their singing group to “The Shrine of the Ages Choir” (renamed the University Chorale in 1983, and back to the Shrine of the Ages Choir in 1999). And in 1952, “the Shrine of the Ages Chapel Corporation was approved, and plans for erection of a chapel for persons of all faiths were made. The site will be in the area of the annual Easter Sunrise Service, which affords practically an unlimited view of the Grand Canyon. In this connection, Governor Howard Pyle of Arizona, has written: ‘The Shrine of the Ages site appeals to me especially since here is where we have long raised the Canyon to a pinnacle of inspirational value. This is the ground that on the occasion of the third year of the Easter services was beautifully dedicated in a ceremony that was heard round the world. It was undoubtedly one of our best broadcasts, so naturally I am eager to see expansion of its devotional possibilities’” (Shrine of the Ages Chapel, n.d., NAU Cline Library Archives, Eastburn Collection). Stay tuned for a future issue to hear if C. V. Agnostic finds religion at the Shrine of the Ages. And, to paraphrase Walter Winchell: “Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the boats on the water.” y It’s A Private Trip... Come On Along...Join Us! YES! I want private boaters to have a voice in the Grand Canyon! GCPBA is 501c3, tax deductable! Name Address (st. / box) City e-mail ❐ State Zip “teley” membership: 1yr $20 / 8yr $138 / Forever $277 or more Check here if it’s ok to give your name to wilderness / conservation groups ❐ here for river related business Return to GCPBA, Box 2133, Flagstaff, AZ 86003-2133 River Book Reviews LEE’S FERRY From Mormon Crossing to National Park by P.T. Reilly edited by R. H. Webb Ever wonder about the history of Lee’s Ferry? Ever wonder about how the Ferry worked, and who worked it, who used the Ferry, and for what ends? At long last, the complete works on Lee‚s Ferry has been released in P.T. Reilly‚s monumental work, LEE’S FERRY, From Mormon Crossing to National Park. (Utah State Univ. Press) The complete text, with notes and index, covers almost 550 pages. From the initial failure by caucasians to cross the Ferry in October of 1776, Reilly chronicles a span of time covering over 200 years worth of booms and busts, highwater and drought, politics, religion, speculation and plan old survival at a remote ranching community. Any text on the Ferry would be incomplete without a review of the Mormon religion and politics of the turbulent mid to end 1800’s. Reilly paints a complete picture of a faith in which families find themselves torn apart by sectarian splinter groups in a land becoming ever more populated by gentiles. As time passes at the Ferry, change continues to sweep the land. From the first automobile to cross on the Ferry, to the construction of the Navajo Bridge and eventual construction of Dams on the Colorado, both at Black Canyon and Glen, change is the incessant theme. Sometimes change moved so slowly as to lull one into a sense that the Ferry was as static as the Vermillion Cliff backdrop. Then suddenly, like a flood after a monsoon storm or high spring runoff, change would completely alter the landscape. Those who moved with the changes survived, those who tried to hang on were left shattered in the end. Reilly documents in exhaustive detail how Mormon control of the Ferry, to further the faiths goals, was eventually relinquished to a string of promoters who attempted to make a go off the tourist trade, and finally, off the National Park Service. Meanwhile, on parallel tracks, Reilly recounts how the Ferry was home to dreamers looking for mineral wealth, ranchers on the Arizona Strip, water barons looking to mine the river for California, the U.S.G.S. stream flow employees, and river runners as they explored the region by boat. Anyone who spends any time at all at Lee’s Ferry, regardless of their reasons for visiting, would be advised to take the time to read this tome. Tom Martin WRITING DOWN THE RIVER, Into the Heart of the Grand Canyon by Kathleen Jo Ryan Kathleen Jo Ryan’s opus, Writing Down the River, Into the Heart of the Grand Canyon, (Northland Publishing, 1988, 134 pages) is worth the buying, if only for the pictures. In fact, it is only for the pictures. Ms. Ryan’s photos are superb, showing competence and grace that keep her technical accomplishment from being intimidating. Her photos are the views that a boatman sees every day on the river, but that a passenger on their first commercial trip hardly ever sees. Slightly detracting, if you are annoyed by these things, are about two dozen of the 115 Canyon photos that pay homage to the touchy-feely commercial river guide. And when we read the essays from 16 accomplished female authors, we are convinced that the passenger doesn’t see the way an experienced river person does. The writing is fine, I suppose, if one wants to learn the impressions of a commercial passenger’s first river trip. Yes, the river is cold. Yes, the river is powerful. We love each other, we love ourselves, the guides are supremely confident, we