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The changing faces of hunting in Jackson Hole.

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November 8th, 2016 General Election ABSENTEE BALLOT NOTICE

To insure that all registered voters have the opportunity to cast their ballot, Wyoming begins absentee voting 45 days prior to each election.

A qualified elector may cast their ballot at the absentee polling site, or request that a ballot be sent to them.

The absentee polling site is located in the basement of the Teton County Administration Building at 200 S. Willow St, and will be open Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm, from September 23rd through November 7th, 2016.

Please contact the County Clerk’s office to request that an absentee ballot be mailed to you, or to obtain more information regarding the November 8th, 2016 General Election.

Visit our website: tetonwyo.org/cc | Email us: elections@tetonwyo.org | Or call: 307.733.4430 All absentee ballots must be received by 7:00 p.m. on November 8th, 2016.

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VOLUME 14 | ISSUE 36 | SEPTEMBER 14-20, 2016

10 COVER STORY GENERATION WILD The changing faces of hunting in Jackson Hole.

Cover photo by Mark Gocke

4 FROM OUR READERS

18 MUSIC BOX

6 THE BUZZ

20 WELL, THAT...

8 THE BUZZ 2

22 CULTURE KLASH

16 CREATIVE PEAKS

24 FOODIE FILES

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September 14-20, 2016

By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey This is officially the last week of the summer, with arrival of the Autumnal Equinox next Thursday. Psychologically, it is still summer this week, so get outside and act like it. Along with seeing fall colors around Jackson Hole this time of year, we might also observe the “Sea of Gray.” That is, the older tourist demographic arrives, as the family crowd, with school age kids in tow, has pretty much departed for the summer.

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Cool is cool, but nine degrees is downright cold for September. That is the record low temperature in Jackson for this week, and it occurred on September 20, 1983. Nine degrees would be a reasonable temperature for a mid-January morning, not for a late summer day. By the way, that is not the coldest we have ever been in town in the month of September. Find out in next week’s almanac how low we can go in September.

Average high temperatures this week are around 70 degrees. That is the last we will see of average highs in the 70s. The rest of the month average highs will be in the upper 60s. There is nothing like a warm day in late September to make it still feel like summer.

However, 93 degrees is something we’d expect in July! That was the high on September 18, 1956. That also tied the record high for the month of September, which was established on September 9th, 1934.

NORMAL HIGH 70 NORMAL LOW 31 RECORD HIGH IN 1956 93 RECORD LOW IN 1983 9

THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.27 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 3.9 inches (1961) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 0.2 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 2 inches

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FROM OUR READERS Playground for The Rich Hats off for the wonderful editor’s note last week.

Your column [“The Price of Silence”] and Natosha Hoduski’s well-researched cover story [“#JHDreaming”] made the issue the best I’ve seen in any newspaper.

But it wasn’t the blue-collar people Natosha profiled that drove up housing costs in Jackson or pushed up the cost of living. The reality is Jackson Hole is a rich person’s playground and may always be. For the people working four and five jobs to make ends meet, the choice seems clear: move or find a way to create a business, a future based on the region’s stark beauty and recreational opportunities.

When the steel industry collapsed in the late 1970s, 100,00 people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania lost their jobs. One hundred thousand. Many people moved away where the jobs were. And the people who stayed began to create an economy based on the region’s natural strengths: institutions of higher education and medicine. Today, even this economy is giving way to new economic engines as far fetched as self-driving cars as Google and Uber have set up shop in the city.

All of this is cold comfort to the service workers in Jackson who are trying to adjust to another off season, I know. But trying to convince real estate moguls and developers that they should stop selling their products for “what the market will bear” i.e. at the highest possible profit, no matter how hurtful and unfair to service workers, is an uphill battle at best.

Keep up the great work.

—Kris Mamula Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Serfs vs. The Lords The Planet’s September 7 cover story, “#JHDreaming,” asked, “How many jobs does it take to keep a Jackson Hole address?”

The answer is only one, if it pays a living wage.

The conventional ratio that lenders use for qualification for a home loan is that no more than 28 percent of your gross income should be spent on housing. So let’s set the minimum wage in Teton County, Wyoming, at a level that corresponds to those standards. Take the average rent of all residences advertised in the previous year, multiply by 3.5, and you will find that the minimum wage should be over $55 per hour rather than $7.50. If the minimum wage were indexed to actual costs of living and annually adjusted, as market forces evolve back into a fairer balance between workers and housing supply the legal minimum wage would actually go down.

Already I hear JHMR and every hotel and restaurant owner in Jackson calling for me to be tarred and feathered.

“If we had to pay a living wage instead of importing young girls from Romania and hiring survivors of the Coyote Trail from Guatemala we’d be forced out of business and there would be no jobs at all.”

And they are right, given the current economic system.

Welcome to Jackson Hole, the most unequal enclave in a nation that has devolved from the middle class country of the 1970s to an oligarchy where wealth only trickles upward and a trillion dollars per year goes toward maintaining a global military empire.

So what kind of community do we want? A part time home to the ultra-wealthy and commuter destination to the serfs who cater to them, or a community with a solid middle class who can put down roots and contribute to the social life of the town?

Everybody in Wyoming considers themselves a cowboy

conservative and worships at the temple of the free market. Planning, density overlays, height restrictions and all the other tools of bureaucracy haven’t exactly created a town of Jackson that satisfies anyone. So let’s throw them all overboard and put the cowboy ethic to the test. If a developer wants to build a 12-story tower with 800 square foot apartments and no parking, and rent them for $500 per month, let him do it. Apart from following building code and safety standards, let the developer and his architects build whatever they want. Couldn’t be much worse than what we’ve seen built in the past decade.

However, the community should require one condition: In order to receive a building permit a developer should be required to sign a “use lien” similar to a tax lien except that it requires the developer to post a bond sufficient to pay for the expense of tearing the building down. In the event that it isn’t at least 50 percent occupied two years after completion, the building would revert to Teton County, which would use the lien funds to immediately demolish it. Let the market decide what is needed rather than some planners’ attempt to herd cats, or even my personal esthetic taste.

The combination of a smaller work force that is paid a living wage and developers freed from all the restrictions they say hold them back would result in affordable housing for everybody once supply and demand has a chance to achieve a balance, but there is a quicker way to open up the market. Let’s apply the use-it-or-lose-it standard to all houses and condos in the valley.

If a residence is vacant more than 50 percent of the time for two years it should revert to Teton County, which would then put it up for sale at public auction. The spectacle of Granite Ridge owners advertising their second and third homes for rent for $1.00 per month in a frantic effort to keep them out of foreclosure would be more entertaining than watching roller derby.

But seriously, the impact of hundreds of condos and guest houses suddenly entering the long term rental market would rapidly eliminate the current price gorging and total lack of rental availability.

I’ve got to be joking, right? No way “they” would ever allow such a thing to happen.

Wait a minute. This is supposed to be a democracy. The quaint notion that regular people can have a voice in the political process has long been buried by American money-style election media circuses. But given a level playing field—equal advertising budgets and media access—I kind of like the chances of 5,000 serfs who live paycheck to paycheck versus a few hundred lords.

—Crazy Horse Jackson, WY

Taking Action in Jackson I could not agree more with Craig Benjamin’s guest opinion piece [“The Elephant in Jackson Hole’s Room,” August 31]. Climate change is an overriding issue that needs unprecedented leadership. So why won’t JH even do a feasibility analysis on any of the top three actual, measureable greenhouse gas reduction strategies we could

take? If we are serious, we need to move past exhortation to action.

1. Jackson Lake hydro. There is no identified impact to the park from retrofitted this existing dam with hydropower. It could provide around 30 million kWh of carbon free power, enough for 3000 Jackson homes. It would enhance energy security and reliability in the valley. LVE would be glad to have this new clean local and cost-effective power source.

2. Waste to Energy. The new technology is ultra clean and in use throughout Europe. Each year, we ship 25,000 tons of post recycled waste over 100 miles in heavy polluting trucks to be buried in a landfill where it will make methane for decades. Even if Teton County’s new recylcing goals are met, the amount of waste going to landfill not go down by much from today’s level. There are modular and clean WTE units that are to our scale, enhance recycling, eliminate landfill greenhouse gas, and generate electricity energy that is lower carbon than that the grid average. There is every early indication that this strategy is cost effective for us.

3. North bridge. I know, this is a third rail issue, but it would results in millions of miles of avoided car travel and all the associated auto emissions. It would take pressure off highways 22 and 380 and the Teton Village to Moose Road. It would avoid at least some wildlife mortality.

There may be a good reason not to do any of these.

However, if we are serious about climate change, there is not a good reason to avoid talking about them or doing a feasibility analysis so we can have a fact-based understanding of the trade-offs.

—Paul W. Hansen Jackson, WY

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GUEST OPINION Fully Engaged Why the September 20 special referendum election is a win-win situation.

BY CRAIG BENJAMIN

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’m sick of writing about this issue, and you’re probably sick of reading about it. But given its importance to our shared future, and the fact those of us who live in Jackson get to vote on it next week, let’s give it one more go.

On Tuesday, September 20, the Town of Jackson will hold a special election for a referendum on recently adopted updates to the District 2 (downtown) land development regulations.

No matter the outcome of this vote, our community wins. Wait, what? Let me explain.

This vote is the culmination of nearly a decade of debate over the future of downtown Jackson, so in order to understand what’s going on, it’s helpful to step back and consider how we arrived at this moment.

First, our community spent six years hashing out our shared vision for downtown (and the rest of our community) through the development and adoption of our Comprehensive Plan. Through this process, most people shared the vision of a downtown Jackson that’s vibrant and walkable with a balanced mix of housing, lodging, and commercial enterprises.

Then, three years ago, the town began the process of updating the downtown land development regulations (LDRs) to align with this vision.

Fast forward to one year ago. Ideally the Jackson Town Council would have been gearing up to adopt updates that would help house our community’s middle class, help our small businesses find and keep hard working employees, and keep downtown vibrant and the heart of our community.

Unfortunately, they were poised to approve zoning changes for downtown Jackson that would have done just the opposite: encouraging a dramatic expansion of

commercial development, lodging, short-term rentals, and higher-end condos (i.e. second homes); generating new low-wage jobs staffed by new low-wage employees who need new affordable places to live, all while not providing nearly enough housing affordable to people who live here. These proposed zoning changes would have put Jackson on a path following in Vail’s footsteps to becoming just another resort.

Then, something incredible happened.

Over the past year, hundreds of our friends and neighbors decided to rise up, make our voices heard, and speak up for a better future. At numerous public meetings, people like you walked to the podium, took a deep breath, told their stories, and asked our local elected representatives to prioritize the middle class over more new Marriotts.

Thankfully, our elected representatives listened.

Because hundreds of people like you spoke up, the council completely revamped the proposed downtown LDRs to bring them in line with our community’s vision and ensure they help house our middle class.

This spring, the council began considering completely overhauled updates that strictly limit new commercial and lodging development potential and include an innovative workforce housing incentive program. Once again, hundreds of people like you spoke up and gave the council the support they needed to do the right thing and move forward.

As they neared the finish line, the council had to sort out one final detail: how to structure the workforce housing incentive program to empower the private sector to generate housing that’s affordable to people who work here. Specifically, should short-term rentals be allowed in “incentive” units within the “downtown core” area?

Because of the incredible complexity of this decision, the council debated this issue before voting unanimously to cap the amount of short-term rentals allowed as part of the workforce housing incentive program in the downtown core at 100,000 square feet.

Cap in hand, and after three years of work and more than 50 public meetings, the council unanimously adopted updates to the downtown LDRs early last month.

Then, Save Historic Jackson Hole, concerned about the inclusion of short-term rentals in the workforce housing incentive program, went out and gathered enough

signatures to force the council to either repeal all of the just adopted updates to our downtown LDRs, or place them on the ballot for a public vote.

The council then considered repealing the downtown LDRs and bringing them right back for approval without the controversial short-term rental component, but ultimately voted to place them on the ballot, thus the referendum on September 20.

If you’re like most people, you’re probably confused about what’s actually in these updated downtown LDRs that we’re voting on next week. So, let’s look at the facts regarding what they will actually do and have an honest conversation about the long-term consequences of this vote.

The updated downtown LDRs strictly limit new commercial and lodging development potential. They include an innovative workforce housing incentive program that should empower the private sector to generate housing affordable to people who work here. Because they’re streamlined, more predictable, and simplified regulations, they will further encourage appropriate redevelopment.

And improved design standards will help make downtown more walkable and better aligned with our community character. (For more information, visit townofjackson.com/current/referendum-election-information.)

Sounds pretty good, right? On the whole, they are.

That’s why whatever the outcome of next Tuesday’s vote, our community wins.

If our community chooses to vote “yes” and keep the entire package of updated downtown LDRs, it’s a win.

Heck, even most of the people who want them repealed admit they got 95 percent of what they wanted out of these updated regulations. If our community chooses to vote “no” and the entire package is repealed, then the council can remove the controversial component and bring the rest of it right back for approval, and our community still wins.

The important thing is that we stay engaged, because when we speak up, our elected representatives listen. So please go to the polls Tuesday, September 20, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Teton County Administration Building (200 South Willow, lower level), and keep speaking up for a better future. PJH Craig Benjamin is the executive director of the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance.

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THE BUZZ Bear Minimum ROGER HAYDEN

The debate over delisting the grizzly bear rages on as feds push yet again for protection removal.

BY JAKE NICHOLS

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t’s impossible to separate politics from the grizzly bear issue. The pending removal from the Endangered Species Act is embroiled in bureaucracy—a Washington versus Wyoming tug-of-war over who gets a say in how the top-of-the-food-chain bruin is managed.

