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Wyoming’s new old range wars over drilling south of Jackson persist. By Jake Nichols

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9 COVER STORY HOW THE WEST WAS ONE Wyoming’s new old range wars over drilling south of Jackson persist.

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June 29, 2016 By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey

f you’ve been paying attention to the weather the last few weeks, it should come as no surprise that this June has been drier than normal, and it does not look like we are going to get caught up to average before the month is out. We received about half of our normal precipitation in the first half of the month, but the latter half of June has been bone dry. The hillsides are trying to hang in there and stay green, but more hot days will brown that up pretty quickly.

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June 1st was the coolest morning this month with a low of 29-degrees. However, this past Saturday, June 25th, it dipped down to 30-degrees in Jackson, effectively shortening our frost-free season. Average low temperatures this week are in the upper 30’s. Record low temperatures are a bit further down the scale, with the coldest we have ever seen here during this coming week being 21-degrees, way back on June 30th, 1947.

Afternoon high temperatures have done some see-sawing back and forth between warm and cold throughout the month of June. Last week we had high temperatures over 80-degrees in town, then it dropped to a high of only 67-degrees this past Saturday. This week, we stay in the 80’s in Jackson through the Fourth of July Weekend. Want it even hotter? Then go back to July 4th, 2001 when it was 95-degrees in Jackson..

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EDITOR’S NOTE

Backroom Deals Last week Jackson Town Council changed direction at the last moment and amended the District 2 LDRs to add shortterm rentals to the bonus FARs, which would add between 1.1 and 2.4 million square feet of commercial lodging to the downtown core. This is the equivalent of 11 to 24 new Marriott hotels in the downtown core alone. This is not only unacceptable, but it’s also a betrayal of the trust of the many citizens who spent time, energy and money to get the county and the town to agree to limit commercial growth to the levels envisioned in the 1994 Comp Plan. It came as a shock to most residents. With virtually no public input, four members of the council relied on an incorrect and incomplete “analysis” of a single property. This information was supplied, naturally, by a developer with a vested interest in that property. Over the weekend, the council (with the exception of Jim Stanford), decided to renege on their agreement with the County and amend the LDRs to allow a massive increase in lodging potential. Housing and planning expert Rich Bloom conducted his own analysis and concluded that not only would this not increase the stock of affordable housing, but—on this one project alone—it would create the need for an additional 42 units just to keep up. And it would convert between 1 and 2 million square feet of free market housing into lodging. Why would anyone want that? Well, Bloom also calculates that this decision would potentially give the developer a windfall of up to $3 million. Who pays for that? The taxpayer does, because the taxpayer will be the one stuck paying for the impacts. Councilman Stanford knew that at a minimum, professional analysis of this massive change needed to done before any decision was made. He voted no. But the mayor and three council members decided to forgo proper due diligence and accept a shoddy analysis done by a developer with a conflict of interest. They then moved quickly and without public input to quietly pass it. This is the kind of politics voters detest—handouts to wealthy and influential people who lobby the council to get a deal which will make them more money at taxpayer expense, done behind the public’s back and hoping not to be noticed. The council must reverse course and stick with the commitment they made to voters to limit additional commercial growth.

“This is the kind of politics voters detest—handouts to wealthy and influential people who lobby the council to get a deal.”

– Pete Muldoon, Jackson

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his past week the world was stunned by Britain’s vote to exit the European Union, a move predicted to have disastrous consequences for not only Britain and the E.U. but myriad nations that comprise our increasingly globalized world—the U.S. included. The New York Times editorial board wrote, “Apart from creating economic turmoil, Britain’s calamitous vote to leave the European Union could have no less profound foreign policy consequences, weakening the interlocking web of Western institutions and alliances that have helped guarantee international peace and stability for 70 years.” The Brexit is indicative of a rising nationalistic, anti-immigrant ethos: us versus them. Fueled by xenophobia, it is amassing alarming popularity among citizens in a long list of countries from France and the Netherlands to the U.S. Promulgating this fear-based ideology are people like Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and former London mayor and advocate for the UK’s exit from the E.U., Boris Johnson. (Street artists have deftly depicted the two men passionately canoodling on an exterior wall in Bristol.) While we like to think ourselves immune to many of the ills transpiring in the rest of the world, here in Jackson Hole we practice our own iteration of xenophobia. Indeed, the us versus them ethos is alive and well among many locals who view tourists as nuisances. Residents who fail to see that these are folks seeking the same things each of us look for when we travel: authentic experiences. Part of what makes an authentic experience, whether you’re traveling to Dubois or Dubai, is the people; people who we can connect with on some level, people who help us to see the world through a different lens. Yes it is true that our patience will be tested this summer, as record numbers of visitors flock to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks for the parks’ centennial. And the soaring numbers of travelers wont come without a steep price. The human-wildlife encounters to date—we’ve already lost bear cubs and baby bison—display tragic ignorance and carelessness. In response to these incidents, however, instead of asking how we can forge deeper connections with our visitors and spark dialogue that will lead to awareness, someone dreamt up the rather profound bumper sticker, “Save a bison, euthanize a tourist.” At a valley eatery, one such sticker was slapped onto a vehicle thought to be driven by visitors. Welcome to Jackson?

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Every time I feel myself losing patience as I wait for another set of molasses-paced tourists to saunter down the crosswalk; or while I work my second job for the airlines, confronting the ills of humanity left behind in rows of seats on a 319 Airbus, I remind myself of a few truths. Some, many of us know well— that Jackson Hole’s tourism industry is what allows people like you and me the opportunity to plant deep roots here. But beyond that, when my patience is tested and I want to pass judgment on someone who I’ve deemed a visitor, I remind myself of the experience I hope to have when I travel: that people won’t immediately view me as a cross to bear simply because I am an outsider. I bore witness to this disappointing attitude back in February. I spent the weekend with a friend from Zermatt, Switzerland at a Teton Village hotel. Although we were staying in a posh suite at one of the most celebrated ski destinations in the world, members of the hotel staff were curt and aloof each time they addressed my Swiss friend. It was not until I found a way to reveal my status as an almost decade-long local that their demeanors transformed. Even when not in the company of foreign friends, I too have been the recipient of aloofness and all-together rudeness from service industry folk who perceived me to be a visitor. If we think that the people who deserve the best treatment are the insiders, the locals, we have veered completely off course. We are not only robbing our visitors of a special experience—we are robbing ourselves too. During some recent travels abroad, I was reminded that even simple gestures are impactful: Look a stranger in the eyes— no matter her origin—say hello, smile and be willing to offer some part of yourself. And view these exchanges as an opportunity to impart wisdom on our guests. Tell them about being stewards of the land; about respecting wildlife and leaving a minimal footprint whether they’re strolling the dike or climbing a peak in the park. Right now the comparisons between Britain and the U.S., about which country is on a faster track to destroying itself and unraveling years of progress, are plentiful. As a petition for an EU referendum rerun amasses almost 4 million signatures (fingers crossed), the Brexit is a warning to us as global citizens, as Americans, and as Jacksonites: In this hyper-connected world, it is not “us” or “them.” It is only us. PJH

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THE BUZZ Lodging FlipFlop Elected officials oscillate on a decision that could exacerbate the housing crisis. BY MEG DALY

he Jackson Town Council switched its stance to include commercial development in downtown Jackson last week, causing some residents to question its blueprint for solving a historic housing crisis. During a June 20 meeting, the council reversed its decision in a 4-1 vote on an ordinance that would have limited millions of square feet of commercial development in District 2. Emails obtained by The Planet confirmed town officials were approached by members of the business community and Think About It Jackson Hole just days prior to the June 20 meeting. Both Don Frank and Bob Lenz were solicited by former mayor Mark Barron and other businessmen pushing for additional commercial “to discuss just a few issues regarding District 2 zoning,” the email from Barron read. Hailey Morton Levinson, in turn, was invited to coffee with Think About It’s Kristin Walker to “touch base with you about District 2 LDRs,” Walker wrote. Mayor Sara Flitner was also privately vetted. Only councilor Jim Stanford was apparently left out of the “secret” meetings. He was the sole dissenting vote. The ordinance now contains an option to include shortterm market-rate rentals in residential units as part of the floor area bonus in District 2, which encompasses the downtown core, most of Pearl Avenue, and stretches of Broadway and Cache streets. Short-term rentals could be used as an incentive to developers to build affordable housing in exchange for getting to build, essentially, Airbnb-style lodging as well. The council voted against the option to include shortterm rentals in District 2 during the ordinance’s first reading June 6. In order to pass, an ordinance needs three readings before the council. Some residents may recall that June 6 was the date of the Shelter JH rally that filled council chambers beyond capacity with housing advocates and citizens pleading for solutions to Jackson’s housing crisis. “Whatever decision you’re going to make for District 2, take into consideration that we already have an emergency,” Shelter JH organizer Jorge Moreno said during public comment on June 6. “Don’t make it worse.” During the June 6 reading of the ordinance, councilors Levinson and Stanford voted against short-term rentals without reservation. Flitner and Frank also voted against short-term rentals for the time being, but expressed interest in revisiting the option in the future. Lenz was absent. “I could go either way,” Flitner said during discussion. “I could see logic for the downtown core being included. Or I’m happy for that to be part of the conversation a year from now or whenever we check in about what is or isn’t working.” Town planning staff had recommended against shortterm rentals. Levinson stated that staff’s recommendations influenced her decision on that date. Two weeks later, however, Levinson, Flitner and Frank changed their minds and voted to include the short-term rental bonus in the downtown core only, during a June 20 town council meeting where business owners and developers were present, but most who had previously stood up for housing were not in the room.

“It’s been a pendulum swing trying to figure out what’s going to work,” Levinson told The Planet. “In those two weeks in between [the first and second reading], I got to chat with a few people including S.R. Mills and Bob Lenz. Bob had always been in favor of short-term rentals.”

doesn’t mean affordable. It could be housing for doctors, lawyers, investment bankers.” Another mayoral candidate, Mark Obringer, said his goal downtown would be to find housing for locals. “I’m not interested in lifestyle units for rent,” Obringer said.

