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Playtime with javelinas
beats a trip to the big box
A couple of weeks ago, a pack of javelinas chased me up an apple tree. I remained
there for the better part of an hour.
I’d driven out White Spar for a hike through the apple orchard, parking on the west
side of the road and hiking east. I returned through deep twilight, dark enough that I
couldn’t see the dozen javelina surrounding the truck until I was standing on the double
yellow line.
I startled.
They startled.
I took a few steps backwards and the biggest one took a few steps forward. I took a
few more steps back without taking my eyes off the pig. He kept coming. At which point
I thought to myself: “You know… I’ve never seen a javelina in a tree.”
So I turned around and ran up the nearest tree, the javelina in brisk pursuit.
He peered up at me. “Just stay there,” I imagined him telling me.
He certainly did. As it got darker, the pig faded into audio off to my left. Cars went
by on the highway, and their headlights assured me that the pigs still surrounded the
truck. In the darkness, it sounded like they were EATING the tires or the bumper of my
borrowed pickup.
How interesting, I thought to myself, to be stuck up a tree while clumps of cars
passed only paces away. Over yonder, in my own transportation, two cell phones lan-
guished in my abandoned purse. I had nothing but a orange D-backs cap to shoo the
buzzing occupants of the apple tree. But all told, I seemed OK. I had a strict no-gore pol-
icy and so far, everything was going according to plan. No pig had stuck his tusks in me
yet.
I told my story to a few friends. At least one of them nailed the whole experience
when she said, “But it was cool right? It was kind of fun?”
It was. I lived here nearly my whole life and have come across lots of javelina at
night. Mostly, there’s no problem – we’ve coexisted peacefully for decades – and honestly
I’d rather risk a javelina tusk than live somewhere completely domesticated.
If anything, I wish we had more wild spaces in the heart of our city. We’re lucky to
have Acker Park. The city tried to sell it and concerned citizens fought the sale, managing
to save downtown open space.
It’s not the only wild space at risk. The last time I heard Gheral Brownlow speak, he
chastised the city for not making better use of Pioneer Park. Right now, the Pioneer Park
Equestrian Center Association (www.PPECA.org) is raising money to convert the hills
and scrub into an equestrian park with arenas – to literally domesticate it.
Never assume that our city fathers will make decisions that align with our desire for
quality of life. They have bills to pay and the shortest distance between those bills and
paying them is continued growth and development. And open space doesn’t pay the bills.
Big boxes like Lowe’s do that, but while the city does pay the spiraling salaries of our
police and firefighters, it does so in the least creative and most expedient way possible.
And our hillsides come down in the process.

Want to get involved in the wild side of Prescott? The Open Space Alliance of
Central Yavapai County is a good place to start. They have weekly meetings and in
September will host the Urban Wildlife Interface Symposium. According to my old
schoolmate Ashley Fine, who’s hip-deep in planning, the symposium will cover how to
live with the critters we’ve got and how to plan for growth in a way that leaves vital
wildlife corridors intact. Visit www.yavapaiosa.org for info.

–Erica Ryberg
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 Heard Around the West
By Betsy Marston
ARIZONA
Some residents of one of the more
expensive ZIP codes in Phoenix have
alarmed homeowners with their “brazen”
behavior, reports the Arizona Republic.
Coyotes are the interlopers, and one was
so ill-mannered it grabbed a leashed
bichon frise by the neck and tried to run
off with it. Luckily, Lexy, short for Lexus,
was saved by its owner, who yanked the
little dog free. But the shameless coyote
held its ground, said the owner. “He
would not budge. It was like I was
infringing on his territory.” That’s actual-
ly the truth, since the Biltmore area of
Phoenix has expanded onto turf that was
once the exclusive domain of wildlife.
Darren Julian, an urban wildlife special-
ist with the state Game and Fish
Department, considers coyotes invading
Biltmore the “ultimate opportunists.” His
advice: Feed pets indoors. Keep garbage
in cans. “Don’t allow these animals to
become comfortable in the human
arena,” he says. “Be rude to them. Yell.
Throw rocks.”
2 August 2007
NEW MEXICO
Would you stop your car at a clearly
marked crosswalk if Santa Claus were
strolling across the street? Would you
even slow down or get off your cell phone
to gawk at a walking gorilla? The
University of New Mexico wanted to
investigate pedestrian safety at crosswalks
in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Gallup and
Las Cruces, and got federal funding to
test drivers with scenarios just like these.
Well, abysmal doesn’t begin to describe
the driving habits of folks in those four
cities, reports the Denver Post. “People
drove right by Santa Claus,” said Las
Cruces police officer Chris Miller. “We
had people say they saw the gorilla trying
to cross the street, but they didn’t think
they had to stop for him.” In Santa Fe,
police tried to be explicit, placing orange
cones well ahead of crosswalks and post-
ing signs that warned of a safety crack-
down. Nobody stopped. “The first few
times they went right by me, I couldn’t
believe it,” said police officer Anthony
Rivera, who was dressed in plainclothes
as he tried to cross the street. Las Cruces
officer Kiri Daines found that even when
she dressed up as Spider-Man, “I literally
had to tap on the hoods of cars as they
stopped an inch away from me. I’m in the
intersection, and they’re almost running
over me.” Hundreds of scofflaws were
nailed with $51 tickets, but it’s an open
question whether fines have any impact
on drivers determined to keep moving.
COLORADO
The resort town of Vail used to require
“bear-resistant” Dumpsters, but since
black bears are both smart and powerful,
it just took the animals a little longer to
get to the delicious garbage. Recently,
the town council mandated “bear-proof”
Dumpsters, reports the Vail Daily, but
now there’s a new problem: The lids are
too heavy. “We put a man on the moon,”
said councilman Farrow Hitt; what’s
needed is “a Dumpster lid that doesn’t
chop people’s hands off.”
THE WEST
Timothy Egan pointed out in a recent
New York Times op-ed that the two cre-
ators of every American’s birthright – our
565 million acres of public lands – were
privileged men with democratic convic-
tions: They wanted everyone in the coun-
try to share in its wealth of natural beau-
ty. The two men, who were friends, were
also manly to the max: Gifford Pinchot,
the first chief of the Forest Service, had
his valet wake him up each day with a
splash of cold water to the face; President
Theodore Roosevelt, who created the
federal agency, considered it bracing to
swim naked in the Potomac River. We
may still own our birth- right, Egan said,
but the public-lands legacy of George W.
Bush has been a tawdry “cash-out” that
leaves wildlife refuges without staff and
national forests like slums: “Roosevelt
had his place on Oyster Bay. Pinchot had
a family estate in Pennsylvania. Bush has
the ranch in Crawford. Only one of them
has never been able to see beyond the
front porch.”
SEATTLE AND SAUDI ARABIA
We stopped reading comments posted to
the online “Slog” of Seattle’s alternative
weekly, The Stranger, after 56 people
weighed in. The red-hot story that got
people going was a first-person account
of a woman thrilled at finding a rare
Starbucks in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi
Arabia. Once the burka-clad American
writer spotted the coffee mecca, she
boldly entered, though no woman had
ever been admitted before. A stunned
barrista gave her a coffee, but then he
ordered her out – immediately. Females
were admitted only to a small espresso
bar out back, labeled “family.”
Comments ranged widely, with some
readers saying no surprise here – all
women are second-class citizens in Saudi
Arabia. Others fulminated against the
country’s barbarism and the discriminato-
ry role that Starbucks had played. A
blogger named Roflamo took a humorous
tack: “As someone who has picked up a
lot of girls at Starbucks, I just want to say
these Saudi guys are not getting their
money’s worth on that coffee.”
(Betsy Marston is editor of Writers on the
Range, a service of High Country News in
Paonia, Colorado (betsym@hcn.org). Tips
of Western oddities are always appreciated
and often shared in the column, Heard
around the West.)
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 The Balance
Finding reality in a fairy tale of unlimited water
By Candace McNulty

I
t’s the Holy Grail, it’s the Maltese Falcon,
it’s Nirvana, the state of grace or bliss. Such
a simple concept – it’s when the water you
pump out of your local aquifer neatly balances
the water soaking in. It’s safe yield. It’s where
we aren’t, it’s where we’re supposed to be by
2025, eighteen fleeting years hence. How we
get there is a question that has lots of people
pointing at the other guy. One guy is bulldog-
an extension of his preliminary plat, one of the
myriad granted in the Great Plat Rush in the
second half of 1998, and…
The plot thickens
OK, as noted at the top: safe yield is a
simple concept. Water in, water out – Balance!
But, alas, in human affairs, complexity
ensnares us. We craft soap operas. Plots twist,
characters proliferate, someone gets amnesia…
So let’s back up for some history of this “safe
yield” notion.
It’s not, of course, a law of nature. It’s not
a law at all; it’s a “statutory goal,” a “groundwa-
ter management goal” proclaimed by the
Arizona Department of Water Resources
(ADWR). The state legislature created this out-
fit in 1980, hoping to get a handle on rapacious
groundwater overuse already well underway in
the state’s urban areas. It outlined five Active
Management Areas (AMAs), defining the
groundwater basins under the greatest threat
for being pumped to the point of collapse.
The ADWR website, www.azwater.gov,
has a map, a description, and the goal of the
Prescott AMA (PrAMA, the “r” distinguishing
it from the Phoenix and Pinal AMAs). PrAMA’s
goal is “to achieve and thereafter maintain a
long-term balance between the amount of
groundwater withdrawn in [the] active man-
agement area and the annual amount of natu-
ral and artificial recharge in the active manage-
ment area.” Deadline: 2025.
The ADWR website also outlines a
PrAMA history. Before telling the AMA to hit
the trail toward safe yield, the Department had
tion that it will always be there, as though
groundwater were no different from copper or
bauxite. Another ADWR concept is “over-
draft,” with its whiff of bankruptcy and penalty
fees.
The Wizard, the Prince,
and the Powerful Sorceress
And if ADWR determined the PrAMA was
in a state of groundwater mining, accruing regu-
lar annual overdrafts, that would allow the
Department to cap the amount of groundwater it
permits water providers in the AMA to pump.
Several experts believed groundwater mining was
going on, citing data from at least back to 1990 –
some said 1950. But, through the early 1990s,
while working on its Assured Water rules,
ADWR couldn’t prove that the PrAMA was min-
ing groundwater. This takes us up to 1995, which
is when the story lurches into fairytale mode.
Because that’s when the Great Wizard,
Adwir, says to Prince Ama, “You are not in safe
yield. You are mining your groundwater, with
an overdraft every year. You will have to pay
the Terrible Penalty.” “You lie!” cries the
prince, challenging the Great Wizard to prove
this burdensome calumny. “Very well,” Adwir
begrudges; “I will test monitor your wells. But
if I find the groundwater declining for three
consecutive years, I will make a Definite
Determination of Groundwater Mining.” And
so Adwir monitors the wells. As the results
come in, it’s clear the news will not be good for
Prince Ama – who turns to his ally, the
Powerful state senator Sorceress, Carol of
Springer. He pleads for her help. The Terrible

Do Your Own Research!

