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April 2018

St. John’s Calendar of Events Most events are free unless otherwise noted.

Health & Wellness

Support Groups Cancer Support Group for Patients Survivors, and Caregivers

Teton Mammas For new babies and their families Wednesday, April 11, 1 – 2:30 pm Moose Wapiti Classroom St. John’s Medical Center

Led by cancer nurse Beth Shidner, RN, OCN, and social worker Lynnette Gartner, MSW, LCSW For information, call 307.739.6175 Thursday, April 5 !

Thursday, April 19 NEW Growing Through Grief 4-5 pm An 8-week structured support Professional Office Building group led by St. John’s Hospice Suite 206 social worker Oliver Goss, LCSW. Begins Thursday, April 12 For information, call 307.739.6195 Noon–1 pm

Teton Parkies (For those affected by Parkinson’s Disease)

Gather for mutual support, discussion of disease and therapies, and more.

Mondays, 2–3 pm Power Up for Parkinson’s Senior Center of JH Tuesday, April 24, 5:30 pm Jackson Whole Grocer Community Room Contact Elizabeth at 307.733.4966, 614.271.7012, or epgerhard@gmail.com !

NEW Children’s Grief Support

Program

For children ages 5 and up who have experienced the death of a loved one. Led by St. John’s Hospice social worker Oliver Goss, LCSW. Tuesdays, April 10, May 8, and June 12, 5:45-7 pm Jackson Hole Children’s Museum 174 N King St, Jackson

To register, call 307.739.7463 by noon on the day of the group.

Grief Support Group Led by St. John’s Hospice social worker Oliver Goss, LCSW Drop-ins welcome, but please call ahead Wednesday, April 11, Noon – 1 pm Wednesday, April 25, Noon – 1 pm Professional Office Building Suite 114, 555 E. Broadway, Entrance C Call 307.739.7463

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Register by April 11 Call 307.739.7463

Memory Loss Support Group For those suffering from persistent memory problems; family members and caregivers welcome Thursday, April 12 Noon – 1 pm

For information, call 307.739.7434

Weight Management Support Group Open to everyone interested in weight loss and those considering (or who have had) bariatric surgery Thursday, April 19, 4 pm Professional Office Building Suite 206

For information, call 307.739.7634

Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Group in Spanish In Spanish! ¡En Español!

Zumba with Elvis. Family friendly.

Mondays and Wednesdays 5:30 – 6:30 pm Moose-Wapiti Classroom St. John’s Medical Center

Childbirth Education Classes

Information for people considering or scheduled for spine surgery Tuesday, April 3, 3-4:30 pm Monday, April 9, 1-2:30 pm Tuesday, April 17, 3-4:30 pm Monday, April 23, 1-2:30 pm Physical Therapy Room St. John’s Medical Center

For expectant couples • 5-week class Tuesdays, April 17–May 15 6-8 pm • One-day Boot Camp Saturday, April 21 8:30 am–5 pm Moose-Wapiti Classroom St. John’s Medical Center

Please register by calling 307.739.6199

To register, call 307.739.6175

Joint Classes

Lunchtime Learning “The Mind-Gut Connection” Dr. Emeran Meyer April 17 noon-1 pm Moose Wapiti Classroom St. John’s Medical Center

For information, call 307.739.7466

Brainworks Boot Camp April 30-May 5 Monday–Friday: 8–10 am Tuesday & Thursday: 5–9 pm Saturday: 10 am–noon $300/person; $500/couple; $250 for those who have taken the class previously.

Register by April 20; call 307.739.7434

Foundation Casino Night Benefits Meals with a Mission Thursday, April 26 5:30 pm Elks Lodge

$20 at door; kids under 12 eat free.

For information, call 307.739.7678

Update on the New Living Center with Anderson Mason Dale Architects Watch for date and location at ANewHomeforaNewAge.org

Spine Classes

Information for people considering or scheduled for joint replacement surgery Thursday, April 5, 8-9:30 am Tuesday, April 10, 4-5:30 pm Thursday, April 19, 8-9:30 am Tuesday, April 24, 4-5:30 pm Physical Therapy Room St. John’s Medical Center

Please register by calling 307.739.6199

Auxiliary Monthly Luncheon “Strategic Direction and Advances in Cancer Care,” presented by SJMC board chair Cynthia Hogan, and radiation oncologist Ryan Bair, MD. Thursday, April 5, noon Moose-Wapiti Classroom St. John’s Medical Center “Email Phishing and Internet Scams,” presented by Lance Spranger, St. John’s CIO Thursday, May 3, noon Boardroom St. John’s Medical Center

For information, call 307.739.7517

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These are the waning days of March, and no fooling, this Sunday is April First.

You would think that sunny spring weather would be coming any day now, but so far, March of 2018 has been cooler, wetter and snowier than normal. We have had more than twice the average precipitation in town, as of this past Monday. Average snowfall in March is 11 inches, and we currently have had 15 inches this month, with a few days left to jack that up a bit higher.

It looks like March 2018’s average low temperatures will end up below normal, thanks in part to an unusually cold first three weeks of the month. There were three days in there that had below zero temps, not that usual in March. Average low temperatures this week are right around 20-degrees. The coldest temperature ever recorded in town during this week is 17-degrees below zero. That was notched on March 28th, 1944.

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Average high temperatures this March will also tally-up to be well below normal. The average high temperature this week is 45-degrees, up a couple of degrees from last week’s average high. The record high temperature this week is 70-degrees, which happened on March 31st, 2004. That is the earliest in the year it has ever reached 70-degrees in Jackson. March of 2004 was probably the hottest March on record, breaking many high temperature readings late in the month.

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THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.23 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 4.21 inches (1995) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 11 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 26.5 inches (1985)

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n the spring, the snowpack typically stabilizes and the amount of terrain which skiers and snowboarders can travel safely increases. Buried problem layers are unreactive until a rapid change occurs. Although, when in the mountains one should never let their guard down. As the seasons change there will be moments of transition, where the stable snowpack could suddenly become very unstable.

This time of year the snowpack at low elevations is shrinking, but the good news is above 9,000 feet the snowpack continues to deepen. This season’s 450 inches of snowfall and snow depths of eight to 10 feet are above average. As snow continues to fall, surfaces are refreshed and the new snow will morph into the existing snowpack.

Even though the spring snowpack is mostly stable,

it is still important to be patient and wait at least 24 hours after a significant snowfall before venturing onto terrain susceptible to avalanches. When assuming risks in high traffic areas, be mindful not to endanger others. The increasing numbers of backcountry travelers within the mountains pose a challenge, but it is essential for safety. Of course, the other side of the coin is to always be aware of terrain above you and limit exposure.

The etiquette of spring skiing is timing. When properly respected, these practices will result in good conditions, safe skiing, and preserve slopes for another day. The hot sun will quickly break down the bonds between snow grains and melt crusts. Watch for these conditions and stay clear as the snow melts and falls off the mountains during the warm, long days.

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Endangered Western Soul The Darwinian rise of mountain latte towns

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“They’ve become rich by giving up ski bumdom for building trophy homes.”

man must exercise, but it would be vulgar to have a powerboat, because while man needs to move around, he doesn’t need motors to propel him.”

In Brooks’s mind, “the entire rural population of America can be divided between those who are motor (powerboats, motorcycles, snowmobiles) and those who are non-motor (canoes, mountain bikes, cross country skis).

Latte Towns people are non-motor.”

Were the perfect Latte Town ever visually engineered, Brooks said, it would have “Rocky Mountain views to the west, Redwood forests downtown around the town square, a New England lake along the waterfront, and a major city with a really good alternative weekly (newspaper) within a few hours’ drive.”

Here’s something else that distinguishes Latte Towns: Hippies and funhogs who descended there decades ago to drop out of the career rat race have ironically turned into some of the most ferocious capitalistic-minded entrepreneurs.

They’ve become rich by giving up ski bumdom for building trophy homes; they’ve become CEOs of backpack-making companies and now have wine cellars in their basements; they’ve sold off the sputtering VW van, secured their real estate licenses and now own an Escalade.

To re-sanctify their commitment to land preservation and perhaps to sate their guilty conscience, they dutifully zip off a check for $25 to cover their annual membership in the most radical local environmental group but won’t tell anyone.

“Maybe it’s not surprising that the 1960s-era rebels who once lived on communes named Walden, would, in the fullness of time, discover that business can be converted into a spiritually satisfying lifestyle,” Brooks wrote. “They discovered that the anti-capitalist ethos of the 1960s can be converted into an efficient capitalist ethos for the 1990s and beyond.” PJH

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violent crime in the Windy City.