grow, we change, we discover ourselves. But which one of us readers wants to read a bunch of essays about somebody’s first trip? OK, so maybe there are some people who like that kind of thing. Fine, knock yourself out ( there’s plenty of it here. But, if it were a book about opera and the reviews were all written by novices, which one of us opera aficionados would enjoy reading the reviews as much as watching the opera? Oh, the singing was marvelous they would say. Oh, the costumes were beautiful they would say. And in fact they did say it ( over and over. But the fans would rather watch the play just as I prefer to go beyond first impressions. As the notable and exceptional author Ann Zwinger stated in her essay from the collection, “…a single trip is like a first date: enthralling, but does not a relationship make; one needs time, patience, many trips to learn where the rocks and eddies are, the true temper of the river.” I’m sure the other authors can learn the true temper of the river, but for the moment they are telling us about their first date, or about how Life-Is-Larger-Than-The-River. It makes me wonder how the book would have been if Ms Ryan’s stunningly beautiful production work had relied upon photographs of first time commercial passengers ( not so hot is my guess. The side bar writings of river guides are the spice that the other writing makes us crave. Guides may or may not be authors, but they have experience that generates graceful expression of subtle thoughts well worth the listening. Graceful like the photos. This book is worth having if you can look at pictures and remind yourself of the Canyon. If you have to read about it to get a sense of the Canyon, try another selection. Dave Yeamans y THE Waiting List Ammo Can Doc ~ Dr. Tom Myers, M.D. River Bondage Super Glue- I heard they were coming out with medical grade super glue (biodegradable) for use with lacerations, etc.. Anyone aware of a product available on the market? Has anyone had experience using this. Sure would beat using a suture kit in a backcountry Aaron Nissen The Ammo Can Doc Responds To say that a river trip is a “bonding experience” has become a well worn, but appropriate cliche. Reality is, there’s been a whole lot a bondin’ going on for years. Literally. The use of glue to repair wounds is not new. In fact, it has been in use in Europe and Canada for twenty years. A group of adhesives called “cyanoacrylates” were first recognized in 1949. Polymerizing almost instantly on contact in exothermic (heat producing) reaction, they formed an amazingly strong bond, even with skin. The first reported application in surgical procedures was in 1959. During the 1960’s and ‘70’s they underwent investigation (not in the U.S.) for possible medical approval. Unfortunately, these new short chain cyanoacrylates (ethyl, and ester forms with current trade names of: Crazyglue, Superglue, and Quick Gel), while great for industrial or household use, they were found to be too tissue toxic for medical purposes. Eventually, a longer chain derivative, n-2-butylcyanoacrylate was developed. With little to no tissue toxicity, it was believed to be the ideal tissue adhesive, at least in Canada and Europe where it has been commercially available for topical skin closure since 1980. Several limitations including limited strength (compared to stitches) and a tendency to be too inflexible for skin leading to breakdown (earlier cyanoacrylates also had this problem), were reportedly reasons by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which prevented its approval in the U. S. Still, that didn’t stop the use of cyanoacrylates for many Americans. For some mechanics, carpenters, other construction workers and the like, Crazyglue serendipitously became the poor man’s pain-free answer to stitches. River runners (probably carpenters, mechanics etc.) eventually joined the band wagon, and its application has become somewhat of a “trick of the trade” for dealing with river dings or painful cracking skin for years. Cheap, quick, convenient, and great for those with needle phobia, it’s helped close up probably more miles worth of cuts and cracks than Marcus Welby. Still, has it been the right thing to do? Not oblivious to this use, and knowing that more than 90 million skin-suturing procedures were being performed in the U.S. each year, pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. refocused on it’s potential for use the 1990’s (more evidence—financial— to support that if early cyanoacrylates were great for wound repair their manufacturers would have pushed for their approval years ago). In 1997, the FDA finally did go on to approve the newest generation chemical sibling of cyanoacrylate, “2Octyl cyanoacrylate”. Produced by Johnson & Johnson with a new “medical grade”, it had improved properties of strength (4 times greater) than that of n-2-butylcyanoacrylate, and this new glue marketed as “Dermabond”, also had a more flexible bond, perfect to match the pliable nature of skin. Still, it is only currently available for purchase by medical facilities