Fann Contracting consultant
Jason Gisi (with map) and
contractor Mike Fann (cen-
ter), on old Rt. 89A, explain
the plan for developing
Fann’s property northwest
of Prescott.
RIH photo/Candace McNulty
ging this question, and he’s not going to let
anyone beg off.
Howard Mechanic may have encountered
disappointment at the polls in his 2005 city
council run, when his campaign-sign avatar was
a bulldog, but safe yield is different. On this,
he doesn’t have to give up. Mechanic has been
working and meeting and planning, to get the
focus on an equitable way to share our scarce,
indispensable resource, groundwater; to get
each of the water-providing or -using entities in
the AMA to take responsibility for a part of the
burden of balance – of safe yield.
Mechanic is not alone in this effort, but he
is tireless (certain folks would say tiresome).
And that’s why he stood up at the July 3 City
Council meeting to argue against Prescott
architect and developer Rex Mason’s appeal for
Howard Mechanic is a member of Citizens Water Advisory Group. The reports sec-
tion of their website (http://www.cwagaz.org/) has a position paper on safe yield.
There you can also read the excellent report of the Safe Yield Subcommittee, pro-
duced after a year of work by this multi-stakeholder group on which Howard
Mechanic and Prescott pipeline project manager Jim Holt served. Look for “Final
Report on Safe-Yield…” in the Reports section.
The official site for the City of Prescott’s planned pipeline (with Prescott Valley) is at
http://www.cityofprescott.net/services/public/chino.php
and a statement of the aims of the City’s Water Resources Management Division is
available at http://www.cityofprescott.net/services/public/
to make the case that Prescott was not current- Penalty, he shudders – no more groundwater
ly in that blessed state. So, what is the opposite to distribute for the future growth of my
of safe yield? That would be the perilous prac- princedom! Calm yourself, says the Powerful
tice of “groundwater mining,” where you’re Sorceress, I’ll do what I can. She casts her
just extracting the resource with no expecta- spell, and the Great Wizard, Adwir, can only