“You know you’re in a Latte Town,” Brooks observed, “when you can hop right off a bike path, browse in a used bookstore with shelves and shelves of tomes on Marxism the owner can no longer get rid of, and then drink coffee at a place with a punnish name ... before sauntering through an African drum store or a feminist lingerie shop.”

Besides having “hip coffee shops,” Latte Towns, he added, have gourmet bread stores, micro-breweries, organic stores “and the rest of the sensibly-drenched enterprises that marry natural goodness, high craftsmanship, cosmopolitan taste, social concerns, and inflated prices to create genteel culture.”

What are a few of the other characteristics of towns oriented toward bean worship?

“If you walk into one of the many home-furnishing stores, you see that the Latte Town elite has transformed the old Protestant elite’s animal motifs,” he wrote.

“Artwork featuring hunting-related creatures like stags, hounds, and ducks is out; artwork featuring non-threatening animals like cats, frogs, and small birds is in. Cows, which are fashionably unglamorous and also pacifist, are quite chic.”

Latte Towns, he continued, “have developed their own sumptuary code, which is now spreading to all the places in America with high NPR listenerships. The code is based on a distinction between needs and wants. Needs are things we must have to survive, like shelter, food, clothing, and exercise.

Wants are those things we desire to make us feel superior to others. The genius of the code of Financial Correctness that prevails in Latte Towns is that you can spend as much as you want on needs, so long as you are not ostentatious when you spend on wants.”

He cited examples: “You can shell out $50,000 on an in-home media center, because that is a mere want. You can drop $4,400 on a Merlin Extralite road bike at the local cycle shop, because

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s your community a “Latte Town”?

How long will it be before Starbucks comes to Moose, Kelly and Dubois?

Two decades ago, political commentator David Brooks penned a wonderfully sneering piece for The Weekly Standard in which he created a new social category for certain lifestyle communities.

Like Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville who cruised through America in the 19th century sharing thoughts about our nation’s crude, shallow culture, Brooks has a special fetish for traveling through the hinters of our great land identifying trends. He often seizes upon patterns of conspicuous consumption.

“Latte Towns,” Brooks wrote in the latter half of the 1990s, “are upscale … communities, often in magnificent natural settings, often university-based, that have become the gestation centers for America’s new upscale culture.”

For those of you who drink your coffee on Sundays with a copy of The New York Times in hand, you already know Brooks is a columnist for the old gray lady.

Brooks also wrote the book Bobos in Paradise: The Upper Class and How They Got There, an outgrowth of his Latte Town piece in The Standard in which he coins the term “bourgeois bohemians”—or Bobos, if you will—to describe hoity-toity Americans who dress and act outdoorsy because it gives them cool cachet. He also called out perpetually adolescent mindsets, the ultimate expressions of elitism, in which the primary worry of denizens is pondering how they will choose to play that day.

Brooks followed Bobos in another piece, “On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense.” In this treatise, he applied his insouciant baseball bat to the superficial consumptive impulses of the middle class.

Let it be known that I have a personal bias when it comes to Brooks. I have admiration for his work. He and I both are alumni of the City News Bureau of Chicago, where we each reported on

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Kai Gessler, 11, and Jennifer Hoffman-Gessler at the Jackson March For Our Lives.

‘Never Again’ Spreads West Jackson joins global day of protest in March For Our Lives

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hen 11-year-old Kai Gessler learned of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead last month, she told her mother she wanted to be homeschooled.

“She loves school, is super curious and loves her friends,” Jennifer HoffmanGessler said of her daughter, a Jackson Hole Middle School student. “It was impactful for me.”

The Gesslers discussed what they could do as a family. Attending the Jackson March For Our Lives, they decided, would help Kai have “a little bit of a voice.”

They were not alone.

In the so-called “last of the Wild West,” about 250 parents, teachers, young people, small children and supporters marched Saturday amid snow and wind in the name of “common sense gun laws”—a more palatable phrase for a gun-carrying populace than, say, “stricter gun reform.”

It was a unifying notion; gun owners were among the marchers.

“My husband attended the march and he loves guns,” Hoffman-Gessler said.

“He is not your typical gun reform kind of a guy, but he agrees that something needs to change.”

Donned in a hunter orange hat and

camo jacket, Sue Wolff marched with a sign that read “Hunters for Stricter Gun Laws.”

She said the ease with which she has purchased firearms is alarming. It took her 20 minutes to buy a gun from a pawn shop. “The background check was a quick phone call. I find that unbelievable compared to the other rules and regulations we have in our country.”

The outdoorswoman thought it important to represent gun owners in Wyoming, the state with the highest number of registered guns per capita. “There are hunters and gun owners who want stricter gun laws because we are fed up as much as the kids are.”

But it’s not just the Parkland victims, she said. “It is the people killed in Las Vegas too, and the people who use guns for suicide… we need to do better.”

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just last month by students who survived the shooting at Stoneman Douglas. They are calling on lawmakers to close background check loopholes and to ban the sale of assault weapons like the ones used in San Bernardino, Orlando, Las Vegas, and which Nikolas Cruz used to kill their classmates.

Their message and urgency resonated across the globe—attendance numbers at the historic Washington D.C. march were in the hundreds of thousands and aerial photos from Los Angeles and London to Tokyo, Salt Lake City, and Parkland, Florida, depict thousands of marchers.

At least 26,000 children and teenagers were killed by gunfire in the United States between 1999 and 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Parkland shooting has ignited a national conversation that a staggering statistic could not. It has also deepened parents’ anxiety, those who say they are reminded no community is invincible in a nation with more guns than people.

Local march co-organizer Yvette

“There are hunters and gun owners who want stricter gun laws because we are fed up as much as the kids are.”

‘Never Again’ For All Kids The march in Jackson was among more than 800 “sibling marches” that occurred all over the world in solidarity with the Washington D.C. March For Our Lives. That march stemmed from the “Never Again” movement, launched

Werner said the number of school shootings in the U.S. had almost desensitized her to the violence. It took a wave of Parkland students saying, “This isn’t normal—we shouldn’t get used to managing the aftermath of these shootings.”

She and two friends, Donna Andrus and Christie Goss, organized the march in less than two weeks.

“We had never done any sort of organizing before,” she said. “But I kept asking around about a march and when I hadn’t heard anything, I texted my friends and said, ‘Let’s hold our own.’” Given the date of the march—that it fell on the beginning of spring break, and the same weekend as long-standing events like Hill Climb and Pole Pedal Paddle, Werner said they were pleased with the turnout.

The former teacher cannot recall a time when she wasn’t worried about sending her kids, 9 and 6, to school. “My son was in preschool when Sandy Hook happened; our entire school career as parents has been during a time of school violence.”

“We think it can’t happen here, but it could … no one demographic is affected,” Werner said.

That no child in America is immune to mass shootings is a jarring truth, one that Parkland, a seemingly tight-knit, safe community, has helped underscore.

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gun laws. It’s just important for kids to be safe at school.”

No one, she said, should be scared to go to school.

As the crowd poured into the Town Square, the endpoint of the march, Kai Gessler, still a faithful public school student, could be seen clutching a red sign dotted in fresh snowflakes: “Attending School Shouldn’t be an Act of Bravery” it read.

“I am marching to keep me and my fellow students safe,” she said with aplomb.

It wasn’t the first action she has taken since the Parkland shooting. Kai has also written letters to U.S. Sens. Barrasso and Enzi and Rep. Cheney urging them to enact gun control measures. “[Lawmakers] need to protect us, but they are not doing anything and we need help; we need gun reform,” she said.

For Kai, participating in demonstrations like this one and the 2017 Women’s March have highlighted her individual agency. She and her marching classmates are among a new generation of civically engaged young people whose voices are growing unequivocally louder as they coalesce.

“I feel like I can change the world this way,” she said. PJH

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Back in Jackson, Wyoming, which in many ways seems a continent away from Washington D.C., students who were marching said they had not been personally affected by gun violence. But they marched for those who had.

Arm-in-arm walked 12-year-old Malaya Maligalig and 11-year-old Sophie Stoessel, students at Jackson Hole Middle School.

“Even if I do feel safe in my school I don’t want another event like this to happen in any school,” Maligalig said.

To protest gun violence and demand

stricter laws, she said, made her feel powerful “because I can stand up against something.”

Both students said they recognized their place in a movement driven by young people: “It’s not just for people over 18,” Stoessel said. “Kids like us can protest and that also makes a huge difference.”

Some students were using their vacation time to march. Bryce Kelly, 15, was visiting Jackson Hole from New York. “On March 14, a month after the shooting in Florida, my school did a walkout and marched, so I figured I should participate today because gun violence in the United States is such a big problem,” he said.