and their health care providers, and is very expensive. Needless-to-say, marketing this new product has brought the use cyanoacrylate glues for wounds into the forefront public attention, and has probably jump-started sales of over-the-counter Superglue and it’s counterparts for such “unauthorized use” to an all time high. Unfortunately, the “Superglue” you can pick up at Walmart isn’t exactly the same as Dermabond of the medical world. First, as noted above, it’s not as strong or flexible in its bond. Secondly, it’s not sterile. But has it actually proven to be harmful? Well, the very similar n-2-butylcyanoacrylate in use Canada since 1980, has not had any adverse reports of either toxic effects or carcinogenicity (causing cancer). Still, reportedly on initial investigations done in the 1960’s and ‘70’s (I was unable to track down any study results), cyanoacrylates caused “toxicity” to the skin, mainly in the form of inflammatory reactions. Interestingly, according to the Arizona Poison Control Center there have been no reported serious toxic reactions (i.e. severe local inflammatory reactions or serious allergic reactions) or lethal ingestions due to Superglue, Crazyglue or Quick Gel. In fact, because it polymerizes so fast to form a bond (even too fast for systemic absorption through the stomach), the worst reported problems tend to be accidental gluing of eyelids, fingers or teeth together, which is one of the reasons Dermabond is not sold over-the-counter. Again, there have been no controlled studies using cyanoacrylates (like Crazyglue) on repairing wounds done in the U.S. Good news, but before you go out and slop some Quick Gel over the next cut you get slicing watermelon, consider the risk of an adverse skin reaction, although probably low, it has been documented, and is likely the main reason warning labels state “avoid contact with skin.” Also remember over-the-counter glues aren’t sterile. Theoretically, they could increase the risk of wound infection by being put in or over a wound. So where and when would you use store-bought cyanoacrylate? Well, there are other limitations, and as a result, it’s best only for minor, superficial lacerations and skin cracks. For one thing, these glues aren’t as strong as sutures (stitches) or staples. N-2-butylcyanoacrylate for example, has a day-1 breaking strength equal to only about 10-15% of that of sutures. Therefore, cyanoacrylates (including Dermabond) are best are only for “lowtension” wounds. In other words, they don’t work well across a joint where there is a lot of tension on the skin. So avoid knees, elbows, finger knuckles etc. (unless immobilized). They also shouldn’t be used on large, deep wounds, where there also tends to be increased tension, and a higher likelihood that the wound could split open later (dehiscence). Plus larger wounds have a greater potential for absorption through seepage into the wound, risking a reaction or secondary infection. This is also probably a good reason to avoid them on the face, especially around the eyes (which again, have been known to be glued shut). A local reaction or secondary infection increases the risk of a scar, and a poor cosmetic result, which on the face is tough to hide. Additionally, the glue isn’t waterproof. It can break down (again leading to wound dehiscence); if it gets exposed to prolonged wetness, i.e. soaked in water. It can also break down if it’s scratched, or scrubbed. Application of any topical antibiotic ointment, sunscreen or other lotion should also to be avoided as it too leads to breakdown. In short, if it is a significant wound where a strong repair is warranted, there is a higher risk for infection, or cosmetics are an issue, think sutures, staples, or Dermabond, or an evacuation to get them before you do any gluing with the cheap stuff. If you were to use it on those minor lacerations or painful skin cracks, make sure the wound is thoroughly cleansed first! Use an antiseptic around the wound edges, and irrigate the wound with clean or sterile water before attempting any closure. Then, the skin edges must be dry, and held together firmly before applying the glue. This is to avoid seepage of the glue down into the wound, and hopefully lead to a better scar result. As for those painful skin cracks, it works great, but you may need to apply it daily as it tends to breakdown and crack, especially if it gets wet (which by the way, could bail you out of a sticky mess it you accidentally glue the wrong things together). If you don’t use it directly on the wound, it may also be helpful to secure wound or steri strips, tape, moleskin, etc., but again it’s prone to breakdown. In summary, is Superglue (or counterpart) worth keeping in your medical kit? You bet! Keeping the skin healthy and happy is always a battle, and it just adds another weapon to your arsenal (it also works well for avulsed or partially avulsed teeth, another story). Finally, if and when you actually get down to using the sticky stuff, have someone assist you and you’ll both have a bonding experience. Tom Myers, MD y THE