4 August 2007
achieve a Preliminary Determination. The GW
is in this state of semi-paralysis for half a year.
And that, beloved listeners, is how we got
to the Great Plat Rush of 1998. What would you
do if you owned property, and you knew that fil-
ing a plat today would for-sure allow you to
develop your property guaranteeing your home-
buyers access to groundwater – while filing six
months later you’d have to compete with other
developers for a share of a sharply restricted
bucket of water each year? Right, that’s what I’d
do too, and so, for six months, plats for the
development of 32,000 homes flew in to plan-
I say we shouldn’t be taking people’s economic well-being
away from them.
ning and zoning commissions around the AMA,
legend has it, on napkins and the backs of golf
scorecards, 6,900 homes worth of them in the
City of Prescott. Then, on January 12, 1999,
ADWR made its final determination.
Jabberwocky
Many of those 1998 plats now constitute
the newer neighborhoods around Prescott. Of
the 1,600 or so remaining potential homesites,
most lie in the Yavapai Hills development. Rex
Mason has his 14 lots on a square parcel with
access to Rosser Street (Howard Mechanic told
him he was one of those who “got lucky”).
Mason says the Wizard of Wizards, ADWR head
Herb Guenther, assured him he’d have that
water right in perpetuity. It’s true, the water
right does stay with the property… with this plot
twist: a city resolution states that an owner must
develop such a plat within one year, unless City
Council grants an extension. At Mason’s first
request in 1999, they did grant it – all the way to
2007. That’s why Rex Mason went before City
Council on July 3, and he “got lucky” again, win-
ning another eight-year extension.
Mason asserts this is “old” water, “extra”
water, not being subject to the ADWR cap on
groundwater, so that “the available quantity of
water for Prescott at ultimate build-out is just that
For all the talk about safe yield — they have not established
a safe yield plan yet.
much bigger” than if he didn’t get the extension,
because it doesn’t come out of the small bucket.
But Mechanic points out that the legal water
right is one thing, the land privileges another.
Nowhere is it written that City Council has to
grant these extensions. And the water accounting
categories, says Mechanic, are one thing, but real
water is another. “The question that isn’t being
asked,” Mechanic told Council, “is, How does
[Mason’s extension] affect our reaching safe
yield?” His answer: approval will allow additional
overdraft, lowering the total pool of real water,
when no one has yet earmarked any water to
achieving the safe yield balance. If City Council
didn’t extend the preliminary plat, Mason’s right to
that water would go away; anyone who wanted to
develop the land after that would have compete
for a portion of the small bucket, the conservative-
ly managed amount that ADWR allocates since
January 1999. This is what the city calls “alterna-
tive water,” and it’s part of the Alice-in-
Wonderland world of “water portfolios” and
“water budgets” that shoves the whole question of
how we balance our water use way out beyond the
grasp of the regular citizen.
It makes your head swim. There’s the real
water, soaking the cracks and pore spaces of
rock and gravel and sand underground; and
then there’s “paper water” – legal rights,
accounting categories. Mason refers to “his”
water as “old” water, because he got it before
ADWR put the lid on Prescott’s right to prom-
ise groundwater to developers. ADWR’s label
for the water the AMA can pump and stay in
balance with recharge is “AMA groundwater.”
Alternative water is anything else a water
provider can get credit for and add to its port-
folio. This includes retired HIA water, from
agricultural “historically [but not currently]
irrigated acres” the provider owns. It also
includes credit for treated wastewater that the
provider recharges back into the aquifer. In
ADWR’s scheme, such water may now be
underground, but it is not “groundwater.”
Reaching Nirvana
It is, though, the source of credit that
ADWR grants to the recharging water providers,
credit that allows them to pump the water out
again. As Mechanic and others see it, this
recharge can only help us reach safe yield in the
sense that it can reduce existing demand for
“AMA groundwater,” by being served to current
customers. If it goes to new growth, and if exist-
ing demand doesn’t change, then neither does
our overdraft problem. And to make the equa-
tion finally balance, in this view of things, at
some point there will have to be “permanent
recharge” – a quantity of used, treated water
that’s put back in the aquifer, with no credit
issued for further pumping. That’s the solution
mandated by the Reasonable Growth Initiative,
promoted by a group of citizens (including
Mechanic) and passed as Prop 400 by 57% of
voters in 2005. The new resolution this action
put into the city charter applies to any new
annexations of 250 acres or larger, so this perma-
nent recharge provision will have its first appli-
cation in the development of the former Granite
Dells Ranch by Mike Fann.
The Department of Water Resources recog-
nizes only two strategies to keep us from going
dry for the indefinite future: make the best use
of the water we have (conserve), and find more
(augment). Its plan for reaching safe yield is to
work with the AMA water providers, periodically
producing Management Plans (No. 4 is in the
hopper now). ADWR promotes a range of pro-
grams as the plans lay out increasingly stringent
conservation requirements. Examples of ener-
getic local responses: Chino Valley announces
strict rules for new developments, agreeing to
provide them water for indoor use only; develop-
ers will have to find their own source for any
landscaping. Prescott offers home conservation
kits and imposes “tiered” water rates, charging
less for the first, basic amount of water, progres-
sively more for each block over that. ADWR is
confident that such measures will bring the AMA
to safe yield by 2025.
Not One Drop! Consultant Jason Gisi (cen-
ter) and developer Mike
Prescott, Prescott Valley and Chino Valley Fann hosted Planning &
also have an augmentation strategy: import water. Zoning officials and citizens
Back in fairytale time, the Powerful Sorceress on Fann’s property, for
secured this right for Prince Ama – uh, the which Fann seeks annexation
to Prescott. At right, Prescott
PrAMA. Carol Springer, currently a Yavapai
mayoral candidate Jack
County Supervisor, was in 1991 beginning her Wilson.
WATER IN THE BALANCE
Here’s the equation calculated by ADWR for the Prescott
Active Management Area in 2003:
Water In (13,840) - Water Out (25,140) =
Change in Storage (-11,300)
The amounts are in acre-feet (or af, with 1 af = 325,851 gallons).
Water In includes natural recharge from rain and snowmelt;
any water that percolated in from farm and ranch irrigation;
and water Prescott and Prescott Valley put in at their recharge
sites (that was 5,220 af).
Water Out includes groundwater pumped by the towns and
other water providers, and by exempt (domestic) wells.
Change in Storage, when negative, is another name for over-
draft.
While 2003 was a typical recent year, some turn out better –
like 2005.
You can see the full details at the ADWR website,
http://www.azwater.gov/dwr/
Search for “2003–2004 hydrologic management report.”
service as a state senator. Some of the other AMAs
had begun solving their overdraft problems by
snapping up land outside their boundaries – say,
cotton farms facing hard times around Salome –
The Balance continued on page 11
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Letters to Ed:
Editor:
Flag-covered Coffins
We started a war, but we don’t count the dead;
We count yellow ribbons on bumpers instead.
Supporting our troops with magnetic bowties;
Supporting a war that was started with lies.
We started a war, but we don’t count the cost;
Flag-covered coffins aren’t all that we’ve lost.
“Freedom’s not free” is written in stone;
We’re fighting for freedom but losing our own.
The president says this war must be fought,
Until all the terrorists finally are caught;
The president’s agents are terrorists, too;
In a war they’ve been waging against me and you.
Oh, nowhere on earth is a country so fine;
A country so great as this homeland of mine;
The land of the free and the home of the brave
Is the place that we need to start fighting to save.
-Rita Stricker, Chino Valley
by email
Editor: applying band-aids. This is not to say that
Speaking as a practicing Civil we should not grow, but it does mean
Engineer of 45 years, I highly commend that we must make some hard and fast
Candace McNulty’s articles on water, the rules about how we do it and stick to
Verde River and associated aquifers. These those rules. Typical urban growth models
issues are huge and require patience and will NOT work here and we will have to
unbiased scrutiny by all! think differently IF we want to continue
Richard J. Nelson P.E. to grow. What we are creating is a time
by email bomb that could have catastrophic conse-
quences in terms of public safety. Since
Editor: public safety is a direct responsibility of
I believe that there are solutions avail- our municipalities. . . Well, you can com-
able to our water problems but the greatest plete the thought.
hurdle is our own politics. We have politi- It is up to YOU, the PUBLIC to help us
cians comprising many of the regional water straighten this out by demanding real
groups and while they bring plenty of input, and lasting solutions. If you don’t, all
they have a way of dictating which science is you’ll get is politics.
“valid” and which is “junk.” Because the pol- Len Marinaccio
itical agendas of the different towns vary, it’s from the website
going to be the 800 pound gorilla that sets
water policy, regardless of what makes sense. Editor:
However, there is a way around it. If The more I read on the subject
the public gets involved, demands real (“What are there still climate change
solutions, votes out those politicians who deniers?” by Auden Schendler, online edi-
are not responsive, and SUPPORTS those torial opinion) the more I am convinced
who are voices of common sense, the play- that skeptics are grasping at any shred of
ing field can be somewhat leveled. On that evidence they can to defend their own
note, kudos to Bob Luzius for his sanity point. On the flip side, I see the support-
and efforts! ers trying similar things to push the idea
Where do we start? I think it begins that Man is solely responsible.
with public awareness of the real prob- I buy neither.
lem and its causes. In a nutshell, we are Skeptics who talk about volcano emis-
building where we have insufficient sions or termite induced release of CO2
water and at a staggering rate to boot. are so laughably ignorant of the carbon
Until we identify this practice as the cycle that I wonder if they think they can
sacred cow that it is, we will only be fly by tugging on their bootstraps.
6 August 2007
Yet, while supporters really have fig-
ured out the bulk of the CO2 effect, they
have got to come to admit that climate
change is a horrendously complex issue
and to presume that there are not other
natural causes is a bit backwards.
It’s not hard to see that Man’s contri-
bution to the CO2 levels DOES have a cli-
mate changing effect but what percentage
of the changing climate is our fault?
We don’t know. Period.
Having said all that, I would suggest
that the best course of action is to take
preventative steps. We will be inconve-
nienced for sure but if the global warm-
ing prevention zealots are right, then
now isn’t soon enough to start. In 50
years I’d rather look like I over-reacted
instead of the other way around.
Michael
from the website
Editor:
Pat Wray (“What every presidential
candidate should know about gun own-
ers,” May 2007):
Outside of Sarah Brady, Schumer,
Kennedy and that ilk, you are the last
person to talk for “we” gun owners.
Dwight Van Horn
American
from the website
Editor:
I’m a responsible gun owner. But [Pat
Wray is] wrong in saying that responsible
gun owners don’t own fully automatic
weapons. I know many people who legally
own these weapons, and they are very
responsible. I know hundreds, if not thou-
sands of people who apply for and receive
concealed carry permits – not for transport-
ing their guns, but because they DO carry
their gun for protection. Again, responsible
gun owners carry for their protection, not to
threaten those who disrespect them.
Carrying a gun is your right. You have the
right to defend your life with deadly force, if
needed, in most states. So I’m not going to
pretend like I want to appease lawmakers
by saying that I don’t want to carry a gun
around, seeming like “I’m not a bad person
who carries a gun.” I do carry a gun, and if I
had the money I would own fully automatic
weapons legally.
Jed McKenney
from the website
Editor:
I am currently reading a dry history
of the Second Amendment and have come
across a couple of things. The forefathers
and the states during the ratification and
adoption of the Constitution pretty much
never dealt with the individual’s use of a
gun as a matter of individual protection –
even though this was and has been a major
part of our country’s heritage.
So the anti-gunners may say, “Told
you so.” This is neither correct. They basi-
cally reiterated what the above author said
above about a totalitarian government or,
in modern days, corporations. Unlike now,
individual freedom was specifically linked
to your local government/community and
they felt that those individuals would be
less likely to support oppressive actions by
the federal government or other non-local
bodies. The militia, by definition to many
involved, would be the everyday person
actively committed to their local govern-
ment and community. The idea of com-
plete individual freedom was tempered by
the devotion to the democratic system.
The question was at what level, and the
framers included many checks and bal-
ances. This was put to the test through
various riots related to taxes where the
local militia would not fire upon their own
community. So, basically the pro-gun
group can say we as citizens are empow-
ered through a checks and balances sys-
tem to own firearms for the protection of
democracy. Note – I vote liberal for med-
ical, social and environmental reasons but
own multiple firearms of all types – and
believe that any group under any pub-
lished set of rules will seek to gain power
for themselves and like-minded. First
through the use of media (hence free
speech and education) and then through
force (hence gun ownership).
Collins Dupaque
from the website
Editor:
Excellent article, Candace – as a fol-
low-up you might explore how the County
BOS has responded (or not) to WAC recom-
mendations. Thanks!
Dick Clark
from the website
Fees have become a public lands shakedown
By Ted Williams
High Country News
carcely anyone objected in 1996, when
S Congress authorized the Forest
Service, Bureau of Land Management,
National Park Service and U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service to charge the public new
or increased fees for accessing its own
land to fish, hunt, boat, drive, park, camp
or walk. After all, it was going to be an
experiment – a three-year pilot program.
Hence the name: “Fee Demonstration.”
But when it comes to federal revenue,
intermittent streams have a way of becom-
ing perennial. Fee demo was extended in
2001, and again in 2004, when it was
expanded into the Recreation Enhancement
Act. RAT, for short, enabled the agencies to
charge even more. The system places feder-
al land managers in the business of attract-
ing crowds, and it may motivate them to
ignore the needs of fish and wildlife.
Recreation becomes a business.
The big beneficiary of these access fees
has been the motorized recreation industry
to which they’ve provided standing and rep-
resentation. Sponsoring Fee Demo through
a cost-share partnership with the Forest
Service was the powerful American
Recreation Coalition, whose membership is
comprised mainly of manufacturers of all-
terrain vehicles, motorized trail bikes, jet
skis and recreation vehicles. And joining the
coalition in lobbying aggressively for both
Fee Demo and RAT have been the National
Off Highway Vehicle Coalition, the National
Snowmobile Manufacturers Association and
consumers of all things motorized who band
together as the Blue Ribbon Coalition.
With little public or congressional
oversight the Forest Service assesses recre-
ational facilities for profitability. The ones
that generate least revenue – remote camp-
grounds and trailheads, places to which
lovers of wildness and quiet would naturally
gravitate – are now first to get disappeared.
Bulldozers are knocking down camp-
grounds, dismantling latrines, removing fire
pits. You won’t even be able to park. The
agency is financing the process with $93
million in fee receipts; in effect, charging
you for the rope it hangs you with.
As abusive as RAT fees are in their
own right, the Forest Service is abusing
them further by playing fast and loose
with the law. The Recreation
Enhancement Act requires that fees be
charged only if there has been “significant
investment,” defined as six amenities:
security services, meaning staffers who
check to see if you’ve paid, parking, toilets,
picnic tables, trash receptacles, and signs.
A site has to have all six. But the
Forest Service has dreamed up a way of
getting around the law by designating sec-
tions of forest as “High Impact Recreation
Areas” (HIRAs). One corner of a HIRA
might have a sign; another, perhaps two
miles away, a trash can. Three miles from
both might be a parking lot; the law makes
no reference to anything like an HIRA.
The Forest Service flouts even this bizarre
interpretation of the law Last year it
admitted to Congress that 739 HIRAs did-
n’t have the six amenities. Moreover, there
are at least 3,000 former Fee Demo sites
outside HIRAs that are still charging fees,
many of them illegally.
When Christine Wallace, a Tucson
legal secretary, refused to pay a fee on a
Coronado National Forest HIRA in
Arizona, she was prosecuted for what
amounted to hiking without a license. While
the law allows the Forest Service to charge
all manner of fees, it specifically prohibits
entrance fees. Accordingly, a court found
that the agency had acted illegally.
But the Forest Service appealed, and
in January 2007, won a reversal. If the rul-
ing is not struck down by Wallace’s motion
to reconsider or by the 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, where it seems headed,
case law will criminalize exiting your vehi-
cle on your own public land without first
finding a ranger station, if one is open, and
coughing up money that even the motor-
ized-recreation axis that hatched RAT fees
never intended for you to pay.
RAT fees are more than just a ripoff.
They’ve become a replacement for squan-
dered wealth, an incentive for continued
profligacy, and an excuse for the White
House to keep slashing appropriations for
public-lands management.
Summing up the whole sorry mess is
district ranger Cid Morgan of the Angeles
National Forest in California: “We’re
going to have to do more with less until
we do everything with nothing.”
If Morgan and other forest advocates
hope for relief from the Forest Service’s
new director, Abigail Kimbell, who took
office in February 2007, they shouldn’t.
Kimbell says she wants to increase fees.
(Ted Williams is a contributor to
Writers on the Range, a service of High
Country News in Paonia, Colorado
(hcn.org). He is conservation editor of
FlyRod&Reel magazine and frequently
leaves his home in Vermont to travel the
West.)
Foreigners drive mining boom
by Jonathan Thompson
High Country News
Mining is on the edge of a boom in the West, partly because of the exploding
economies of China and India. Industry analysts say that to keep pace with China’s
demand alone, global copper production must double over the next eight years.
That means big profits for some: Copper mining giant Freeport-McMoran, for
instance, says that for every penny increase in the price of copper, the company’s net
income goes up $22 million. No wonder everyone’s trying to get a piece of the
action by staking new mining claims.
Data Mining Claims
Cost to record a mining claim under the 1872 Mining Law, $30
Number of active mining claims in 2005. 207,421
Portion of claims owned by the largest 10 mining companies. 1/6
Number of those companies that are foreign-owned. 5
Maximum cost per acre to patent a claim, or obtain full title to the land. $5
Acres patented under mining claims since 1867. 3.4 million
Number of abandoned hardrock mines in the U.S. 500,000
Value of minerals that have been mined royalty-free since 1872. $245 billion
Royalties collected by the government on hardrock mining since 1872. 0
Amount the Interior Department estimates it will cost to clean up
abandoned mine sites. $32 billion
Estimated royalties on hardrock mining the feds would collect annually
under a bill introduced in May by Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W. Va. The bill
would also close wilderness and roadless areas to mining. $100 million
Number of times since 1985 Rep. Rahall has introduced legislation to
reform the General Mining Law of 1872. 22
Number of times the reforms have become law. 0
-Eve Rickert
High Country News
(This article originally appeared in High Country News (www.hcn.org), which covers
the West’s communities and natural-resource issues from Paonia, Colorado.)
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 Why the Elks isn’t working –
by Steven Ayres