“So many people get killed every day and every year, whether it be by suicide or school shootings. Guns are so easily accessible that we need restrictions on how we can get them.”

To march, he said, “is the right thing to do.”

That 13-year-old Clare Eddy, a Jackson Hole Middle School student, couldn’t attend her school’s walkout due to a bomb threat the school received the night before was very disappointing, she said.

Attending the march, then, would allow her to show her community where she stands: “I think there should be stricter

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to represent Hadiya Pendleton; I am here today to represent Taiyania Thompson, who at just 16 was shot dead at her home in Washington, D.C. I am here to acknowledge and represent the AfricanAmerican girls whose stories don’t make the front page of every national newspaper, whose stories don’t lead on the evening news.”

These black girls and women have been “just numbers” for too long, she told the crowd.

“I’m here to say never again for those girls, too.”

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But the South Florida school shooting has also brought to the forefront how students of color are disproportionately affected by gun violence.

During the Washington D.C., march, Zion Kelly, a 16-year-old AfricanAmerican student, addressed the crowd: “I am here to represent all the hundreds of thousands of students who live every day in constant paranoia and fear on their way to and from school.”

Kelly’s twin brother Zaire was shot to death walking home from school.

Of his brother’s killer he said, “Though he had an ankle monitor on and he was supposed to be monitored by the police, he was still able to obtain a gun and legally lurk on my streets and take my brother’s life. He shot my brother in the head and once we arrived to the hospital he was pronounced dead.”

Kelly proposed a gun safety act to protect students in Washington D.C. He has also teamed up with Parkland survivors to amplify student voices across the spectrum.

Eleven-year-old Naomi Wadler, a Virgina student, also spoke at the D.C. march with the lyrical poise of an activist twice her age: “I am here today to represent Courtlin Arrington; I am here today

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Dangerous Sips That Shatter Myths Date rape drugs come in more than one form and Jackson Hole isn’t immune to them

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anny Blacker is one of two women bartenders at the Million Dollar Cowboy. She’s worked there for seven years, but recalls one night last summer, when a woman came in with a male friend of hers. She already seemed “intoxicated.” A group of men “swooped in,” she said, and it became clear that the woman at the bar didn’t know these men, nor was she going to escape easily.

Blacker grabbed the friend the woman arrived with. She told him he needed to get her home, or Blacker would get the police involved. “I’d rather her go to jail than anything bad happening [with those men],” she said.

She didn’t have to call the cops. The woman got home safely. It’s not often Blacker can intervene in such moments, even though she’s always tuned in to them.

“As a woman bartender, you can’t help but be aware of kind of sketchy situations,” she said. The difficulty, Blacker said, is judging exactly how “sketchy” something is.

“If I see a girl getting really intoxicated but I don’t know her personally, I have no authority to say if the people she’s with are her friends or not.”

Of course, she does have some authority. TIPS (Training for Intervention ProcedureS) training teaches servers how do handle instances of intoxicated people, how and when to cut patrons off, how to slow them down.

What Blacker cannot prepare for are instances of date rape drugs—when someone slips drugs into a person’s drink. Which is what one woman alleges happened to her on the night of March 3.

The most recent case of the “date rape” drug entered the public sphere right as the police and sheriff’s departments were preparing for Hill Climb weekend.

They issued safety tips advising women not to go out alone, not to accept drinks from strangers, not to leave their drinks unattended.

According to Jackson Chief of Police Todd Smith, law enforcement came across a woman “in a public place” who was unconscious and vomiting. Once she came to, she told police she thought she had been drugged. Sure enough, she tested positive for benzodiazepine.

She did not report any sexual violence against her.

The problem with these cases, according to law enforcement, advocates and bartenders, is that yes, they do happen, perhaps more frequently than is convenient to admit. But they’re hard to recognize, and even harder to prove.

Smith says such cases often go unreported because of the stigma that already surrounds sexual assault. There’s also “a lot of bad information out there” that dissuades people from coming forward.

The window of time in which drugs can be detected is longer than people think, Smith said. Typically, it takes about three days for traces of drugs to leave your system.

From a bartender’s perspective, Blacker says it’s nearly impossible for her to tell whether someone has been drugged, or is just drunk. Different people react to drugs differently, she said, and the only thing she can be sure of is what she has served someone. But “just because I’m serving them [alcohol] doesn’t mean it’s the only thing in their system.”

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with anything besides alcohol. Blacker has never seen anyone use a coaster to her advantage. And she worries by the time someone suspects she has been drugged, it’s already too late.

“It’s not like they’re going to grab a coaster and check if they’ve been roofied,” Blacker said. And even as a preemptive measure, in Blacker’s experience, “the more somebody gets drunk, the less they want to get told what to do.”

Community Safety Network Director of Education and Prevention Shannon Nichols wants to be careful how cases of date rape are characterized. “The level of danger does expand when you’re drugging somebody,” she said. And the knowledge of having been drugged adds “another level of dangerousness and trauma that sexual assault survivors experience.”

But such cases are also not what the majority of sexual violence looks like. Indeed, the most popular “date rape drug,” Nichols and Smith agree, is alcohol. It’s easy to vilify someone who would put a drug in someone else’s drink. But what about the person who intentionally gets a woman drunk, or preys upon an already-intoxicated person?

“This myth … that Jackson is a safe community isn’t helpful for anyone,” Nichols said. “It emboldens the offenders, and allows them to go unchecked.”

Perhaps the important conversations, then, are the ones that de-normalize things like “getting her drunk on purpose.”

The space between encouraging proactive safety, and what advocates for victims of sexual violence call “victim

blaming” is narrow. Conversations about women’s safety often put the onus primarily on women to keep themselves safe, rather than encouraging men to create safe spaces for women. The thing is, Nichols said, women can do absolutely everything right—watch their drinks, go out in numbers, keep their guards up.

“That doesn’t mean that somebody won’t perpetrate against you.”

Which is to say, it is never the victim’s fault if somebody chooses to violate her.

Still, Nichols said, it doesn’t hurt to take all necessary precautions.

The investigation into the latest incident is ongoing, and will be difficult to close with any certainty. The woman had been in a couple different bars throughout the night, and talked to a number of people. Video surveillance from the night offers some clues, but footage is “grainy,” it’s hard to identify anyone with certainty, even harder to know who among the many people filmed is the culprit. The culprit could have been a visitor. If police are able to identify the person and gather definitive evidence, they could be charged with delivery of a controlled substance, or battery, or any number of crimes. But it will be a hard case to prove.

From a law enforcement perspective, Smith encourages people maintain “situational awareness.”

“It’s never the victim’s fault … I think most people should be able to go into a public place, enjoy themselves, and be free of someone victimizing them.”

But “in the world we live in, every time we let our guard down, someone could potentially take advantage of us,” he said. PJH

“This myth that Jackson is a safe community isn’t helpful for anyone.”

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When will Yellowstone halt its slaughter of an American icon?

banner that read “Yellowstone Buffalo Slaughter.”

Each concrete-filled yellow drum was painted with phrases like “protect the sacred” and “honor the treaties.” Their arms linked behind them, they were exposed, knowing an arrest was likely. If they could stop trucks filled with bison on the way to be slaughtered it would be worth it to them.

They were hardly a deterrent.

National Park Service officials used heavy machines to plow a path around the gate and the trucks drove around the blockade and off the road to bypass the protesters. After law enforcement removed the protesters from the barrels and chains, they arrested both men. Coyote agreed to a plea deal

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Brown and Cody Cyson, activists with the direct action collective Wild Buffalo Defense, were arrested on March 6 and charged with entering a closed area in Yellowstone National Park and interference with an agency function. Hanna Ponder was attempting to observe and document the actions of law enforcement and was also arrested on the same day and charged with entering a closed area.

Ten days later, two activists, known as Coyote and Wolf, locked their arms inside three concrete-filled 55-gallon steel barrels and sat along the access road, blocking entrance to the capture facility and the exit for trailers carrying wild bison for slaughter.

Behind the activists hung a large hand-painted

and was found guilty of trespassing and obstruction and Wolf plead not guilty to trespassing, obstructing an agency function and obstructing a government worker. Coyote and Wolf were released and Wolf is set to reappear in court on April 4.

Five arrests, five actions direct action protests and two earlier incidents of bison release at Yellowstone’s Stephens Creek Capture Facility have reignited public interest in a decades old issue that activists and conservation organizations have been fighting just as long. The Park Service admits its management of the national mammal needs revision, but it’s an interagency issue held back with political tape.