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Muldoon thinks this is a clear case of politicians being Tinkering at the last minute, though, is hardly helping the housing emergency. This ordinance and several connected influenced by developers with money. “The landowners and to it will now need an additional reading, adding weeks to developers who are practicing what I call ‘zombie politics,’ the arduous process of getting them passed. The urgency of and who refuse to accept the community’s decisions must public need and the behemoth of the planning process are learn to accept ‘no’ for an answer, and stop trying to wear down the overworked voters of Jackson,” woefully out of step. Muldoon said. While the people Moreno spoke out Since June 20, the Jackson Hole for at the June 6 meeting were cooking Conservation Alliance has reversed its and cleaning the past few weeks, property position. The nonprofit no longer supports developer S.R. Mills was creating an analshort-term rentals as part of the incentive ysis of why a bigger incentive was needed program to build workforce housing. for developers to want to build downtown. In a public statement, the Alliance statThe game-changing incentive Mills hit on ed it made a hasty decision based on a was short-term rentals, which change the - COUNCILMAN JIM “quick and preliminary analysis.” benefit from the tens of thousands to milSTANFORD “Since making this quick decision,” the lions for developers. statement reads, “we have dug further into In a surprise move, Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance executive director Craig Benjamin this issue and discovered a significant unintended consespoke in favor of Mills’ analysis at the June 20 meeting. quence: if all landowners in the downtown core zone used Benjamin urged the council to include the short-term rentals. this incentive, the net impact to the community could be as Two weeks earlier, the Alliance’s Mary Gibson had asked the large as 1.2 to 2.4 million square feet of short-term rentals.” Benjamin told The Planet that, despite his initial enthucouncil to move ahead without the short-term rentals. “Previously we were concerned, but we analyzed the siasm for Mills’ study, he felt the need to backtrack and impacts of this decision and it appears that including short- encourage more thorough review. “Given the complexity and term rentals will help produce significantly more workforce intricacy and long lasting impacts of this decision, we felt it was more important to step back and make sure we get this housing,” Benjamin told the council. Stanford, who opposed the decision, noted that the units right than to continue rushing forward with a policy choice would add up to 1.2 to 2.4 million square feet of additional that has not been adequately analyzed,” Benjamin said. Levinson says the millions of square feet Benjamin, commercial potential in the downtown core. “We cannot take a vote concurrently with the county and say that we will hold Stanford and others are worried about are not based on a the line at the 5.1 million square foot potential [and then] realistic assessment. “I hear those numbers that people veer from that unilaterally,” Stanford told his colleagues at throw out, but for me that’s an end of days that we will never get to,” she said. “That’s if everyone redevelops or develops the June 20 meeting. Stanford was referring to a joint agreement between town their land to the highest potential.” Joint planner Tyler Sinclair said Stanford’s numbers are and county in January during which they agreed to hew as closely as possible to the commercial development outlined generally correct. “Depending on how you want to look at the numbers, they are fair if everyone used the tool to its maxin the Comprehensive Plan. imum,” Sinclair explained. “But you would also get a large number of workforce housing units.” Public outcry But if the issue will be revisited in a year with Flitner’s Since the June 20 meeting, some people have criticized stakeholder group, some are wondering: Why gum up the the timing and reasoning of the council’s change-up. Mayoral process now? candidate Pete Muldoon says the public should have been “They should stick with the original plan that was agreed engaged. upon with the community’s full involvement,” Muldoon said. “I think the council will have to admit they made a rushed Bloom sent an extensive letter to the town council, includdecision that they didn’t understand, and without involving ing his own analysis of Mills’ figures. He too urged them to the public,” Muldoon said. “They did it because a developer reverse their vote (excepting Stanford) and not allow short told them they should.” term-rentals. Certified financial planner and community activist “I know each of you have the community’s interest at Richard Bloom had more pointed words. “My biggest issue is heart,” Bloom wrote. “I also know these last 18 months that it smacks of last-minute, backdoor influence by moneyed on District 2 have been long and drawn out. But, frankly, interests,” Bloom said. “It’s incredibly disheartening.” Monday’s vote coming at the second reading of the final Flitner says she is trying to get housing built. “We are District 2 code, which completely reversed your direction, trying to incentivize the housing that we want,” Flitner said. has extremely large, unintended implications that I do not “What I learned in this example is if we allowed a short-term think you had the time to properly consider.” rental bonus, we get 14 additional housing units.” Stanford, who has been warning of the potential conseLevinson also was motivated by the desire to create hous- quences of short-term rentals for weeks, questioned why the ing. “I want to see the affordables built,” she said. timing of this decision is coming late in the game, without But Stanford is not convinced “affordable” is what poten- public discussion. “What frustrates me is, if people thought tial the workforce housing will be. He says any housing built this was so important, then we should have been willing to in the 10-block downtown core will be expensive to build roll up our sleeves and do the work to come to a compromise,” because of its location. It is his understanding that the deed he said. “I worry that we are going off the rails again.” PJH restriction in question is employment based, not affordable. “This is the lowest bare minimum of a deed restriction that we are getting,” Stanford said. “Employment-based

“I worry we are going off the rails again.”

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The Bunyadi opened in London in June for a threemonth run as the world’s newest nude-dining experience, and now has a reservation waiting list of 40,000 (since it only seats 42). Besides the nakedness, the Bunyadi creates “true liberation” (said its founder) by serving only food “from nature,” cooked over fire (no electricity). Waiters are nude, as well, except for minimal concessions to seated diners addressing standing servers. Tokyo’s Amrita nude eatery, opening in July, is a bit more playful, with best-body male waiters and an optional floor show—and no “overweight” patrons allowed. Both restaurants provide some sort of derriere-cover for sitting, and require diners to check their cellphones at the door.

Cultural Diversity

Milwaukee’s WITI-TV, in an on-the-scene report from Loretta, Wisconsin (in the state’s northwest backwoods), in May, described the town’s baffling fascination with “Wood Tick Racing,” held annually, provided someone finds enough wood ticks to place in a circle so that townspeople can wager on which one hops out first. The “races” began 37 years ago, and this year “Howard” was declared the winner. (According to the organizers, at the end of the day, all contestants, except Howard, were to be smashed with a mallet.)

Government in Action

The Department of Veterans Affairs revealed in May that, between 2007 and last year, nearly 25,000 vets examined for traumatic brain injury at 40 VA facilities were not seen by medical personnel qualified to render the diagnosis—which may account for the result that, according to veterans’ activists, very few of them were ever referred for treatment. (TBI, of course, is the “signature wound” of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.)

The Entrepreneurial Spirit!

Basking in its “record high” in venture-capital funding, the Chinese Jiedaibao website put its business model into practice recently: facilitating offers of “jumbo” personal loans (two to five times the normal limit) to female students who submit nude photos. The student agrees that if the loan is not repaid on time (at exorbitant interest rates), the lender can release the photos online. (The business has been heavily criticized, but the company’s headquarters said the privately negotiated contracts are beyond its control.) For the last 17 months, Stan Larkin, of Ypsilanti, Michigan, has gone about his business (even playing pickup basketball) without a functional heart in his body—carrying around in a backpack the “organ” that pumps his blood. Larkin, 25, was born with a dangerous heart arrhythmia, and was kept alive for a while with a defibrillator and then by hooking him up to a washing- machine-sized heart pump, leaving him barely mobile—but then came the miraculous SynCardia Freedom Total Artificial Heart, weighing 13 pounds and improving Larkin’s quality of life as he endured the almost-interminable wait for a heart transplant (which he finally received in May). (An average of 22 people a day die awaiting organ transplants in the U.S.)

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Least Competent Criminals

Damian Shaw, 43, was sentenced in England’s Chester Crown Court in June after an April raid revealed he had established a “sophisticated” cannabis-growing operation (160 plants) in a building about 50 yards from the front door of the Cheshire Police headquarters. n Northern Ireland’s Belfast Telegraph reported in April that a man was hospitalized after throwing bricks at the front windows of a PIPS office (Public Initiative for Prevention of Suicide and Self Harm). As has happened to a few others in News of the Weird’s reporting, he was injured by brick-bounceback, off the shatterproof glass.

No Longer Weird

Once again, this time around midnight in Redford Township, Michigan, in June, police surrounded a suspect’s home and shut down the neighborhood for the next 11 hours, fired tear gas canisters through windows, and used a robot to scope out the inside—and ultimately found that the house had been empty the whole time. (The domestic violence suspect is still at large.) Thanks This Time to Stan Kaplan and Gerald Sacks, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

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n An ordinary green tree frog recently injured in a “lawn-mowing accident” in Australia’s Outback was flown about 600 miles from Mount Isa to the Cairns Frog Hospital. CFH president Deborah Pergolotti spoke despairingly to Australian Broadcasting Corp. News in June about how society underregards the poor frogs when it comes to rescue and rehab—suggesting that

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THEM ON US By JAKE NICHOLS

Valley of the Doll(ar)s The perception that Jackson Hole has become a valley of the “have nots” is more than ideology. The data is in. Economic Policy Institute crunched numbers and spit out what most feel to be the hard reality in Jackson: Our Shangri-La is the most economically unequal place in the nation. The disparity between mega-rich, middle class, and lower class is growing ever wider across the country, but in Jackson it’s magnified. In the U.S., the top 1 percent of earners take home 25 times what the rest of the 99 percent do. But in Teton County, the elite bank an astounding 233 times what the bottom feeders make. That beats everybody. Even posh WASP-y neighborhoods like the Bridgeport-StamfordNorwalk, Connecticut metro area were left in Jackson’s gold dust. That community, considered one of the wealthiest in America, managed a mere 74:1 ratio. The Washington Post ran with the news, headlining the story: “Why some of America’s richest people are living in the middle of nowhere.” The Post called Jackson’s situation a case of “flown-in” inequality where billionaires who have already made their fortunes are choosing to take up residence in a tax-friendly state. What’s scariest about the numbers is the top dogs are not exactly being compared to mongrels in Teton County. According to the Post’s analysis of EPI’s numbers: “The average income of a member of the 1 percent [in Teton County] tops $28 million, more than quadruple the next highest average in the country. Here, the income inequality is driven by the immense wealth of its richest residents. In Teton County, more than 9 percent of its households make more than $200,000. That’s the highest in Wyoming by far—more than triple the state average and more than double the rate of the next highest county. “But the rest of Teton County is not much worse off. Even ignoring the households making more than $200,000, Teton County is still among the richest counties in Wyoming. It has the second-lowest rate of households making less than $10,000 among the state’s 23 counties and its other low- and middle-income measures are similar. In other words, Teton County’s top 1 percent are so wealthy that they can take an already-rich community and still make it the most unequal place in America,” wrote Kim Soffen of the Washington Post.