Y
ears of steady puff pieces in local media on
the wonderful progress of the Elks
Theatre restoration have given way to
hints that things aren’t as rosy as many hoped.
To Prescott’s theatre professionals this is no
surprise. Making a theatre work demands skill,
nerve, and a clear understanding of the needs
of your audience. It also requires substantial
investment and vision.
Steve Norwood, are focused on minimizing
cost to the general fund. From a standard busi-
ness perspective this is a fine goal– but as the-
atre management policy, it guarantees failure.
A theatre’s balance sheet is not the proper
measure of its success. A successful theatre
anchors a community’s cultural life, its soul,
but that’s hard to quantify. A better measure is
the number of people it draws into area busi-

Give the old lady a bank account and some interest to live on.
When Sam Steiger’s City Council reluc- nesses. Those prospects are why Council
tantly did the right thing in acquiring the Elks, decided to invest in the Elks, and that kind of
it saved one of Prescott’s most important cul- success is within reach.
tural and historical assets from ignominious But it doesn’t come automatically or
decay, a leap of faith for which the City quickly. Theatre is a unique business, and suc-
deserves credit. But Council ignored the advice cessfully managing a performance space

“Opera House?” You’re kidding, right?

It’s a measure of the love our community holds for the Elks that the City has grandly dubbed it the
Elks Opera House. It also indicates our lack of sophistication. Calling something by a grand name
does not make it grand.
The Elks Theatre is not, has never been, and can never be an opera house. An opera house is a
specific kind of theatre, with specific facilities built to support grand opera, including, among other
details, a symphony-sized orchestra pit, a trapped, elevatored stage with substantially more overhead
than standard, and multilevel box seating for the aristocrats. Calling the Elks an opera house is like
calling your bungalow a castle. It may be sentimental and poetic, but if you tried to sell it that way
they’d arrest you for fraud.
Prescott has always known it as the Elks Theatre, and we will probably always call it that.

of every arts professional in town and turned
the management of this mouldering gem over
to city staff, people who have in the main
worked very hard to do something with it, but
have no experience or training in making a the-
atre work. The results have been predictable.
F a bu l ou s p o t e nt i a l
Everybody loves the Elks, and with good
reason. Walk down the front of the sweeping
horseshoe balcony and you see a wonderful set-
ting for performance. The stage apron is close
at hand, creating intimacy between audience
and performers. The tin ceiling, chandelier
rosettes, and what’s left of the gilt plaster deco-
rations are utterly charming. Step up on the
stage, speak, and your voice easily hits the back
wall and reverberates. With a few quibbles the
room’s acoustics are excellent, built for the
unamplified melodramas and barnstorming ora-
tors of the early 20th century. It’s this charm
that draws Prescott’s social elite and focuses
their work to raise money for restoration.
Photo courtesy/Jack Wilson But the City staff, led by City Manager
requires special experience, rare technical
expertise, dedication, and a visionary approach.
Theatres are all about risk, and as often as not
you take your lumps.
From the standpoint of the booker and
the performer, the Elks doesn’t work because
of its size – too big for small things and too
small for big things – its antiquated and miss-
ing equipment, and its lack of support space
and facilities. For the community, it doesn’t
work because our policy-makers have not set
out a clear mission for it other than to lose less
money. This is exactly the recipe for disaster
that led to the theatre’s current state.
H ow it ca n w or k
Let’s assume for the moment that most of
the people of Prescott agree the Elks is worth
preserving, not just as a structure, but as a cul-
tural destination, with the related benefits to
area business. We can do it. We just can’t do it
on the cheap.
Foremost, the theatre needs space – for
administration and stage services, storage and

8 August 2007
and how it could be
dressing rooms, rehearsal and equipment, and
especially stage-adjacent space for construc-
tion, loading, scenery, and the like. Out front
you see a big building with a marquee hanging
on it. Most people think that’s the theatre, but
that building is owned by the lawyers who work
upstairs. The theatre is a separate property
hanging off the back, with a lobby easement.
The street-side building has been for sale for
years, at what most everyone agrees is an exor-
bitant price, but it can be had, and to my
knowledge no one’s actually tried to negotiate a
deal. In any case acquiring “the rest” of the
Elks Building should be a top priority. Besides
offering needed space for the theatre, street-
level retail space is an important revenue
stream that urban theatres typically rely on.
Second, the theatre needs technical
upgrades. The stagehouse needs refitting with
modern flies and wiring, as well as a connec-
tion to a loading dock or freight elevator from
the alley. Tear up and replace the stage floor.
Employ expert advice and install modern light-
ing, sound, video and intercom systems, and a
control room. Engineer a new, safely accessi-
ble lighting position in the house. come to expect.
Pie in the sky? Maybe. But if you really 5. Restore the theatre to make it attractive to
want that theatre to work, these changes are donors.
basics, not frills. The frills are in the restora- 6. Build an endowment fund or foundation
tion to make it all pretty again. Bear in mind to support operations long-term.
that when the house lights go down and the Whether it’s a gorgeous palace of the arts
stage lights come up, what you see is onstage. or a black box with benches, to be successful a
And that’s what you’re paying for. I’m all for theatre must work. To bring that about,
making it pretty and comfortable – that’s Prescott will have to commit to a mission for
important to the theatre experience. It also the facility, put decision-makers in place who
helps draw donations, and this leads to a final know how to make it work, and provide them
component that I think is essential for the long the necessary resources.
term: an endowment or foundation. If you’ve got a better plan, I’d love to hear
A community theatre, doing its job right, it. What’s happening now, I fear, will lead
will reliably lose money. It’s just the nature of eventually to a new public parking lot with a
the game. So give the old lady a bank account historical marker and a picture of a theatre
and some interest to live on. An endowment or everyone fondly remembers.
foundation support is standard practice for
theatres across this country large and small, Steven Ayres is a local writer and musi-
and it’s an achievable goal in our rapidly grow- cian. In the past 35 years he’s worked every
ing and relatively well-heeled town. job in theatre except makeup.
The Elks needs more than a financial shot

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For more Elks coverage, go to
in the arm to survive. The prescription is elks.readitnews.com
expensive, but it can keep her off life support:
1. At the policy level, set a clear mission for
the facility, and commit the investment to
support it.
2. Employ an experienced, full-time manage-
ment team, including a PR professional
with booking experience and a trained
technical director. Stand back and let
them do their jobs creatively. Gail Mangham’s one-woman show Tea with ZaZa
played at the Elks last month. Florence “ZaZa” Roberts
3. Make a deal, buy the Elks Building, and
was the San Francisco theatre maven who opened the
refit it to support the theatre. Elks in 1905. RIH photo/Erica Ryberg
4. Refit the theatre to support the profes-
sional productions that audiences have Top: RIH photo/Jason Bordonaro