Waiting List Passing the Paddle The River Management Society (RMS) recently asked the GCPBA to participate in its Rivers 2000 campaign by helping to coordinate the RMS Pass-the-Paddle initiative. GCPBAwas nominated for this honor by National Park Service staff due to our pro-active work in river conservation and work toward fair recreational access to rivers on the Colorado Plateau. GCPBA activities parallel very closely with the overall mission of the RMS. Willie Odem, GCPBA President, was named the Arizona State Coordinator for Pass-the-Paddle. He was responsible for receiving the Paddle from the Utah State Coordinator, David Dawson of Utah State Parks, anointing the Paddle in selected Arizona waterways, and then passing the Paddle to the California Coordinator, Jim Eicher of the Bureau of Land Management. The River Management Society is a national organization dedicated to the protection and management of North America’s river resources. Its membership includes federal, state and local agency employees, educators, researchers, consultants, and dedicated organizations and citizens from the private sector. The purpose of the RMS is to develop and promote professional river management techniques, positively influence public policy on river management issues, and to educate decision makers and the public. The Rivers 2000 campaign stresses that rivers and watersheds are common community resources and focuses on 1) Recognition of water and land resources and the people that work together to ensure GCPBAPresident Willie Odem (the guy with the cool sunglasses) is their value for the future; 2) Recreation - the vast passed the paddle by Utah State Parks Rep David Dawson at a River 2000 ceremony held at the Glen Canyon Dam this spring. photo by Todd Jenson opportunities that rivers offer for us to enjoy them; 3) Revitalization of the natural resources associated with izens who wish to recreate on this publicly-owned our rivers and proper stewardship of these resources. national treasure. Finally, prior to the Paddle’s transfer Among the numerous partners in the Rivers to California, it was taken to the Verde River, an Arizona 2000 campaign are over 50 national and local non-profjewel, with Tuzigoot National Monument and barren it organizations (e.g. Adobe Whitewater Club, mine tailings as a backdrop. The Paddle was dipped American Whitewater, America Outdoors, Sierra Club, into the Verde at the site of an irrigation diversion Colorado Rivers Alliance, GCPBA), businesses, and which, at low flows, often dewaters the river for miles over 25 state and federal agencies (e.g. US to benefit a very few irrigators. Environmental Protection Agency, National Park The GCPBA wishes to thank the RMS for its Service, USFS, Louisiana Dept. of Wildlife, efforts in the Rivers 2000 campaign. We also wish to Massachusetts Riverways Program, Michigan Dept. of thank the NPS for its recognition of our efforts and its Natural Resources). subsequent nomination of GCPBA to coordinate Utah and Arizona state coordinators met at Arizona’s participation. More information on Glen Canyon Dam for its poignant, symbolic reference RMS and the Rivers 2000 campaign can be found at to past attitudes toward rivers and their (mis)managehttp://www.rivers2000.org. ment. After receiving the Paddle, which had traveled Willie Odem through more than half of our 50 states, the Paddle was delivered to Lee’s Ferry and used to propel a lone kayak amongst the commercial “megamotorafts” (but not downstream because that is most assuredly illegal, as noted by prominent signage at the Ferry). This apropos locale for dipping the Paddle was chosen to note the access (mis)management and the administrative dam erected by GCNP and its commercial beneficiaries to hold back the rising tide of self-sufficient private cit- y Critters in the Canyon ~ LIZARDS Lizards...lizards...everywhere!!...on the beaches along rivers edge, on the rocks and boulders, on the trails, even on the vertical walls that dive into the river. Lizards seem to be the most abundant reptile encountered in the canyon. There are five species that are common along the river corridor in the canyon: whiptails, tree lizards, side-blotched lizards, desert spiny lizards, and chuckwallas. Whiptails have slender-bodies with narrow noses and long tails. They have stripes running down their back and can have spots between the stripes. Immature whiptails have a bright blue tail. At times, the whiptail moves about in somewhat of a mechanical or robotic manner while foraging on insects. They are found in a variety of open habitats: sandy beaches, in bouldery washes, and under tamerisk and other woody vegetation near open areas. Tree and side-blotched lizards are sometimes difficult to distinguish between each other. Tree lizards are a variety of colors, burnt red to brown to gray, often blending in with their surroundings. They have V-shaped markings on their back and yellow, orange, or blue throat patches. The males have blue patches on their bellies. In the canyon they are found rock walls, in bouldery washes, in trees, but