State: budget pain State budget cuts were announced last week and they were painful. On June 21, Gov. Matt Mead said he would trim $248 million from state agency budgets over the next two years due to falling energy revenue. The Casper Star Tribune reported the state’s financial woes might get worse as revenue shortfalls could ultimately exceed $500 million. About 5,500 jobs in the oil, gas and coal industries have already been lost. The state’s School Capital Construction Account has been one of the hardest hit areas. Funds there are expected to drop from nearly $740 million in 2013-14 to just $26 million in 2019-2020.

County: budget gain Despite the state’s struggles to balance its worksheet, Teton County commissioners approved a $40M fiscal year 2017 general funds budget—a 2.8 percent increase over the previous year. The operational budget (+$870,374), capital projects expenditures (+$708,658), and operational reserve fund (+$93,427) also saw increases. At the town level, increased sales tax collection bolstered Jackson’s bottom line. The FY2017 budget was approved last week for $51.2 million. That’s down slightly from FY2016. PJH

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Wyoming’s new old range wars over drilling south of Jackson persis t. hols B y J a k e N ic

permits. They were nothing, right? Totaling just three percent of the 1.2 million acres, maybe the oil companies would forget about them. They didn’t.

The land before time

The battle begins In 1994, Plains Exploration and Production (PXP) bought leases to drill on 60,000 acres of Bridger-Teton Forest in the Wyoming Range. They and other energy extraction companies were

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The dispute over which was more valuable— the land or the juice trapped in the rock beneath it—began long ago. What made the Wyoming namesake range so special happened much, much earlier. Geologists call it the Green River Formation. It’s a product of the Eocene epoch dated to about 40 to 55 million years ago. At the beginning of this six million year period, earth was a sauna—Wyoming, a lush jungle. Dinosaurs had been dead and gone for some 10 million years and now other stuff was growing like crazy. And you think we have greenhouse gasses? Scientists estimate oxygen levels were double what they are today. Plant and animal life flourished to the degree that carbon dioxide and methane gases were correspondingly off the chart. All this

kept the planet warm until it didn’t. By the end of the epoch, massive glaciers covered Wyoming, and trapped all that prehistoric photosynthesis under varves and varves of sediment. Add a few uplifts and a fold-and-thrust belt, and the surface of the Wyoming Range sprouted mountains, rivers, and valleys. But the rugged land’s beauty ran more than skin deep. When the energy age came, roughnecks and riggers powered a nation on the mineral trapped underground. Recent improved technology suddenly made a forgotten lake algae known as cyanobacteria the hottest commodity going. Oil shale deposits could literally be wrung from rock, brought to the surface, and burned in our cars and homes. And far below the hooves of her wild animals, Wyoming was sitting on a fortune of it.

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he battle for the Wyoming Range wore on and on. So long, it’s been a difficult story to follow with rapt interest. Most know the outline: Big Oil threatened to drill in some of the most pristine acreage the state has to offer. Opposition mounted. Citizens rallied. And then, the most unlikeliest of endings. Bambi beats Godzilla. A loose-knit band of sportsmen, hunters, ranchers, and tree-huggers put away their differences long enough to stare down a common enemy. Only that wasn’t the end. After the credits rolled came a teaser for the sequel. Energy extraction companies are again polishing their drill bits, hoping to squeeze out some of the estimated three trillion barrels of shale oil from beneath the surface—the largest such deposit on the planet. Years ago, it took an act of Congress and nearly nine million in payoff money to ransom the range back from oil interests. But one thing bothered conservation movement leaders like Dan Smitherman and Lisa McGee. Even as they popped the champagne in 2012, they had an uneasy feeling. A map of the protected mountain range revealed tiny pockets of grandfathered drilling

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“The Legacy Act in so many ways was a homerun but it didnt solve everything. That’s why we’re still here,” says Lisa McGee (right). Dan Smitherman at left.

If you have oil and gas wells, that takes away from that experience. There was a bunch of reasons why we didn’t think leasing was a good idea.”

The ups of drilling down certain the same play that made the Jonah Field and Pinedale Anticline some of the biggest producing oil and gas fields in the world extended as far north as the Hoback Rim, less than 50 miles from downtown Jackson. For a decade they wondered how they would get at it. But this area wasn’t scrub brush and desert. It was part of the last intact temperate ecosystem on Earth. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem depends on all portions of habitat working in unison. From rocky alpine forests to the arid sagebrush steppes, the Wyoming Range is a crucial migration corridor linking ancient seasonal Arcadias. That’s what got folks worked up. By the mid-2000s more detailed science and better extraction techniques, including hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling, had made mining operations in the Wyoming Range viable. PXP approached officials at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Bridger-Teton National Forest (BTNF) with a tentative plan—a little look-see involving three exploratory holes in Noble Basin near Hoback Ranches. The backlash was uproarious. “It got people fired up,” Dan Smitherman admitted. Smitherman became a reluctant leader against drilling the range. The former outfitter, who now heads the Wyoming office of The Wilderness Society, began contacting everyone he knew about PXP’s plan to drill. Then he reached out to people he didn’t know. Armed with little more than a love for the land he made a living on, Smitherman managed to mount an impressive and ultimately successful campaign to save the range. He says he did it by uniting diverse groups whose interests had previously pitted them against one another. “The key to grass roots organizing is you have to be focused on one goal. You have to leave positions and politics at the door. You can fight over that all day long,” Smitherman said. “You’ll never collaborate if you come in with a position. You should come in with an interest or a value, but not a position. In this case you’ve got the Wyoming Range—and if you are a rancher it’s grass and water; if you are a sportsman its recreation. Maybe you are a union guy working in the oil patch and it’s camping for you and your family. Maybe you are a bird watcher or a hunter. You bring those interests together and you say, ‘OK, now the best way we can protect all those interests is what?’ And it’s to not drill the Wyoming Range.” Smitherman made sure to include everyone, not just easy greenies in Jackson Hole. “Rather than

While Smitherman rallied the rank and file of the range—generations of families who passed on to their offspring the unspoiled wonder of one of the largest concentrate our environmental efforts in Jackson, roadless areas in the Lower 48, as well as new converts which is actually pretty easy because Jackson is awed by the pristine wildness—McGee filed motions a conservation-minded community, we’ve done and petitions. She accused the B-T of not doing their a lot of our public meetings in Rock Springs and homework. She called environmental impact studies throughout Sublette County. It hasn’t been traditional flimsy and outdated. “They were less than 20 pages, environmentalists and tree-huggers,” he said. done between 1991 and 1993,” she said. Smitherman made it clear from the beginning No one questioned the validity of the leases. They he and his new coalition—Citizens for the Wyoming were legit—grandfathered in the Legacy Act. Instead, Range—were not against drilling. “We all drive cars, McGee assured both the land agencies and PXP that we all need electricity,” he admitted. But what he was if drilling took place it would be under a hawk eye. able to do was convince groups like Muley Fanatics, “We really tried to hold their feet to the fire,” she said. Trout Unlimited, and Wyoming Wildlife Federation “Are you going to do this? Are you going to do that they had a common cause and a common foe. He that?” McGee asked PXP officials through the B-T. made sure to include trona miners and roughnecks “Will you conduct baseline water characterization? themselves who stepped up at public meetings, Are you going to have a liquids gathering system? despite the threat of losing their jobs, who said they Are you going to use tier 4 drilling rigs? Are you going couldn’t bear to see that country get tapped for juice. to adhere to all the contractual stipulations in your The message reached the ears of prominent lease?” NPO directors, regionally and nationally. It swept If forest supervisors were not going to ride herd on up politicians including then Wyoming state PXP, McGee let it be known she would. representative Keith Gingery, the late senator Craig Smitherman cautioned, “We did not want to be Thomas, and former Wyoming governor Dave adversarial with the company, publicly or privately. Freudenthal on its way to the White House where the We would never use the term ‘fear factor.’ We just said, Obama Administration signed into law the Wyoming ‘You are going to do it by the book.’ We were prepared Range Act (2009), which forever protected the area to hold them to a ‘gold standard’ of drilling.” from future drilling leases. However, PXP and others McGee succeeded in getting a still held valid grandfathered stay. The leases in Noble Basin, at extraction permits in the area. What really the backdoor of Hoback Ranches, When congeniality alone and scares me to were put into limbo while forest dogged persistence wasn’t enough, officials conducted a better Smitherman turned to legal experts death is the study. The wait, the pushback, like McGee. The plucky lawyer land grab going all presumably took its toll on started at the Wyoming Outdoor PXP. Their 15-year-old rights to Council in 2005 and was immediately on now at the drill the Hoback Rim were going thrust into the complicated legal federal level nowhere. By 2010, some thought war between PXP and the citizens of the Houston-based oil company Wyoming, with land management with Cynthia might be amenable to a deal that agencies BLM and BTNF in the Lummis in favor of would send them packing. middle. “We made their life difficult selling off our “It is a lot to navigate, and it’s the last however many years,” complicated and confusing,” McGee federal lands to McGee said. “We felt as if their said. “You’ve got a ‘drill baby drill’ the state . proposal was not at all the gold message coming down from the Bush standard. We were really pushing administration. Then you’ve got two them to do it right and hoping that doing it right on different federal agencies with the Forest Service and the Bridger-Teton might be too expensive. So a buyout BLM. [BLM manages subsurface activities with USFS would start to look really good for them.” offering its input when mining is proposed on the But before PXP would buckle, they upped the ante. land they manage]. But we raised big game concerns, Three exploratory wells turned into 136 wells from fisheries concerns, and recreational and economic 17 pads and 15 miles of new road. Their expanded arguments as well. Folks come from all over the master plan bloated to a 532-page document with country, the world, and they want a wild experience.