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The Beer Whisperer: Delving Fine Brews with Lovibond Sparge
By Caere Dunn
“You are wanting a beer of more
color this time, eh, after white beer?”
suggests my cousin Lovibond.
Her far-traveled accent is certainly
colorful, as are the Gypsyish clothes she
is wearing. Without waiting for my reply,
she continues, “Black, brown, red, amber,
gold? Except for the white – always that
is wheat beer – beers named for color,
they are not really a style. If the brewer
names a beer red, red beer is what it is.
For early summer, I think, let us have the
amber, and for character, the ales.”
That sounds good to me; I like ales.
I’ve learned from my connoisseur cousin
that these top-fermented beers are more
influenced than are lagers by the yeasts
used in brewing. Exposed to air, top-fer-
menting yeasts have more opportunity to
develop character and to influence the
flavors of the beer brewing below.
“Amber ales, they are mostly pale
ales of coppery color, very pretty,” says
Lovi. “But maybe not so clear and spark-
ly as what gets called pale ale. Beers this
color are not named amber so much in
Europe, just French and some Nordic.
But in America these beers called amber,
they are very popular before your
Prohibition and coming back again in the
last twenty years or so. Amber ales, you
find also in Canada, and Australia, too.
Even Japan.”
Beer named for its color could be a
diversion; I’ve learned mostly about
beers with ancestors from Germany,
Belgium, England, and Bohemia, and
compared them to their European and
10 August 2007
American descendants. Perhaps amber
ales will take us on a colorful side trip
from those ancestral explorations.
To further celebrate the theme of
color, we decide on a day trip to hike in
the red rocks around the cool waters of
Oak Creek. Because we prefer to buy
our beer locally, we stop at the café for a
look through the beer cooler. We first
find Eel River Organic Amber Ale from
Fortuna, California, its appealing label
showing a colorful sky behind a waving
barley field. Then I’m excited to discover
that Rare Vos, from Brewery Ommegang
in Cooperstown, New York, is labeled an
amber ale.
Belgian-style Brewery Ommegang
was my local brewery of choice during
the years I lived in upstate New York.
I’ve toured it more than once and have
long enjoyed their strong, bottle-condi-
tioned ales. Since I’ve just learned that
naming beers “amber” is not typical in
Europe, I am curious about the fact that
Ommegang, so traditionally Belgian, calls
Rare Vos an amber ale. So I send a quick
email to their brewmaster to learn the
story. He explains that their original des-
ignation for Rare Vos was “Brabant-style,”
as it is similar in style to ales typical of
that part of Belgium, near Brussels. That
term, he writes, “caused more confusion
than whimsy,” hence the change.
“Ah, Brabant,” sighs Lovibond.
Once again, I gather, she is mentally
revisiting a place in the Old Country that
holds fond memories. “But this confu-
sion, I can see. The working horses from
there, they are also called Brabants. ‘Sly
Fox,’ that is the meaning of Rare Vos in
Flemish. I look forward to Tasting this
sly, foxy, not horsey beer.”
Oak Creek Canyon, offering shade,
flowing water and cool stone, is a fine
place to spend a hot day. We hike
enough to be ready to soak our hot feet
in the chill water as we unpack our pic-
nic. “Good beer deserves a good glass,”
my cousin says, as always, readying gob-
lets heavy enough to travel safely in
backpacks.
Lovi uncaps the Organic Amber Ale
while I have the treat of pulling the
champagne-style cork from the Rare Vos
– that pressurized “pop” is always satisfy-
ing. Both of these beers are a lovely cop-
per amber, the Eel River slightly redder
and warmer-looking, and both have the
yeasty cloudiness of bottle finishing.
There is more of a head on the Rare Vos,
giving it a bright quality and lacing that
looks like waves.
The aroma of the Organic Amber, I
feel, evokes the name of the brewery,
Eel River. It has that swampy, rivery
undertone in a floral aroma that I find
very appealing. There is a nice haymow
note as well, which carries over in the
barley taste. This ale is soft on the
tongue, gently acidic, with a mild carbon-
ation. It tastes richly of malt, nicely bal-
anced with hops. As the level in the glass
goes down, I find more sweet grainy
scents, and the taste softens even more.
Rare Vos has a sharper scent with a
peachy floral tone. There is an aroma
here that I affectionately call “old galosh-
es,” an intriguing, almost rubbery scent
that these days alerts me to an interest-
ing beer. The carbonation is bright and
fills my mouth with strong bubbles.
When the taste catches up, it is complex
and spicy, with dusty, spooky flavors that
call up the feeling of being alone in a
big, dark barn. Further down the bottle,
the sharp, spicy tastes stay rich and
acidic, and the aroma continues to wan-
der its way up my nose.
The sediment at the bottom of each
of these bottles, Lovi tells me, indicates
that the last of the fermentation has
taken place during the aging period after
the bottles are sealed. My earthy cousin
encourages me to try the cloudy dregs
that many beer lovers avoid. Hmm, yes, I
find that I enjoy this sludgy taste. Maybe
I wouldn’t at the beginning of the bottle,
but with the happy, high feeling of drink-
ing ale by the creek on a hot summer
day, it seems the perfect finish.
These are colorful ales in more than
appearance. The evocative, deep scents
and flavors I’ve encountered today har-
monize perfectly with the greens, golds
and grays, and subtle perfumes of canyon
and creek. Although I could easily imag-
ine settling in on a cozy winter’s night to
appreciate their depth and complexity, I
find these two amber ales just as refresh-
ing in the hot summer sun as lighter
beers, but more interesting. And our col-
orful side trip, it seems, has not taken us
far from the European heritage after all.
The Balance continued from page 5
so they could acquire the farmers’ water rights
and import their groundwater. Rural interests
around the state squawked at the prospect of
“water ranching.” Would they see their coun-
tryside sacrificed to urban growth, the way the
Owens Valley had been dried to dust by L.A.’s
thirst, thus wrecking their own dreams of
eventual development?
Arizona’s legislators, ever sensitive to power-
ful rural land interests, responded with the
Groundwater Transportation Act of 1991 forbid-
ding such importation. But Springer helped wan-
gle an exception for the PrAMA, arguing it would
never be able to use its Central Arizona Project
share, and ADWR granted Prescott, as the AMA’s
only “large municipal water supplier,” the right to
import (to begin with) 8,717 acre-feet annually.
The sole permitted import source is the Big
Chino aquifer; hence the city’s purchase of a
ranch there, and Prescott Valley’s agreement to
share in the cost of a pipeline and the imported
water. Serving Prescott’s customers this water can
permit a reduction of pumping within the AMA,
helping reach the safe yield balance. (In the past
months Chino Valley has revealed a similar plan,
acquiring their Big Chino water right by purchas-
ing a formerly irrigated garlic farm and retiring its
irrigation allowance.)
Prescott’s importation plan doesn’t impress
Howard Mechanic as a safe yield measure. He
likes to say, “Not one drop! Not one drop is dedi-
cated to safe yield!” He sees nothing to keep the
cities from using all the Big Chino water for new
growth. ADWR has no discretion or authority
over the use of this water, since it comes from out-
side the AMA, so the providers can use it in any
legal way they please. Jim Holt, director of
Prescott’s pipeline project, has agreed in principle
with Mechanic’s line of reasoning. As a talk-show
guest on local radio last summer, he told a listener
that for imported water to help reach safe yield,
there would have to be “policymaking” – because
if all that water and associated effluent go for new
growth, Holt said, “you’re correct, it won’t do any
good.” By policymaking, Holt means (ugh, shud-
der) regulations. Rules. Restrictions.
Balance water, balance rights
Once you cut through the complexities, the
Mason–Mechanic disagreement is just the latest
illumination of the age-old tension in a democracy
– balancing the right of each against the rights of
all – and that balance is the core of the safe yield
water balancing trick. The 1998 Plat Rush pits pri-
vate property rights against the community right
to a continuing water resource, as the July 3
Council discussion made clear. Mechanic’s state-
ment, “I think it’s in the community’s interest to
protect our groundwater,” brought a vigorous
retort from Councilman Bob Roecker: “We’ve got
real property rights here… and I say we shouldn’t
be taking people’s economic well-being away from
them.” Councilman Steve Blair added, “It’s just
wrong to put somebody who followed the rules at
a disadvantage.”
But the Mason extension vote was not unani-
mous. Councilman Bob Luzius advocated two, not
eight, years’ extension. His reasoning: “This can’t
go on in perpetuity because…you’re increasing
the value of that person’s property at the expense
of the taxpayer. We’re going to have to bring that
water in at some time, and it’s going to cost us
more…For every plat that’s approved, whether it’s
pre-’98 or after ’98, you’re taking so many acre-
feet of water out of the aquifer.” Two years would
allow time for deciding new policies – though
Luzius also expresses doubt about the commit-
ment of fellow council members and other powers
in the city to reserving some specific portion of
the imported water for safe yield, not giving it to
new growth. And he observes, “For all the talk
about safe yield – they have not established a safe
yield plan yet.”
Plans are in the wind, though. ADWR
believes their management plans will do the trick.
But if “How do we reach safe yield?” is only the
first question, the one crowding right after it is,
“Who decides what’s a fair way to share a limited
resource that belongs to everyone?” Our story
next month will contemplate a “multi-stakeholder
group” that met throughout 2006 to deliberate on
this question, and the report it produced. Two of
the stakeholders in that effort were pipeline man-
ager Jim Holt and citizen-bulldog Howard
Mechanic. We’ll also take another look at Prop
400, and other safe yield issues – like whether
“safe yield” is the balance we need to be seeking.
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Seniors get a shot at Olympic history
by Art Merrill

This is like an the modern pentathlon demonstrates $5 for each additional event. Olympians may do better than George C.
Olympic modern necessary skills for escaping from behind The shooting events for 2007 are: Patton – yes, the WWII Army general –
pentathlon for enemy lines. The five events of the mod- who competed in the very first modern
local seniors, ern pentathlon include riding an Aug. 19 (Sunday) – Precision Rifle – 120 pentathlon in 1912. He placed fifth, partly
unfamiliar horse, running, swim- shot English Match at 50 meters – 22RF because of his less-than-stellar shooting
ming, fencing and shooting a pis- Target Rifles – Any sights skills. (Perhaps unrelated to his Olympic
tol. modern pentathlon fencing, right after the
but dif- All that is a bit much for people Aug. 20 (Monday) – Sporting Rifle – 60 1912 Olympics Patton became the last
ferent. over 50, so the Prescott Senior Olympics shot Position Match at 25 & 50 Yyds – man to design a saber for the US cavalry –
The modern pen- have reduced the modern pentathlon to 22RF Sporting Rifles – Scopes to 8 power not terribly useful, what with the simulta-
tathlon is the inven- just the shooting part and dropped the neous advent of the machine gun reducing
tion of the same man “pentathlon” moniker. See? I told you it Aug. 20 (Monday) – Blackpowder (muz- the calvalry into an instant anachronism.)
who founded the was different. zleloader) Rifle – 25 shot Standing Match Back in Patton’s day, the modern pen-
modern Olympics, The Prescott Sportsmen’s Club is at 25 yds – Iron sights – no in-lines tathlon took four or five days; the advent
Baron Pierre de hosting the rifle and pistol portions of of the Impatient Age has reduced that to a
Coubertin. The the Prescott Senior Olympics, where Aug. 21 (Tuesday) – Precision Pistol – 40 single day in an effort to improve the
ancient Olympic pen- competitors shoot .22 rimfire rifles and shot Match at 25 yds – Any 22RF pistol – event’s commercial appeal. But even that
tathlon was intend- pistols and muzzleloader rifles at bulls- Any sights – one-handed isn’t enough, and it looks like the modern
ed to showcase the eye targets. pentathlon will go away after 2012.
best warrior skills; Last year almost everyone who par- Aug. 21 (Tuesday) – Sporting Pistol – 30 No American has ever won an
Mara Christiason

de Coubertin ticipated earned a medal, so look shot Match at 25 yds – Any 22RF pistol – Olympic gold medal in modern pen-
made it contempo- through the list of events and pick one or Any sights – in two-handed tathlon, nor has any senior ever won a gold
raneous to the more that appeal to you. You can pick up medal in all five Senior Olympics rifle/pis-
early 20th- centu- a registration form at the range or down- You’ll note that just the rifle/pistol portion tol events.
ry cavalry sol- load one at www.cityofprescott.net/serv- of the Prescott Senior Olympics is a kind Doesn’t that inspire you to greatness?
dier, but added a ices/parks/sr_olympics. Registration is by of shooting pentathlon of five optional
sort of role- mail and costs $20 for the first event events. No fencing or swimming required.
playing twist: (includes T-shirt and a goodie bag) and It’s possible that Prescott senior

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Hike the Smith trail, read the Smith (no relation) book
by Ron Smith

the trail breaks out of the timbered ravine
and approaches a saddle across an open
south-facing slope. This slope is covered
with mostly manzanita and alligator juniper.
As you near this saddle you will get your first
glimpse of the fire lookout tower atop
Spruce Mountain.
The trail ends on the Spruce Mountain
road (FR 52A) after climbing for about
three miles. Return the way you came
unless combining this hike with several con-
necting trails. Space doesn’t allow me to
elaborate more on other, longer hikes and
rides that could be combined with the
Smith Ravine Trail. For more on this, check
out my book, A Guide to Prescott & Central
Highlands Trails, 3rd Edition, available at
most bike, outdoor, and book stores in the
Prescott area.. If you don’t want to buy the
book, check out this great website for
regional trail maps: www.sharlot.org/
archives/maps/trailmaps/index.html