Organizations like the West Yellowstone, Montanabased Buffalo Field Campaign, that aim to restore and protect the wild bison, say the National Park Service has other options and wants to end the practice of slaughter.

“The bison are in Yellowstone and people would never believe the national park would harm the animals they’ve been entrusted to protect,” said Stephany Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign’s media coordinator.

“But that’s not the case.”

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wo men locked themselves with steel tubes and metal chains to a squeeze chute meant for wild bison in Yellowstone National Park, risking jail time to make a stand: end the slaughter of one of the last genetically pure wild bison herds.

“I’ve personally seen enough, heard enough, experienced enough and I’m not going to take it anymore,” Thomas Brown said in a video following his release from jail. “These animals need a voice and I chose to be that voice.”

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WILD BUFFALO DEFENSE

Protesters barracade a gate with their arms locked through 55-gallon barrels (top left). Ten days prior, two fellow protestors locked themselves to a squeeze chute meant to steady livestock at the Stephens Creek Bison Capture Facility.

Park Service officials, meanwhile, say their hands are tied because of a 1995 lawsuit, in which Montana alleged Yellowstone bison were migrating out of the park onto state lands.

Montana sued the National Park Service and won, and by court order, the agencies had to devise a plan to prevent Yellowstone bison from migrating into Montana. A large part of the push against wild bison in Montana comes from cattle ranchers, part of a 1 billion dollar industry, who say they fear the bison will spread brucellosis to their animals. In the 1990s, cattle first brought the disease to the Yellowstone area and transmitted it to wildlife.

Brucellosis is a bacterial disease, spread by infected birth tissues that causes abortions in pregnant cattle, elk and bison. According to Yellowstone, about 60 percent of adult female bison test positive for exposure to Brucella bacteria, but that doesn’t mean they carry the disease or can transmit it.

Only 10 to 15 percent of the population carries the live bacteria that can be transmitted.

While the infection rates seem high, Neal Herbert, a spokesperson for Yellowstone, said there have been no documented cases of bison transmitting brucellosis to elk. “We’ve taken great steps to prevent it,” he said.

In August 2017 almost 5,000 bison were estimated to live in Yellowstone, but the Interagency Bison Management

Plan set a target population of 3,000.

The 2018 Winter Management Plan calls for 600 to 900 bison to be hunted in Montana and trapped and slaughtered in Yellowstone.

Those numbers were set through negotiations with eight agencies, Herbert said. The goal population had to be low enough to discourage a large migration out of the park.

The number of bison culled through Yellowstone’s capture and slaughter changes every year based on population. According to daily patrols by Buffalo Field Campaign volunteers, 637 bison have been sent to slaughter and 800 bison have been captured this year.

Seay said the figures that determine how many bison will be slaughtered are completely arbitrary, but have serious effects on the population. “It’s not based on anything other than politics,” she said.

The Bison Trap

Stephens Creek, located on the edge of Yellowstone’s northern Montana border, a 10-minute drive west of Gardiner, sits at the heart of the debate.

Herbert said the area acts as an administrative facility, but also contains the corrals used for bison management.

The park service has videos of the facility on its website that show how the bison are captured, sorted and

transferred to slaughter. The process is similar to that of cattle, but for the oneton wild animals, the corrals, pens and humans are foreign.

Yellowstone implements a few different ways to get bison into the trap.

In the winter, the Park Service plows a path toward the facility. Officials try to keep other bison in the enclosure to lure free-roaming bison in. When necessary, the bison are herded up in family groups and hazed toward Stephens Creek Capture Facility and the bison trap. Herbert said only animals already at the northern end of the park, seemingly ready to migrate into the Gardiner Basin in Montana, are affected.

But bison from other reaches of Yellowstone, including the Central herd, are affected, too. It’s not just the adults that are herded up either, Seay said. Family groups get taken together, including calves. “They destroy these families and kill them,” she said.

The bison, accustomed to grazing openly in the wild, are unsure what to do in the high-walled, tight sorting corral and run from side to side in panic, looking for an opening. Once in the individual squeeze chute, the bison bucks and clamors, uncomfortable with the metal walls around it.

The bison calms when the pressure of the machine presses down, giving Park Service employees a chance to examine the animal and draw blood for testing.

Herbert said the testing for

brucellosis isn’t straightforward— there isn’t a single test. It’s a process that can take up to a few years.

Eventually the bison are driven onto cattle trailers and shipped off to be slaughtered. The meat and hides are then given to the Native American tribes that are part of the Interagency Bison Management Plan.

To reduce the population, slaughter and hunting are “the only two methods currently at our disposal,” Herbert said.

As the population grows, by 10 to 17 percent each year, Yellowstone officials fear that indefinite growth could lead to overgrazing and a possible mass starvation of animals within the park.

A larger population also leads to larger migrations and further potential conflict.

Tribal leaders from the Nez Perce have proposed bison hunting within the park, their ancestral hunting grounds, which the Park Service opposes.

“This is not the future we want for Yellowstone, and we don’t believe it’s the future the public wants either,” Yellowstone’s website reads.

But there is one possible option for the future: a quarantine program.

It is illegal to move animals that have been exposed to brucellosis to other conservation areas. Herbert said a facility is already built at the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana, but the transfer of bison has been held up by political disputes. The Montana

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Bison are moved through pens to a chute where Park Service officials draw blood to test for brucellosis.

Where’s Wyoming?

The agencies behind the Interagency

pretty far south, but a cattle guard was installed that fixed the problem.

Similarly, the bison in Wyoming are treated like elk are in Montana. They’re both managed as wildlife species without any special treatment. Conversely, elk in Wyoming are treated more like bison in Montana.

Seay said that elk roam free in Montana, even though they’ve been known and tested to carry brucellosis.

There have been documented cases of elk spreading brucellosis to cattle.

The migration of elk into Teton County and onto private ranch land is a concern for the National Elk Refuge.

Brucellosis has been present in the elk on the National Elk Refuge since 1930 and poses a threat to livestock in the area. Conflict has subsided as ranching in the county has shrunk over the past few decades, but there’s still risk.

Elk are more susceptible to disease when they’re in high density areas, like on feedline. The primary management action the agency employs is to spread the elk across the feedgrounds or reduce the reliance on supplemental feed, Iverson said.

They fenced in the rest of the refuge in a hope to prevent animals from wandering into roadways and off the refuge. Necropsies are performed on elk and elk refuge employees monitor the herd for disease and overall health.

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Bison are native to North America and used to roam the plains in herds that numbered in the millions. The large animals were the primary source of food and resource for Plains Indians in the 17th and 18th centuries until European settlers expanded west.

Tribes like the Lakota migrated alongside the bison, revering the animal and paying them sacrifice and honor when killing them.

The East’s appetite for bison hides

Bison Management Plan include the National Park Service, several national forests, Native American tribes and the state of Montana. But why isn’t Wyoming involved, given the majority of Yellowstone lies in the state?

Yellowstone spokesperson Vicki Regula said Wyoming and Idaho were not involved with the lawsuit, so they were not involved with the settlement and cooperative effort to manage the bison. “Also, few bison migrate into Wyoming and Idaho,” she said.

But there are bison, currently about 300, that roam in Wyoming, specifically between Grand Teton National Park and the National Elk Refuge.

Lori Iverson, spokesperson for the National Elk Refuge, said there is no management plan for the bison in Teton County. The bison on the refuge will be supplementally fed when the elk are, but they’re not monitored closely for disease. There’s a bison hunt, managed by Wyoming Game and Fish, but no quarantine or capture.

That’s not because they’re disease-free, though. The bison herd in the area is not a brucellosis-free herd, Iverson said.

But the bison are mostly contained to federal land. “We don’t have bison moving on to private land as much as they may have in Montana,” she said.

“That’s not a worry.”

There was a time when the refuge was concerned about the bison heading

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Bowing to Bison

and easier hunting due to guns and horses in the 19th century helped ignite a gradual population decline. During the American-Indian Wars of the 19th century, soldiers in the U.S. Army would not only attack and kill Native American troops, but their primary food source, the bison, too. An attack on bison was a direct attack on tribal members. By the end of the century the bison had been hunted and killed to near extinction. As the land of the native peoples shrank so did bison’s.

While some consider the American assault on bison and their relationship with Native Americans to be a thing of the past, the Buffalo Field Campaign, among others, does not.

“This is a war against the buffalo,” Seay said. “It’s a war over the grass and who gets to eat it.”

Though almost half the partners of the Interagency Bison Management Plan represent Native Americans— the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the Inter Tribal Buffalo Council, the Nez Perce Tribe—Seay says not all tribal members agree with the systematic slaughter of bison.

“It’s caused riffs within the communities,” she said. “The people and the government think differently and the people don’t agree with it.”