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879 pages of appendices, and increased the flak aimed at them, bringing more heavyweights into the fray. Gov. Dave Freudenthal urged the feds to scrutinize how emissions from hydraulic fracturing, flaring and drilling would affect the area. Wyoming Game and Fish director John Emmerich asked the B-T for seasonal restrictions to protect crucial birthing grounds and migration corridors for elk, mule deer, moose and pronghorn. He also noted the importance of the basin for bears, wolverines, trout, sage grouse, owls, and other species. Gene Bryan is chair of the Wyoming Tourism Board. “Wyoming and the nation need to continue to develop our energy resources, but at the same time it is equally important to protect and preserve the attributes that bring [millions of] money-spending visitors to Wyoming, annually,” Bryan said. “There are some places which should be spared from development.” Even the Wyoming executive secretary of the AFL-CIO, a man who represented most of the roughnecks in the Jonah and Anticline, said he was hearing from his own union members, who enjoyed the Wyoming Range on their time off, that they were opposed to putting holes in the Hoback. “We are not anti-development by any stretch of the imagination. We represent coal miners, trona miners…” Kim Floyd told PXP execs at a public meeting in the late 2000s. “But there is a place and a time for development in the state. If you put 136 wells on 17 pads, with all that— trucks and pipelines—you are going to ruin the winter ground. There has to be a place in this state that we protect.” Then, in 2010, a deal was struck. Gary Amerine, representing Wyoming and Outfitters Guides Association, along with Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, claimed they had a handshake treaty with PXP. The oil and gas company would voluntarily retire 28,000 acres of their less-desirable acres, and fork over $4 million for wildlife mitigation and another $2M to fund air and water quality monitoring. At first glance, the deal looked to be a good one…and perfectly timed. A day before, the B-T announced they had restudied and reconsidered everything, and were recommending drilling go forward with few stipulations. Smitherman, McGee and others acknowledged Amerine’s good intentions but thought they could do better. The deal fizzled. “They firmly believed they were making the best deal possible at the time. There were just some of us that were holding out,” McGee said. “I think PXP was trying to splinter the groups, to create a split with a deal that didn’t hurt them much, by retiring half the leases in NSO (No Surface Occupancy) and throwing a bunch of money at us.” The war waged on. McGee threw the book at the B-T and roadblocks at PXP. An extensive mule deer and pronghorn migration study was done. Important fisheries to the Green and eventually the Colorado River were identified as being the last, best place to make a stand to save the Colorado spotted cutthroat. Air quality issues were also a big concern in the Pinedale area during winter

Trying to avoid what attorney and former state rep Keith Gingery called a ‘Jonah in the Woods,’ conservation groups continue to challenge drilling leases in three sections of the Wyoming Range— North (Merna, Horse Creek, Dry Beaver Creek), Middle (South Cottonwood), and South (Riley Ridge, Snyder Basin).

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inversion days. Finally, McGee’s colleague dug up an obscure condition called the Krug memorandum that had been overlooked by everyone. “It dated to the 1940s when it was put in place in Jackson Hole as an oil and gas stipulation that required a 1,500-foot setback from existing roads and had some pretty intense protections for wildlife,” McGee said. “It no longer makes sense today but it did apply to these leases and was never addressed in the Forest Service evaluation or PXP’s proposal. The Forest Service kind of forgot about it. It was a significant omission, and that’s a contractual problem.” Yet another stay bought more time for conservation groups. Kniffy Hamilton, who was the B-T supervisor when the process began, changed her opinion as the drawn out dispute continued. Once pro-drilling in the Wyoming Range, Hamilton handed the reins to Jacque Buchanan in 2010 with a parting word of advice. “As forest supervisor for more than a decade, I heard over and over the resounding public sentiment that new oil and gas development on the Bridger-Teton is not acceptable,” Hamilton said. “I do not believe the impacts from gas development, especially the fullfield development PXP is proposing, can ever be mitigated well enough to maintain the extraordinary wildlife, scenic and recreational values that we currently have on the BridgerTeton. Drilling in the Hoback is simply not compatible with the wild, backcountry niche of the Bridger-Teton. As far as I’m concerned, the only way to avoid destroying this niche is to avoid development altogether in this very, very special place.” Buchanan, in turn, called a relaunched NEPA/SEIS study the most important decision of her 22-year career. As yet another decision approached, Citizens played its final card: They turned to Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national land protection agency specializing in delicate agreements with Big Oil. The time was right— oil and gas prices had begun to plummet and citizen groups in Wyoming had become a major pain in the ass. “We made the decision to go after the company. We already had a commitment from a foundation. We figured that we can’t go negotiate with this oil company if we don’t have some money. So we had seed money,” Smitherman remembered. Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss, a philanthropist living in Wilson, pledged $4.25 million. Joe Ricketts kicked in another one million. TPL took it from there. “We were asked to look at the potential retirement of PXP’s oil/gas leases in the Wyoming Range. We had worked with them on another project in California and had a good

working relationship with them,” said senior project manager Chris Deming. “At the point in time when we began talking with PXP, the EIS process and fight with the local communities had been going on for nearly 10 years. It became clear that the timing may be right for us to find a solution to the gridlock.” Negotiations were top secret. “PXP did not know that we knew,” McGee said. “And TPL wouldn’t acknowledge they were representing us,” Smitherman added. For eight months, no one heard a thing. Then Deming called McGee over to his house one night and said a deal was done. For $8.75 million, PXP was willing to walk away from their leases in Noble Basin. The deal was announced on October 5, 2012. It was contingent upon conservation groups raising the rest of the money by the end of the year. It was time for LISTSERV contacts and frequent commenters to put up or shut up. Three-and-a-half million was needed in less than three months. “Over a thousand individuals donated in that time,” McGee said. “I remember we got down to the point where the math said we had $150 an acre left to go, so we had this ‘save an acre’ campaign. My husband, my son and I, we saved three acres in the Wyoming range, which is a lot of money for us. Others gave an acre as a Christmas gift. Whatever people could afford. “That made it really special. Because for years what we asked citizens to do was write a letter or send a comment to the agencies. And you never know whether that really has an effect, or to what degree. This was something tangible that you could show and be proud of. It was an exciting time.” When the effort came up $750,000 short by late December, Ricketts put the last present under the tree, covering the difference with another donation. The victory was announced at the beginning of 2013. Governor Matt Mead called it a Wyoming solution to a Wyoming problem. “What this is, is a local idea, a local passion, that created a Wyoming cure,” he said. Carl Bennett said it best in the days following the announcement that the Upper Hoback had been saved. The Rock Springs trona miner owes his livelihood to what riches terra firma grudgingly surrenders, but confesses his life is enriched beyond money by what the land openly shares. “I couldn’t imagine tearin’ this place up. I would have to find a different place to go and bring my kids. We wouldn’t want to come here. Nobody wants to see drilling rigs and pump stations. They come here to see the beauty and the wild,” Bennett said. “Wyoming can be proud. Places like this are disappearing right

and left. I think it shows the rest of America that the citizens have a say. A lot of people just sit back and let things happen. Your voice can be heard. If more people find that out then maybe they will step up and, together, we can change things and make a difference.”

New, old fight

But this isn’t the end of our story. Additional leases on 30 parcels totaling 39,490 acres are the last permits held in the Wyoming Range that are not currently producing. They were purchased in 2005-2006 when McGee and others convinced the Forest Service to look closer at them. Since then, the leases have been through the wringer. Since withdrawing their decision of no leasing in 2011, USFS has been drafting a new SEIS (Supplemental Environment Impact Study) that was finally released last April. Again, the preferred alternative was no drilling in the Wyoming Range. It was supported by the fourth B-T supervisor to hold court over the process. “I support the preferred alternative of no leasing,” current B-T super Tricia O’Connor said. “This is one of those situations where we weigh social and environmental impacts pretty heavily, and we should. I flew over the area and I see why Kniffy [Hamilton] said what she did. I want to get out there this summer and see the ground; to walk the land I am dealing with.” The draft will go through a 45-day objection period during which time energy companies like Stanley Energy, who holds several of the leases, can present their protests. When resolved, a final draft is expected in October 2016 and a decision announced January 2017, according to USFS officials. Keeping people engaged when most thought the nightmare was over has been difficult. Drilling threats are also difficult to focus on while the state experiences the worst of an economic downturn. Layoffs in oil fields statewide have most politicos more concerned with stimulating revenue than saving forests. “The challenge is still trying to keep people informed; to keep it in their minds,” said Mike Burd, who now heads Citizens for the Wyoming Range. “What really scares me to death is the land grab going on now at the federal level with Cynthia Lummis in favor of selling off our federal lands to the state. The state does not have a good track record of caring for its lands. With the amount of money in the world today you would have billionaires fighting over purchasing land and the mineral rights underneath it. And you don’t have to be an American to buy the BridgerTeton, for example.” PJH Representatives from PXP and Stanley Energy declined to comment for this story.