The Smith Ravine Trail travels under
an almost continuous forest canopy of pon-
derosa pine and Gambel oak, and conse-
quently, has plenty of shade but few good
viewpoints. The trail is designed with few
steep climbs, so it is an excellent horseback
or mountain bike route. The lower trail is
about four feet wide with a smooth tread.
The Smith Ravine Trail climbs from Walker
Road for about 800 feet in elevation to its
junction with Spruce Mountain Road
(Forest Road #52A).
To reach the east trailhead, drive east
on Gurley Street from downtown Prescott.
Take Highway 69 east to the traffic light just
west of the Costco discount warehouse, a
distance of 4.2 miles. Turn right and drive
an additional 4.7 miles. The parking area for
the trail is 1.9 miles south of the turnoff to
the Lynx Lake boat launching area; it is
opposite Binnie Mine Road. There is ample
parking for four or five vehicles.
Another approach to this trail is from
the Spruce Mountain road (FR 52A). From
downtown Prescott drive east to Mt. Vernon
St. and then turn right (south). This road is
the Senator Highway and, once within the
Prescott National Forest, it becomes Forest
Road 52. Continue south on FR 52 for
approximately 4.5 miles to FR 52A (if you
come to Marapai Road on your right, you’ve
gone about a tenth of a mile past the FR
52A turnoff). Turn left onto FR 52A and
travel for approximately 2.6 miles to the
trailhead for TR #297. You will have passed
the trailhead for TR #299 at 1.4 miles after
leaving the Senator Highway. The trail sign
for #297 is not clearly visible from FR 52A.
What marks this spot, however, is a second-
ary road that leaves FR 52A at this point to
the east and passes through a wide gate
comprised of two tall posts with a guy wire
across the top of the posts. The trailhead
sign is right at this gate and within a few
yards of Spruce Mountain road.
The lower 1.75 miles of this trail were
constructed in 1998, so the trail is wide and
the surface mostly free of rocks. It is at the
1.75 mile point where the new trail merges
with the old, the latter section coming from
the residences on FR 25.
The last time I hiked this trail, at about
the two-mile point we spotted a flock of 15
turkeys as we reached a shallow saddle
about 1/4 mile from the junction with the
old trail. They disappeared silently within a
few seconds. From this point the trail
descends to Smith Ravine and crosses the
canyon at Smith Ravine Spring.
From here the trail climbs gradually to
the ridge just north of the Spruce Mountain
fire lookout. Just before reaching FR 52A,