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Legislature needs to pass a bill that allows the transfer of bison that have tested positive for brucellosis.

If the Fort Peck transfer was allowed, the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes would receive live bison. By using a quarantine facility, the Yellowstone bison could be moved to establish new tribal and public populations of plains bison without the risk of spreading brucellosis.

Seay said the Buffalo Field Campaign is vehemently opposed to quarantine.

“It’s essentially a domesticization process,” she said. “It’s also another tool of the oppressor.”

If things continue the way they do, Seay is afraid the bison will risk extinction.

“When you think about the buffalo, the earth chose them,” she said. “They are supposed to be on this land in large numbers.”

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Alternatives for Protecting a National Treasure

The Greater Yellowstone Coalition, a conservation group focused on protecting the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, works with Montana landowners outside the national park to create more tolerance for bison. Shana Drimal, a wildlife program associate with the coalition, said that more people are coming around to the idea of living alongside bison, but it hasn’t been easy.

“They’re fearful of the unknown and don’t know what it’s like,” she said. “There are a lot of common sense things you can do to live safely with bison. Generally, they don’t want to cause problems, they just want to eat.”

One of the coalition’s main projects is the Yellowstone Bison Coexistence Program, which provides financial aid and technical support for exclusion fences around private property that keep bison out. By talking with people on the ground, staffers have been able to expand tolerance areas outside the park including a large swath of land near West Yellowstone in the southern reaches of the Gallatin National Forest.

Drimal said the current bison management plan needs to be updated, and with so many changes on the ground, in public opinion and scientific research, it warrants a policy update.

“The current management regime is outdated and unacceptable at this point,” she said. “We don’t believe sending bison to slaughter is an appropriate way to manage this wildlife species.”

Drimal said there is an ongoing process to update the current bison management plan, which allows changes and updates every 10 years. But the partners have never been able to agree or make significant change to the plan, even though it’s been available for updates since 2010.

The Buffalo Field Campaign has offered solutions to the Interagency Bison Management Plan including a

plan to “Manage Wild Buffalo like Wild Elk in Montana.”

The proposal, written in 2015 when the interagency partners started the process to write a new plan that was never released, says that bison could inhabit public lands and be managed by a hunting season based on sustainable populations. “You drive around Montana and there is so much open land with no buffalo,” Seay said. “It’s like ‘Where are the buffalo? Why can’t they be here?’ This is so wrong.”

The Buffalo Field Campaign says that the alternative plan would save taxpayers money by shutting down the capture and slaughter process and keep parts of the Bison Management Plan that work, like continuing the Designated Surveillance Area management of cattle.

The Yellowstone Coalition would also like to see bison treated and managed like other wildlife species in Montana.

“That’s their natural migratory route,” Drimal said. “Elk and all these other species are allowed to roam freely out of the park.”

Yellowstone sits on a high elevation plateau and doesn’t provide appropriate year-round habitat. The animals must be able to migrate out of the park to suitable winter habitat.

“Every winter when they try to do it, they have no idea that they can’t cross a line,” she said.

But Drimal said that kind of change can’t happen overnight, the landscape and tolerance aren’t there yet.

It’s important for the people living in those communities to be on board and prepared.

“In a perfect world it would be great to do away with tolerance lines and how wildlife are managed today,” she said.

“But I think we need to take more of a stepped approach.”

The most appropriate way for bison to be managed would be through tribal

and public ethical hunting, Drimal said.

That means bison would need more open space in Montana and would need to disperse in that space. A problem the coalition has seen in the recently opened tolerance areas is that bison, which were hazed and captured from the area for so long, have seemingly forgotten about the old migration route.

“The hunting that does go on is unsafe for people and borderline inhumane for the animals,” she said, referencing the small patch of public land that currently allows hunting in Montana. “They’re not spread out enough.”

Drimal said that Yellowstone’s quarantine proposal is another tool in the toolbox that could successfully manage the growing bison population and help restore herds on tribal and public lands.

“It’s a much more appropriate management tool than shipping them to slaughter,” Drimal said.

But the Buffalo Field Campaign wants change fast. Seay said the organization has petitioned for Endangered Species protection and Species of Conservation Concern protection. Each level of protection takes time and a lot of paperwork; fitting specific criteria and following a strict legal process and review.

Buffalo Field Campaign’s proposal outlined not only the importance of bison on an ecological level, but also as the nation’s national mammal and treasure. The bison sits alongside the bald eagle representing the nation.

Management Quandaries

In the early 1900s, there were less than 100 bison left on the Greater Yellowstone landscape. “For us, the fact that people can come to Yellowstone and see bison is a huge conservation success story,” Herbert said. “We brought that species back from the

brink of extinction.”

But Herbert acknowledged the challenges. “We’ve succeeded to the point where we have new boundaries and on to land we don’t manage,” he said.

Yellowstone officials say the goal is to maintain a viable population of wild migratory bison.

“With animals that want to cross beyond boundaries, that goal becomes a goal that has to involve surrounding land managers,” he said. “How do you manage animals that don’t recognize political boundaries?”

Park officials admit that for longterm conservation, bison need more access to habitat outside the park and a new updated bison management plan.

It will also require a greater tolerance for bison on the land, Herbert said.

Drimal doesn’t doubt the park’s intentions. The Greater Yellowstone Coalition attends the interagency bison management meetings and is a partner with the national park. She said Yellowstone officials are the biggest advocates for bison in those meetings, though they get a bad rap for carrying out the current plan.

“The Park Service is basically forced into this, they don’t want to be doing this anymore. It’s up to the State of Montana to say ‘we’ll let bison be bison.’”

Meanwhile, the Buffalo Field Campaign, works to raise awareness.

That means continuing daily field patrols in the national park, where volunteers document bison location and numbers, monitor habitat areas and watch for signs of harassment or malpractice. “We’ll keep doing what we do,” Seay said.

The Buffalo Field Campaign was not directly involved with any of the March arrests, Seay said, but it’s not against directly intervening.

“People are sick of this,” she said.

“We stand in solidarity with anyone willing to stand up.” PJH

March 28- April 7

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28

THURSDAY, MARCH 29

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n Easter Egg Hunt on the Town Square 10 a.m. n Library Saturdays - Youth Auditorium 10:15 a.m. Teton County Library, n Boards & Bass: JH Snowboarder Magazine Party 2018 9 p.m. Pink Garter Theatre, Free

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JH Snowboarder Gets Loose The magazine celebrates the soul of snowboard culture in Jackson Hole on Saturday

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n the winter of 2006-2007, Jesse Brown and a few other local snowboarders, Lance Pitman, Kristen Joy and Michael Bills, launched a magazine dedicated to their passion and the place they called home.

“They wanted to give a voice to the snowboarding community and to this scrappy counterculture in Jackson Hole,” said Robyn Vincent, editor of Jackson Hole Snowboarder Magazine since 2011. “When I took over, I wanted to continue that legacy, but also capture the diverse experiences of people in the snow sport’s world. Snowboarding is certainly the launching pad, but the magazine covers activism, politics, climate change and human rights. At its core, it celebrates snowboarding, but it’s so much more.”

This Saturday the magazine hosts its annual party. It’s a way to reconnect with the faces you see on the hill, but perhaps only in passing, Vincent said. The party, like the magazine, has amassed a following. It’s lighthearted and celebratory. It’s a tradition to bring the community together and thank readers, contributors, supporters, as well as the place that inspires the magazine.

Jackson Hole Snowboarder Magazine wasn’t the first snowboard specific magazine when it launched. But what set it apart was its emphasis on place, an element that still defines it today.

Every article and image has some connection to Jackson, whether it’s a Jackson-based athlete on a mountain

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in another country, or a renowned photographer who has spent time documenting local pro-snowboarders like Travis Rice or Blake Paul. Meanwhile, Art and photography by artists in the snowboarding world, like Bryan Iguchi, Mike Parillo, Amy Dowell and Kelly Halpin, has donned the covers.

This year, Vincent and creative director Olaus Linn chose a piece by Swiss snowboarder Corinne Weidmann, a.k.a. Iuna Tinta. She has shown her art at Asymbol and spent time in the Tetons.

“She largely focuses on climate change and how it stands to affect the natural world, so we thought it important to feature her art on the cover this year,” Vincent said.

In addition to stunning art and snowboard photography, the latest issue includes a story about mental health issues facing those involved in avalanches. There’s an article on how China is tackling climate change in a way the United States isn’t. And there’s a piece about pro-snowboarder Halina Boyd’s efforts to empower female mountain guides in Nepal.