also in a variety of other habitats adjacent to the river corridor. There are certain stretches of the river (Sheerwall area, granite narrows,...) where the rock walls dive into the river and you might catch movement along the wall, even just above the water line, these are tree lizards. Side-blotched lizards can also be a variety of the ground colors, pale gray to reddish-brown. If you look close enough you can get a glimpse of their namesake- a small dark blotch just behind their front arms (in the armpit area). Their backs are speckled with light-colored small spots; the spots are bluish on the males. From my own observations in the canyon this spring, the males may have a strong orangish coloration on the head and upper body (dorsal side only) and the turquoise blue (spots) near their hind legs and tail. Side blotched are known to be found in most habitats, including hanging out on the lower parts of mesquite trees. The most common tree-dwelling lizard along the Colorado seems to be the desert spiny lizard. A larger, stocky, light-colored lizard with large pointed scales. They have black markings on their shoulders resembling a collar, but not extending up behind the head. The males have blue belly and throat patches and in the spring the females might develop a red to orangish coloration on their heads. Although light in color, there may be flecks of red and yellow on the backs of spiny lizards. Like the other lizards, these larger omnivores can be found in a variety of habitats, but seem to be associated with trees along the river corridor. Chuckwallas are large lizards, resembling iguanas that are found in rocky habitats throughout the canyon. The adults usually blend in with the color of their surroundings, but are typically a speckled pale gray or cream color with a darker head. The tail of an adult might have some faint banding. The young are banded with bright orange and black. These vegetarians are found in rock outcrops or hillsides, rocky ledges (such as, Ledges camp, Deer Creek, Havasu), and lava flows. Although more abundant in the warmer months, these lizards can be found out and about on some sunny days during the winter months. Given Spring has sprung it’s tough to be anywhere in the canyon without seeing a lizard! Nikolle L. Brown WANTED! SNAKE INFORMATION Photographs of and information on SNAKES along the Colorado River (rim to rim, side canyons, everywhere) from Glen Canyon Dam to Hoover Dam. In addition to the photo or slide, please include observer(s), date, river mile, (or other location, i.e. side canyon, etc.) side of river (R/L or N/S rim) where the snake was seen. Other information such as habitat, distance from river, size information, etc. would also be appreciated. The information will be used to help determine the distribution of snakes within the Grand Canyon Region. Please send the information to Nikolle Brown, 7779 N. Leonard, Clovis, CA 93611 or P.O. Box 921, Flagstaff, AZ 86002. y THE Waiting List Flipped Out ~ Letters To the GCPBA CRMP Cancellation Fallout Progress At Last! ...? A smart decision that will attract lots of lightening! The NPS was going to get sued regardless of the outcome on the CRMP. And another “Hatch Amendment” or its equivalent was a certainty. It really would have been a waste of time and resources to continue. They REALLY DO have other more important stuff on their agenda: overflights and getting cars out of the park, not to mention the Canyon Forest Village nonsense. And it’s true that the process only brought out the worst in everybody: outfitters, private boaters, wilderness advocates etc. all walked away from the table with shit on their shoes. Lots of self-serving posturing, no sense of compromise or workable suggestions: an opportunity lost. So - the NPS will keep on “keepin’ on” and make some more incremental improvements. If somebody want to sue the NPS over something, they’ll have to prove their case in court. GCPBAand the outfitters will have to make an intelligible case for their share of the pie, which neither has done to this point. My first rule of game playing: if you can’t win, don’t play. I think Arnberger agrees. Drifter I think it is very sad that it came to this. I actually was given to some optimism in the process. The actions taken are clearly disrespectful of the hundreds of persons who have participated, in good faith, in a public process. As I see it, unlinking the wilderness plan and letting the CRMP planning stand on its own, clearly would have been the right thing to do. Landis Arnold Continue the CRMP Dear Secretary Babbitt I urge you to direct Mr. Rob Amberger, Superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, to continue work on the Colorado River Management Plan immediately. Since this plan might give more consideration to private boaters relative to permits to raft the river, it is essential it be continued now and not left to die. I am not on a list to raft the Grand Canyon because I can't afford the commercial fees and, being 56, I won't live long enough to get a private permit. This is a pretty sad situation--that only the rich can enjoy one aspect of a National Park that I pay taxes for. Considering they pay, on the average, less than 10% of their income and I pay about 25%, the inequity is even more galling. I also don't think that the campaign contributions of commercial rafters should affect anyone's decision, especially someone whose directive is to protect the parks for everyone, not just the rich. Flo Samuels What Do They Use the Money For? In reference to: gcpba NEWSWIRE - SUPERINTENDENT SINKS CRMP! The ... decision by the Park has forced the GCPBA board to seriously consider legal options in resolving over 20 years of mismanagement of the allocation issue. 