Proponents of removing the grizzly from the Endangered Species Act point to the science. Grizzly numbers show an incredible rebound of the silvertip bear. Population is dispersed among five identifiable habitats in the Lower 48, and pushing the magic 2,000 number—the widely accepted minimum needed for a healthy and sustainable populace.

Of an estimated 1,800 grizzly in the Lower 48, about 670 to 750 roam Wyoming/Montana/Idaho with an estimated 620 or so in Yellowstone. So the bear is back, claim federal officials including members of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).

Political pressure also motivates federal scientists.

Roger Hayden is the managing director of Wyoming Wildlife Advocates. He believes USFWS officials need to show the Act designed to offer protection for threatened species actually works in bringing their numbers back to sustainability.

“I think the Fish and Wildlife Service is in such a hurry, they are rushing it to meet political pressure in November,” Hayden said. “They want to show that the ESA works, therefore the attacks on it will diminish.”

State government agencies like Wyoming Game and Fish play the politics card as well. From the governor’s office on down, the attitude in Wyoming is decidedly anti-DC. “There is a disdain for the federal government. There is also tremendous pressure from the states, especially from Wyoming’s governor Matt Mead, in particular, to wrest control from the feds,” Hayden said. “Game and Fish likes to say they are better equipped to manage the state’s wildlife but their constituents are basically hunters and ag, and they’ve always had huge political pull in Wyoming.

It’s more about having control as a state and resentment toward the feds.”

Hayden and his counterparts argue science and politics as well. They say the science backs their claims that while healthy numbers are evidenced throughout the U.S., including Alaska, other factors paint a less-than-ideal recovery scenario.

First and foremost, the grizzly’s diet has been severely compromised. David Mattson worked for the grizzly study team for two decades. He retired from the U.S. Geological Survey two years ago. The research wildlife biologist says it’s become increasingly difficult for the griz to find the food it needs to thrive. “[There are consequences for] Yellowstone’s grizzly bears, related to the loss of most whitebark pine and cutthroat trout, and the apparent shift of surviving bears to eating more army cutworm moths and meat from terrestrial mammals—among other things,” Mattson stated in treatise on the USFWS proposal to remove grizzlies in the Yellowstone ecosystem from protection under ESA. The lower quality food sources affect the overall health of the grizzly population, and the search for substitutes to

The very famous and affable Bear 399 (left) and an image of the sow with her cubs. historic dietary staples has turned some bears from omnivores to meat-seeking carnivores where their lust for flesh has led them to some undesirable places.

Those opposed to delisting also get hung up on the politics. If management of the grizzly is turned over to individual states, wildlife advocates fear a hunting bloodbath at worst. At best, state agencies have a track record of biased management, according to Hayden.

“We are not anti-hunting, and this isn’t so much about trophy hunting—which we are opposed to—but it’s the Game and Fish management philosophy that I don’t like.

It’s skewed to hunters and ag,” Hayden said. “I have no problem with hunting or ranching. I just think Game and Fish needs to manage for everyone in the state.”

Other consternation over federal agencies and their push to delist is a concern over flawed science, outdated research technique and data, and corruption within the government. Mattson, Hayden, and others don’t trust IGBST scientists, in particular, because they are not objective. Their research is government funded and conducted with an outcome in mind, Hayden claims.

The annual IGBST grizzly report—usually out in March or April—was nowhere to be found for much of the year, causing some to speculate it had something to do with the USFWS push to delist. IGBST leader Frank van Manen says the delay was primarily due to staffing cuts and too many hours devoted to meetings over federal delisting. It was not a political thing, he said. The report was finally released a few weeks ago.

GRIZZLY BEAR MORTALITY 2009-2016 2009 KNOWN AND PROBABLY GRIZZLY BEAR DEATHS IN GYE (31/24, TOTAL/HUMAN-CAUSED) 2010 KNOWN AND PROBABLY GRIZZLY BEAR DEATHS IN GYE (50/41, TOTAL/HUMAN-CAUSED) 2011 KNOWN AND PROBABLY GRIZZLY BEAR DEATHS IN GYE (44/37, TOTAL/HUMAN-CAUSED) 2012 KNOWN AND PROBABLY GRIZZLY BEAR DEATHS IN GYE (56/35, TOTAL/HUMAN-CAUSED) 2013 KNOWN AND PROBABLY GRIZZLY BEAR DEATHS IN GYE (29/22, TOTAL/HUMAN-CAUSED) 2014 KNOWN AND PROBABLY GRIZZLY BEAR DEATHS IN GYE (28/18, TOTAL/HUMAN-CAUSED) 2015 KNOWN AND PROBABLY GRIZZLY BEAR DEATHS IN GYE (61/47, TOTAL/HUMAN-CAUSED) 2016 KNOWN AND PROBABLY GRIZZLY BEAR DEATHS IN GYE (30/20, TOTAL/HUMAN-CAUSED)

Population health indicators Grizzly bears regularly roam hundreds of miles in search of food, so they need lots of room. When whitebark pine and cutthroat trout become hard to find, griz spread out farther. They cross highways, they run into ranches, they bump in subdivisions. The interactions cause migraines for wildlife managers and, worse, could give a false impression grizzlies are everywhere and the land can hold no more.

Hayden says conflict can be curtailed with better awareness and stronger requirements pertaining to urban-wildlife interface.

Problem bears and grizzly mortality was at an all-time

high in 2015. A record 61 griz deaths were recorded—47 of those human-caused. Humans account for some 80 percent of all grizzly bear deaths whether it’s a hunter mistaking a griz for a black bear, a hiker defending himself against an attacking bruin, a problem bear being put down by wildlife management officials, or simply road kill.

Last year’s numbers were shocking to some. The pro-delisting crowd claimed it pointed to a saturation of habitat—there were simply too many bears in too little space. Mattson and others, however, believe the high mortality is exactly why the bear needs continued protection.

In a desperate search for food, bears are dispersing into conflict areas—ending up on cattle ranches and mixing it up with elk hunters.

Another aspect of grizzly bear habitat and a healthy population matrix is genetic diversity. The Yellowstone grizzly lives in an isolated habitat. There is limited connectedness for GYE bears and little evidence those grizzly ever comingled with other bears in the U.S. or Canada.

Without a healthy number of bears, the GYE griz is under constant threat of a shallow gene pool.

“The [USFWS] uses outdated science to categorize Yellowstone’s grizzly bears as part of a purported continent-spanning subspecies when the best available science clearly shows that the Yellowstone population is part of a clade (Clade 4) with an ancient and unique history, a restricted distribution, and warranting consideration as an evolutionarily unique and threatened genetic lineage,” Mattson stated.

Political football

The grizzly bear was first listed as a threatened species in 1975. A formal recovery plan was established by 1993, and in 2003 those recovery goals had been met for six consecutive years. USFWS first proposed removing the griz from protection in 2005.

In 2007, the GYE segment of grizzly bear population was removed from the threatened species list. The move was challenged by several lawsuits. Two years later, a federal district judge agreed with the suits and placed the bear back on the threatened species list. USFWS appealed in 2010 but was denied in 2011.

In 2013, the Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee, the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee, and Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team made a recommendation that grizzly bears again be removed from ESA protection.

A decision about delisting the grizzly bear is expected soon. If the bear is removed, feds can expect pushback.

“The NGOs [non-governmental organizations] I’ve talked to say there is any number of places where they can be sued. This thing could be delayed two to three years,” Hayden said. PJH

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Water is Life In a time when American corporations wield unchecked power, the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters are proving the potency of activism.

BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1

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hen Jackson resident Mark Henderson showed up at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota last Thursday night, he didn’t know what to expect. It was 11:30 at night. He pitched a tent and tucked in for the night.

Henderson was one of thousands of people streaming into Camp of the Sacred Stone from all over the country.

The movement to support the Sioux tribe’s lawsuit against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has garnered international support. Tribe officials say pipeline construction has already disrupted ancient burial sites and threatens drinking water for myriad people. Stretching underneath the Missouri River, the pipeline would transport about 470,00 barrels of crude oil per day from North Dakota to Illinois, down to Gulf of Mexico refineries for export.

When Henderson awoke that Friday, he found himself amid an event many are calling an unprecedented intersection of the climate movement with indigenous communities. “It’s not just about Natives,” Henderson said. “They call themselves ‘water protectors’ and they are protecting the water for everyone.”

Henderson traveled to North Dakota ignited with passion for Native rights and conservation. Though not Native American himself, he wanted to show his support for a cause he cares about deeply. “We would hope for clean water in a first world country,” he said. “But look at Flint, Michigan. The government needs to step up and protect people.”

In a momentary victory for the water protectors, the

Thousands of people, including Jackson resident Mark Henderson, have joined the fight to protect sacred Native land and drinking water at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. federal government did step in when the judge ruled against the Sioux on Friday. Within minutes of the judge’s decision, the U.S. army, the Department of Justice, and the Department of the Interior issued a joint statement that underscores the power of grassroots activism in America: construction of the pipeline is now on hold and they have promised meaningful discussions with tribal leaders.

According to Jason Baldes, executive director of the Wind River Native Advocacy Center in Ethete, Wyoming, the state of North Dakota failed at their relationship with tribal government. “In Indian Country, we are familiar with this,” Baldes said. “We expect to meet one-on-one with U.S. government officials. When that doesn’t happen, you get people out there holding the federal government accountable.”

Baldes helped organize a delegation from the Wind River Reservation to carry supplies and tribal flags to the Standing Rock encampment. Both tribes on the reservation, the Eastern Shoshone and the Arapaho, signed letters in solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux. “The camp has been growing in number, and one thing people are asking for is supplies,” he said. “One caravan took 17 people.”

Numbers at the camp swelled to more than 1,000 over this past weekend. Henderson estimated 3,000. Baldes had heard 7,000.

When Henderson awoke on the first morning of his trip, he said, “There were tipis everywhere.”

This is the first time since 1875 land treaties that all seven Sioux nations have come together, Henderson said.

“It was incredible to see this historical event happen in front of me.”

Henderson joined a group of 300 people who marched to the burial sites disrupted by bulldozers earlier in the week. “They wanted to do a ceremony to bring in the ancestral powers and give blessings to their grandparents buried there,” he explained.

Traveling into the town of Bismarck later in the day Friday, Henderson greeted a group of young people who had run all the way from Washington D.C. to be at the event. “When they were 100 yards from the capitol

building, it started raining,” he said. “It was an amazing symbol.”

The judge’s decision came during the gathering at the capitol. A teenage girl received a report on her cell phone and announced the news to the crowd. According to Henderson, moments later the same girl announced to the disheartened crowd that the federal government had stepped in. “We won, people, we won,” Henderson remembers her saying.

“About a minute after that happened, the rain stopped,” Henderson remembered. “We all broke into dance in a Native American circle. The energy went from sadness to exhilaration and joy.”

That exhilaration has stretched across the globe, according to many reports. Baldes says he has heard of indigenous people from New Zealand, the Philippines and the Hawaiian Islands sending their prayers and support.

“I think that indigenous people have been waiting for something like this to happen,” Baldes said. “In conjunction with social media, we can communicate with people on the other side of the planet. Indigenous people have understanding about the fundamental need to take care of the land, air and water.”

Baldes said an unexpected result of the #NoDAPL solidarity movement is a thaw in relations between the two Wind River Reservation tribes. The traditional enemies may reside on the same reservation but they do not share a government, and rarely come together, according to Baldes. “The issue at Standing Rock is helpful for the two tribes here because we are supporting the efforts there based on the principle of self determination,” he said.

There is no guarantee that the Dakota Access Pipeline will not be built, and people continue to pour into camps near the construction sites to display their opposition and bring supplies to protesters. What is clear, however, is that an unprecedented movement to protect Native rights and precious resources is taking shape in America. PJH

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WEIRD These Shoes Weren’t Made for Walkin’

The upscale clothier Barneys New York recently introduced $585 “Distressed Superstar Sneakers” (from the high-end brand Golden Goose) that were purposely designed to look scuffed, well-worn and cobbled-together, as if they were shoes recovered from a dumpster.

The quintessential touch was the generous use of duct tape on the bottom trim. Critics were in abundance, accusing Barneys of mocking poverty.

News That Sounds Like a Joke

The British food artists Bompas & Parr are staging (through Oct. 30) a tribute to the late writer Roald Dahl by brewing batches of beer using yeast swabbed and cultured from a chair Dahl used and which has been on display at the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, England. n A 16-year-old boy made headlines in August for being one of the rare survivors of an amoeba—a brain-eating amoeba—which he acquired diving into a pond on private property in Florida’s Broward County. (By popular legend, Floridians are believed to lack sufficient brain matter to satisfy amoebas!)

Government in Action

The Drug Enforcement Administration has schemed for several years to pay airline and Amtrak employees for tips on passengers who might be traveling with large sums of cash, so that the DEA can interview them—with an eye toward seizing the cash under federal law if they merely “suspect” that the money is involved in illegal activity. A USA Today investigation, reported in August, revealed that the agency had seized $209 million in a decade, from 5,200 travelers who, even if no criminal charge results, almost never get all their money back (and, of 87 recent cash seizures, only two actually resulted in charges). One Amtrak employee was secretly paid $854,460 over a decade for snitching passenger information to the DEA.

Wait, What?

In August, the banking giant Citigroup and the communications giant AT&T agreed to end their two-month-long legal hostilities over AT&T’s right to have a customer service program titled “Thanks.” Citigroup had pointed out that it holds trademarks for customer service titles “thankyou,” “citi thankyou,” “thankyou from citi” and “thankyou your way,” and had tried to block the program name “AT&T Thanks.”