“The people in the sport are dynamic individuals with a lot of passions,” Vincent said. “They care about climate change because their sport depends on it. They travel the world to snowboard and see people who are marginalized in other countries and they want to do something about it.”

The magazine reflects that.

It’s the type of publication that those

who love Jackson and the sport keep as collector’s items, Linn said. He joined the staff four years ago and redesigned the magazine’s look.

“We really wanted to shoot for a hard rock, punk, heavy metal feel, with some of the big typography and the logo, but we mixed in a high quality, literature feel,” he said. “It reads like an artsy ‘zine with nontraditional elements.”

One thing they didn’t change was the square shape of the publication. It’s a defining feature that sets it apart from other publications. The annual magazine is one that people keep around.

“It doesn’t go in the recycling bin,” Linn said. “It goes on bookshelves.”

The magazine works with a variety of photographers who continually provide surprising, interesting and beautiful images to tell stories. Linn works to make each issue “wildly different,” while still maintaining a cohesive feel.

“It’s a rebellious, snowboarding focused coffee table ‘zine,” he said. “It’s designed to be read. It’s designed to be enjoyed. And it’s designed to be kept in a collection. It’s more than a traditional action sports publication. We want it to feel and hit a little closer to the soul of the culture here.” PJH

The Boards & Bass party begins 9 p.m.

Saturday at the Pink Garter Theatre.

The free event features music from DJs Mustang and SK and a snowboard silent auction with deep discounts on boards from Lib Tech, Gnu, Never Summer, Arbor and Franco Snowshapes.

Nuances of Natures Photographer Ellen Bischoff unveils the world through her lens at The Rose editors curate a daily dozen of the best.

Within a few days, a picture she took of light shining through a chicken’s wing at a farm where she volunteered was selected among the best 12 for the day.

While it was the only time she received that honor, it was enough to make her believe that maybe she could do something with photography.

Bischoff first visited Jackson in 2015.

She returned a year later after finishing school in New York. The artist finds her inspiration in the outdoors and there’s no shortage of opportunities in Jackson for her to create new work.

Her eye is often drawn to texture.

Instead of a straight beach or horizon shot of the ocean, she crops in tight on the water to show the ripples, foam and swirling colors.

“With my camera, I see more than I do in everyday life,” she said. “We walk by these things in everyday life, but we don’t always really appreciate them until we stop and really look.”

Bischoff’s favorite images in her show are also the largest at 36 by 24

inches. One is a black and white image of the Matterhorn featuring a tiny hiker on a hill overlooking the iconic Swiss mountain. She loves such small details.

Other large images capture a long-exposure of the mountain with the gondola; a long exposure of the Tetons; a detail shot of the ocean.

She’ll also show three prints in the show. Bischoff creates monotype prints using chemicals splattered on glass that create interesting shapes and marks over the image.

Bischoff said she hopes people find her work intriguing, that it compels them to look at landscapes they’ve seen before in a different way, when they view her work, and after when they are in the natural world that inspires her.

PJH Bischoff will show 22 photographs and three prints at her exhibition “Black & Blue,” which opens with a reception from 8 to 10 p.m. Friday and hangs for a month at The Rose.

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sky on a long exposure, most of the photographs are in black and white.

“I’m drawn to black and white images,” Bischoff said. “Black and white just simplifies everything and makes you look at the photos as an image rather than as a subject matter.”

Bischoff discovered photography one day in middle school in northern New Jersey when she borrowed her dad’s old camera and began experimenting. She photographed animals, her family and whatever she saw outside.

She grew up around creative energy.

Bischoff’s mother is a jeweler and her father is a cabinetmaker. They encouraged her photography hobby and also instilled in her a love of the outdoors, taking her on trips to national parks in the West.

While in college at St. Lawrence University in Upstate New York, where she studied art and art history with a focus on printmaking and photography, she created a National Geographic Your Shot account, where the public can post images and each day Nat Geo

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ith stunning landscapes like the Tetons, it’s hard take a bad picture. And with great cell phone cameras, it seems like everyone is a photographer today. It can be a challenge to create images that are different, ones that standout, but Ellen Bischoff tries to use her camera to capture things the average eye—and cell phone camera—doesn’t always see.

“I’ve seen a million beautiful pictures of the Tetons, so I have to think about what I can do to make my stuff more unique,” she said.

Bischoff often works with long exposures that reveal the greens, blues and purples of the Milky Way, invisible to the naked eye. Or one of her favorite images she’s taken of the Tetons is a picture of the snow-covered mountains at night with a long exposure that highlights the purple skies.

“I like to use the camera as another eyeball,” she said. “It’s a whole other lens to see the world.”

While a few of the images are in color, to show the details like the purple

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Jackson Hole Hijack, Part 1 What happens when a town trades its community members for something more marketable?

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y childhood home is empty. Our unit in Creekside Village has had its shades drawn, showing virtually zero signs of life since we moved out seven years ago. I suspect the current owners use it as a temporary home, like many spots in Jackson, but there’s something eerie about its vacant indifference.

When I pass it on the bike path, there’s nothing on the deck, no potted flowers, no little Andrew Munz peeking out of his upstairs window. It’s devoid of any indication that my family had lived there for 16 years.

Creekside Village is where Charlie currently makes his home, albeit in a different unit. Charlie is a pseudonym for a gentleman I interviewed for my short-lived podcast “Snow Report.” The goal of the podcast was to document Jackson’s collective voice and record the opinions of anonymous locals. When listeners weren’t paying attention to the message and instead trying to guess the names of guests, I pulled the plug.

But Charlie’s story must still be told.

(Out of respect of our initial agreement, I am keeping Charlie anonymous.)

He is a musician, a passionate community man who has a deep affinity and respect for Jackson’s cultural growth, but has hit one housing roadblock after another. The lack of laws

protecting renters’ rights has been a thorn in Charlie’s side, and has thrown him into periods of panic as he tried to find another affordable housing option.

“It is frustrating when again you hear of another long-term local who loses their housing and then ultimately their footing in the community,” he told me.

“You think, ‘Oh god, maybe I’m next.’”

We sat at his kitchen table as it snowed outside, and I couldn’t help my flashbacks living in one of these units. The layout was different, but the detailing of the cabinets, the doors, the flooring, all of it transported me back to my childhood.

It was both home and nothing like it.

Speaking with another Jackson resident who is just as uncertain of their local future as you are can be a humbling experience.

We’re not alone.

The housing crisis is a topic that infects much of the community on a deep, emotional level. But to many others, it’s not much more than a commonly seen headline. The fact that things are moving at a snail’s pace isn’t alleviating that issue either.

“It’s apathy. I’ve reached that recently because things aren’t getting better, the housing crisis is not getting better, the town and the county are not stepping up to give us what we all wanted,

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which was some kind of laws. Our government is failing us,” he said.

The town passed a diluted “tenant protection” ordinance 3-2 in August 2017 that requires landlords to give tenants a 30-day notice before kicking them to the curb. The housing advocacy group Shelter JH had suggested several other useful measures that were difficult for the town and its attorneys to enact; state law, they found, would trump town ordinance.

Charlie compared the community to an onion, built out of layers, each one covering the last. On the first layer, the marketable Jackson Hole™ is prominent, clearly showcasing all the valley has to offer to the outside world. But deep down, the community and its issues are revealed. It takes some peeling back to understand and empathize with the work force that drives the community’s economy and culture, but Charlie doesn’t see much hope at its core.

“We’re rotting from the inside out,” he said. “But you know I feel like I am accountable to this community, but so many other people don’t feel that way.

How do you change that? How do you get them to open up their eyes? I’ve wondered that myself.”

It’s no secret that Jackson lacks a unified voice when it comes to housing. The Not In My Backyard movement and the

oft-expressed, stomach-churning concept that Jackson might just be increasingly unaffordable, “and if you can’t afford it, then maybe you should move,” are detrimental to attaining any sort of solution. The deep crevasse between the working class and the more affluent homeowners is only growing more and more obvious.

However, Charlie believes that those who are victims of the crisis have more power than they realize, and have the ability to create lasting change with our votes.

“There are more of us than there are of them. We forget that,” he said. “But we need to stop being apathetic and understand that this is up to us, not them.”

Change is inevitable and Jackson still has plenty of it on the horizon. To many of its locals, Jackson has become both home and nothing like it. Indeed, the opportunities for a lasting life in the valley diminish as the cost of living continues to climb. People will be forced to leave, and more childhood homes will be vacated and purchased by folks who live in them perhaps a month out of the year.

But do the struggling members of the community have enough will power to unite and fight back? PJH

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hamachi and a thin slice of lemon, is one of the best dishes in Jackson Hole.