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rittany Nelson once likened herself to a tiny Bart Simpson with a chemistry set. The Montana native arrives July 1 for her two-week residency at Teton Artlab. A nontraditional photographer, her works investigate photographic materials themselves. She uses 19th century chemical processes like mordançage and tintype to create luscious, eerie images that seem to spill from the surface. “My research deals with a lot of concepts from science fiction, so I’m very interested in researching and visiting places that involve geologic phenomena,” Nelson told The Planet. Yellowstone is a hotpot of inspiration for Nelson and a key reason she is excited about the Artlab residency. “I’m specifically coming to the Teton Artlab to revisit Yellowstone,” she said. Nelson teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. She says she is drawn to locations that feel uncanny or other worldly and do not match our day-to-day experience or expectations. “In the mordançage work, I contextualize these abstractions as a type of landscape,” she said. Mordançage is a negative-reversal process in which a piece of gelatin-silver paper is submerged in a bath of copper chloride, glacial acetic acid, and hydrogen peroxide. The chemicals dissolve the emulsion on the paper and loosen the silver so the surface becomes soft and pliable. From there, Nelson manipulates the material. “I approach this work as a scientist, it is a process of cataloguing variables and recording results,” she said. “It is important that I have a tight set of restrictions when devising the experiments. Everything is self-reflexive; all the chemistry and materials used are based in the history of photography.” Photography can be so much about a moment in time, but often that moment is tied to a subject, explained Travis Walker, Teton Artlab’s executive director. “Instead of a traditional subject, Brittany captures the instant a chemical reaction takes place, which opens up an exciting dialogue about the role of science and alchemy in the arts.” Nelson earned her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit, where she also lived for several years. Her accolades include the Fish/Pearce Award for Excellence in

Brittany Nelson comes armed with mordançage during he two-week residency at Teton Artlab. Drake darkroom dance parties may or may not be included. Process Based Work from the Print Center in Philadelphia, PA, a Theo Westenberger Foundation Grant, and in 2015 a Creative Capital Grant. “Brittany’s work stood out to us because it was so mysterious and primordial, like watching a galaxy form or a star implode,” Walker said. Nelson says residencies are always “game changers” in her work. “Just by traveling to a different location and using a different space, the variables change dramatically with what I have access to, or how I can work on someone else’s equipment. And because there is a ticking clock with how much time you have to make something, this causes you to problem solve and make decisions in new ways that yield unexpected results,” she said. One constant that travels with her is music. Of late, Nelson has been a Drake fiend, and during her time in Jackson she is bringing her love of Mr. Yolo himself. “I highly recommend the fine people of Jackson avoid the darkroom at this time unless they want to join my all day Drake dance party,” Nelson said. She will be using the darkroom facilities at the Art Association. She says the idea of clean darkroom printing is a radical idea to her at this point in her career. “I want to do some large archival, master prints,” she said. “Which is frankly impossible in my own lab because one: it is set up for very large tintype work, and two: it is so contaminated. The only thing I can’t do in my own space is a clean print at this moment.”

More creative visitors at the Artlab Claudio Orso visits the Artlab July 16 to 30. A multi-genre artist, Orso is currently the coordinator for Apollo Outreach Initiative

of the Cinema Studies Program at Oberlin College. The Apollo Outreach Initiative is a year-round media literacy outreach program directed at public schools in the Oberlin area. Orso’s areas of interest include large-scale puppets, paper masks, and woodblock prints. “I found in the carving of woodblocks the greatest treasure of challenge and satisfaction because of the oftentimes antagonistic nature of the wood’s grain and density,” Orso explained in his artist’s statement. “The hand printing of the woodblock is also an occasion of wonder and discovery, like when an ink sounds right on the brayer, its color biting into the paper, the circular burnishing motions of the wooden spoon, the joy of peeling off the print.” Chad Stayrook takes up residence at the Artlab August 2 through 31. An interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY, Stayrook’s approach is one part Ernest Shackleton and one part performance artist. His website included several videos of installations, experiments, and performances. One video entitled “Cloudmaker” takes the viewer on a journey through “the daily work routine of the man who makes the clouds in our skies.” Stayrook explains: “I play the role of artist, research scientist, and adventurer to document the process of discovery.” Like Nelson, Stayrook is interested in history. In his case, he says he wants to revive the method of historical explorers. “[Their] exploits trended towards romantic, even magical, experiences,” he noted. “I bring them into a contemporary world that is dominated by empirical procedures, where the romance of scientific pursuit has been discouraged.” PJH

FRIDAY, JULY 1

n Teton Valley Balloon Rally 6:00am, Teton Valley, ID, 208709-0777 n Fitness & Dance Classes All Day! 7:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free, 307-739-3594 n Strollercize 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $10.00, 307-739-9025 n Portrait Drawing Club 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-7336379 n Camp Cornerstone Vacation Bible School 9:00am, Pink Garter Basement, $10.00 - $35.00, 307-690-0444 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Murie Center Ranch Tour 2:30pm, Murie Center, Free, 307-739-2246 n Electronics/Tech 3:30pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Free Friday Tasting 4:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer, Free, 307-733-0450 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386

n Alive@5: Wild Things of Wyoming 5:00pm, Teton Village Commons, Free, 307-733-5898 n ART WALK in Driggs 5:00pm, Downtown, Free n Friday Night Bikes 5:00pm, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, $10.00, 307-7332292 n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Friday Night Meditation 6:00pm, Zendler Chiropractic, Free, 307-699-8300 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n JH Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free, 307-733-3316 n Byron’s Guitar at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge, Free, 307-733-4647 n Papa Chan and Johnny C Note 6:00pm, Teton Pines Country Club, Free, 307-413-1348 n The Ballad of Cat Ballou 6:30pm, JH Playhouse, $35.00 $65.00, 307-733-6994 n 5th Annual Driggs GLOW 6:30pm, City Center, Free, n Pam Drews Phillips Plays Jazz 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free, 307-7338833 n Screen Door Porch 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Bar, Free, 307-732-3939 n JH Rodeo 8:00pm, Fairgrounds, $15.00 $35.00, 307-733-7927 n Free Public Stargazing 9:30pm, Rendezvous Park, Free, 307-413-4779 n Friday Night DJ with DJN8 10:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Bubba Sparxx 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, $15.00 - $20.00, 307-733-3886 n Sandie Brooks 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

SATURDAY, JULY 2

n Teton Valley Balloon Rally 6:00am, Teton Valley, ID, 208709-0777 n Fitness & Dance Classes All Day! 7:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398

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n Gong Meditation: Nutrition for Your Nervous System 7:00pm, Medicine Wheel Wellness, $20.00, 307-699-7480 n Backcountry Zero and Headwall Sports present “State of the Summer” 7:00pm, Headwall Sports, Free, 307-734-8022 n Major Zephyr 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Summer Workshop Series 7:30pm, Riot Act, $5.00, 307203-9067 n Ian McIver 8:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n BOGDOG 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886 n Punch Drunk Munky Funk 10:00pm, Knotty Pine, $5.00, 208-787-2866 n Sandie Brooks 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

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n Walking Tour of Jackson 10:30am, Center of Town Square, Free, 307-733-2414 n Storytime 10:30am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Beginning Throwing 11:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $165.00, 307733-6379 n Summer Activity: Book Bag Decorating 2:00pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Murie Center Ranch Tour 2:30pm, Murie Center, Free, 307-739-2246 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Alive@5: Tunes on Thursday 5:00pm, Teton Village Commons, Free, 307-733-5898 n Bank of Jackson Hole Chamber Mixer 5:00pm, Bank of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-733-3316 n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Music at CW 5:30pm, Dornan’s, 307-7332415 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n JH Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free, 307-733-3316 n Kris Lager Band w/ opener Ethan Tucker 6:00pm, Music on Main, Free, 208-201-5356 n Byron’s Guitar at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge, Free, 307-733-4647 n Embracing Change 6:00pm, Spirit Books, Gifts, and Life, $25.00, 307-733-3382 n Information Sessions for Habitat’s Housing Program 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Auditorium, Free, 307-734-0828 n The Ballad of Cat Ballou 6:30pm, JH Playhouse, $35.00 $65.00, 307-733-6994 n JH Community Band Rehearsal 7:00pm, Center for the Arts Performing Arts Wing, Free, 307-200-9463

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MUSIC BOX

Crescent City Funk Party Erica Falls joins Galactic, Kris Lager at MOM, and a Fourth of July music buffet. BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

f the Jackson Hole Live opener last week was any indication, it’s going to be a ruckus outdoor series this year with a robust turnout. Nobody seemed to mind the $5 cover, which simultaneously helps pay for the great talent on deck this year while adding value to music consumption in this

The Big Easy’s Galactic returns to the valley for Jackson Hole Live on Wednesday. Soulful songstress Erica Falls is guest vocalist. age of freebies. New Orleans funk band royalty, Galactic, will take the stage this week with fellow Crescent City native Erica Falls as guest vocalist. Falls is a passionate, soulful singer who recorded and performed with Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, Sting, and many others in a style influenced by Roberta Flack and Aretha Franklin. She has been nominated twice by Offbeat Magazine as Best Female Vocalist. Galactic has been a creative force for more than 20 years of touring and recording, and Teton County music fans have witnessed much of the band’s evolution. They embody the spirit of New Orleans music and continuously work to evolve their set, which is predominantly instrumental with a rotating cast of guest vocalists each touring season. Be sure to arrive on time as Americana, indie-folk rockers Canyon Kids will have their six-piece outfit for this set in support of their new album, Best Loved Poems of the American People.

JH Live presents Galactic with Canyon Kids, 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 29 at Snow King Ball Field. $5, all ages. JacksonHoleLiveMusic.com.