1) If this is the first thing that has forced GCPBA’s board to ‘seriously consider legal options ... etc.’ what have my dues been going for? Playing footsie with the guy for three years has had no discernible effect. 2) Arnberger said ‘some level of trepidation.’ This is code. He expects to be sued. He wants to be sued. This is just like the pattern of behavior from an even more gutless agency, the Fish and Wildlife Service. They pretty much won’t list a species under the Endangered Species Act, these days, until they get sued; it’s a CYA tactic. It would be very obtuse on our parts, even recreant, not to recognize Arnberger asking us to use the courts to force NPS to do what it is too timorous and underfunded to do on its own. Earl Perry This is Bullsh*t... But typical... a deniable way of CYA (“covering your ass,” ed .)while at the same time preserving the status quo. The primary issues of access and allocation are completely un-dealt with. The GCROAdoesn’t even need to push their “Equal Suffering is not the answer” solution to private access. A suit filed and damn soon looks like our only solution. So GCPBA, what’s the plan? This is the meat of it, why I joined, time to drag them into court and make them justify their arbitrary and unfair allocation and force some changes on the system. If a court case doesn’t force the issue in our favor, then perhaps we ought to be thinking about civil disobedience as a means of getting our issues addressed. Has any one else ever seen a clearer case of bureaucratic cop-out? Arnberger couldn’t find a way to address the issues of wilderness designation or private/commercial access without grossly offending someone - either the privates or the commercials, so instead, he bails out completely on making any substantive changes. Leaving, of course, the gross inequity between commercial launches and body counts versus private launches and body count standing as it’s been since ‘88. I suppose it’s like a comment I read on the GCROAwebsite - paraphrased - if no solution is readily forthcoming, then just blow it off and let some other administration down the road deal with it. Maybe NPS management doesn’t want to put Arnberger in a position to take any grief for putting forward an plan so bound to be unfair or offensive to one segment or another. Write to them now and let them know how pissed off we are. [email protected] Warren Musselman I was a commercial guide and operator from 1967 to 1976 on rivers throughout the western US and GCNP’s first oar powered river ranger in 1974. While employed by GCNP, I helped write a revised management plan and rewrote federal regulations regarding GC river travel. I have also been a GNCP private permittee - 10 trips since 1969, plus too many trips too count on other western rivers requiring permits. I believe the issue of allocation will be settled in federal court - possibly even the Supreme Court. As we all know, GCNP is a public park which has a conflicting mandate: provide public access to the resource, but protect the resource from the public. Hence limits to “use”. The question is , what is the public? The commercial operators and the private permittees make up a small percentage of the public. However, both commercial operators and private permittees create demand for public access. The majority of the public are the people who join their trips. Unfortunately for commercial operators, their market has plateaued while the market for private permittees continues to grow, aggravating a conflict that did not exist until the early 70’s. The conflict between commercial operator and private permittees is not limited to GCNP. It occurs on rivers regulated by BLM, USFS and states as well. Although commercial operators currently have some protection under federal law, to strengthen this investment, they have convinced several congressmen to propose laws. The first effort failed, but eventually they will succeed because they are organized and have funds. When this law eventually passes, GCNP and other agencies will have no choice but to abide by it. Private permittees and their public will then have no choice but to sue for equal access to public lands. If the courts eventually determine that a portion of the public has been unfairly excluded by the outfitter law, the nature of their decision will give some direction to federal agencies regarding a legally acceptable resolution to