Ski resorts begin to resemble the Third World as Africans
and others come to take low-paying service jobs, but have trouble
finding housing.
Magazine
April 17, 1995
Ski resorts begin to resemble the Third World as Africans and others come to take low-paying service jobs, but have trouble finding housing.
Feature
Sidebar
Former ski bum Greg Smith now juggles three jobs to make
ends meet.
Single mother Alma Perez has to start her day at 5:30 am
to commute from Leadville to her ski industry job in
Vail.
Ski workers Jeremy Bernier and Jim Noland sleep in a van
in the maintenance room of a parking garage because they can't
afford housing in Vail.
Pedro Lopez and other workers who live in trailers near
the Beaver Creek resort will have to move because the industry is
buying the trailer park's land.
Creating low-cost housing in ski country involves
overcoming a variety of hurdles.
J. Francis Stafford, the Archbishop of Denver, makes
socioeconomic justice and worker's problems in ski country a
priority.
In a few resorts, beleagured ski workers are turning to
unions for help.
How Western senators voted on the Murray
amendment.
Book Reviews
Members of House Resources Committee will be in Vancouver
to discuss reauthorization of Endangered Species Act.
"The New Congress and the New West" forum is slated for
Boulder, Colorado.
Two geologists help preserve carved bedrock of Idaho's Big
Wood River.
A video titled "Subdividing the West: Implications of
Growth' is available from Colorado State University.
A Truckee River Conference will be held in Reno, April
27-29.
Federal Marine Fisheries Service releases salmon recovery
plan.
Utah State University releases study claiming that
wilderness designation harms local economy.
"Population Growth, Ethics and the Environment" is set for
Salt Lake City.
Dear Friends
Amy Conley's baby, complaints, Wild Friends, Earth Day at
25.
News
Senate agrees to suspend environmental laws in order to
expediate salvage logging in national forests.
Senate approves bill requiring the Forest Service to
reissue grazing permits to ranchers.
The Forest Service disbands its elite Timber Theft Task
Force.
A bomb damages the Toiyabe Forest Service office in Carson
City, Nevada.
A coalition of major environmental groups decides not to
appeal Clinton's Option Nine Northwest forest plan.
New grazing regulations are released by BLM with little
fanfare.
Conservationist Jon Marvel loses bid to rancher at a
state-land grazing auction in Idaho Falls.
Petroleum industry criticizes BLM proposal for managing
Wyoming's Grass Creek area, during a heated public
hearing.
Republican take-over and states' rights furor threaten
environmental regulations throughout West.
Utah county commissioners offer minimal wilderness
recommendations to Gov. Mike Leavitt.
All 14 reintroduced Yellowstone wolves take to the
wild.
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