Boogie with Lager at MOM

They set out to bring you electric church. That is, a legitimate rock ‘n’ roll revival with feel good dancing, singing and hollering. It’s an intensity that rings loud and funky through a pair of cool shades on Kris Lager Band’s 2014 album, Heavy Soul & Boogie Trance, which brings a raw Black Keys vibe with vintage keyboard textures and monster guitar riffs. The quartet also reportedly put on one hell of a New Year’s Eve throw down at The Trap Bar last year, and delivered the mentality that “together through music we can celebrate life and squash hate.” Bluegrass/Americana sextet One Ton Pig opens the show featuring the songs of Michael Batdorf, Justin Smith and Tim Farris along with some fiery pickin. Kris Lager Band with One Ton Pig, 6 p.m., Thursday,

WEDNESDAY

JH Live: Galactic with Canyon Kids (Snow King Ball Field); A Special Night of Funk, Galactic after party (The Rose); Songwriter’s Alley Open Mic (Silver Dollar)

THURSDAY

Kris Lager Band with One Ton Pig (Victor City Park), Major Zephyr (Silver Dollar), Punch Drunk Munky Funk (Knotty Pine)

FRIDAY

Bubba Sparxx (Town Square Tavern); DJ N8 (The Rose)

SATURDAY

More outdoor music happens Thursday at Music on Main when Kris Lager Band takes the stage. June 30 at Music on Main in Victor City Park. Free, all ages. TetonValleyFoundation.org.

Independent jams Synonymous with celebrating Independence Day in the Tetons, music will fill the air for the four-day holiday weekend. For daytime jams on the Fourth, the longest running tradition can be found at the Knotty Pine in Victor (10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday; free), where they’ll be slow cooking hundreds of pounds of pork for the 20th Annual “Pig-Nic,” featuring local hard rock band 86 at noon followed by Austin’s psych-country outfit The Lonesome Heroes, then roots-rock and country-blues from this columnist’s band, Screen Door Porch. The other daytime concert on the Fourth will be at Village Commons in Teton Village featuring Latin jazz group Calle Mambo along with the big swing band, Jazz Foundation of Jackson Hole (4 p.m.; free). Also catch hard-picking Colorado

Aaron Davis is a decade-long writer of Music Box, a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, member of Screen Door Porch and Boondocks, founder/host of Songwriter’s Alley, and co-founder of The WYOmericana Caravan.

Richard & Claire generously present Teton Valley Foundation’s

Teton Valley, Idaho

SUNDAY

Tom Bennett (Town Square Tavern), Head for the Hills (Village Commons), Stagecoach Band (Stagecoach)

MONDAY

“Pig-Nic” with 86, The Lonesome Heroes, Screen Door Porch (noon; Knotty Pine), Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons (Town Square Tavern); Calle Mambo and Jazz Foundation of Jackson Hole (Village Commons)

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bluegrass quartet Head for the Hills on Sunday at Village Commons (8 p.m.; free). For those looking to cut loose on the late night scene in Jackson, look no further than funk-groove-jazz quintet Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons. They will celebrate four years of Independence Day throw-downs at Town Square Tavern (10 p.m. Monday; $10). Music starts after the fireworks. The Tavern has music nightly at 10 p.m. this week, and there’s a little bit for everyone—experimental funk trio Punch Drunk Munky Funk (Wednesday), bluegrass rock quartet BOGDOG (Thursday), Southern rapper Bubba Sparxx (Friday), DJ N8 (Saturday), and one man ban Tom Bennett (Sunday). PJH

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BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Barbecue + Beaujolais Don’t overlook this light red wine for the backyard bash. BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1

ith Fourth of July festivities just a few days a way, a lot of us will soon be tending to the barbecue. I’ve noticed that whether grilling wieners, beer-can chickens, burgers, steaks or ahi tuna, people generally serve white or pink wine or beer with barbecued foods. While beer or light wine in the backyard is a good choice, there is a flexible red wine that too often gets shunned in backyards, on patios and on the porch. It’s Beaujolais: an easy-drinking and versatile wine that’s typically an ideal match for grilled meats, poultry, veggies, fish and even game. Beaujolais is most commonly associated with Nouveau Beaujolais, the easy-drinking, short-lasting wine that is released around Thanksgiving and has all but disappeared

from the shelves by spring. If you’re lucky enough to track down Nouveau Beaujolais by summer, its light, fruity style is a slam-dunk for sipping around the Weber. However, Nouveau Beaujolais is just one of the Gamay grape-based Beaujolais wines, lingering at the lowest tier in terms of both quality and price. In ascending order, there is also Beaujolais, Beaujolais-Villages and Cru Beaujolais. Any or all of these would be welcome additions to the backyard bar. One thing to remember when serving red wines outdoors in warm weather is that temperature control is essential. Hot red wine tastes unfocused and alcoholic. On the other hand, ice-cold red wine tastes dull. So, ideally, you want to serve summer reds like Beaujolais at around 56 to 60 degrees. Dunking them in a bucket of ice for 10 to 15 minutes should do the trick. Another reason for buying Beaujolais for barbecues is the price. Standing around the hot grill—where you might juggle a Corona in one hand and a Margarita in the other— is probably not the time or place to showcase the best wines from your cellar. Save those for indoor special occasions. Beaujolais wines are relatively cheap, with even Cru Beaujolais priced at around $20, so it won’t break your barbecue budget. All Beaujolais wines—from the Beaujolais region just south of Burgundy in France—are made using the unique Gamay grape. It’s a

IMBIBE juicy, fruity varietal, probably akin to purple grape juice in flavor. If Nouveau Beaujolais is the young, frivolous wine of the region, Beaujolais is its workhorse. It’s a versatile wine that pairs well with grilled meat and barbecue sauces. BeaujolaisVillages wines are cherrycolored and taste of black currants, raspber r ies and strawberries. T h e y ’r e good with a variety of foods; I’d suggest drinking these wines with barbecued turkey or chicken, or cold meats and pâté appetizers. BeaujolaisVillages gets its name from the 39 select villages in which it is made. Good examples are BeaujolaisVillages from the Beaujolais standard-bearer, Georges Duboeuf, and also the consistent and light-bodied Beaujolais-Villages from Louis Jadot. The Cru Beaujolais section of the wine store can be bewildering. That’s because

each bottle of Cru Beaujolais carries the name of its Cru appellation, of which there are 10. Of these varieties of Cru Beaujolais, Brouilly is the most plentiful, but the harderto-find Chénas is well worth tracking down. It’s got nice structure and a woody bouquet, and is bold enough to accompany game on the grill. So, the next time you’re buying beer, white Zinfandel and Chardonnay for your cookout, don’t forget to wander over to the Beaujolais section too. PJH

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Trio is located just off the town square in downtown Jackson, and is owned & operated by local chefs with a passion for good food. Our menu features contemporary American dishes inspired by classic bistro cuisine. Daily specials feature wild game, fish and meats. Enjoy a glass of wine at the bar in front of the wood-burning oven and watch the chefs perform in the open kitchen.

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Featuring dining destinations from buffets and rooms with a view to mom and pop joints, chic cuisine and some of our dining critic’s faves!

ASIAN & CHINESE KIM’S CORNER Korean and American style, from breakfast sandwiches, burgers, chicken tenders, Philly cheese steaks to rice bowls and noodles. Something for everyone! Open Monday through Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. At base of Snow King between the ski patrol room and the ice rink. 100 E. Snow King Ave. Take out and Delivery: (307) 200-6544.

TETON THAI

BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER 7:30-9PM

Serving the world’s most exciting cuisine. Teton Thai offers a splendid array of flavors: sweet, hot, sour, salt and bitter. All balanced and blended perfectly, satisfying the most discriminating palate. Open daily. 7432 Granite Loop Road in Teton Village, (307) 7330022 and in Driggs, (208) 787-8424, tetonthai. com.

THAI ME UP

307.733.3242 | TETON VILLAGE

Home of Melvin Brewing Co. Freshly remodeled offering modern Thai cuisine in a relaxed setting. New tap system with 20 craft beers. New $8 wine list and extensive bottled beer menu. Open daily for dinner at 5pm. Downtown at 75 East Pearl Street. View our tap list at thaijh.com/brews. 307-733-0005.

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A Jackson Hole favorite for 38 years. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home. Ask a local about our rack of lamb. Serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entrées. Live acoustic guitar music most nights. Early Bird Special: 20% off entire bill between 5:30-6:0pm, Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com.

CAFE GENEVIEVE Serving inspired home cooked classics in a historic log cabin. Enjoy brunch daily at 8 a.m., dinner nightly at 5 p.m., and happy hour daily 3-5:30 p.m. featuring $5 glasses of wine, $5 specialty drinks, $3 bottled beer. 135 E. Broadway, (307) 732-1910, genevievejh.com.

1110 W. Broadway • Jackson, WY Open daily 5:00am to midnight • Free Wi-Fi

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Serving authentic Swiss cuisine, the Alpenhof features European style breakfast entrées and alpine lunch fare. Dine in the Bistro for a casual meal or join us in the Alpenrose dining room for a relaxed dinner experience. Breakfast 7:30am-10am. Coffee & pastry 10am-11:30am. Lunch 11:30am-3pm. Aprés 3pm-5:30pm. Dinner 6pm-9pm. For reservations at the Bistro or Alpenrose, call 307-733-3242.

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ELEANOR’S

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Enjoy all the perks of fine dining, minus the dress code at Eleanor’s, serving rich, saucy dishes in a warm and friendly setting. Eleanor’s is a primo brunch spot on Sunday afternoons. Its bar alone is an attraction, thanks to reasonably priced drinks and a loyal crowd. Come get a belly-full of our two-time gold medal wings. Open at 11 a.m. daily. 832 W. Broadway, (307) 733-7901.

FULL STEAM SUBS The deli that’ll rock your belly. Jackson’s newest sub shop serves steamed subs, reubens, gyros, delicious all beef hot dogs, soups and salads. We offer Chicago style hot dogs done just the way they do in the windy city. Open daily11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Located just a short block north of the Town Square at 180 N. Center Street, (307) 733-3448.

LOCAL Local, a modern American steakhouse and bar, is located on Jackson’s historic town square. Our menu features both classic and specialty cuts of locally-ranched meats and wild game alongside fresh seafood, shellfish, house-ground burgers, and seasonally-inspired food. We offer an extensive wine list and an abundance of locally-sourced products. Offering a casual and vibrant bar atmosphere with 12 beers on tap as well as a relaxed dining room, Local is the perfect spot to grab a burger for lunch or to have drinks and dinner with friends. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am. Dinner Nightly 5:30pm. 55 North Cache, (307) 201-1717, localjh.com.

