SAM Coverage
Environment
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Recyclers’ Revenge
There were plenty of skeptics when Grand Targhee Resort in Wyoming began its base area environmental awareness efforts in 1990. Some questioned the motive,…
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Switching To Natural Gas
Once considered the fuel of the future, over the past five years, natural gas has become the transportation fuel of the present. As a…
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Needed: Environmental Action
by John Fry, Editor, Snow Country In the Speak-Out column in its last issue, Ski Area Management correctly pointed out that a public relations…
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Priorities For NSAA
From Maine to California, from Washington to New Hampshire, ski area operators are saying the “environment” is the issue they want their national organization…
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Needed: Evironmental Action Blueprint.
The environment…environmental sensitivity…environmental opposition…National Environmental Policy Act. The word is inexorably a part of our personal lives, as we buy environmentally acceptable toilet paper,…
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Nepa Process May Be Revisited
A better method for assessing the environmental impacts of ski development? Or a Trojan horse that will undermine approvals and increase compliance costs? That…
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A Smoke-Free Area Base Lodge
by Brad Moretz, Assistant General Manager, Appalachian Ski Mt., N.C. In North Carolina, tobacco has been the #1 cash crop and top industry for…
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Let’s Stand Together
by Paul Pepe, Marketing Director, Hunter Mountain, N.Y. There are lots of fishermen in this country, but there are also lots of skiers. Yet…
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Steamboat And Its Martens
The American marten, Martes americana, is a reclusive arboreal carnivore of the genus Martes, about 2 1/2 feet long, with 9-in. bushy tail, and…
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Old Lift Gets High Think
Skiers visiting Winter Park this winter will find a new lift — well, it’s actually rather an old lift, and one with quite a…
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Shun The Wum
It is mid-January, 1965; opening day at the brand new Paradise Basin Ski Area. A typical Rocky Mountain storm has dumped 18″ overnight and…
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Environmental Citizenship
“It’s getting to the point where you can’t even throw away a can of soda without looking around for a container to throw it…
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Impacts Of Year Round Use
Recreation Planner, Carson National Forest, New Mexico Ski areas across the United States have been expanding from traditional winter activities to include spring, summer…
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Environment And Growth
In Greek mythology, one of the tougher navigational feats was to go between the treacherous rock called Scylla and the awesome whirlpool, Charybdis. No…
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Why Is This Water Blue?
Three years ago, the engineers at Killington, Vt., decided to get a jump on the problem of wastewater. They devised an innovative water conservation…
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Recycle Or Die
The issue of the 90’s is a five-letter word: trash. Who cares about trash? Demographically, surveys indicate that wealthier and better-educated Americans are more…
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Seeking The Optimum Point
This past year, Pico Peak, the ski area my father and mother pioneered in Vermont in the mid 30’s, was sold to Killington. A…
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New Life From Litter
A ski area for every city and town? Robert Fox says yes. The 41-year-old president of the Warner Company, a Philadelphia environmental resources company,…