While I am biased towards anything with unagi, i.e. freshwater eel, this roll exemplifies King’s ability to marry crisp, rich textures and flavors with potent yet delicate fish. No ingredient is lost in this dish, and the paper thin slice of lemon sets it over the top with its fresh, tart flavor cutting through the richness of the hamachi and smokey eel.

Hamachi, a member of the tuna family, has a very distinct fish flavor. Due to its high fat content, its meat is soft and incredibly delicate. For $18, the roll is perfect for sharing or, let’s be honest, it might be best for one.

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Indeed, every itamae has their own secret rice recipe. The rice is an essential complement to the fish without taking away from its flavor.

After mastering the rice, the next step is to become a wakiita (beside the board).

This apprenticeship is when pupils learn to handle fish and its accompanying ingredients.

King claimed his position in front of the board following years of such apprenticeship and culinary education.

And in 2014, he and his wife Kaylan opened King Sushi, aptly named for its location on King Street, its owners and its caliber of food.

His specialty? Making the ingredients stand out while keeping them light, fresh and clean. That’s why The Hoff Roll, containing unagi, avocado, soy paper,

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t’s no secret the Japanese take pride in tradition. Theirs is a refined, precise culture rooted in preservation and respect.

Like geishas and samurais, sushi chefs face lengthy instruction. The ultimate goal is to become itamae (in front of the board). They are responsible for a customer’s experience from start to finish.

Jason King, executive chef and owner of King Sushi, embarked on the journey in 2002 at Nikai in Jackson Hole. He learned from Chef Jared Schwartz, “the most influential chef I have ever worked with.”

King began there at square one: rice-making under Nikai’s Master Lee. “It’s all about the rice and its ratio to salt and vinegar,” King explained.

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.

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The author is partial to the Tokyo Sour, made with kaffir lime.

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Local is a modern American steakhouse and bar located on Jackson’s historic town square.

Serving locally raised beef and, regional game, fresh seafood and seasonally inspired food, Local offers the perfect setting for lunch, drinks or dinner.

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century—a former home to metal workers—contrasts the silent dedication of the itamae with one of his two wakiita, George VanDercook and Alexander Chay, bent over their boards.

While King adheres to the Japanese’s dedication to charm and grace, he allows flexibility in flavor and presentation, offering everything from pork gyoza, scallop shooters, sashimi and house rolls.

Of course you can’t talk about King Sushi without discussing its excellent happy hour beginning at 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday through Sunday. With half-off wine and beers and $5 hand and select rolls, it might be one of the best happy hours in town. Arrive early—most days there is a line at the door shortly after the restaurant opens.

While the specialty cocktails pair well with the food, I’m partial to the Tokyo Sour made with tangy-sweet yuzu and kaffir lime sour mix. Don’t forget to take a peek at the sake and wine offerings too.

In addition to the regular menu items, King and his team display their creativity and finesse with daily food specials. These often include oysters, specialty fish, and if you’re lucky, meltin-your-mouth uni (sea urchin) bringing the taste of the ocean to your tongue and the smell of a sea breeze to your face.

“We wanted to give customers a highend, healthy dining experience with good, sustainable, line caught fish,” King explained. A novel and enviable concept in a landlocked state known for wild game and beef. PJH

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Featuring dining destinations from breweries to bakeries, and continental fare to foreign flavor, this is a sampling of our dining critic’s local favorites.

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TETON THAI Serving the world’s most exciting cuisine. Teton Thai offers a splendid array of flavors: sweet, hot, sour, salt and bitter. All balanced and blended perfectly, satisfying the most discriminating palate. Open daily. Located at 7432 Granite Loop Road in Teton Village, (307) 733-0022 and in Driggs, (208) 787-8424, tetonthai.com.

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

list and an abundance of locally-sourced products. Offering a casual and vibrant bar atmosphere with 12 beers on tap as well as a relaxed dining room, Local is the perfect spot to grab a burger for lunch or to have drinks and dinner with friends. Lunch MonSat 11:30am. Dinner Nightly 5:30pm. 55 North Cache, (307) 201-1717, localjh.com.

hour runs from 4 - 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Loacted at 265 S. Millward. (307) 7392337, snakeriverbrewing.com.

LOTUS ORGANIC RESTAURANT

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. Located at 2560 Moose Wilson Rd., (307) 733-2460.

Serving organic, freshly-made world cuisine while catering to all eating styles. Endless organic and natural meat, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices. Offering super smoothies, fresh extracted juices, espresso and tea. Full bar and house-infused botanical spirits. Serving breakfast, lunch & dinner starting at 8am daily. Located at 140 N. Cache, (307) 734-0882, theorganiclotus.com.

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CONTINENTAL Serving authentic Swiss cuisine, the Alpenhof features European style breakfast entrées and alpine lunch fare. Dine in the Bistro for a casual meal or join us in the Alpenrose dining room for a relaxed dinner experience. Breakfast 7:30 a.m.-10 a.m. Coffee & pastry 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Lunch 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Aprés 3 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Dinner 6 p.m.-9 p.m. For reservations at the Bistro or Alpenrose, call (307) 733-3242.

THE BLUE LION A Jackson Hole favorite for 39 years. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home. Serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entrées. Ask a local about our rack of lamb. Live acoustic guitar music most nights. Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com Our mission is simple: offer good food, made fresh, all day, every day. We know everyone’s busy, so we cater to on-the-go lifestyles with quick, tasty options for breakfast and lunch, including pastries and treats from our sister restaurant Persephone. Also offering coffee and espresso drinks plus wine and cocktails. Open 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 7 a.m.-3 p.m. on weekends. Located at 1110 Maple Way in West Jackson, (307) 264-2956, picnicjh.com

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MOE’S BBQ Opened in Jackson Hole by Tom Fay and David Fogg, Moe’s Original Bar B Que features a Southern Soul Food Revival through its award-winning Alabama-style pulled pork, ribs, wings, turkey and chicken smoked over hardwood served with two unique sauces in addition to Catfish and a Shrimp Moe-Boy sandwich. A daily rotation of traditional Southern sides and tasty desserts are served fresh daily. Moe’s BBQ stays open late and features a menu for any budget. While the setting is family-friendly, a full premium bar offers a lively scene with HDTVs for sports fans, music, shuffle board and other games upstairs. Large party takeout orders and full service catering with delivery is also available.

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.

Located at 385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.

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DOMINO’S PIZZA

Hot and delicious delivered to your door.

Hand-tossed, deep dish, crunchy thin, Brooklyn style and artisan pizzas; bread bowl pastas, and oven baked sandwiches; chicken wings, cheesy breads and desserts. Delivery. 520 S. Hwy. 89 in Kmart Plaza, (307) 733-0330.

PINKY G’S

The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012-2016. Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, strombolis, 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. - 2 a.m. Located at 50 W. Broadway, (307) 734-PINK.

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

annual BOJH party Wednesday, April 18 7-10 p.m. at Lotus Organic Restaurant get your tickets at bestof jh.com

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Local, a modern American steakhouse and bar, is located on Jackson’s historic town square. Our menu features both classic and specialty cuts of locally-ranched meats and wild game alongside fresh seafood, shellfish, house-ground burgers, and seasonallyinspired food. We offer an extensive wine

Come down to the historic Virginian Saloon and check out our grill menu! Everything from 1/2 pound burgers to wings at a great price! The grill is open in the Saloon from 4 p.m.-10p.m. daily. Located at 750 West Broadway, (307) 739-9891.

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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.

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Shopper, at times Driving hazard The last game there was played 9/28/2008 14 Olive Garden staple 19 __ cuisine 20 Newcastle’s river 21 Changes lanes on?

22 One way to think 23 Laura’s classic “Dick Van Dyke Show” wail 24 Baseball family name 25 Got off the horse 26 Hit-by-pitch reminders 27 Mediators burn calories by __ 31 Increased 32 Short relative?

33 __ spot 34 March family creator 38 Cancel at NASA 40 Brainstorm 45 Employees burn calories by __ 50 Those, in Tijuana 51 2018 “Sunday Night Baseball” addition 52 Org. with specialists 53 Bust unit 54 Carve up 55 Like many an AARP mem.

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“With all things and in all things, we are relatives.” – Sioux proverb

“Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.” – Native American proverb, Kiowa

When baby swans (cygnets) hatch, they do not have their full plumage or their elegant bodies with long graceful necks. It takes months for them to emerge as the exquisitely beautiful birds we know. Precisely because the hatchlings are not elegant looking, and they do not know how they will evolve, Native American traditions look to the swans to teach us the grace of accepting what is, to surrendering to the higher plan, and flowing with—rather than resisting—our own self-transformation. Consider reflecting on what is yearning to unfold in your life.