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Napolitana-style Pizza, panini, pasta, salad, beer wine. Order online at PizzeriaCaldera.com FAMILY FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT PIZZAS, PASTAS & MORE HOUSEMADE BREAD & DESSERTS FRESH, LOCALLY SOURCED OFFERINGS TAKE OUT AVAILABLE

11am - 9:30pm daily 20 W. Broadway 307.201.1472

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Dining room and bar open nightly at 5:00pm (307) 733-2460 • 2560 Moose Wilson Road • Wilson, WY

A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965

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Take Out and Delivery 307.200.6544 Mon thru Sat 10:30am - 4:00pm 100 E. Snowking Ave. (between Ski Patrol & Ice Rink)

Serving organic, freshly-made world cuisine while catering to all eating styles. Endless organic and natural meat, vegetarian, vegan and glutenfree choices. Offering super smoothies, fresh extracted juices, espresso and tea. Full bar and house-infused botanical spirits. Open daily 8am for breakfast lunch and dinner. 145 N. Glenwood St., (307) 734-0882, tetonlotuscafe.com.

MANGY MOOSE Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally fresh food at reasonable prices, is a always a fun place to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel right at home and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit. Teton Village, (307) 733-4913, mangymoose.com.

SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner. Take in the atmosphere while enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts. $9 lunch menu. Happy hour 4 to 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. 265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337, snakeriverbrewing.com.

SWEETWATER

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Satisfying locals for lunch and dinner for over 36 years with deliciously affordable comfort food. Extensive local and regional beer list. Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. features blackened trout salad, elk melt, wild west chili and vegetarian specialties. Dinner 5:30 to 9 p.m. including

potato-crusted trout, 16 ounce ribeye, vegan and wild game. Reservations welcome. (307) 7333553. sweetwaterjackson.com.

TRIO Owned and operated by Chefs with a passion for good food, Trio is located right off the Town square in downtown Jackson. Featuring a variety of cuisines in a relaxed atmosphere, Trio is famous for its wood-oven pizzas, specialty cocktails and waffle fries with bleu cheese fondue. Dinner nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations. (307) 734-8038 or bistrotrio.com.

ITALIAN CALICO A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965, the Calico continues to be one of the most popular restaurants in the Valley. The Calico offers the right combination of really good food, (much of which is grown in our own gardens in the summer), friendly staff; a reasonably priced menu and a large selection of wine. Our bar scene is eclectic with a welcoming vibe. Open nightly at 5 p.m. 2560 Moose Wilson Rd., (307) 733-2460.

MEXICAN EL ABUELITO Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere. Home of the original Jumbo Margarita. Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers. Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nightly dinner specials. Open seven days, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. 385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.

PIZZA DOMINO’S PIZZA Hot and delicious delivered to your door. Handtossed, deep dish, crunchy thin, Brooklyn style and artisan pizzas; bread bowl pastas, and oven baked sandwiches; chicken wings, cheesy breads and desserts. Delivery. 520 S. Hwy. 89 in Kmart Plaza, (307) 733-0330.

PINKY G’S The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012, 2013 and 2014. Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, stromboli’s, calzones and many appetizers to choose from. Try the $7 ‘Triple S’ lunch special.Happy hours 10 p.m. - 12 a.m. Sun.- Thu. Text PINK to 71441 for discounts. Delivery and take-out. Open daily 11a.m. to 2 a.m. 50 W. Broadway, (307) 734-PINK.

PIZZERIA CALDERA Jackson Hole’s only dedicated stone-hearth oven pizzeria, serving Napolitana-style pies using the freshest ingredients in traditional and creative combinations. Five local micro-brews on tap, a great selection of red and white wines by the glass and bottle, and one of the best views of the Town Square from our upstairs deck. Daily lunch special includes slice, salad or soup, any two for $8. Happy hour: half off drinks by the glass from 4 - 6 daily. Dine in or carry out. Or order online at PizzeriaCaldera.com, or download our app for iOS or Android. Open from 11am - 9:30pm daily at 20 West Broadway. 307-201-1472.

SUDOKU

Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9. No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

L.A.TIMES “FIRST CUTS” By Mark Mcclain

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83 Coca-Cola brand 86 Gale’s 40, on the Beaufort scale 87 Sam of “Jurassic Park” films 88 Breyers shelfmate 90 Not effective 93 MLB line score letters 94 Forum attire 95 Air pressure meas. 96 Mouse feature 98 Rudely sarcastic 100 Some entryways 103 Operate with a beam 104 Rapper __ Wayne 105 Falco of “The Sopranos” 106 Certain language unit 108 Montand of cinema 112 Make a decision 115 More than an idea 118 Ladder units 119 Houston player, to fans 120 Penzance pad 121 Site of Theban ruins 122 Paraplegic “Glee” teen 123 119-Across, since 2013 124 Dog seller 125 Artist with the album “25” 126 Voting groups 127 “The Swiss Family Robinson” author 128 Barfly 129 “... your laments, / Wherewith you now __ King Henry’s hearse”: Shak.

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84 Army E-7s 85 Despicable character 89 Forthwith 91 Response to a doorbell 92 West Texas grassy plain 95 Pulitzer-winning WWII journalist 96 An article may be written on it 97 1968 #1 hit with a fourminute coda 99 Chocolate bites 101 Loves a bunch 102 Many nonvoters 106 Nine-time Grand Slam singles champ 107 Author Calvino 109 Nettled 110 French school 111 Spread 112 Chesapeake delicacy 113 Attack with, as insults 114 Not bamboozled by 116 Outlying mail rte. 117 Prove untrustworthy, in a way 119 A kind of one appears in this puzzle’s seven longest answers

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10 Puccini heroine 20 Sideline greeting 30 Tie the knot on the fly 40 Vitamin A form 50 Steinbeck title place 60 Skeptic 70 Provides a false alibi for 80 Rush drummer Neil 90 Handles the intros 10 Swells

11 Trivialize 12 Dvorák’s “__ World Symphony” 13 Ease 14 Domino effect 15 Training guide? 16 “Rule Britannia” composer 17 Strokes 20 Big time 28 “Ya __ believe!”: 1973 Mets catchphrase 29 Like so 30 Avoid 36 “Zeus and the Tortoise” storyteller 37 Baltic port 39 Permanently mark 40 It will get you a hand 41 Let go, with “off” 42 Mine vehicles 43 Point toward 44 Wilderness Road pioneer 45 Away 46 Nashville-to-Louisville dir. 48 Look up to 52 Maidenhair, e.g. 53 Dream Team org. 54 Cedar Rapids college 56 Begging the question 58 52-Down cell 60 Numerical prefix 62 Drops back 63 Short races 68 Stand up to 69 Diner and sleeper 70 Rhyme writer’s Muse 72 Sleep soundly? 73 River in Hades 74 Ranger of the ’50s 76 Suffer 79 Distorts 80 Hill builders 81 Its atomic number is 10 82 Prefix with byte

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10 “Voilà!” 60 Midday refresher 90 “Monday Night Football” airer 13 Note-to-self paper 18 Dealt with a squeak 19 Busy as __ 21 West Point mascot 22 ORD, on luggage tags 23 Clobbered, old-style 24 Wine bottle info 25 Sticking point? 26 Hard to spot 27 Something to deal with? 30 Fence crossings 31 “We agree completely!” 32 Brewer’s kiln 33 Pay attention to 34 Lady lobster 35 Like granola bars 37 Rene of “Nightcrawler” 38 Beyond belief 42 Olympic sport since 1988 47 Sickly 49 View from Catania 50 It beat out Madrid as host city for the 2016 Olympics 51 Unisex wrap 52 Back 54 Sonoran flora 55 Brand that evolved from Standard Oil of Indiana 57 Needles 59 Bummed 61 Salon indulgence 64 Old hand 65 Tracy Marrow’s stage name 66 Road or gang ending 67 Music in a shell 71 Carnival stop 75 Red options, briefly 77 Organ with a drum 78 Thought-out 80 Misery

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The Power of Beliefs We manifest what we believe, not what we want.

eliefs are a curious and powerful phenomenon of our consciousness. Once we form a belief and hold it as truth, we are informing the universe to match the energy of the belief and to bring only events matching the belief into our experience. The brain does its part by ignoring and/ or censoring out any data which conflicts with our beliefs. Therefore, once we hold a belief about anything, anyone, including ourselves, the only information we will allow in is data confirming our conclusion. Think about this: Whatever you believe will play a big role in determining what possibilities you are capable of experiencing in life. Here are three additional factors to keep in mind: 1. Beliefs may not be based on anything objectively true. 2. Most of our beliefs are not even conscious. They are buried in the subconscious mind where they operate automatically, and we are not even aware of them. 3. The emotions attached to beliefs also alter our biochemistry; some scientists say this can even change our DNA.

We believe what we tell ourselves Every time we use the words “I am” we are instructing the subconscious mind what to filter out and what to allow into our awareness. Whatever follows the words “I am,” especially when repeated often, informs the universe to bring into your experience the kind of people, events and circumstances that match the energy declaration of what you say about yourself.

Change your message

out loud and silently. You can redirect your interaction with the universe to who you really are underneath those things you feel and tell yourself. Simply put, at the soul level we are pure awareness, pure love, pure intelligence, pure spirit. Identifying yourself at that level tells the universe to match that truth rather than the lesser stuff. You will still have plenty of feelings and thoughts; see if you can let them pass through like weather, and make the effort to consistently remember and affirm who you truly are.