Weird China

“Mr. L,” 31, a Chinese tourist visiting Dulmen, Germany, in July, went to a police station to report his stolen wallet, but signed the wrong form and was logged in as requesting asylum, setting off a bureaucratic nightmare that left him confined for 12 days at a migrant hostel before the error was rectified. n In August at a hospital in Shenyang, China, “Wang,” 29, awaiting his wife’s childbirth, was reported (by People’s Daily via Shanghaiist.com) to have allowed a nurse to wave him into a room for anesthesia and hemorrhoid surgery—a procedure that took 40 minutes. (The hospital quickly offered to pay a settlement—but insisted that, no matter his purpose at the hospital, he in fact had hemorrhoids, and they were removed.) n Evidently, many Chinese wives who suspect their husbands of affairs have difficulty in confronting them, for a profession has risen recently of “mistress dispellers” whose job instead is to contact the mistress and persuade her, sometimes through an elaborate ruse, to break off the relationship. For a fee (a New York Times dispatch said it could be “tens of thousands of dollars”), the dispeller will “subtly infiltrate the mistress’ life” and ultimately convince her to move on. A leading dispeller agency in Shanghai, translated as the “Weiqing International Marriage Hospital Emotion Clinic Group,” served one wife by persuading the mistress to take a higher-paying job in another city.

Ironies

Flooding from rains in August tore down a basement wall of the Connellsville Church of God in Pennsylvania, wrecking and muddying parts of the building and threatening the first-floor foundation, but under the policy written by the Church Mutual Insurance company, flooding damage is not covered, as rain is an “act of God.” (Church Mutual apparently uses a standard insurance industry definition and thus recognizes, contrary to some religious beliefs, that not everything is caused by God.) n In 2005, India enacted a landmark anti-poverty program, obligating the government to furnish 100 days’ minimum-wage work to unskilled laborers (potentially, 70 percent of the country’s 1.3 billion people). Programs often fail in India because of rampant corruption, but a recent study by a Cambridge University researcher concluded that the 2005 law is failing for the opposite reason —anti-corruption measures in the program. Its requirement of extreme transparency has created an exponential increase in paperwork (to minimize opportunities for corruption), severely delaying the availability of jobs.

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n July in the African nation of Malawi (on the western border of Mozambique), Eric Aniva was finally arrested— but not before he had been employed by village families more than 100 times to have ritual sex to “cleanse” recent widows—and girls immediately after their first menstruation. Aniva is one of several such sex workers known as “hyenas” (because they operate stealthily, at night), but Malawi president Peter Mutharika took action after reading devastating dispatches (reporting hyenas’ underage victims and Aniva’s HIV-positive status) in The

n The July 2012 Aurora, Colo., theater shooter, James Holmes, is hardly wealthy enough to be sued, so 41 massacre victims and families instead filed against Cinemark Theater for having an unsafe premises, and by August 2016 Cinemark had offered $150,000 as a total settlement. Thirty-seven of the 41 accepted, but four held out since the scaled payout offered only a maximum of $30,000 for the worst-off victims. Following the settlement, the judge, finding that Cinemark could not have anticipated Holmes’ attack, ruled for the theater— making the four holdouts liable under Colorado law for Cinemark’s expenses defending against the lawsuit ($699,000).

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n Update: In August, the Defense Department’s inspector general affirmed once again (following on 2013 disclosures) that the agency has little knowledge of where its money goes—this time admitting that the Department of the Army had made $6.5 trillion in accounting “adjustments” that appeared simply to be made up out of thin air, just to get the books balanced for 2015. (In part, the problem was laid to 16,000 financial data files that simply disappeared with no trace.) “As a result,” reported Fortune magazine, “there has been no way to know how the Defense Department—far and away the biggest chunk of Congress’ annual budget—spends the public’s money.”

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N O I T A R E N GE f you don’t hunt, chances are you know someone who does. And right about now, that hunter’s brain is entirely consumed with hunting as many days as possible. He (or she) is organizing gear, studying maps, sighting guns, practicing shooting a bow, and crossing off days on the calendar that will be spent outdoors blissfully unplugged. (Full disclosure: I’m not a hunter but I live with one. I get it.)

In Jackson Hole, hunters look a bit different than they did a few years ago as more women, children and millennial-aged locals opt to harvest their own meat. According to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, women applying for hunting licenses in Wyoming increased 13 percent between 2008 and 2013. During this same period, however, the number of male hunters actually decreased by 2.5 percent.

“We see more women hunting, more families hunting and more fresh-out-of-college kids enrolling in hunter safety classes,” said Mark Gocke, Wyoming Game and Fish’s information and education representative

The changing faces of hunting in Jackson Hole.

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for Jackson and Pinedale. “When you look across the rest of the state, in other communities, it’s going to be kids getting into hunting. Here we see a lot more 20- to 35-year-olds.”

The National Shooting Sports Foundation released a survey this year asking 1,374 hunters from all over the U.S. about their motivations for hunting. Among 18- to 34-year-olds, they reported their primary factor for hunting was evenly split between two things: spending time with family and friends, and hunting for meat.

Millennials said they were least likely to hunt for relaxation, to be close to nature, or to bag a trophy.

It’s hard to say if these national statistics

pertain to local hunting culture. Gocke is not exactly sure why there is an uptick in women and millennial hunters. “I find it interesting,” he said. “A lot of them like the idea of getting their own food, knowing where it came from, eating healthy. It’s pretty gratifying to get your own food.”

Intrigued by what motivates any hunter, but especially novices, to pick up a bow or a gun and take an animal’s life, I set out to talk to as many hunters as possible. Are newbie hunters searching for a more direct connection to the food they eat? Or is it the challenge of the hunt, the thrill of the conquest, the pursuit of a trophy to hang on the wall? Could it be as simple as trying to make ends meet by harvesting the most local and organic meat available?

Mostly, I was curious to learn if this new generation of local hunters is ushering in a kinder, gentler era of hunting. Are hunters coming out of the closet, so to speak, discussing what it feels like to kill an animal? And will these young hunters help raise the bar on behavior out in the field?

The first time Brent Offut pulled the trigger on a big game animal he was 12 years

we got as close as we could get, the antelope was bedded down and we were waiting for it to stand up, which gave me a chance to talk her through it, to get her heart rate down a little.

Then after a half hour it stood up and she got a perfect broad-side shot.

Gocke says she was converted. “That is a really profound moment when you take an animal’s life and I treat it that way,” Gocke continued. “It’s emotional, there’s no getting around that if you are doing it right.”

Among the parents I spoke with mentoring their children as hunters, a common theme arose. Some kids will take to hunting naturally and others won’t give a hoot. It’s not a hobby that can be forced on them. But when it just so happens that your child shares a passion for hunting, it’s rewarding. “It was a positive experience for [Emmie],” Gocke said. “It was my best moment in all the year’s I’ve been hunting.”

Pink is the new camo With more women hunting nationwide, blaze-pink camouflage is now legal for hunters in three states: New York, Colorado

and Wisconsin. Teton County may be seeing record numbers of women sign up for hunter education classes, but it can still be difficult for a female hunter to fit in.

When Alex George started hunting in high school, she kept her hobby under wraps. “I shot my first antelope when I was 13,” she said. “I told my dad I wanted to go. I had grown up watching him hunt and I thought it was so cool.” Back then, the hunters George knew were boys and men. “My friends were all boys and they all hunted. They’d go hunting before school, early in the morning, and then they’d go in the evening.”

Over time, when George’s younger brother became old enough to hunt, “he sort of took my place,” she said. “It became more of a boys thing, with him and his friends going with my dad, and I ended up getting left out. I definitely think it’s less socially acceptable for a woman to hunt in certain circles in Jackson Hole. Jackson is funny that way.”

Gocke agrees that teenage girls who hunt are still very much the minority. “There’s less peer support, for sure,” he said.

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Young and on the hunt

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Hank Shaw is a hunter, angler, forager, writer, cookbook author and creator of the James Beard Award winning website, Hunter Angler Gardener Cook, honest-food.net (read a Q&A on page 14). When I interviewed Shaw, he noted a difference between people who grow up hunting and those who pursue it later in life. He doesn’t think that hunters are “coming out of the closet,” but that those who come to it later in life, like he did, are able to step away and analyze it differently. “If you grew up with hunting,” he said, “you’ve internalized it over so many years that it slips underneath your conscious thought.”

To find out what’s it’s like to grow up in a hunting family, I caught up with Trish Williams, busily fixing her bow in anticipation of elk season. Williams has hunted elk for the past 13 years, the last three with a bow. She grew up hunting quail with her dad in Florida. In 2013, Williams killed one of the 20 largest bull elk ever taken in Wyoming. With a Boone and Crocket score of 384 and 1/8 and a Safari Club International score of 392 and 3/8, it was the largest Wyoming elk taken by a woman.

“Maybe it’s because I was the only tom girl my dad had,” said Williams, the middle child of three girls. “But I started so young.

I always went with my dad as a little girl and just watched. I didn’t start shooting and hunting until after college.”

Williams agrees with Shaw that folks who grow up hunting process the experience differently than newbies. When asked if shooting an animal is an emotional experience, she said, “It felt natural because I grew up with it. It’s not that I don’t care about the animal, but it doesn’t bother me, as long as it’s a quick, good clean kill. To me, whatever I do mentally happens before I decide to go hunt.”

For Williams, shooting an elk is as natural as picking huckleberries. And although she loves filling the freezer with elk, turkey, and upland birds, her passion for hunting is about more than just meat. “It just feels like something I am supposed to do. It’s so far away from that buck fever. I must have been reincarnated from some other hunter.”

But just because someone grows up hunting doesn’t mean taking an animal’s life is not an emotional experience, Gocke noted. He described watching a coworker shoot a bison as “profound a moment as I’ve ever seen. He sat down and was tearful about it, and prayed all over his animal that was freshly killed. And he grew up hunting.”

old. Now 14, he described that moment like it was yesterday. “That was the first elk I’ve ever shot and the most adrenaline I’ve ever felt. The snow was crazy deep,” Offut said.

“Me and my dad just slowly walked towards this elk at the top of a hill. She sees us, and I tried to get a good angle to shoot it, but it was hard because of the snow. I didn’t want to get the barrel in the snow.”

Offut got a clean shot at the cow elk. It immediately dropped and rolled down the hill towards them. “I pull the trigger and it hits it right where the spine is. When you hit the spine it can’t move, so I was worried that it could still suffer,” he said. “I shot it in the head to make sure.”

When asked how he felt after making the kill, Offut says he didn’t feel sad. “I knew taking one elk wouldn’t destroy the whole ecosystem, and that one elk is feeding my whole family. We still have some.”

Like many of the hunting kids I spoke with, Offut is well-versed in the arguments that favor culling an overpopulated herd of elk. “I am helping less elk die of hunger and starvation,” he said. “You can be sad about it but you have to realize it is just part of life. I would never sport hunt, you know—shoot a big animal, like an elephant in Africa that you’re not even going to eat. It’s like fishing. I would eat a rainbow trout because they aren’t from here and they taste good. But I would never eat a brown trout. I would never kill a cutthroat unless I was trying to live off it.”

And although he thinks elk meat is the most delicious meat he has tasted, there’s more to Offut’s passion for hunting than just the meat. “[Elk] are maybe the smartest animals I’ve ever hunted,” he said. “It’s kind of an amazing experience to outsmart an animal that knows its own habitat better than you do.” Offut says he will hunt the rest of his life.

Similar to many kids growing up in a hunting family in Jackson Hole, Offutt is a busy teenager. He has to carve out the time to take a hunter safety class, practice shooting and spend time in the field hunting with his dad.

“The hard part about getting kids into hunting,” Gocke said, “is that sports and school are very demanding and take up all your free time. Kids have to choose.”

When his daughter Emmie, who is now a high school senior, started hunting, it was important to him that she take the initiative.

“She buys her own license online,” he said.

“She gets up before cross country practice to hunt. Emmie is making it work because both cross country and hunting are really important to her.”

Gocke fondly recalls how Emmie took her first antelope. “It was a fantastic hunt. Some are easy,” he said. “But this one wasn’t easy by any means. We crawled on our bellies for over an hour through cactus and sharp rocks. When

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Wild and reverent Margie Boyd is representative of the largest growing segment of hunters in Jackson Hole: female and millennial. The 28-year-old nurse, who works full time at Women’s Health and Family Care, started hunting as a child in South Carolina. “When I moved to Jackson six years ago, it was too intimidating at first—the bigger game and the land out here—it’s so different than where I used to hunt, which was mostly

private land. Here, the land is just huge, and I’ve had encounters with grizzlies.”

After three years in Jackson and only duck hunting with friends, Boyd got up the courage to hunt big game. “I’ve hunted the last three falls for antelope and elk. Partly because of the guy I’m dating now who took me under his wing, I’m braver about it.”

When asked why she continues to hunt, Boyd explained that harvesting meat is a motivating factor, second to just being outside. “When you are out there hunting, every sense is just so aware of every smell and sound. For me, it’s almost euphoric. It’s therapeutic.”

Boyd noted what she learned during hunter safety classes about the personal evolution of a hunter. “At first it’s about the killing. Then you have more respect and let a lot of animals pass, searching for that ideal one. Then it becomes all about killing an older animal for meat, not so much about the trophy.”

When asked if she knew of Trish Williams’ record-breaking trophy elk, Boyd said, “I won’t lie. I would love to get an elk like that.

But I’m not aggressively going for it. Maybe one day it will happen.”

For Boyd, it’s more important to have a good, safe shot and a clean kill. “I won’t make a stupid shot,” she said. “To know you can hit the animal really well and make it a quick death, that’s more important than the trophy. If I had to track an animal down on a

blood trail because it was wounded, I would probably stop hunting entirely.”