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Ex Libris
Unnatural Landscapes: Tracking Invasive Species
by Ceiridwen Terrill
240 pages, softcover: $17.95. University of Arizona Press. 2007.
When biologist Phil Pister used buckets to rescue the last Owens
pupfish from an evaporating pool, he knew that if he “tripped over a
piece of barbed wire,” the species was history. Thirty-eight years
later, the pupfish survives only because scientists move the fish pool-
to-pool and constantly trap predators. In Unnatural Landscapes, Ceiridwen Terrill, a profes-
sor at Concordia University in Portland, travels to four arid sites to show how scientists fight
to protect indigenous organisms from invasives like Russian thistle, iceplant and Louisiana
crawfish. Unnatural Landscapes provides a tactile, enlightening introduction to the typically
academic subject of invasive ecology. Terrill puts prickly cheatgrass in your sock, lets a craw-
fish clamp your finger. Complicated concepts come to life as she explores Pyramid Lake’s
pelican preserve in Nevada, the Mojave’s thermal pools, Baja’s Midriff Islands and
California’s fragile Santa Cruz Island. She finds that tipping the odds in favor of the natives
often requires eradicating the nonnatives. Frequently, that means spilling blood – and pro-
voking controversy. Protest ensued when the National Park Service approved a 2005 feral pig
hunt on Santa Cruz Island. “Save the Pigs!” proclaimed one aerial banner at a rally. Like
“four-legged rototillers,” the pigs uprooted native plants such as island barberry, spread non-
native fennel and helped whittle the endangered island fox population from 1,300 down to
100 in a decade. But our cheers for the fox’s anticipated rebound may be tempered by a for-
mer park superintendent’s description of the hunt: “When sows were shot, their piglets were
caught by dogs (that) … would tear into and mangle smaller pigs. Large pigs would fight the
dogs, occasionally injuring or killing one.”
Like it or not, Terrill says, humans are now in the ecological management business. Public
education – removing invasive ecology from the realm of “a few specialists” and government
agencies – can awaken people to the scope of the problem, and perhaps make eradication’s
uglier side more acceptable. “(Once) people understand the significant threats invasive
species pose,” writes Terrill, “they will be eager to be part of the solution.” This book is a
great step toward that goal.
–Aaron Gilbreath, High Country News
(This article originally appeared in High Country News (www.hcn.org), which covers the West’s commu-
nities and natural-resource issues from Paonia, Colorado.)
14 August 2007
Geology Underfoot in Northern Arizona
by Lon Abbott and Terri Cook
Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2007, 321 pages, $18, paperback
Did you know that the extremely rich copper ore deposits at
Jerome spouted from small “springs” at the bottom of a sea almost two
billion years ago? That the Verde River started flowing two million
years ago when a large lake with no outlet eventually filled with 5,300
feet of sediment and overflowed into the area where Phoenix now sprawls?
You can’t travel anywhere in northern Arizona without seeing the landscape
attempting to tell you its ancient story. Most of us need translators to understand the lan-
guage of stone; Abbott and Cook, Prescott College professors, do that for us, interpret-
ing the geologic history of 20 fascinating sites.
They explain geologic processes so clearly that non-geologists can easily understand
them. And if you’re like me, you’ll end up harboring a little bit of regret that you didn’t
choose to become a geologist when you were major-hopping in college. Their stories
include human interaction with the landscape, such as the building of Glen Canyon
Dam, and the process of scientific inquiry, such as what the led scientists from believing
that Meteor Crater was volcanic to realizing that it’s origin is actually extraterrestrial.
If you believe – like I did – that the San Francisco Peaks are a caldera, read this
book. If you think Prescott’s geology isn’t as interesting as Sedona’s, read this book. If
you’re curious about lava dams, dinosaur tracks, petrified wood, immense dune desserts,
and humongous volcanic eruptions, read this book.
Intended as a field guide, Geology Underfoot in Northern Arizona provides maps
with directions; diagrams and photographs also supplement the sometimes-poetical text.
But don’t think you have to be on-site to enjoy this book. It’s fun to read in your arm-
chair, too. I loved it.
–Susan McElheran
Indy Flix
The Fountain
Darren Aronofsky’s new film, The Fountain, uses unique cine-
matography and eloquent writing to explore love and death through
three intertwining time periods. Izzi, played by Rachel Weisz, is dying.
Tom, passionately acted by Hugh Jackman, is doing everything within
his power to fight against death and save her. The film is racked with
intense, heart-wrenching emotion as these two express their love and
fear. Izzi grows closer to death, and Tommy discovers a possible cure –
but is it too late?
I was thoroughly enchanted with the picture from start to finish. Aronofsky cleverly
draws the viewer into a vast emotional landscape through alternative, inventive, spatially mys-
tical cinematography that is both breathtaking and mind-blowing. As in, “I was so thoroughly
engrossed in the visual splendor and powerful emotional expression that I stopped breathing
or thinking for small increments throughout the movie.” I frequently found myself “coming
to,” to catch my breath and occasionally touch reality, and then… plunge back in again.
Aronofsky takes us to 1500 AD. Queen Isabel (Weisz) sends her most trusted knight,
Tomas (Jackman), to search for the tree of life, which can serve as a fountain of youth to save
her life and protect her from the Inquisition. We also travel to 2000 AD, where Dr. Tom
Creo, a scientist, searches desperately for a cure for the terminal brain tumor of his wife, Izzi.
And travel 500 years into the future to witness Tom’s inability to accept death as he ventures
to yet another source of eternal life.
This film, written and directed by Darren Aronofsky (Pi and Requiem for a Dream),
derives from his comic book of the same title. I think that I can say without reservation that
this film presents the most beautiful cinematic moments I have ever seen. I also found it
extremely interesting to note the techniques that Aronofsky employed to achieve some of
the more amazing visual moments. For many of the scenes of the cosmos, he actually filmed
chemical reactions – exactly what you see through a microscope. I thought this was especial-
ly interesting because of the direct correspondence of inner to outer space.
As the haze of emotion clears from my eyes and I turn my thoughts to the thematic
elements of this feature, I find that most definitive and long-lasting idea would have to be
the necessary acceptance of death and the freedom of letting go. What a beautiful way to
show us…
–Ember Larrington
Scotland, PA
Based on William Shakespeare’s superstitiously dreaded
“Scottish Play,” Scotland, PA explores the long-awaited answer to
the question: What would Macbeth be like if it was set in a fast
food restaurant? The result: really funny and actually pretty cool.
In an interview, director Billy Morrissette said he hatched the
idea, on reading Macbeth in high school, that the play could possi-
bly take place in the fast food industry. When he decided to make
this picture, he also decided to take it back to the time of his initial
conception of the idea, the mid-1970s. Complete with a perfectly executed raging sev-
enties rock soundtrack, including almost an entire Bad Company album, Morrissette’s
Scotland is a perfect example of the universal quality of Shakespearean theatre, even
when put directly to the test.
Maura Tierney (Pat – and the actress is director Morrissette’s real-life wife) and
James LeGros (Joe “Mac” McBeth) are a young married couple (not so young any-
more) working at the local fast food restaurant when they decide to get ahead by
bumping off their boss, Norm Duncan. As the psychological repercussions of the
McBeths’ crime compound, straining their relationship, the quick-witted pace and sty-
listic look of the film make for a fun, funny, if not slightly scary descent into darkness.
Every character in this film is well developed and very realistic. Of course the
Shakespearean prose has been replaced with seventies American slang, and some the-
matic elements have been changed and/or added. Christopher Walken does a wonder-
ful job as Lieutenant McDuff.
As a whole I was very impressed with this ingenious experiment. I found it enter-
taining to compare this movie with the play and also experience the director’s obvious-
ly personal reflections of the mid-seventies. I think this is definitely worth a watch.
–Ember Larrington
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Charity Book Launch bles, fresh cut flowers and herbs, honey,
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Wednesday 8th
(P) MAD Linguist Spanish Club. 5:30-6:30
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(DH) Dewey-Humboldt Historical Society
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Friday 10th
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Fundraiser Book Sale, 13000 Prescott St.,
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Living Area, Sharlot Hall Museum. Info:
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10am-3pm. Recurs Wed., Aug 25.
CWAG Council Candidate Forum
The Citizens Water Advocacy Group
hosts Prescott mayoral/city council candi-
dates, Saturday, August 11, 10am-12pm,
Granite Peak Unitarian Univer-salist
Congregation, 882 Sunset, Prescott. The
forum focuses on water and water-related
issues. Everyone’s invited. Info: 445-4218,
info@cwagaz.org or www.cwagaz.org.
(P) Gypsy Rummage Sale! The Silver Wolfe
Den is closing. All items must go! 1123 W.
Gurley (the rock house). Info: 928-717-8250
Sunday 12th
(P) Prescott Area Dowsing Society,
Founders Room, Prescott Public Library.
Everyone’s welcome. Info: J.B. Outrider
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Tuesday 14th
(P) Westcor Kids Club, Prescott Gateway
Mall. Free, fun, interactive educational pro-
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(P) Open Space Alliance meeting, The
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Saturday 18th
Relational Horsemanship
Prescott College & Peggy Gurnett host a
relational horsemanship training tech-
niques clinic. Learn horse/human part-
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manship best practices. Cost-$500, lunch-
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cott.edu or 928-350-2250. Aug. 18-22.
The Center for Biological Diversity’s
Ice Cream Social
for Volunteers and Friends
Bring your ideas and mix with others ded-
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is the time for you to step up and make a
difference to keep the river flowing.
August 18, 1 pm. Granite Creek Park,
Prescott.Visit SaveTheVerde.org to learn
more. Info: Joanne Oellers, 772-8204,
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Rob Brezsny © 2007
ARIES (March 21–April 19): Would you like to shed your soul’s
baby fat without having to go on a diet? Do you want to super-
charge your immune system, improve your memory for the events
that really matter, and build the spiritual power of your sexual
feelings? Are you interested in postponing forehead wrinkles, get-
ting glimpses of your beautiful future, and diminishing your fasci-
nation with the media’s nihilism? The secrets to pulling off these
possibilities will be more available to you than ever before in the
coming weeks. And what’s the best way to ensure you’ll gather
them in? Open your heart. I mean *really* open your heart – with
a relentlessly tender intensity.
TAURUS (April 20–May 20): For a limited time only, you have
cosmic permission to suck your thumb and drool freely and mur-
mur “gaga” over and over again. More than that: You have a poet-
ic license to spend expansive periods rocking back and forth
while curled into the fetal position, either under the covers or on
the beach, while singing little made-up songs about everything
you love. The moment has arrived, in other words, to give your-
self permission to melt into a pool of primal goo as you commune
with the music of the spheres and tune in to the hymn of your
deepest longings.
GEMINI (May 21–June 20): My Gemini friend Risa is brilliant
and sophisticated. She speaks four languages fluently, and is one
of the few people I’ve met who understands the theory of relativi-
ty. So then why is she fascinated with bad reality TV shows like
“The Girls Next Door,” which follows the lives of Hugh Hefner’s
girlfriends? How could she possibly enjoy monster truck rallies,
which she attends now and then? What purpose is there in her
encyclopedic knowledge of the toys favored by children in
Kazakhstan, the diets of German racehorses, and the clubs of
Chinese women devoted to reproducing antique European lace
doilies? As an astrologer, I don’t find this mysterious. I’m aware
that for many Geminis, everything is potentially interesting, even
information other people regard as trivial. It’s all raw data to be
used in the infinitely fun game of playing with ideas. And that has
never been a more apt description of your tribe than it is now.
CANCER (June 21–July 22): “I tell young people that the greatest
paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil
smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig’s ear,” says
artist James Rosenquist. I hope that thought incites you to achieve
pragmatic breakthroughs in the coming weeks, Cancerian. It’s
time to play in the mud and risk making a mess, if necessary, in
order to translate your beautiful visions into earthy realities.
LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): Barbara Sher’s self-help tome is called I
Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to
Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It. In one sense
it’s designed for beginners – young people who are just learning
how to identify meaningful goals to pursue. But in my opinion,
every one of us periodically needs to revisit the mode described in
the book’s title. For instance, maybe you’ve accomplished a dream
you’ve worked on for months or years, and require a jumpstart as
you seek your next big project. Or maybe some desire that moti-
vated you for a long time has faded in its intensity, and you’re feel-