Underlying beliefs: gathering a few clues Beliefs which are running on automatic “behind the scenes” in your life are usually ones that interfere with what you may really want in life. They can often have their origins in messages you picked up from your parents and from others growing up, which worked for them, but are not for you. Enjoy reflecting on the following questions. They may reveal some things you might not have realized and can now change. 1.Reflect on/make a list of ideas about money, which you learned from your parents. See if their money attitudes/ beliefs dominate your life. If you are content with your financial status and relationship with money, great. If not, however, now that you have identified the beliefs you unknowingly carry, you can update them to be congruent with your truth. 2. What did you learn from your parents about success in life? Are your actual, current ideas different from theirs? Or are theirs still defining success and keeping you from your version, from your vision? If so, now that you are aware of what you are repeating that does not fit you, consciously update to your version of success.

Concluding wisdom The nature of life is that it’s always expressing itself through new points of view and discoveries that reveal new possibilities. Somehow the ultimate life skill is to hold beliefs as only a temporary foundation of truth. There is always more. Being stuck in outdated beliefs locks you in and leaves you locked out of infinite possible discoveries and pleasures. PJH

One deceptively simple way to upgrade your feedback loop with the universe and expand what’s possible in your life is to choose wisely what you repeatedly say about yourself both

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t’s the time of the year again when spring has sprung and summer has arrived and with it that seasonal nightmare known as “people who come to visit.” If you live any place that’s fun, you will most likely be slammed by a stampede of relatives, friends, friends of friends, old roommates and people you don’t even know. They will arrive, suitcases in hand, expecting to be wined, dined, entertained and housed at your expense of course. Don’t be surprised if a tour bus drives up and everyone gets off. I happen to live in a fun area, but I have very few relatives and none that want to have anything to do with me, so it’s not a problem. My friend, LaWanda, in my hometown of Corn Cob, Iowa, has a summer cottage (shack) on scenic Lake LaMud. Every summer her mother-in-law arrives and launches a barrage of complaints about the sand, the bugs, the food, her daughter-in-law, and the rising damp. The fact that she’s at a lake eludes her. LaWanda says one more crab and she’s out. I told her to put the old biddy on an ice floe and send her floating away, but there are no ice floes on Lake LaMud in the summer. When I was growing up in Corn Cob, not a known fun site, we had very few visitors, but my father had a couple of relatives who thought it would be great fun to show up unannounced and shout, “Surprise, we’re here!” My mother would shout, “Surprise, get out!” She was not a gracious hostess. My mother’s allergy to visitors was due to her childhood in the wilds of Nebraska. Her parents were missionaries who thought it was their Christian duty to take in every loser who came to their door. The rescued fallen would move in, eat everyone out of house and home and politely lift their feet while my grandmother scrubbed the floor on

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her hands and knees. There were times when my mother woke up to find strangers in bed with her, that is, when she wasn’t sleeping on a couple of chairs because one of the saved was sleeping in her bed. There is a poem that goes, “Let me live by the side of the road and be a friend to man.” My mother said, to hell with that. We did have a rather surprising and uninvited guest at our house this summer. My daughter comes from Arizona every summer and parks her car in front of the house. About five or six weeks after she came I heard her hollering that a cat was climbing into her engine. She said she saw a tail hanging out but I thought the neighborhood cats weren’t adventurous enough to climb inside the engine. The next day a neighbor called to say a strange creature was crawling out from under her car and it had a fuzzy tail. After we stopped screaming and screeching, we decided it was not a cougar or grizzly bear, but a pack rat, or Pachius Ratticus. They love to live in car motors and eat the wiring. We found a nest on top of the battery containing cactus blossoms, which meant that Ratticus had come all the way from Arizona, probably for the weather. After screaming some more, we put out a live trap baited with peanut butter but all we caught was Frank, the cross-eyed cat from across the street. We then assembled more lethal options, but someone suggested Irish Spring soap. We didn’t have to give him a bath but pack rats don’t like the smell. We shoved a couple of bars into the motor, and after a couple of screeches and “holy craps” the rat packed up and moved out. We don’t know where he went and I never did see him, which was OK because I would still be screaming and running, probably crossing the state line by now. LaWanda tossed her mother-in-law out after she complained about sand in the food for the last time. If you happen to see a crabby old lady and furry rat thumbing a ride on I-15, don’t stop. Just throw some Irish Spring soap at them and keep going. PJH

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) During winter, some bears spend months hibernating. Their body temperatures and heart rates drop. They breathe drowsily. Their movements are minimal. Many hummingbirds engage in a similar slow-down—but they do it every single night. By day they are among the most manic creatures on earth, flapping their wings and gathering sustenance with heroic zeal. When the sun slips below the horizon, they rest with equal intensity. In my estimation, Aries, you don’t need a full-on immersion in idleness like the bears. But you’d benefit from a shorter stint, akin to the hummingbird’s period of dormancy. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “Dear Dr. Brezsny: A psychic predicted that sometime this year I will fall in love with a convenience store clerk who’s secretly a down-on-his-luck prince of a small African country. She said that he and I have a unique destiny. Together we will break the world’s record for dancing without getting bitten in a pit of cobras while drunk on absinthe on our honeymoon. But there’s a problem. I didn’t have time to ask the psychic how I’ll meet my soulmate, and I can’t afford to pay $250 for another reading. Can you help?-Mopey Taurus.” Dear Mopey: The psychic lied. Neither she nor anyone else can see what the future will bring you. Why? Because what happens will be largely determined by your own actions. I suggest you celebrate this fact. It’s the perfect time to do so: July is Feed Your Willpower Month. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Of all the concert pianos in the world, 80 percent of them are made by Steinway. A former president of the company once remarked that in each piano, “243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame.” He said it was “proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.” That will be a potential talent of yours in the coming weeks, Gemini. Like a Steinway piano, you will have the power to turn tension into beauty. But will you actually accomplish this noble goal, or will your efforts be less melodious? It all depends on how much poised self-discipline you summon. CANCER (June 21-July 22) Once upon a time, weren’t you the master builder who never finished building your castle? Weren’t you the exile who wandered aimlessly while fantasizing about the perfect sanctuary of the past or the sweet safety zone of the future? Didn’t you perversely nurture the ache that arose from your sense of not feeling at home in the world? I hope that by now you have renounced all of those kinky inclinations. If you haven’t, now would be an excellent time to do so. How might you reinvest the mojo that will be liberated by the demise of those bad habits?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “In life, as in bicycling, pedal when you have to, coast when you can.” So says author James Lough, and now I’m passing on his advice to you—just in time for your transition from the heavy-pedaling season to the coasting-is-fun phase. I suspect that at this juncture in your life story you may be a bit addicted to the heavy pedaling. You could be so accustomed to the intensity that you’re inclined to be suspicious of an opportunity to enjoy ease and grace. Don’t be like that. Accept the gift with innocent gratitude. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “When a jet flies low overhead, every glass in the cupboard sings,” writes aphorist James Richardson. “Feelings are like that: choral, not single; mixed, never pure.” That’s always true, but it will be intensely true for you in the coming weeks. I hope you can find a way to tolerate, even thrive on, the flood of ambiguous complexity. I hope you won’t chicken out and try to pretend that your feelings are one-dimensional and easily understandable. In my opinion, you are ripe to receive rich lessons in the beauty and power of mysterious emotions.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Pop artist Andy Warhol said that in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. His idea had a resonance with the phrase “nine days’ wonder,” which as far back as Elizabethan times referred to a person or event that captured the public’s fascination for a while. You Capricorns are entering a phase when you’re far more likely than usual to bask in the spotlight. Between now and September 2017, I bet you’ll garner at least a short burst of glory, acclaim, or stardom—perhaps much more. Are you ready for your close-up? Have you prepped for the influx of attention that may be coming your way? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) One of my readers, Jay O’Dell, told me this story: “After my cancer surgery, a nurse said to me, ‘You may as well try magical thinking. Regular thinking hasn’t helped.’ I said to the nurse, ‘Well, why the hell not?’ That was seven years ago.” In bringing O’Dell’s testimony to your attention, I don’t mean to suggest you will have any health problems that warrant a strong dose of magical thinking. Not at all. But you may get wrapped up in a psychological twist or a spiritual riddle that would benefit from magical thinking. And what exactly is magical thinking? Here’s one definition: The stories that unfold in your imagination have important effects on what actually happens to you. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Let’s talk about X-factors and wild cards and strange attractors. By their very nature, they are unpredictable and ephemeral, even when they offer benevolent breakthroughs. So you may not even notice their arrival if you’re entranced by your expectations and stuck in your habitual ways. But here’s the good news, Pisces: Right now you are not unduly entranced by your expectations or stuck in your habits. Odds are high that you will spy the sweet twists of fate—the X-factors and wild cards and strange attractors—as they float into view. You will pounce on them and put them to work while they’re still fresh. And then they will help you hike your ratings or get the funding you need or animate the kind of love that heals.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You may not know this, but I am the founder and CEO of Proud To Be Humble, an acclaimed organization devoted to minimizing vanity. It is my sworn duty to protest any ego that exceeds the acceptable limits as defined by the Geneva Convention on Narcissism. However, I now find myself conflicted. Because of the lyrical beauty and bighearted charisma that are currently emanating from your ego, I am unable, in good conscience, to ask you to tone yourself down. In fact, I hereby grant you a license to expand your self-love to unprecedented proportions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) The next 28 days will not be a favorable period to sit around passively wishing to be noticed. Nor will it be a good time to wait to be rescued or to trust in others to instigate desirable actions. On the other hand, it will be an excellent phase to be an initiator: to decide what needs to be done, to state your intentions concisely, and to carry out your master plan with alacrity and efficiency. To help ensure your success during the next 28 days, make this declaration each morning before breakfast: “I don’t want to OBSERVE the show. I want to BE the show.”

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) In accordance with the astrological omens, I have selected three aphorisms by poet James Richardson to guide you. Aphorism #1: “The worst helplessness is forgetting there is help.” My commentary: You have the power to avoid that fate. Start by identifying the sources of healing and assistance that are available to you. Aphorism #2: “You do not have to be a fire to keep one burning.” My commentary: Generate all the heat and light you can, yes, but don’t torch yourself. Aphorism #3: “Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.” My commentary: But it may not take a whole lot longer.

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