Kris Walker grew up fishing but didn’t take to hunting until age 33 when he moved to Jackson. The first time he had a deer in his sight, something kept him from pulling the trigger. Now he takes an elk and a pronghorn each year.

Walker says becoming a hunter was mostly about harvesting his own food. “I just had this weird self-awakening that I’d had this huge disconnect from my food for a long time,” he said. “I was habitualized to going to the store to just grab what I needed. But it just sort of dawned on me that I didn’t even know how many people had handled this meat, where it was taken, what it was fed.”

Seeing the elk grazing all around Jackson Hole was a reassuring sight for Walker. “You can tell that they have a good healthy life.”

Walker also sees hunting as one way to opt out of the industrialized food system.

“I think people [my age] are getting into hunting because they are aware of the food issue. The industrialized food system is always there, always in your face. It’s kind of the American way.”

As for his first kill, Walker reports it was life changing: “Taking my first animal was the most emotional thing ever. I was nervous. I felt guilty. But it was intriguing— like crossing a boundary, stepping into somewhere I couldn’t take back. It was exhilarating.”

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her mounted antelope head with her. “I was so proud of it,” she said. “I thought it was so cool. Because I grew up in Jackson I didn’t realize how weird that must have been for my roommate. Later she told me she was afraid to look at it and didn’t even know what it was.”

Even Williams, who’s been hunting locally for more than 13 years, has had a hard time finding a core group of female hunting buddies, so she hunts alone or with a guide.

“I don’t know enough women here to put together a group of girls to go hunt.”

Offut doesn’t know any girls his age who hunt, but he has no problem identifying himself as a hunter among his peers. “I think it’s socially acceptable because we live in Wyoming,” he said, “and almost every person who has come into Wyoming has to hunt for his food and live off the land. It’s a historical thing.”

CJ Drews

Mostly, Walker was hit with an overwhelming sense of gravity. “It felt like a great responsibility to use as much as I could of the animal.”

When dealing with the emotional intensity of a kill, Walker has found that it helps to pray over the animal. “It helps alleviate those weird mixed feelings.”

Like Walker, Jared Gebauer got serious about hunting after moving to Wyoming at age 26. “The slower pace, paying attention to every visual cue, sound, and scent makes you experience the environment completely different from any other activity.”

The meat is what motivated Gebauer to start hunting, but he also enjoys the hunt.

“Chasing big bulls and bucks around is the ultimate rush,” he said.

Gebauer recalled feeling overwhelmed after his first kill. “But then it got real, real quick. I’ve always field dressed, butchered and processed my own meat. It’s a lot more work, but I feel an obligation to deal with it myself. Plus by the time you pay for it to be processed you might as well buy a damn cow.”

CJ Drews admits he started elk hunting after he had his first taste of elk meat. “I realized how delicious it was,” he said, “and [hunting] helped me make ends meet during the economic recession.” That was five years ago when he was 39; now Drews typically takes two elk each year.

Drews remembers his first elk and every

Hunters behaving badly

“To me, it’s a spirtual thing when you take an animal’s life.”

- CJ Drews

Markmanship and mindfulness In his 18 years as a Wyoming Game and Fish officer, Gocke has seen his fair share of bad behavior. “Some hunters bring it on themselves,” he said. “Some are just wired differently. I can’t help but think they were taught the wrong way, taught to disregard laws and ethics.”

In all of her years of hunting, however, Williams can’t say she’s seen the same.“I do not ever run into someone like that—a cavalier hunter,” she said. “Everyone is prepared. If you love hunting, you love the preparation for hunting. I just don’t ever see that guy.”

With all the new faces out there this hunting season, the hunting community seems ripe for change. “The question,”

Kerasote said, “is how do we approach this new era of hunting with thoughtfulness?

With mindfulness?”

Drews is all for hunting reform that will make it harder to get a license to kill animals.

“I really appreciate everything Game and Fish does,” he said. “But I think it’s too easy to get a license. It’s too easy to get a gun.”

Drews favors more hunter education classes, more detailed courses, and a change in the thinking of the hunting community. “We need a cultural shift to embrace the idea of marksmanship. We have a great [shooting] range facility here. It’s well managed, it’s cheap, and you can go anytime you want.”

According to Drews, it boils down to “safety, marksmanship and ethics. Every gun accident is avoidable. Every single one of them.”

An excerpt from Kerasote’s 1998 essay Restoring the Older Knowledge rings especially true for this next generation of hunters: “If hunters are going to preserve hunting, they must recreate it as the disciplined, mindful, sacred activity it once was for our species.”

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It’s unfortunate that the public’s perception of hunting is usually based less on the Margie Boyds and CJ Drews of the hunting world and more on another category of hunter: those who behave badly. Each year in Jackson Hole, there are multiple instances where hunters egregiously violate the law.

From hunters who poach elk in Yellowstone National Park or violate the Endangered Species Act, to folks who use horses to chase elk onto the Elk Refuge boundary into the sights of waiting hunters.

Twenty years ago local author Ted Kerasote wrote about the need for reform in the hunting community in the essay Restoring the Older Knowledge. “Whereas the hunter was once the teacher and shaman of his culture, he is now the boor,” he wrote.

“Their attitudes are founded in the same values that Americans have held about the commons: namely, take as much as you can before it’s used up.”

Kerasote has written extensively about hunting over the last 40 years. Known for his national bestsellers Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog and Out There: In the Wild in a Wired Age, which won the National Outdoor Book Award, Kerasote has also written the book many consider required reading for hunters and non-hunters alike: Blood Ties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt.

When I caught up with Kerasote to get his take on the current status of hunting, he was happy to be home after traveling, and looking forward to elk hunting this fall. And yes, he remains just as critical of many aspects of the hunting community. “I will continue to take a hard stance,” he said. “If you travel into the hunting world and see what goes on especially amongst macho men, it’s still depressing.”

Kerasote sees the mechanization of hunting to be detrimental to wildlife. “The best example I have is when people use ATVs and dirt bikes to hunt near the Gros Ventre

yards away from me. I had to yell and scream to keep him from hitting me. I think women can be a little more cool-headed. I’ve seen that in the climbing community, too. I think they take it more seriously.”

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River,” he said. “There used to be fabulous elk there, but they left. Americans are a mechanized society; we love our machines.”

Another ill Kerasote has noticed is that more and more hunters have taken up long range shooting. “I see this at the [shooting] range and at the elk tooth drop off at Grand Teton National Park. They brag about the 600- to 700-yard shot. Someone I taught to hunt has shot an elk as far away as 1,200 yards. To me, that’s no longer hunting but target shooting.”

The problem with long range shooting, as Kerasote sees it, is that there are so many things that can go wrong, and the chance of injuring an animal without killing it is higher.

Drews agrees.

“Those thousand-yard shots,” he said, “that’s just ego. There’s no reason for that. The destruction due to the ballistics is massive.”

The essence of hunting, Kerasote maintains, is how close can you get—that’s the essence of fair chance, he says. “You meet the elk on his ground. You learn to walk quietly. You are like a wolf. Then when you shoot, there’s no chance of missing.”

Twenty years ago Kerasote advocated for a tax on hunting equipment to produce revenue for wildlife that isn’t hunted, and a small income tax to go towards wildlife care and research. He urged hunters to deemphasize the record books and the pursuit of trophies for the trophy’s sake, and an end to competitions that involve shooting animals. He urged the hunting community to open its doors to women and to stop using the terms “sport” and “recreation” when referring to hunting. “I don’t call it a sport,” he said. “We are out there killing them with a weapon. If they had a rifle too it would be a sport. The elk are just wearing their hides and we are shooting them with highpowered rifles. I call elk hunting ‘hunting,’ a nice neutral word that describes what we are doing.”

Now, years later, Kerasote is heartened to learn that more women are applying for hunting licenses in Wyoming. “Women in general are not going to bring this macho spirit of competition that men have brought to hunting,” he said. “Probably women are not as concerned about shooting a large antlered or big horned animal.”

Drews says he has not seen a woman out in the field who makes the bad decisions men make—usually younger men new to hunting.

“I’ve been shot over. I’ve been shot at. I had a guy who was taking pop-shots at an elk 25

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one since—he likes to honor the animals he kills by naming them. “I name every single one of them,” he said. “To me, it’s a spiritual thing when you take an animal’s life. My first was named Juanita; I shot her on top of Crystal Butte and I’ll always remember that.” Drews butchers and processes his own animals. He takes every ivory, the hide to use for gloves, and he usually eats the heart.

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Buck, Buck, Moose Exploring the cerebral side of hunting with Hank Shaw.

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first encountered writer Hank Shaw through the recipes on his blog. I had just moved to Wyoming and wild game had become my family’s primary source of protein—I needed help. Shaw, a former political reporter turned food and hunting maven, taught me how to turn a freezer full of antelope, mule deer, moose and bison into fabulous dishes. When my family got into upland bird shooting, I immediately consulted HAGC for the best wild bird recipes, and subsequently cooked my way through his second book: Duck, Duck Goose: Recipes and Techniques for Ducks and Geese, both Wild and Domesticated. When I started foraging for mushrooms and wild plants in the Tetons, Shaw’s blog was my go-to resource.

Shaw is one of a handful of writers who explores the thoughtful side of hunting— what it’s like to kill an animal, how it makes you feel, and what motivates men and women to hunt for food.

On writing about hunting PJH: Your 2011 essay On Killing explores why you kill animals and how it affects you. Since then, have you observed that hunters are talking more about the emotional impact of hunting?

HS: I actually haven’t. If you grew up with hunting, you’ve internalized it over so many years that it slips underneath your conscious thought. Of course you care about the animal—everyone knows one or two damaged human beings who really do dislike the animals they hunt, that show no compassion.

Those are the exceptions. I am more able to write about the emotional aspects because I came to hunting as a fully formed adult who was a writer. My advantage is not only experiencing all this stuff for the first time but having the skills to translate that feeling into words. And I’ve since seen a number of authors write about that experience.

PJH: In another memorable essay, Limitations, you wrote: “The realization began to creep over me as I was catching up on other websites and reading colleagues’ cookbooks. It solidified when I thought of all the amazing food I’d eaten at my book dinners over the course of those four months. Clear-eyed and cold, I sit here with the stark realization that I am simply not that good.”

HS: The Greeks said the smarter you are the less you know. I wrote that piece after coming off a period of time when I was exposed to countless brilliant cooks—people doing stuff with wild food, which I consider my strength, better than me. I had already known this from being a runner. I could have made the Olympic trials if I had put my heart and soul into it. I do not have the talent to make the Olympic team. That recognition of the limitations of your physical and mental abilities comes with age and it’s just one of those things—you do the best you can with what you’ve got. If you don’t recognize that and don’t acknowledge it, it’s extraordinarily dangerous and toxic to you and everyone around you.

PJH: Did it take a while in your writing to get to a place where you felt comfortable exposing yourself that way?

HS: It just sort of happened. A blog is a web log. At its core, a blog is an online journal. I am talking to you the reader. A substantial part of every day is answering readers’ questions. I am constantly having a conversation with what I like to call Hunter Angler Gardener Cook nation. It becomes a relationship even though there’s tens of thousands of people I’ve never met in person. I end up knowing people really well.

Once you have that it’s a little bit easier to open a vein and tell them what you’re really thinking. That’s what makes these book tours so exhausting and exhilarating. I get to finally meet in person people I have known for years online.

From politics to berry picking

PJH: You worked as a political writer for 18 years. When did your cooking hobby and writing career collide?

HS: Well into the last bit of my political career, politics became less of what I loved and more of what I was just good at. After 2004, food became my escape. I started writing in the food section of the newspaper.

My first big break was at The Art of Eating magazine with editor Ed Behr. He put me through the wringer. I had never had an article I’d written edited so many times. It was like food writing boot camp, and it worked

really well. I started writing freelance, then in 2007 started Hunter Angler Gardener Cook — this was in the early days of blogging and I got in on this niche on the ground floor. I used the website as an outlet for all the ideas I wanted to write about that I would not be able to sell to Gourmet, or Food and Wine, or The Art of Eating; I just had too many things that I wanted to write about.

PJH: Did studying African history in grad school spark your interest in discovering indigenous foods?

HS: My mom taught me how to identify wild plants so I’ve been picking beach peas and blueberries since before I can remember.

Picking wild foods was part of how my family recreated—we’d go berry picking, dig clams, go fishing. That has been part of how I define myself. I’ve been fishing since before I can remember so that’s just internalized as part of who I am.

PJH: When did you start hunting?

HS: Hunting came much later. I didn’t start until I was 32. The old saying, “The zeal of a convert” is real.

I think what happens is that whenever you find any new pursuit, it could be knitting, making soufflés, growing roses, that really lights a fire inside you, no matter what it is, you want to experience that as much as you can.

It’s the learning curve of what you are passionate about.

There’s so much to hunting to understand, in terms of knowing the ground, and knowing the animals and the equipment and what’s safe. And because there is so much to learn, you kind of have to have that zealot attitude to pick it up as an adult. When you’re a kid you get it in drips and drabs. I understand fishing implicitly because it was part of my primary education.

With hunting, there are a lot of things you don’t even know that you don’t know when you are starting out.

sautéed, and then vacuum sealed and frozen.

Morels are best dried.

to shoot running animals, who are under duress, the meat will darken and toughen.

PJH: You have said that most people don’t know how to cook duck because they don’t realize that “a duck is a steak wearing a hat made of bacon.”