the conflict. The only fair allocation for the general public is a waiting list for everyone, regardless of whether they want to go on a commercial or private trip, with some flexibility for cancellation and substitution. By the time this happens, the demand created by private permittees will most likely have plateaued and a relatively stable ratio will develop. If the apparent demand for private trips is really larger than the existing allocation, some operators may fold and others may shrink in size or merge, but they provide a service that will always have some demand and many will survive. This approach assumes the free market that led to the establishment of commercial operators will continue to apply to their survival. A phase in period would prevent serious hardship. With its 20 year wait, GCNP is the most visible target for legal action. GCPBA is probably the largest and most organized private boaters association, and is the most likely organization to file this suit, with financial and legal help from its members. To succeed, it may need to expand its membership to include private boaters who play the lottery on other rivers but haven’t yet chosen to play the waiting game at GCNP. GCPBA has been heavily involved with the public input process, so far without success. GCNP seems to have put the allocation issue on hold, partly because of congressionphoto by Jim Kelly al and commercial pressure and partly because it wants feedback from other parks and agencies who face the same allocation issue. If GCPBAhasn’t already begun the process of researching legal action, now is the time to start. The commercial operators are much further along the learning curve. Playing catch-up is a hard way to keep a fair piece of the pie. Pete Winn Don’t Go It Alone Don’t let the GCPBAgo it alone in the legal challenge to this latest maneuver. This NPS action forces all of us to look at the CRMP process and the government agencies we have to deal with and compare them and their recent activities to the law that brought them into existence. The NPS doesn’t come out looking very good. I’m not a part of any organized group but I continue to observe the degradation of access to the Grand Canyons. We all have a continually worsening chance to see and appreciate the river corridor and the surrounding lands as time goes on. (continued on next page) THE Waiting (continued from preceding page) In particular, the management of access to the Colorado river corridor has been characterized by favoritism to established commercial interests. I don’t like this situation one bit and I imagine most of the rest of you feel the same. ... if the money changers dominate the temple’s activities, it’s time to bring down the temple ... The NPS just lost a lot of face with this latest maneuver. We shouldn’t let this move determine our response. Michael Dooley Motors, Yes? No? This is a personal preference issue that impinges on others right to see the river corridor in a manner they wish to and which has been happening for 40 years, every since Georgie White I guess. You can’t always have what you want, especially when your desires prevent others from having what they want. IMHO every time this is brought up by ... the GCPBA, or whoever, you do private boaters an immense disservice in the access area. This is non-negotiable and perhaps unworthy of negotiation. Private boaters loose all capability to resolve issues with commercial owners when they bring this dead dog up. Frankly, I’ve been on a motor trip in ‘72 and I doubt I will ever do one again, but who knows. I have absolutely no problem with motors on the Colorado river. I do wish the commercial owners would move instantly to 4 stokes to diffuse ... comments about oil on the water and noise, but as we all know they move very slowly. I might add that private boaters move even more slowly because they can’t ever agree on anything. BTW. I’ve never looked real hard but I can’t recall ever seeing oil on the river anywhere in GC. Bob Marley What’s the Point? In the most recent issue of “The Waiting List” (V0l 4 No 1, Spring 2000) you published my name without my permission. If you had asked permission, I would have said no. I’m glad the Park Service did not provide addresses. On page nine, there’s an article on the “Throw Bag Award” that states: “We would like to print all of your names as a special and public way to say thanks. But, we are not going to do that because we didn’t ask for your permission ...” So what’s the point of publishing 6700 names? We know we are real people, there are also 15,000 real people that apply each year to “win” a Middle Fork of the Salmon permit. If you are going to ask permission to publish my wife’s name in the next issue, she will say NO. Our faith in your organization is dwindling. 