Deer “Give me knowledge so I may have kindness for all.” – Plains Indian proverb Every evening as I drive home, herds of deer graze on the hillsides, their light brown coats blending with the bare sagebrush and shrubs, their small white tails matching the remaining spots of snow still dotting the ground.

Native American tradition teaches that the deer embody gentleness and are here to evoke the gentleness within us.

Deer reminds us to use the power of gentleness, and to practice compassion toward others and ourselves, especially in the presence of those who are hurt and do not know better.

To the Plains Indians, buffalo was especially sacred for all it provided. Every part of the animal was honored and used, for nourishment, for warmth, for shelter, for sacred rituals, for art. Because it offered its entire body in service to the people, buffalo medicine reminds us to give gratitude for the richness of life and to generously share all that we have with whomever could benefit from our gifts.

Eagle Accord i ng to Nat ive Americans, to walk in balance is to have heaven (spirituality) and Earth (physicality) in harmony.

Eagles can both soar high in the sky and function competently on the earth as well. The eagle wisdom teaches us how important it is to maintain the ability to soar high above the mundane, to see the big picture perspective of any situation and at the same time to remain connected to the earth and the things of daily life.

Eagle is the great reminder that we are both spiritual and physical beings, capable of bringing our higher consciousness to our earthly lives.

Humanity “All of Creation is related.

And the hurt of one is the hurt of all.

And the honor of one is the honor of all.

And whatever we do affects everything in the universe.” – Lakota PJH

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

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Walking on the bike path last weekend, I was excited to see the bluebirds have returned. Bluebirds are considered a sign of spring and a symbol of happiness, love, beauty and simple pleasures. The energy of the bluebird speaks directly to the human heart and opens us to joy and uplift. They teach us to take stock of all the things which make our spirit soar with joy, and to bring those things into our lives now.

“A warrior who had more than he needed would make a feast. He went around and invited the old and needy.”

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ative Americans gleaned a special spiritual awareness as the result of living in close partnership with nature. They knew the animals, birds, insects and plants as spiritual teachers in addition to sources of physical sustenance. The people lived with the direct experience that all life is intelligent, sacred and interconnected.

Noting that each species has its own special essence, its own unique attributes, its own perfect place in the matrix of life, Native Americans incorporated nature’s spiritual guidance in their daily lives to become better humans.

They specifically noted and followed the wisdom teachings of animals, birds and insects, which appear in different seasons of the year. As we move into spring, here are some of the spiritual teachings we can emulate from the animals we see every day in the Tetons.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) A few years ago, a New Zealander named Bruce Simpson announced plans to build a cruise missile at his home using parts he bought legally from eBay and other online stores. In accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you initiate a comparable project. For example, you could arrange a do-it-yourself space flight by tying a thousand helium balloons to your lawn chair. April fools!

I lied. Please don’t try lunatic schemes like the helium balloon space flight. Here’s the truth: Now is a favorable time to initiate big, bold projects, but not foolish, big, bold projects. The point is to be both visionary and practical.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The Finnish word kalsarikännit means getting drunk at home alone in your underwear and bingeing on guilty pleasures. It’s a perfect time for you to do just that. The Fates are whispering, “Chill out. Vegetate. Be ambitionless.” April fools! I told a half-truth. In fact, now is a perfect time to excuse yourself from trying too hard and doing too much. You can accomplish wonders and marvels by staying home and bingeing on guilty pleasures in your underwear. But there’s no need to get drunk.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) In the Scots language still spoken in parts of Scotland, eedle-doddles are people who can’t summon initiative when it’s crunch time. They are so consumed in trivial or irrelevant concerns that they lose all instinct for being in the right place at the right time. I regret to inform you that you are now at risk of being an eedle-doddle. April fools! I lied. In fact, the truth is just the opposite. I have rarely seen you so well-primed to respond vigorously and bravely to Big Magic Moments. For the foreseeable future, you are King or Queen of Carpe Diem.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Fifteenth-century Italian painter Filippo Lippi was such a lustful womanizer that he sometimes found it tough to focus on making art. At one point, his wealthy and politically powerful patron Cosimo de’ Medici, frustrated by his extracurricular activities, imprisoned him in his studio to ensure he wouldn’t get diverted. Judging from your current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suspect you need similar constraints. April fools! I fibbed a little. I am indeed worried you’ll get so caught up in the pursuit of pleasure that you’ll neglect your duties. But I won’t go so far as to suggest you should be locked up for your own good.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Now is a favorable time to slap a lawsuit on your mom in an effort to make her pay for the mistakes she made while raising you. You could also post an exposé on social media in which you reveal her shortcomings, or organize a protest rally outside her house with your friends holding signs demanding she apologize for how she messed you up. April fools! Everything I just said was ridiculous and false. The truth is, now is a perfect moment to meditate on the gifts and blessings your mother gave you. If she is still alive, express your gratitude to her. If she has passed on, do a ritual to honor and celebrate her.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Aquarian author Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple. She has also published 33 other books and built a large audience. But some of her ideas are not exactly mainstream. For example, she says that one of her favorite authors is David Icke, who asserts that intelligent extraterrestrial reptiles have disguised themselves as humans and taken control of our planet’s governments. I bring this to your attention, because I think it’s time that you, too, reveal the full extent of how crazy you really are. April fools! I half-lied. While it’s true that now is a favorable time to show more of your unconventional and eccentric sides, I don’t advise you to go full-on whacko.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Warning! Danger! You are at risk of contracting a virulent case of cherophobia! And what exactly is cherophobia?

It’s a fear of happiness. It’s an inclination to dodge and shun joyful experiences because of the suspicion that they will disappoint you or cause bad luck. Please do something to stop this insidious development. April fools!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) I lied. The truth is that you are currently more receptive to I expect you will soon receive a wealth of exotic and positive emotions and delightful events than you’ve been expensive gifts. For example, a benefactor may finance in a log time. There’s less than a one-percent chance you your vacation to a gorgeous sacred site or give you the will fall victim to cherophobia.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Paul McCartney likes to periodically act like a regular person who’s not a famous musician. He goes grocery shopping without bodyguards. He rides on public transportation and strikes up conversations with random strangers. I think you may need to engage in similar behavior yourself, Leo. You’ve become a bit too enamored with your own beauty and magnificence. You really do need to come down to earth and hang out more with us little people. April fools! I lied. The truth is, now is prime time to hone your power and glory; to indulge your urge to shine and dazzle; to be as conspicuously marvelous as you dare to be.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) There’s a narrow waterway between Asia and Europe. In the fifth century B.C., Persian King Xerxes had two bridges built across it so he could invade Greece with his army. But a great storm swept through and smashed his handiwork.

Xerxes was royally peeved. He ordered his men to whip the uncooperative sea and brand it with hot irons, all the while shouting curses at it, like “You are a turbid and briny river.” I recommend that you do something similar, Scorpio. Has Nature done anything to inconvenience you? Show it who’s the Supreme Boss! April fools! I lied.

The truth is, now is an excellent time for you to become more attuned and in love with a Higher Power, however you define that. What’s greater than you and bigger than your life and wilder than you can imagine? Refine your practice of the art of surrender.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Actor Gary Busey is very sure there are no mirrors in heaven. He has other specific ideas about the place, as well. This became a problem when he was filming the movie Quigley, in which his character Archie visits heaven.

Busey was so enraged at the director’s mistaken rendering of paradise that he got into a fist fight with another actor.

I hope you will show an equally feisty fussiness in the coming weeks, Gemini. April fools! I lied, sort of. On the one hand, I do hope you’ll be forceful as you insist on expressing your high standards. Don’t back down! But on the other hand, refrain from pummeling anyone who asks you to compromise.

deed to an enchanted waterfall. I won’t be surprised if you’re blessed with a solid gold bathtub or a year’s supply of luxury cupcakes. It’s even possible that a sugar daddy or sugar momma will fork over $500,000 to rent an auditorium for a party in your honor. April fools! I distorted the truth. I do suspect you’ll get more goodies than usual in the coming weeks, but they’re likely to come in the form of love and appreciation, not flashy material goods.

(For best results, don’t just wait around for the goodies to stream in; ask for them!)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The coming days will be an excellent time to concoct an alchemical potion that will heal your oldest wounds.

For best results, mix and sip a gallon of potion using the following magic ingredients: absinthe, chocolate syrup, cough medicine, dandelion tea, cobra venom, and worm’s blood. April fools! I mixed a lie in with a truth. It is a fact that now is a fine time to seek remedies for your ancient wounds. But the potion I recommended is bogus.

Go on a quest for the real cure.

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