HS: Well first—skin on. Certain birds you want to keep the skin on. A duck hunter in Wyoming will want to do that with good birds—pintail, mallards. Let’s say mallard breasts. Do three quarters of the cooking on the skin side. Put a little bit of lard, butter, or duck fat in the pan, turn the heat on and as soon as it melts, put your duck breasts in. I prep my duck breasts by taking them out of the fridge and then salting them really well, and let them sit out for at least a half hour. It’s just like cooking a steak, but the difference is that it requires a certain amount of time to crisp that skin. It won’t crisp until most of the fat beneath that skin will be rendered away. With a domesticated bird, there’s so much fat you need to cut a cross hatch in the skin first, but that’s not necessary for wild.

Cook it on medium heat. It should sound like bacon sizzling. Once the skin is nice and brown and crispy, which can take about eight minutes, turn it over, cook for another two minutes. Then I will always stand them up on their fat end. The skinny end is the part where the breastbone used to be. Finally put them on a cutting board and let them rest skin side up. Grind over a lot of black pepper, right when they hit the cutting board, and let them rest for 5 minutes.

PJH: Do you think young animals taste better than older animal “trophies”? What about females vs. males?

HS: This is all in the book, by the way. It is easier to make a younger animal taste better than an older animal. But an older animal treated properly can taste better than a younger animal. The way to get there is dry aging. Females are easier to make taste better than males because of the rut— it puts a buck in rough condition—there’s hormones, and they’re tired, and there are a lot of reasons. You always want to shoot a male antlered animal before the rut from an eating perspective.

But let’s say you got a really nice bull moose in the rut. That moose could be 14 years old or even older. The way you make it taste amazing is to dry age those pieces you want to eat medium rare or rare. The young animals are far easier to make taste wonderful because they don’t need much dry aging. I’m talking about dry aging prior to butchering, and dry aging primals.

“It’s a way to quietly strike back at the Monsantos of the world.”

- Hank Shaw

Dank mushrooms and duck PJH: When I started foraging I learned a lot about mushrooming from your website.

Have you ever gotten sick from making a bad mushroom choice?

HS: The closest was when I was foraging for mushrooms on Long Island with a Michelin starred chef, Anita Lo, and we found a whole bunch of mushrooms. There’s a particular mushroom called a velvet-capped bolete that’s a known edible. Both of us woke up with a mushroom-weird feeling of intestinal unease. That’s the closest I’ve ever come to actually getting sick. It’s a good lesson. I know people who get sick on chanterelles.

Mushrooms are weirdly biologically active so everyone reacts to them in a different way.

PJH: Let’s talk about your new book Buck, Buck, Moose, and about venison. Let’s start with the hunt. There is some data showing that cattle who are slaughtered under duress crank out stress hormones when they are killed that seep into the meat, leaving substances that cause inflammation when humans ingest the meat. Do you think this is also true for wild game? Do you think a stressful kill changes the taste of the meat?

HS: There is an old joke about people from Wyoming that they are incapable of killing a standing animal. The ability of residents of this state to shoot a running animal accurately is uncanny. But when you tend

PJH: Is it hard for hunters to change their practices?

HS: It’s just like a farmer, try getting a farmer to grow different strains. If it works, don’t break it. That’s why there’s been a lot of resistance. The bottom line fact is that lead kills birds. Period. It does. However, lead had not been shown to damage populations of birds, except for the condor. Both sides have a legitimate beef on this one. On the record, I prefer the voluntary system. I choose to shoot copper, the ballistics are fine, they kill deer just fine, and I have no problem with the efficacy of the tool. There’s a whole lot of politics involved.

On September 23, Hank Shaw will collaborate with Chef René Stein at The Rose for a special dinner featuring venison recipes from his latest book: Buck, Buck, Moose—Recipes and Techniques for Cooking Deer, Elk, Antelope, Moose, and Other Antlered Things.

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PJH: Give us a few pearls on cooking the mushrooms we have around here.

HS: Morels have that hydrazine in them, is a precursor to jet fuel, which is why you have to cook them thoroughly. Chantis [chanterelles] don’t dry well; they lose a lot of their character. They’re better pickled,

Venison: Starting with the hunt

PJH: Copper vs. lead bullets?

HS: I shoot copper because I have to; I hunt deer in the condor zone. The bullets have gotten amazingly better. You don’t want to switch back and forth because they have different ballistics. If you shoot bargain basement ammo, which kills a deer just fine, the price difference is profound. If you shoot premium ammo and then go to copper, the cost difference is not that much, like $2 per box. But for someone on a budget who has learned to shoot well with cheap ammo, that’s pretty significant.

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PJH: You’ve traveled extensively in the U.S., meeting people and talking to them about local food. Do you think that the renewed interest in foraging and hunting is a passing trend or is it a reflection that Americans are interested in embracing regional foods?

HS: It is absolutely a trend, but we’ve seen this before. There was an equal trend in foraging in the 60s and 70s fueled by Euell Gibbons. Each time that happens, more people internalize it and make it who they are. Are there thousands of hipsters out there who think it’s cool to go hunt? Sure, but many of them will keep at it. The reason I think it is getting more attention is that we are in a situation as a society where we are less controlled by what we are and what we do. We are losing our privacy day in and day out. We control less about our food system.

We control less about our lives, especially in the food arena. The ability to control something as vital as food, because food is far more than just sustenance, it’s culture; it’s how we define who we are. The ability to take possession of that, to take some control of how you feed your family is enormously empowering. And it’s a way to quietly to strike back at the Monsantos of the world, or the corporations that want you to buy things in boxes.

I’m not asking people to be me because I am kind of an outlier. What I’m asking people is to take some things that light a fire in them when it comes to taking charge of your own sustenance, and make them theirs and make them part of their family. Like my mom did. We didn’t eat off the land but we always picked berries, we always dug clams, we always did little things around the edges to make our meals special. In Wyoming, it’s a little bit more of the state’s culture,

because you eat venison, you eat elk, or pick chokecherries, so there’s already a pretty wide base. I’m willing to bet that everyone who reads this either does something with wild food or knows someone who does. That’s not true if you go to New Jersey.

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the latest happenings in jackson hole

Local Swagger A new show at Pearl Street Bagels and a party in ‘Midtown’ will rock the JH vibe.

BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1

A pjhcalendar.com

new show of landscape paintings by Virginia Moore captures the vibrant power of summer light.

Originally from Virginia, Moore moved to Lander, Wyoming, in 2007 to work for Wyoming PBS. A filmmaker and painter, she travels throughout the state creating art and films based in a landscape she has come to love.

Recently, she has been working near Meeteetse, Wyoming, at the foot of the Absaroka mountain range. “I don’t know what it is about that place,” Moore said.

“The sky is stunning. I could spend a whole summer painting there.”

Several paintings in her new show feature scenes from Absaroka foothills. In one, the artist attempts to convey the ominous, invigorating power of a huge thunderhead on a sunny day.

“That day was so beautiful, I still feel that sense of it,” she said. “There was a lot of energy in the air.”

Working from her own photographs of scenes, Moore paints in her studio, blending impressionism and photorealism. “I think of impressionism as being really brushy, but I tend to blend in my brushstroke,” she said. “My drawing style is evident.”

Moore has lived in Jackson for the past year, climbing and adventuring with her boyfriend. A painting of the Middle Teton documents one of their climbs when they first arrived in the valley.

“The sun was just coming out and my boyfriend was hustling me up the trail,” she remembered. Moore stopped mid trail and took a dozen photographs so she could immortalize the exact scene and light.

Moore says she enjoys presenting offthe-beaten path images of the Tetons and Wyoming. An exhibit of her abstract aerial paintings currently hangs at St. John’s Medical Center.

Virginia Moore’s landscape paintings are on display at Pearl Street Bagels from

Artist Kara Stein says her work 'tells a story of excessiveness, of something or someone who’s been told and categorized as too much.' Her work is on view at Matterhouse. Rob Hollis' blown glass (left) has a home at the neighboring Penny Lane.

September 16 to October 15. Prices range from $60 to $600—in other words, a steal.

Midtown gets down The artisans, shopkeepers and cultural venues around Scott Lane and Alpine Lane are throwing a party Saturday night.

The “Midtown Throw Down,” from 3 to 9 p.m., invites people to soak up the cultural delights from Asymbol, Frost Jackson, Linen Alley, Matterhouse, Atelier Ortega, Penny Lane Cooperative, Sweet Cheeks Meats, and the Hole Bowl.

“This area of Jackson is the new hot spot,” said Frost Salon owner Rob Hollis.

“It’s a locals’ space where businesses can accommodate the locals.”

Hollis and crew are offering $20 blowouts or haircuts and will donate the money to a high school scholarship fund.

Hollis is also a glass artist and his work is featured at Penny Lane Cooperative on Scott Lane. His glass mushrooms sprouting from dried wood capture a modern take on earthy aesthetics.

Penny Lane also displays the work of

Jenny Dowd, Sheila Tintera, Ben Roth, Sage Craighead and others, as well as a killer collection of contemporary clothing for women at reasonable prices.

Penny Lane owner Andi Keenan said that she had a good feeling about her new neighborhood when she was looking for a place for her store. “It isn’t the flashiest neck of the wood, however, it feels like it’s on the cusp of something great,” Keenan said.

Matterhouse design studio is hosting a reception for artist Kara Stein, whose paintings are featured at the studio. Her big, bright abstract works feel at once ultra modern and breezily homey.

Keenan says part of the good juju of the neighborhood is the friendly synergy. “There is camaraderie amongst the businesses in Midtown that makes this place special. We are all out here trying to make our small businesses work for our community.”

The Midtown Throw Down is 3 to 9 p.m.

Saturday, September 17. Park—or ride your bike—to the corner of Scott Lane and Alpine Lane and start strolling. PJH

THIS WEEK: September 14-20, 2016

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free, 307-739-3594 n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164

n Walking Tour of Jackson 10:30am, Center of Town Square, Free, 307-733-2141 n Storytime 10:30am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Teton Toastmasters 12:00pm, Teton County Commissioners Chambers, Free, n Spin 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Murie Center Ranch Tour 2:30pm, Murie Center, Free, 307-739-2246 n Hand and Wheel 4:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $120.00, 307733-6379 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Adobe Photoshop 5:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $200.00, 307-733-7425 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 Zumba 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Mental Health Support Group 6:00pm, Board Room of St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-732-1161 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n Byron’s Guitar at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge, Free, 307-733-4647 n Splash and Go Thursdays 6:00pm, Wilson Bridge, Free, 307-733-3270 n Bacchus & Brushes 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $45.00, 307-7336379 n Western Visions Artist Party 6:00pm, National Museum of Wildlife Art, $100.00, 307-7325412 n Wring From The Heart 6:00pm, Spirit Books. Gift. Life, $35.00, 307-733-3382 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, 307200-9463

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n Barbara Trentham Life Drawing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-7336379 n Wednesday Community Dinner 6:00pm, Presbyterian Church of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-7340388 n Byron’s Guitar at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge, Free, 307-733-4647 n Cribbage 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Disc Golf Doubles 6:00pm, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, 307-733-2292 n Introductory, Conversational Spanish 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $110.00, 307-733-7425 n Putting Your Garden to Bed 6:00pm, Teton County Recreation Center, $15.00, 307-7399025 n Teton Writers: Nanci Turner Steveson 6:00pm, Teton County Library Ordway Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n The Ballad of Cat Ballou 6:30pm, JH Playhouse, $35.00 $65.00, 307-733-6994 n MELT® Neurostrength with Stacy Fisher 6:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $20.00, 307-733-6398 n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 8:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Songwriter’s Alley Open Mic 8:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Chris Jones 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207 n Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Various Locations, 307-733-3316

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n Yoga 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free, 307-739-3594 n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $4.00, 307-739-9025 n Storytime 10:00am, Valley of the Tetons Library Victor, Free, 208-7872201 n Walking Tour of Jackson 10:30am, Center of Town Square, Free, 307-733-2141 n Lap Sit 11:00am, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n In Our Valley Celebrating the beauty of Western Wyoming 12:00pm, Trio Fine Art, Free, 307-734-4444 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Open Build 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-354-5522 n Ceramics Class for Seniors 1:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-733-6379 n Senior Handbuilding Class 1:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Murie Center Ranch Tour 2:30pm, Murie Center, Free, 307-739-2246 n JH People’s Market 4:00pm, The Base of Snow King, Free n Free Solar Astronomy Program 4:00pm, JH People’s Market at the Base of Snow King, Free, 307-413-4779 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Age Friendly Jackson Hole 5:30pm, Senior Center, Free, 307-733-7300 n Yellowstone-Teton Clean Cities Electric Vehicle Show 5:30pm, Grand Teton Distillery Tasting Room, Free, 307-4838207

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MUSIC BOX

Indie Musician Mojo Two regional tour opportunities for Wyoming bands and a new artist directory take off.

BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

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n January, the Wyoming Arts Council announced the launch of several new programs to grow the state’s independent music scene. The first step was hiring Danee Hunzie, WAC’s community development and music specialist. Projects include a mentoring pilot program for bands, an “IMTour,” and a new artist directory.

“Music brings money to a community, it brings money to a state,” Hunzie told Wyoming Public Radio. “The more music you have in a downtown area, the higher the

Libby Creek Original was one of 10 bands chosen for Wyoming Independent Music Initiative's mentoring program. property sales are. And then I think the biggest benefit is, we have to have communities where people want to live and want to stay and want to be a part of them.”

WAC launched the Wyoming Independent Music Initiative (WIMI) this past spring. The mission statement of the intiative is to “strengthen musicians and their art form, to encourage and support venues to host live music, and to develop and nurture community relations. WIMI hopes to use music as a driver for community development, social cohesion, and creating healthy and livable communities in Wyoming all while building and supporting our own talent and venues.”