2 members not likely to renew The point of publishing the names of the people on the GCNP wait list is to emphasize to park management that people on the wait list are not just an abstract number to be easily dismissed List like some run of the mill government statistic, but that those 6,800 people are real people, with real lives. I have noted that through out the history of this process, it seems that very little attention is paid to the needs of “real people,” instead, planning process partic ipants only focus on numbers and statistics. This list is public information. I would have gladly left your wife's name out of this or future publishing if you would have signed your letter. editor/gcpba Thanks Tom I want to congratulate you Tom on your retirement as GCPBA President. What marvelous work you have done here. We all owe you a big thanks. So much time, effort, passion ... incredible. And look how the baby has grown! I am so impressed, and wish I could take you out to dinner and toast you with your favorite .... oh ... water? I know you don’t touch much alcohol. I really liked the last Waiting List that had the names (I mean a few of the names) of the people waiting. Dreadful. Tell all the others at GCPBA to keep the fire on, Mimi The most recent issue of the Waiting List was awesome, not just for Colorado access, but for boaters everywhere, keep up the good work. ... Lloyd Knapp Use Protection I hope people are becoming increasingly aware of the need for sun protection. Melanoma is beginning to be diagnosed at epidemic proportions. I would like to see this group encourage people to forgo the popular and stylish sun tanned look. While I am sure there are other companies (and I have not financial or other “ethical” interest in them), I would like people to consider calling SunPrecautions (1-800882-7860) as request one of their catalogues. Their clothing is guaranteed to be at least SPF 30 wet or dry. It can even be deducted as a prescription if you physician provides such. Regular cotton clothes have a dry SPF factor of only about 7. Some of our thin, popular nylon and other man-made materials have much less. 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CANYON REO PO Box 3493, Flagstaff AZ 86003 i-800-637-4604 www.canyonreo.com THE Waiting List Really Lost In the Wilderness River Incident Reports Case Incident Report Number: 0007000005 Date of Incident: April 6, 2000 River: Colorado Section of River: Cataract Canyon Location on River: Brown Betty Rapid (Rapid 1, Mile 212.3) Relative Flow: Low Gage Reading: 8,460 cubic feet per second Difficulty: Class III Type of Incident: Flooded and Lost Canoe Injuries: None Type of Trip: Private Type of Boat: 17-foot Grumman aluminum canoe Description: A 46-year old man and his 44-year old wife were flushed into the 54-degree water of the Colorado River when their canoe flooded in Brown Betty Rapid. The man floated through one additional rapid and the wife through two before they gained shores on opposite banks. The canoe with their food, water, and most of their equipment, an investment of $2,100, continued drifting downstream. The couple then hiked downstream to Rapid 5 before realizing they were in Cataract Canyon. They then reversed direction and hiked 3 miles upstream to Spanish Bottom where they encountered a motor boat operated by a Park concessionaire. They later reunited the uninjured couple and evacuated them from the canyon. Subsequently, some of the equipment was found by other boating groups, and the heavily damaged canoe was recovered below Rapid 8 (Mile 209.0) by a Canyonlands River Patrol. The victims launched at Mineral Bottom on the Green River on April 4 with the intention of being picked up at the confluence with the Colorado River, 52 miles downstream, on April 7. They failed to recognize the confluence of the rivers, mistaking it for the abandoned channel of the Green River at Anderson Bottom, 31 miles upstream. When they saw the large sign warning of the dangerous rapids 2* miles ahead in Cataract Canyon, they thought the sign had been vandalized and that a 3 was intended to precede the 2*. Two minutes before entering the mill race above Brown Betty they heard the rapid, but too late to paddle ashore; they did, however, don their life jackets, which act may have saved their lives. In Retrospect: This mundane account belies the fact that it is the most shocking of the incidents reported on these web pages. That two competent and well-intended people could be mis-located by 31 miles in distance and an entire day in time is incredulous in itself. Even more astounding are the facts that one of the two victims is not only a former Park Service Ranger with 10 years of experience in Glacier and Yellowstone Parks, but is also a canoe instructor and had previously navigated this same route. Rangers fight futility in determining how this accident could have been prevented. Even more frustrating is the fact that well trained and knowledgeable people make such gross mistakes. They do, and they did. So, how can better performances be expected from those less qualified and less informed? Steve Swanke, NPS Ma grand canyon private boaters association Box 2133 Flagstaff, AZ 86003-2133 [email protected] 520.214.8676 Address Service Requested Great Stuff on our ALL NEW website at www.gcpba.org US POSTAGE PAID BULK RATE JEROME, AZ PERMIT #4