This included the “Laramie Music Business Incubator” last spring when the council chose 10 Laramie bands to participate in professional development activities. Bands enjoyed business counseling, panels relevant to artists and a showcase at the Gryphon Theatre.

Announced just three weeks ago, WAC put a call out to all Wyoming musicians via its Facebook page, encouraging acts to register themselves for free on the new Artist Directory. The directory will be used, among other

things, to seek musicians for Wyoming’s IMTour Roster.

The IMTour is designed to open up touring opportunities across 13 Western states while supporting underappreciated artists. An outside juror will select 15 Wyoming bands for the IMTour from applications submitted. Both the directory and IMTour application can be found at WyoArts.state.wy.us.

“People [will be] able to locate musicians based on genres, based on location; and the same on the venue side, so you could look at venues based on location, size, fees—all of the things that are important,” Hunzie said of the directory.

Separate from, but morally supported by the Arts Council, the WYOmericana Caravan Tour has also announced a call to Wyoming musicians to apply for its fifth anniversary tour in May/June 2017. Co-founded by Seadar Rose and yours truly, the tour is a rolling representation of Wyoming’s burgeoning songwriter scene.

Described as “a traveling concert circus of sorts” by The New York Times, it features multiple acts performing individual sets—with the encouragement and suspense

WEDNESDAY Vinyl Night (The Rose), Open Mic (Silver Dollar) THURSDAY Major Zephyr (Silver Dollar) FRIDAY Jive Coulis (Town Square Tavern)

Of course Oregon is home of Jive Coulis, a classic rock, funk and jam trio that tours the country in their converted school bus. of ad-libbed, cross-band collaborations—followed by an extended encore that includes all members of the tour on stage. Interested artists should have a Wyoming address, be able to play 40 to 60 minute sets of predominantly original material, and be open to collaboration. Apply at Wyomericana.com before 11 p.m., October 1.

Eco-friendly Oregon rock Hard rocking Ashland, Oregon, trio Jive Coulis just released its fourth full-length album, Dinner Time.

Traveling around the West in their converted school bus that runs on waste vegetable oil gathered from restaurants, the band’s repertoire focuses on original music with a mix of classic rock, funk and jam covers.

Jive Coulis, 10 p.m. Friday at Town Square Tavern. Free.

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Contour Music and Art Festival returns Making history last summer as the valley’s first multi-day music and arts festival, Contour Music Fest

transformed Jackson Hole into a music metropolis. The festival returns this month September 23 to 25. Headliners include March Fourth Marching Band, Glass Spiders: A David Bowie Tribute, and B. Bravo. Other artists include Barisone, Mikey Thunder, Cure For The Common and Yak Attack. Performances will happen all over Jackson at different venues.

Center For The Arts lobby will host free events leading up to the ticketed shows, including a presentation and book signing with Tracking the Wild Coomba author Rob Cocuzzo, a JH Stillworks brunch with DJs throwing down vinyl, the world premiere of Alex Yoder/WRKSHRT’s film, Foothills: The Unlinked Heritage of Snowboarding and tintype photo sessions with Lindsey Ross.

Stay tuned to PJH for more details. PJH 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.

SATURDAY Bootleg Flyer (Silver Dollar), WYOBASS (Town Square Tavern) SUNDAY Stagecoach Band (Stagecoach) MONDAY JH Hootenanny (Dornan’s) TUESDAY One Ton Pig (Silver Dollar), Open Mic (Virginian)

WE SERVICE THEM ALL …

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WELL, THAT HAPPENED n Major Zephyr 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307732-3939 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500 n Chris Jones 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207 n Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Various Locations, 307-733-3316

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free, 307739-3594 n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $4.00, 307739-9025 n Portrait Drawing Club 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307739-9025 n Western Visions Paintings, Sculptures, and Sketch Show & Sale 9:00am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, 307732-5412 n Open Studio & Glass Sale 10:00am, Laurie Thal Glass Art Studio, Free, 307-733-5096 n 2016 Jackson Hole Showcase of Homes 11:00am, Throughout Jackson Hole n Zumba 12:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Jackson Hole Art Auction, Session I 12:00pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 866-5499278 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307739-9025 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, 307-7330450 n Friday Tastings 4:00pm, The Liquor Store of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-733-4466 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 - $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Western Visions 29th Annual Show & Sale 5:00pm, National Museum of Wildlife Art, $150.00, 307-732-5412 n Brewer’s Dinner at the Branding Iron Grill 5:00pm, Grand Targhee Resort, $65.00, 307353-3200 x 1368 n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Friday Night Meditation 6:00pm, Zendler Chiropractic, Free, 307-6998300 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307734-1535 n Byron’s Guitar at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge, Free, 307-733-4647

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#FeedTheArch How Jackson Hole’s viral webcam is fostering a healthy dose of local weirdness.

BY ANDREW MUNZ @AndrewMunz

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hile walking home from work last week, I ran into Jackson Town Council candidate Jessica Chambers. We got on the topic of how Jackson Hole needs a “Keep Jackson Weird” ethos like our friends in Portland, Ore., and Austin, Texas. We need a movement that will celebrate our unique local sensibilities, we concluded. A movement that ignites a revolution of art, music, writing, performance and theatre—one that challenges the status quo and celebrates our differences.

It reminds me of a time before Jackson Hole faced the adversities that it does now.

Before we won the title of most economically disparate place in the U.S., before the housing emergency, the onslaught of fur hoods, second and third home owners, and stacked nonprofit boards, there was a true sense of community weirdness here in the valley. Evidence of that era is still present in the fences around town embellished with skis.

It was a time when Jackson lacked the cabin mansions that spread across the Westbank and instead sported more multi-colored trailer parks, where A&W,

The umbrella crew should sacrifice itself to the arch. the Lame Duck and LeeJay’s were the pinnacle of local cuisine, and neon blue and pink ski suits were considered couture.

The recent popularity of the SeeJH livestream webcam on the southwest corner of the town square has attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers (if not millions at this point), for no reason in particular. Viewers, communicating on a real-time message board (i.e. chat room, if you remember those), point out the beauty in the mundane. They type “RED TRUCK!!!!” anytime a red truck passes by, or “THE ARCH DEMANDS SACRIFICES” as people enter through the antler arches into the square.

Sure, some locals see this as idiotic, but perhaps these viewers are teaching us a lesson in not taking our weird little town for granted.

You guys, it is weird that we have antler arches and wooden boardwalks. It is weird that we have stagecoaches, art walks, cowboys, cougar moms, dabbing sheriffs, knotted pine beams and 20 interchangeable Thai restaurants. So I figured we should celebrate that weirdness and perform for the viewers from all over the world glued to the webcam.

On Thursday a handful of us gathered at the Center for the Arts lawn before we marched in front of the camera. Cady Cox brought white umbrellas from Dancers’ Workshop, which worked out better than we expected. We walked across the Broadway crosswalk in front the camera, opened the umbrellas and proceeded to “feed the arch.” Our antics lasted for a good half hour, assembling our umbrellas in different shapes, opening and closing

them, twirling them while leaping through the air.

The comments that flooded in were weirdly heartening:

"#PRAISEUMBRELLACREW" "YAAAAYYY UMBRELLAS!" "Wow they started perfectly in time to my music" "UMBRELLAS BACK AT IT AGAIN" "This is the most pure and wonderful thing" "I’VE BEEN HERE SINCE MONDAY AND THIS IS HANDS DOWN THE BEST THING THAT HAS HAPPENED"

While we were being praised as heroes online, the tourists that walked around us were rather uncomfortable. They took photos of us, lunged out of the way of our umbrellas and gave us confused looks.

Bland Hoke, one of the organizers of our mob, mentioned we’d established an alternate town square reality in our little mountain town.

As an entertainer myself, there’s something to be said about how important it is to put smiles on people’s faces, even if they’re baffled and unsure of why they’re smiling. The more we can “Keep The Hole Weird” and not be afraid to wave at a webcam or do something odd in public, the more we can hold onto and celebrate the community feel of our town. No matter who is watching. PJH

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n Papa Chan and Johnny C Note 6:00pm, Teton Pines Country Club, Free, 307413-1348 n The Ballad of Cat Ballou 6:30pm, JH Playhouse, $35.00 - $65.00, 307733-6994 n Pam Drews Phillips Plays Jazz 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free, 307-733-8833 n Bootleg Flyer 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307733-2190 n Free Public Stargazing 8:30pm, Rendezvous Park, Free, 1-844-9967827 n Friday Night DJ 10:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500 n Jive Coulis 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-7333886 n Chris Jones 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207 n Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Various Locations, 307-733-3316

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

n JH Farmers Market 8:00am, Town Square, Free, 307-413-6323 n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free, 307739-3594 n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n REFIT® 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Adult Intro to Kayaking Course 9:00am, Rendezvous River Sports, $300.00, 307-739-9025 n Open Studio & Glass Sale 10:00am, Laurie Thal Glass Art Studio, Free, 307-733-5096 n Snow King Local Appreciation Day 11:00am, Snow King Mountain, 307-201-5666 n 2016 Jackson Hole Showcase of Homes 11:00am, Throughout Jackson Hole n Jackson Hole Art Auction, Session II 12:00pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 866-5499278 n Oktoberfest at Grand Targhee 12:00pm, Grand Targhee Resort, Free, 800-TARGHEE n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 - $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307734-1535 n Teton Gravity Research presents TIGHT LOOSE - World Premiere 6:00pm, Teton Village, $15.00 - $20.00, n The Ballad of Cat Ballou 6:30pm, JH Playhouse, $35.00 - $65.00, 307733-6994 n Bootleg Flyer 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307733-2190 n Jameson Black Barrel Music Series 10:30pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500

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CULTURE KLASH PARKing Day Artists transform downtown parking spots into places for people and art this week.

BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1

E

ver since Marcel Duchamp tried to exhibit a urinal at the 1917 Society of Independent Artists exhibition, artists have been interrupting public spaces to ask what is art, and where can it or should it be seen?

Jackson Hole Public Art is the local entity leading the charge of much of the public art in the valley. Very often, it is public art that blends in with its environment, rather than interrupting or clashing with it. On Friday, that’s about to change.

For one day only, Jackson Hole Public Art presents PARKing Day, when artists and creative teams will transform 10 lowly parking spots into spaces where people matter more than hunks of metal.

“I want to explore what our downtown could look like if we focused on humans more than vehicles,” said project manager Shawn Meisl. “Parked cars make us want to leave an area, but a parking space that offers tables and chairs, some shade and plants, might make us linger instead.”

Lingerers will be rewarded with a largescale Scrabble game, a hexi-yurt art lounge, and perhaps a soapbox on top of which people can stand and deliver poems, opinions, songs, or jokes. The parking spaces will be at locales around town.

Participating artists and organizations include Lyndsay McCandless and the Center of Wonder, KJ Morris and shelterDesign, Jenny Wolfrom and Jackson Hole Land Trust, Pierson Land Works, Bland Hoke, Jr., and others.

Hoke didn’t want to reveal details about his allotted parking space, but hinted that it may involve the now famous town square live webcam. As readers may know, the cam has been “interrupted” a few times — once quite spontaneously by deputy sheriff Kirt Drumheller, who dabbed for the camera. And more recently by a flash mob led by PJH columnist Andrew Munz (more on page 20).

Pierson Land Works’ parking space will be a play on the perception of scale.

“We intend to create a life-size, ‘Table Zen Garden’ with rakes, sand, rocks and all,” explained Robert Infanger, Pierson landscape architect. “The idea is to provide an interactive piece that is a glimpse into the design of small, outdoor space. Visitors will be able to literally step into the sand

An image from Washington DC’s 2015 Park(ing) Day event. and rake out a six-foot by ten-foot design of their own.”

According to McCandless, an important aspect of public art events is that viewers become part of the art. “I am a big fan of participating in art experiences, not just being an observer,” she said.

This particular art experience doubles as civic engagement, noted Carrie Geraci Jackson Hole Public Art’s director.

“Sometimes civic duty means showing up at the town hall to make a public comment or attending a candidate forum, but in this case, community members get to be creative in how they express ideas for using public space,” she said.

PARKing Day originated in San Francisco in 2005 when the design studio Rebar tried out their idea for re-imagining metered parking spaces in the city.

“Urban inhabitants worldwide recognize the need for new approaches to making cities,” said Rebar principal Matthew Passmore. “The planning strategies that have led to traffic congestion, pollution and poor health in cities everywhere do not reflect contemporary values, nor are they sustainable. PARK(ing) Day raises these issues and demonstrates that even temporary projects can improve the character and quality of the city.”

If this sounds a little revolutionary, it is.

And people in cities across the world love it. In 2011, more than 900 mini “parks” popped up in parking spaces in 160 cities on six continents.

“PARK(ing) Day has been a mainstay of cities across the U.S. for many years now,” Meisl said. “For JH Public Art, it is a natural extension of our exploration of how community input can create functional and beautiful installations that reflect the desired look and feel of our public spaces.”

The event comes with its own manifesto, created by Rebar. The design studio

says its work is rooted in something they call tactical urbanism.

“Tactical urbanism is the use of modest or temporary revisions to urban space to seed structural environmental change,” the manifesto proclaims.

“Our use of tactics is based on a belief that deep organizing structures (social, cultural, economic and otherwise) have a two-way relationship with the physical environment: they both produce the environment and are re-produced by it.”

Citing French philosophers like Pierre Bourdieu and Guy Debord, Rebar has highbrow intentions behind its street level interventions. “When Rebar considers a parking space, the allocation of space to sidewalk or utilities, or the vocabulary of materials and symbols in the city, we think of these things as engaging in a dialogue,” the manifesto states. The dialogue, they maintain, is with the status quo tools that humans use to explain how the world works.

In other words, by reimagining a parking space, we allow ourselves to take a look at our value systems. For instance, why is it so important to us to be able to park right outside our destination, more important, in fact, than our desire to stop and sit on a bench and enjoy the sky.

Meisl hopes PARKing Day will be a playful way for Jackson to ask itself some important questions. “These kinds of interactive events help us consider new ideas, and examine our community values,” she said.

In addition to changing the function of a parking space, McCandless says there is value in the collective impact of creative thinkers.

“It is infectious and will hopefully inspire others to do things out of the norm,” she said. PJH

n Chris Jones 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307 733-2207 n Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Various Locations, 307-7333316

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free, 307-739-3594 n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n REFIT® 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Yoga 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Walking Tour of Jackson 10:30am, Center of Town Square, Free, 307-733-2141

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n Yoga 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free, 307-739-3594 n Dance & Fitness Classes All Day 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $4.00, 307-739-9025 n Create with Me: Ages 2 & 3 with caregiver 9:15am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $65.00, 307-733-6379

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

n Lunchtime Learning: Nutrition Reset: A Healthy Fall Ahead 12:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-264 n Spin 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Murie Center Ranch Tour 2:30pm, Murie Center, Free, 307-739-2246 n Writer 3:30pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Zumba 4:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 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 Total Fitness 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Green Drinks 5:30pm, The Wort Hotel, Free, 307-733-3316 n Teton Trail Runners 6:00pm, Location Varies Check Schedule, Free, n Byron’s Guitar at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge, Free, 307-733-4647 n Cribbage 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n GLAZE LIKE A PRO: RAKU EVENING 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $56.00, 307-7336379 n Geologists of JH: How Satellites Help Us Interpret Our World 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-264 n Taller: Hacer un currículo Centro cómputo 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n The Ballad of Cat Ballou 6:30pm, JH Playhouse, $35.00 $65.00, 307-733-6994 n Bluegrass Tuesdays featuring One Ton Pig 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Stackhouse 8:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Chris Jones 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

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n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free, 307-739-3594 n Adult Intro to Kayaking Course 9:00am, Rendezvous River Sports, $300.00, 307-739-9025 n Summer Closing Day 9:00am, Grand Targhee Resort, Free, 800-TARGHEE n Open Studio & Glass Sale 10:00am, Laurie Thal Glass Art Studio, Free, 307-733-5096 n Art Brunch Gallery Walk 11:00am, Art Association Gallery, Free, 307-733-6379 n NFL Sunday Football 11:00am, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307.353.2300 n From the Back of the Stacks 12:00pm, KHOL 89.1, Free n Quilting 12:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $100.00, 307-733-7425 n Angels & Abundance Workshop 3:30pm, Spirit Books. Gifts.

Life., $45.00, 307-733-3382 n Teton Gravity Research presents TIGHT LOOSE 5:00pm, The Center Theater, $10.00 - $15.00, 307-733-4900 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free, 307733-4407 n Open Mic 9:00pm, Pinky G’s Pizzeria, Free, 307-734-7465 n Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Various Locations, 307-7333316

n Kindercreations 10:30am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $70.00, 307-7336379 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Murie Center Ranch Tour 2:30pm, Murie Center, Free, 307-739-2246 n Maker Monday’s 3:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library Victor, Free, 208-7872201 n After School Kidzart Club: Grade K-2 3:30pm, Center for the Arts, $150.00, n Handbuilding Plus!

3:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $100.00, 307733-6379 n Mosaic Madness 4:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $60.00, 307-7336379 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Pastured Poultry Workshop 5:00pm, Teton County Extension Office, $20.00, 208-3542961 n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornan’s, Free, 307733-2415 n Stained Glass - Design with Light 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $160.00, 307733-6379 n The Ballad of Cat Ballou 6:30pm, JH Playhouse, $35.00 $65.00, 307-733-6994 n Chris Jones 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

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THE FOODIE FILES Play the Curried Game East meets West with this exotic preparation for game meats.

BY ANNIE FENN, M.D. @jacksonfoodie

HOLLY A. HEYSER

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hen my copy of Buck, Buck, Moose: Recipes and Techniques for Cooking Deer, Elk, Antelope, Moose and Other Antlered Things by Hank Shaw came in the mail, I went straight to the chapter on ground venison. Like most hunting families, we happen to have a lot of ground meat in the freezer. And just in case all the elements of the hunt line up perfectly for my husband and his bow, we’ll have an elk coming soon.

All this means that it behooves me to get to the bottom of my freezer and make room. Shaw’s chapter on meatballs, burgers, and other ground meat dishes is just what my wild game recipe repertoire hungered for. There’s a recipe for mushroom burgers using venison, fresh mushrooms, and dried morels. Morels! If only I had some put up this year. Shaw also reveals his secret to making perfect venison smashburgers. (Hint: it’s all about the fineness of the grind and the percentage of fat.)

But the recipes that I am immediately drawn to are the meatballs. Rolling meat into balls and simmering them in a bubbling pot seems to be part of my DNA. My Sicilian grandparents were raised in a culture of frugality in which meat made a rare appearance at the table. By mixing meatballs with bread crumbs, finely chopped vegetables, herbs, garlic, and whatever tidbits of food needed to be used up, Sicilians were masters of stretching a meal to feed many mouths. My grandmother placed two raisins inside each meatball “to keep them moist.” I can’t help but think she just had a lot of raisins in her larder.

Given the delicious nip in the air, I was immediately drawn to Shaw’s Indian Kofta Meatball Curry. I love making curry, especially with wild game meats, but I have never rolled ground venison into balls and simmered them in an Indian curry sauce. For this, Shaw’s new cookbook has already paid for itself in my mind.

If you are also a fan of making curries, you probably already have the spices for this recipe on hand—garam masala, fennel seed, ground fenugreek, turmeric and a good curry powder. It’s important that the spices are fresh so this would be a good time to take a spice cabinet inventory.

Another ingredient in this recipe may be new to you: chickpea flour. The meatballs are coated in chickpea flour then pan-fried in oil before being added to the curry. Shaw gives you permission to skip this step and just gently place your meatballs directly into the curry, but I suggest you give the chickpea flour coating a try.

For the last few years I’ve fallen hard for chickpea flour.

The first thing I ever tasted made with chickpea flour was a fritter called panelle from the streets of Palermo, Sicily, where it is a local specialty. I have been obsessed with the ingredient ever since. Anyone who is gluten-free is probably already cooking with chickpea flour, also called gram flour or besan. I love it for its nutty flavor and because it is a nutrient dense food high in protein, iron and fiber. Plain old white flour just doesn’t compare.

The Jackson Hole Foodie has just the recipe to get your autumn simmering: Indian Kofta Meatball Curry.

Chickpea flour can be stirred into lentil stews, used to coat vegetable fritters before frying, and folded into falafel batter. My favorite use of chickpea flour, however, is to make another Sicilian street food called a farinata, which is a thin, custardy pancake like a crépe. These savory farinata can be used to scoop up a fresh pea relish, wrap around ricotta and sautéed vegetables, and I often roll them around scrambled eggs as I head out the door for a grab and go breakfast.

All of this is to convince you that a bag of chickpea flour is a good investment (it actually costs only a few dollars) and will not go to waste in your kitchen. And if I seem to have Sicily on the brain it’s because I am leaving tomorrow to dive deep into the food and wine of the triangular little island off the toe of Italy’s boot. Indeed, by the time you read this, I hope to be standing on the street in Palermo with a hot panelle in my hand. I’ll be sure to quiz the locals on making chickpea fritters and pancakes so I’ll have some authentic recipes to share when I get back.

Hank Shaw is in Jackson for a book signing and special venison dinner at The Rose September 23. Win a copy of Buck, Buck, Moose at jacksonholefoodie.com.

Indian Kofta Meatball Curry Recipe from Buck, Buck, Moose: Recipes and Techniques for Cooking Deer, Elk, Antelope, Moose and Other Antlered Things.

If you don’t have time to make the curry sauce from scratch, use store-bought Kashmiri curry in a jar.

Serves 4 to 6

Meatballs

1 ½ pounds finely ground venison 1 small onion, grated on a box grater A 2-inch piece of ginger, minced and mashed into a rough puree ¼ cup chopped cilantro 1 tablespoon garam masala 2 teaspoons ground fennel seed 1 egg 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup chickpea flour (optional) 1 cup vegetable oil (optional)

Curry (or 2 jars of store-bought Kashmiri curry sauce) A 3-inch piece of ginger, minced 1 onion, minced

2 small, hot chilies, such as cayenne, chopped 5 garlic cloves, minced ¼ cup clarified butter (ghee), mustard oil, or vegetable oil One 6-ounce can of tomato paste 2 teaspoons garam masala 2 teaspoons curry powder or turmeric ½ teaspoon fenugreek (optional) ½ teaspoon cornstarch ½ cup plain, full-fat yogurt

If you’re using store-bought curry, get it simmering in a pot large enough to hold all the meatballs. Alternatively, if you’re making your own curry, whisk the cornstarch with the yogurt, and set aside at room temperature.

Now you need to turn the ginger, onions, chiles, and garlic into a paste. You can do this several ways. Most traditional would be to pound it into submission with a mortar and pestle. Your other option is to put everything in a blender with just enough water to get the blades to run normally. The blender method sounds easier, but it’s not; if you put too much water into the mix, you’ll wreck the next step, which is cooking the paste in butter.

When you have the vegetables mashed into a paste, fry them in the ghee over medium-low heat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Don’t let it brown. Mix in the tomato paste and turn the heat to medium. Fill the tomato paste can with water and stir that in. Stir in the garam masala, curry powder, and fenugreek, if using. Add enough water to make the curry into a thin gravy, and bring it to a gentle simmer.

To make the meatballs, mix all the ingredients together, and form into balls the size of a walnut. You can either cook them entirely in the curry, or coat them in the chickpea flour and fry them in the oil.

When the last meatball goes into the curry, simmer everything for 10 minutes or so to make sure everything’s cooked through. Turn off the heat and when the curry stops bubbling, add the yogurt by folding it in. Serve with long-grain rice. PJH

After delivering babies and practicing gynecology for 20 years in Jackson, Annie traded her life as a doctor to pursue her other passion: writing about food, health, sustainability and the local food scene. Follow her snippets of mountain life, with recipes, at jacksonholefoodie.com and on Instagram @jacksonholefoodie.

BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Backyard Bottles Try a Mapema or a Medalla during the last days of BBQ bliss.

BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1

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hances are pretty good you’ll find yourself at a backyard bash this month as Jacksonites enjoy the last bits of BBQ weather. And while cold beer is a no-brainer for cookouts, wine selections can be a bit trickier.

The average backyard barbecue offers a wide array of flavors and wine-pairing opportunities, from smoked and grilled meats to buttery corn on the cob, creamy potato salad and coleslaw, tangy barbecue sauce, grilled veggies, watermelon and much more. So, the way I see it, you’ve got two options when serving wine at a cookout: You could always take the path of least resistance and just serve one all-purpose white wine and one versatile red. Or, even

easier, simply buy a few bottles of Rosé and call it a day. The second option is to try to match a range of different wines to specific dishes. Obviously, this is a rougher road, but one that will give you the chance to turn your outdoor fête into an enjoyable and informative wine-tasting experience.

There are no wrongs or rights here. As always, you should drink whatever you like with whatever you’re eating. Don’t overthink the simple pleasures of a get-together with family or friends. Having said that, here are some suggestions for cookout food and wine pairings featuring wines I’ve been tasting lately.

For grilled meats, tomato-based barbecue sauces, burgers, pizzas and such, I often turn to inexpensive, light and fruity Garnacha from Spain. Spanish Garnacha seems to take especially well to foods with a bit of smoke. There’s a wide assortment of good Garnacha available in the wine stores here, and you might even decide to turn your barbecue into a Garnachatasting opportunity. Some specific ones I like include Tres Picos ($18.99), Zabrin Atteca ($16.99), Gardacho Vieja ($11.99) and Lo Brujo ($8.99).

American Zinfandel is another good barbecue wine, although I’d seek out lower-alcohol versions; you don’t really want to be drinking wines that are 15 percent

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alcohol-by-volume in the sun.

A solid go-to California Zin is Ravenswood Vintner’s Blend ($12.99), which is big enough to stand up to smoky ribs, grilled steaks and the like, but has rich fruit flavors and smooth tannins. Or, if you’d care to spend more for one of the best Zins you’ll ever uncork, I’d suggest treating yourself to a bottle of Bucklin Old Hill Ranch Zinfandel ($29.99), from gnarly old Sonoma vines that predate the American Civil War. Rosé wines are a slamdunk for barbecues and other outdoor outings.

And again, I’d turn to Will Bucklin and his outstanding Old Hill Ranch Rosé ($20), a bone-dry blend of Grenache, Zinfandel, Mourvedre, Syrah and Carignane. I really like Rosé with chicken dishes, whether cold chicken salad or chicken from the grill with barbecue sauce.

I also recently had the opportunity to taste Atrea Skid Rosé ($15.97) in Sonoma. It’s a substantial wine made from 86 percent Malbec and 14 percent Grenache. It’s a perfect burger buddy. Other good Rosé choices include Zepaltas ($13.99) and Château d’Aqueria Tavel ($18.99).

Crisp Sauvignon Blanc is especially suited to salads, grilled chicken or fish, vegetables and even asparagus or artichokes, which are well-known wine enemies. I’ve been enjoying a couple of South American versions lately: Mapema ($12.99), from Argentina, and Chile’s Santa Rita Medalla Real Gran Reserva ($15.28). For grilled pork or lamb kabobs, I suggest a delicious Greek white wine that is well off most wine lovers’ radar: Santorini Sigalas Assyrtiko ($21.91). It’s fruity with good mineral underpinnings, and acidic enough to cut through creamy or buttery potato salad. PJH

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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 5:306:0pm, 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.

ELEANOR’S 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.

LOTUS CAFE 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 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.

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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 Large Specialty Pizza ADD: Wings (8 pc)

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Medium Pizza (1 topping) Stuffed Cheesy Bread

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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.

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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.

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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.

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307.733.3242 TETON VILLAGE

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Meeteetse Chocolatier brings their unique blend of European style chocolates paired with “Wyomingesque” flavors. Prickly Pear Cactus Fruit, Sage, Huckleberry and Sarsaparilla lead off a decadent collection of truffles, Belgian chocolates and hand made caramel. Sample Single Origin and Organic chocolates at our Tasting Station. Open Weekends, 265 W. Broadway. 307-413-8296. meeteetsechocolatier.com

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If I Knew Then…

One woman’s revelations before death offer lessons for the living.

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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.

y path crossed with Lea’s about a decade ago when she contacted me for a soul reading.

That same year she also came to a workshop I facilitated. We lost contact after that. Fast-forward 10 years, and out of the blue there was a message on my answering machine from her saying she was dying of cancer. She wondered if we could talk. Of course I called her.

The result was a series of phone conversations, which included, among other things, interviewing her about her experience of dying. She was delighted that I would do this and right away said, “Oh, if only everyone could live their lives knowing what I know now.”

I hope you find this sample of excerpts from our conversations thought provoking and heart-opening.

Carol: Do you have any special insights that have come to you during this difficult time?

Lea: The biggest gift to me in this cancer is a profound sense of connection with all of humanity. Now I am facing my death, which makes me totally aware that I am part of this long, unbroken chain of human living and dying.

For the first time in my life I feel a very deep experience of connection with all people and with all life.

Carol: You said that you are now aware of things beyond this reality. Can you say more about this?

Lea: I have never been psychic, but now I am no longer locked into time the way most people are in their worldly lives. My current state is one of being here and not here, and with that I have the uncanny ability to immediately see into the psyche of everyone I encounter, including strangers. This has never

happened to me before. I know what they are going to say before they speak.

I also know what they are not saying out loud. And I can see exactly what their patterns are and therefore how their lives will unfold, unless they make some important changes. There would be no more secrets or secret agendas if everyone could dip into non-linear time, like I am able to do now. That would be a good thing.

Carol: Is there more?

Lea: I also know in advance when things are not going to happen. Like, when I hear a weather forecast, I know if it will or will not play out the way they are predicting. Or if someone says they’ll stop by for a visit, I know if they are not going to show up. That’s really nice; I don’t even bother preparing.

There is more, but it all boils down to my having less of a grip on time on the clock, and more of an opening to my soul. This means that everyone has these abilities, and you don’t need to be dying to expand what’s possible.

Carol: I have a hunch you have another big insight to share now.

Lea: Yes, I do. I am simultaneously experiencing a very big picture of life, along with the little picture here in this Earth reality. I already have the demonstration that my consciousness goes way beyond my body, because I am in a skeletal body I have more awareness than when my body was strong and healthy.

In the larger view, I experience that my life and consciousness have no beginning and no end. In the little picture, the end is already here. Seeing the big picture has taken away all my old fears and issues.

When I do transition, I will leave with a grateful heart and will be curious to discover and fully experience my soul in new ways.

Postscript It was an honor and also very humbling to have spoken with Lea before she passed. I came away with the wish that we all have the grace to live our lives and to live our dying with such expanded awareness, presence and inner peace.

The full transcript of our conversation can be found in Chapter 10 of my book, WHY WAIT—Wisdom for Life from Those Who Have Passed Over. PJH

Carol Mann is a longtime Jackson resident, radio personality, former Grand Targhee Resort owner, author, and clairvoyant.

Got a Cosmic Question? Email carol@yourcosmiccafe.com

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Caution: You may soon be exposed to outbreaks of peace, intelligence, and mutual admiration. Sweet satisfactions might erupt unexpectedly. Rousing connections could become almost routine, and useful revelations may proliferate. Are you prepared to fully accept this surge of grace?

Or will you be suspicious of the chance to feel soulfully successful? I hope you can find a way to at least temporarily adopt an almost comically expansive optimism. That might be a good way to ensure you’re not blindsided by delight.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “Brainwashing” is a word with negative connotations. It refers to an intensive indoctrination that scours away a person’s convictions and replaces them with a new set of rigid beliefs. But I’d like to propose an alternative definition for your use in the coming days. According to my astrological analysis, you now have an extraordinary power to thoroughly wash your own brain—thereby flushing away toxic thoughts and trashy attitudes that might have collected there. I invite you to have maximum fun as you make your inner landscape clean and sparkly.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) My astrological divinations suggest that a lightning storm is headed your way, metaphorically speaking. But it shouldn’t inconvenience you much—unless you do the equivalent of getting drunk, stumbling out into the wasteland, and screaming curses toward heaven. (I don’t recommend that.) For best results, consider this advice: Take shelter from the storm, preferably in your favorite sanctuary. Treat yourself to more silence and serenity than you usually do.

Meditate with the relaxed ferocity of a Zen monk high on Sublime Emptiness. Got all that? Now here’s the best part: Compose a playfully edgy message to God, telling Her about all the situations you want Her to help you transform during the next 12 months.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Novelist Tom Robbins said this about my work: “I’ve seen the future of American literature and its name is Rob Brezsny.” Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei testified, “Rob Brezsny gets my nomination for best prophet in a starring role. He’s a script doctor for the soul.” Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Jason Mraz declared, “Rob Brezsny writes everybody’s favorite astrology column. I dig him for his powerful yet playful insights, his poetry and his humor.” Are you fed up with my boasts yet, Sagittarius? I will spare you from further displays of egomania under one condition: You have to brag about yourself a lot in the coming days—and not just with understated little chirps and peeps. Your expressions of self-appreciation must be lush, flamboyant, exultant, witty, and sincere.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) By normal standards, your progress should be vigorous in the coming weeks. You may score a new privilege, increase your influence, or forge a connection that boosts your ability to attract desirable resources. But accomplishments like those will be secondary to an even more crucial benchmark: Will you understand yourself better? Will you cultivate a more robust awareness of your strengths and weaknesses, your needs and your duties? Will you get clear about what you have to learn and what you have to jettison?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) I’m confident that you would never try to sneak through customs with cocaine-laced goat meat or a hundred live tarantulas or some equally prohibited contraband. Please use similar caution as you gear up for your rite of passage or metaphorical border crossing. Your intentions should be pure and your conscience clear. Any baggage you take with you should be free of nonsense and delusions. To ensure the best possible outcome, arm yourself with the highest version of brave love that you can imagine.

L.A.TIMES “DOCTOR HOODOO” By Paul Coulter

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Should you be worried if you have fantasies of seducing a deity, angel, or superhero? Will it be weird if some night soon you dream of an erotic rendezvous with a mermaid, satyr, or centaur? I say no. In fact, I’d regard events like these as healthy signs. They would suggest that you’re ready to tap into mythic and majestic yearnings that have been buried deep in your psyche. They might mean your imagination wants to steer you toward experiences that will energize the smart animal within you. And this would be in accordance with the most exalted cosmic tendencies.

Try saying this affirmation: “I am brilliantly primal. I am wildly wise. I am divinely surprising.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19) What should you do if your allies get bogged down by excess caution or lazy procrastination? Here’s what I advise: Don’t confront them or berate them. Instead, cheerfully do what must be done without their help. And what action should you take if mediocrity begins to creep into collaborative projects? Try this: Figure out how to restore excellence, and cheerfully make it happen. And how should you proceed if the world around you seems to have fallen prey to fear-induced apathy or courage-shrinking numbness? My suggestion: Cheerfully kick the world’s butt—with gentle but firm good humor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) For the foreseeable future, your main duty is to be in love.

Rowdily and innocently in love. Meticulously and shrewdly in love. In love with whom or what? Everyone and everything—or at least with as much of everyone and everything as you can manage. I realize this is a breathtaking assignment that will require you to push beyond some of your limitations and conjure up almost superhuman levels of generosity. But that’s exactly what the cosmic omens suggest is necessary if you want to break through to the next major chapter of your life story.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) What do you hope to be when you are all grown up,

1 Agcy. that does searches 4 Curry spice 9 Letter-moving gp.

13 Kind of cookie?

18 Song and dance 21 Auction cry 22 Have second thoughts 23 Wimpish newspaper writer?

25 Patsy’s “Ab Fab” pal 26 Divvy up 27 Bourbon and others: Abbr.

28 Small birds with complex songs 29 Fit the facts 30 Home on the range 32 Mine, in Marseilles 34 Winter Palace resident 36 Corleone family member providing free downloads?

44 Bowlers, e.g.

48 Biol. or chem.

49 With 17-Down, warning cry 50 Heather family shrubs 51 Blew it 53 Bermuda Triangle locale: Abbr.

55 Comes down with 58 “JAG” spin-off 59 Succeed after leaving the band?

64 Katniss’ “Hunger Games” ally 65 South Carolina river 66 Foreword 67 Closet concern 69 Muddy home 70 Game ragout 72 Fields who founded Mrs. Fields 74 Carpet manufacturers’ contraptions 76 It’s generally higher on the hwy.

78 Fuzz 80 Bring up 82 Vehicle with caterpillar treads 85 Jays and Rays 87 Gardening during karate training?

90 Jupiter’s wife 91 Emperor after Claudius 92 “Your point being ... ?”

93 Driver’s choice 94 Good-for-nothing 96 PGA part: Abbr.

100 __ de coeur: pained outburst 102 Insignificant 103 Old Aspen music maker?

108 Desolate 109 Hammett hound 110 Soft sweater 115 Ocean ring 119 Champagne buckets, e.g.

121 Medicinal amt.

124 “America’s Funniest Home Videos” host 125 Craze 126 “The comedian just wasn’t funny”?

129 Long-distance commuter’s community 130 Actress Gershon 131 Capital on the Danube 132 Japanese-American 133 Painful rebuke 134 Common thing?

135 Came upon

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1 Late October option 2 Move furtively 3 Quick 4 It’s driven 5 “The Haj” novelist 6 Zoo barrier 7 “And how!”

8 Just out 9 Log-in requirements 10 Loudness unit 11 Statue base 12 Black Sea port 13 One on the stand 14 Highway safety org. since 1980 15 All fired up

Gemini? An irresistible charmer who is beloved by many and owned by none? A master multi-tasker who’s paid well for the art of never being bored? A versatile virtuoso who is skilled at brokering truces and making matches and tinkering with unique blends? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to entertain fantasies like these—to dream about your future success and happiness. You are likely to generate good fortune for yourself as you brainstorm and play with the pleasurable possibilities. I invite you to be as creative as you dare.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

“Dear Soul Doctor: I have been trying my best to body-surf the flood of feelings that swept me away a few weeks ago. So far I haven’t drowned! That’s good news, right? But I don’t know how much longer I can stay afloat. It’s hard to maintain so much concentration. The power and volume of the surge doesn’t seem to be abating. Are there any signs that I won’t have to do this forever? Will I eventually reach dry land?-Careening Crab.” Dear Careening: Five or six more days, at the most: You won’t have to hold out longer than that. During this last stretch, see if you can enjoy the ride more. Re-imagine your journey as a rambunctious adventure rather than a harrowing ordeal. And remember to feel grateful: Not many people have your capacity to feel so deeply.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

If there can be such a thing as a triumphant loss, you will achieve it sometime soon. If anyone can slink in through the back door but make it look like a grand entrance, it’s you. I am in awe of your potential to achieve auspicious reversals and medicinal redefinitions. Plain old simple justice may not be available, but I bet you’ll be able to conjure up some unruly justice that’s just as valuable. To assist you in your cagey maneuvers, I offer this advice: Don’t let your prowess make you overconfident, and always look for ways to use your so-called liabilities to your advantage.

16 Eye care solution brand 17 See 49-Across 19 Crowning 20 Tiny particles 24 “Forget it!”

31 Daybreak goddess 33 Printemps period 35 Chariot-riding god 37 Sweet Sixteen org.

38 Capone colleague 39 Starch-producing palm tree 40 Press release?

41 Online security feature 42 “Something to Talk About” singer 43 Bacon serving?

44 Half a matched set 45 Atlas stat 46 Like some organisms modified in labs 47 Anatomical walls 52 Fixates (on) 54 “Casino Royale” Bond girl Vesper __ 56 20th-century blight victim 57 Item on a belt 60 Spherical opening?

61 “SNL” castmate of Ferrell and Gasteyer 62 Name of eight popes 63 Pulitzer-winning Ferber novel 64 Calls 68 Baloney, to Brits 71 As to 73 Sister of Osiris 75 Data transmitter 76 Very important 77 Demotion in 2006 news 79 Bluejacket 81 Methuselah’s father 83 A bit cracked 84 Color quality 86 Hornswoggle

88 Zen riddle 89 Doughnuts, shapewise 91 Captain of the Nautilus 95 Class guides 97 Astronomer’s aid 98 Pert 99 It might be picked 101 “__ tree falls ... ” 104 Circular gaskets 105 Straighten out 106 Simple life some strive to get back to 107 Tech. schools 111 Highlands native 112 Early Irish alphabet 113 “Still Me” memoirist 114 Bothered big-time 115 “Right on!”

116 Curbside call 117 Responsibility 118 Old Italian capital 120 Italian hot spot 122 Cross 123 Kitties 127 It has an eye on television 128 “Shame on thee!”

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