ing blah and apathetic, in need of redirection. Does any of this
apply to you, Leo? I bet it does.
VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): The modern war between science
and spirituality seems laughable in light of the life of Sir Isaac
Newton. His discoveries in the realms of physics, mathematics,
and astronomy were so seminal and so numerous that he’s regard-
ed as the most influential scientist in history. Many refer to him as
the greatest genius who ever lived. And yet Newton’s central pas-
sions were alchemy and the Bible, about which he wrote millions
of words, far more than what he devoted to his scientific interests.
“Gravity explains the motions of the planets,” he wrote, “but it
cannot explain who set the planets in motion. God governs all
things and knows all that is or can be done.” I suggest you make
Newton your role model, Virgo. It’s a favorable time to forge a
new spirit of cooperation between the two parts of your psyche –
let’s call them the rational and the transcendent – which so many
of today’s thinkers have told you cannot possibly co-exist.
LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): I’d love to see you call your own bluff
and blow your own cover. I’m hoping you’ll stop hiding your
assets and keeping so many secrets. And I really, really wish you
would come out of the closet not just about your unique gender
identity, but also about the other idiosyncratic twists and turns
that make you who you are. Please stop being afraid of revealing
your beauty, Libra – even the work-in-progress aspects of your
beauty. It’s time to close the gap between the real you and the
images people have of you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): [Editor’s note: To prepare this
horoscope, I stole some of the lyrics from Yoko Ono’s song
“Revelations” and added some words of my own.] Bless you for
your anger, Scorpio. It’s a sign of zeal. If you transform it into cre-
ative fire, it will transmute your relationship with any situation
you’re angry about. Bless you for your greed. It’s a sign of great
capacity. Honor the law of karma by giving as much as you want
to get, and your greed will drive you to grow generous. Bless you
for your jealousy. It’s a sign of immature empathy. Ripen it into
admiration and what you admire will become an inspiring part of
your life.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): Your astrological omens are
similar to those experienced by Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench
back in February 2002. At that time, she was moved to make a
dramatic revelation to film mogul Harvey Weinstein. In the midst
of a party, she pulled down her pants to reveal her naked ass,
revealing a temporary lipstick tattoo that read “I love Harvey
Weinstein.” I’m guessing you might be inspired to unveil a com-
parable surprise in the coming days, Sagittarius. At the very least,
I expect you’ll find some intriguing ways to express your affection
and demonstrate your ardor.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): Here are a few of the improve-
ments I expect you to have accomplished by the end of August: a
panoramic view of what’s beneath the tip of the iceberg; a more
useful relationship with obsession; the cutting of a knot that has
tied you up for far too long; the resurrection of a seemingly
extinct dream; the beginning of the end of what you love to hate;
and hot discussions about the Three Things That Have Rarely or
Never Been Talked About.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): It’s the Season of Burning,
Churning Yearning. Here are three of the most important things
I’ve ever told you about how to get what you need. 1 If you don’t
precisely articulate your conscious desires, your unconscious pat-
terns will come true instead. 2 If you want your conscious desires
to trump your unconscious patterns, speak or write your con-
scious desires every day. 3 It’s better to have three huge, soaring,
potent desires than 25 puny, scrabbling, half-assed desires.
PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): Ron is down to six cups of coffee a
day, which is much healthier than his previous 15-cup habit. We,
his friends, might wish it wasn’t because he joined an ascetic cult
that wants him to get into top physical shape in order to fight the
evil reptilian extraterrestrials that have taken over the bodies of
corporate and governmental leaders. But hey, whatever works.
Likewise, Pisces, this is a favorable time for you to resort to just
about any legal measure in order to break the grip of your bad
habits – even if that involves substituting some rather exotic new
habits for the ones you need to eliminate.
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(P) Back-To-School Kids Health & Safety
Day. Chiropractic exam, scoliosis check,
adjustments, backpack safety, therapeutic
massages-kids/parents, fingerprinting, back-
pack/fire safety, oral health info. Free. Syn-
ergy Chiropractic, 607 W. Gurley St. Info:
928-227-1899, Chiropractic Synergy.com.
10 am-3 pm
Sunday 19th
(P) Send off party to see Silver Wolfe off to
Burning Man. Watson Lake Gazebo. Bring
drums, flutes and well wishes. Questions?
Contact Rick 928-925-8188. 7pm
Tuesday 21st
(P) The 3rd Tuesday of every month IONS
(Institute of Noetic Science). DVD viewing
and discussion. Info: 928-771-2408.
Prescott Public Library 5 pm
Wednesday 22nd
Verde Watershed Association meeting/field-
trip to Beaver Creek Ranger Station Exp-
lore archives of US Forest Service water-
shed research. Info: www.vwa.org. 10 am.
(PV) Lonesome Valley Quilting Guild
monthly meeting. Speakers/activities; every-
one welcome. Mountain Valley Church of
God; 8123 E. Manley Dr. Info: Chris, 928-
775-6448. 6:30pm/social 7pm/meeting.
Saturday 25th
(S) Writing Workshop: Playing with POV
8-5 Open Mic for Writers. Well Read
Coyote, 3190 W. Hwy 89A, Suite #400
(behind D’Lish Restaurant) Info: 866-282-
9291 or www.wellreadcoyote.com. 2 pm
(W) Gun Show. Firing Pin Enterprises
brings 80 specialty vendors to the Williams
Rodeo Grounds Rodeo Barn. Info: David
and Mary Morse at 602-275-1623 or
www.firingpin.com 9 am thru Aug. 26.
Wednesday 29th
(T) 2007 Regional Water Symposium.
Sustainable Water, Unlimited Growth,
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Quality of Life: Can We Have It All? Peter
Gleick, the BBC’s “visionaries of the envi-
ronment,” will be a presenter. Info:
www.swhydro.arizona.edu/symposium/pro-
gram.html. Aug 29-Sept 1
One semester can make your
whole career…sustainable.
Join us at the Ecosa Institute, Prescott
for an integrative/hands-on Total
Immersion semester in Sustainable
Design. Sept–Dec 2007; Jan–May, 2008.
Recommended for design students, pro-
fessionals and others interested in ensur-
ing a sustainable future. 928 541-1002
www.ecosainstitute.org
A&E
Wednesday 1st
(P) Circus Skill Share. Clowning, juggling,
tightrope walking, unicycling, fire dancing,
acrobatics, magic and sundry circus arts,
Courthouse Square. Wednesdays 4-7pm
(P) Art Exhibit: Ryan Huna Smith,
Chemehuevi/Navajo artist. Thru Sunday,
Aug. 26, Smoki Museum Contact: 928-445-
1230 or www.smokimuseum.org
(P) Art Exhibit: The Human Alteration thru
Aug. 17 at the Yavapai College Art Gallery
(P) Tap Dancing 1 & 2, Prescott Community
Center, 1280 Rosser St. Info: 928-778-
3000. Mondays & Wednesdays, Aug. 1-
Aug. 29; Members: $24; Non-members
$104. Call for times.
(P) Art Show: Grand Canyon Grandeur at
Sharlot Hall Museum. Some of the greatest
artists who made the Grand Canyon their
subject. Info: Sharlot.org. Through Aug. 12.
(P) Art Show: Western Art - The Cowboy
Way, at the Phippen through Oct. 28.
Come see the art of Bill Nebeker, CA, and
Robert “Shoofly” Shufelt. Info: 928-778-
1385 or visit www.phippenartmuseum.org.
(S) Noraz Poetry Salon. Readings, writing
exercises, and support. Everyone welcome.
The Well Read Coyote, 3190 W. Hwy 89A
(behind D’Lish Restaurant) Info: 866-282-
9291 or www.wellread coyote.com.
Wednesdays 7:30 pm
Thursday 2nd
(P) Theatre: The Underpants. Steve
Martin’s intellectual, irreverent play pokes
fun at our imperfections as a woman’s
unruly knickers go astray. Info: www.pfaa.
net. Evening Performances: Aug. 2, 3, & 4,
7:30 pm. Matinee: Aug. 4, 2 pm
Friday 3rd
(P) Ballroom Dance Classes and Social
Dance, Prescott Community Center, 1280
Rosser St. Info: 928-778-3000. 7 pm
Members: $24; Non-Members: $44
(P) AZ Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer
Night’s Dream. 1050 Ruth St. Performances,
on Aug 3, 7:30 pm and Aug 4, 2 pm
(P) Theatre: The Smokin’ Gun on Whiskey
Row, Sharlot Hall’s Blue Rose Theater. A
true Prescott murder mystery. $10-General
$8 Members. Info: www.Sharlot.org.
Performances: Aug. 3, 4, 11, 7:30 pm, Aug.
9, 6 pm. Matinees: Aug. 4, 11, 2 pm
Saturday 4th
(P) AZ Shakespeare Festival: Othello. Ver-
sion set in modern-day Iraq. Mature con-
tent. 1050 Ruth St. Info: 928-443-9220
Performances Aug. 4-7:30 pm and Aug. 5-
2 pm
(P) Jerome Art Walk. Info:
JeromeArtWalk.com 5-8pm
(CV) Granite Creek Vineyards Music and
Picnic Series: Jonathan Best. Bring a bag
lunch, reserve one for $7.50 or come for the
entertainment! 2515 N. Rd 1 East, Info:
636-2003, www.granitecreekvineards. com
1:30 pm
(P) The Arizona Revue: That’s Entertain-
ment! Music, comedy and dance variety
show. Historic Elks Opera House. Info:
928-830-7784, www.azrevue.com.
Saturdays 7 pm
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P) Troupe Salamat Tribal Style Bellydance
dinner show at the Taj Mahal Indian
Restaurant, 1781 E State Rte 69. Info: Taj
Mahal 445 5752 or Troupe Salamat 928-
771-1926. 7 pm
(P) Saturdays – The Folk Sessions KJZA
89.5 fm Live! Hosts Tom Agostino and
Alexa MacDonald. On Air, KJZA 89.5 fm
Info:www.folksessions.com 7-9 pm
(S) Songwriting Workshop. The Well Read
Coyote, 3190 W. Hwy 89A (at Dry Creek
Rd in W Sedona) Ste #400 (behind D’Lish
Restaurant). Info: 866-282-9291 or
www.wellreadcoyote.com. 2 pm
(PV) Wine Tasting with Guest Taster.
Lonesome Valley Food & Wine. Call for
prices, themes and reservations, 772-2726.
Saturdays 1:30-3:00 pm
Sunday 5th
(P) The Prescott Pops Symphony and
Chorus plays Rodgers and Hammerstein
highlights. Tickets & info: 928-776-2000 or
www.tickets.com. Yavapai College
Performance Hall 3 pm
Monday 6th
(P) Creative Movement for 3&4 year-olds.
Academy of Performing Arts, 218 N Granite
St. Info: 928-778-7529 or www.apaprescott.
com $45/month (1st class free) Mondays
3:30 pm
(S) Open Mic for Writers. The Well Read
Coyote, 3190 W. Hwy 89A, Suite #400
(behind D’Lish Restaurant) Info: 866-282-
9291 or www.wellreadcoyote.com. 2 pm
Tuesday 7th
(P) Movie night at the Raven Café.
Tuesdays 8 pm
(P) Beginner’s Bluegrass Jam at Alive and
Pickin’. For info, call Steve, 928-443-1335.
Tuesdays 6:30 pm
(P) “Just for Grownups” International
Film Series. Prescott Public Library. “The
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Island,” directed by Pavel Lounguine. 1st
Tuesday of every month. All film programs
are free and open to the public. Info: 928-
777-1500 6:30 pm
(P) Ongoing Dance Basics Class at Studio
Salamat inside Peace of My Heart, 212 W.
Gurley. Info: 928-771-1926 or salamatdi-
rect@msn.com. Tuesdays 4-6 pm
Wednesday 8th
(P) Bluegrass Jam at Alive and Pickin’. Info,
call Steve, 443-1335. Wednesdays 6:30 pm
(P) Western Line Dancing with JT. Pres-
cott Community Center, 1280 Rosser St.
Info: 928-778-3000. Wednesdays, 7-9 pm
Members: $5; Non-members $10
Thursday 9th
(P) Gypsy Jazz Jam at Alive and Pickin’.
Info: Steve 928-443-1335. 7 pm on the 1st
and 3rd Thursdays of the month.
(P) Guitar Lessons (all levels). Prescott
Community Center, 1280 Rosser St. Info:
928-778-3000. Members $75; Non-mem-
bers $95. Aug. 9 - 30; 10:30 am -12:30 pm
Saturday 11th
(P) Living History at Sharlot Hall. Inter-
preters bring frontier history alive at the
Pioneer Living Area at Sharlot Hall. Info:
Mike Woodcock, 928-445-3122 ext. 12.
10am-3pm. Recurs Weds., Aug 25.
(CV) Granite Creek Vineyards Music and
Picnic Series: Vyktoria Pratt-Keating. Bring
a bag lunch, reserve one for $7.50 or come
for the entertainment! 2515 N. Rd 1 East,
Info: 636-2003, www.granitecreekvineyards.
com 1:30 pm
(A) E.A.R. Unit: The Face of New Music.
Arcosanti. $30 dinner and performance;
$15 performance only ($10 student tick-
ets). Info: www.arcosanti.org, 928-632-
6217, info@arcosanti.org. 5:30 pm
(P) Antique Auction. Preview on Fri.
Aug. 10, 10 am - 5 pm, and Sat. Aug. 11,
10 am. Auction starts Aug. 11, at 11 am
418 N Mt Vernon St. Info and other auc-
tion dates: Battermans.com or 928-445-
6787.
Wednesday 15th
(P) A DIY, female fronted anarcha-feminist
hardcore/thrash/punk band from Chico CA
rocks our socks! Where: The Catalyst
Infoshop 109 N. McCormick St. In the
evening. Info: 928443-8525
(P) Art Show: Sally Wetten, Traditional &
Non-Traditional Machine Quilts, and
Sunny Klapp, Ukranian Pysanka Style
Decorated Egg Art at the Arts Prescott
Cooperative Gallery, 134 S. Montezuma St.
928-776-7717. Through Sept. 14.
Friday 17th
(P) Rio Flamenco guitar and dance at the
Elks Opera House. Tickets/info: www.elk-
soperahourse.org. 7:30 pm
Saturday 18th
The Center for Biological Diversity’s
Save The Verde Ice Cream Social
for Volunteers and Friends
Bring your ideas and mix with others ded-
icated to protecting the Verde River. Now
is the time for you to step up and make a
difference to keep the river flowing.
August 18, 1 pm. Granite Creek Park,
Prescott.Visit SaveTheVerde.org to learn
more. Info: Joanne Oellers, 772-8204,
joellers@biologicaldiversity.org
(P) Dog Days Dance. Prescott Community
Center, 1280 Rosser St. Members $5;
Non-members $10 Info: 928-778-3000.
Ballroom Dance Lesson: 7-8 pm; Social
Dance 8-10:30 pm;
(P) 20th Annual Arizona Cowboy Poets
Gathering. Sharlot Hall & YC Perform-
ance Hall. Poets include Don Edwards
and Gail Steiger. Schedule: www.Sharlot.
org. Aug. 16-Aug. 18.
(CV) Granite Creek Vineyards Music and
Picnic Series: Lamar Hill. Bring a bag
lunch, reserve one for $7.50 or come for
the entertainment! 2515 N. Rd 1 East
Info: 928-636-2003, www.granite-
creekvineyards.com 1:30 pm
Sunday 19th
(P) Art Exhibit: Part-Time Art Faculty
Invitational. Yavapai College Art Gallery.
Through Sept. 21. Opening Reception,
Aug. 31, 5:30-7:30 pm
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Wednesday 22nd
(S) Literary Open Mike. Founders Suite,
Prescott Public Library. Ten Professional
Writers of Prescott (PWP) members will
wow everyone. What is an author without
a reader, or a listener? Guests are wel-
come! Info: Leslie Hoy at 928-445-4218 or
visit www.prescottwriters.com. 6 pm
Friday 24th
(P) Prescott Art Walk. 24 galleries &
eateries open their doors for Prescott’s 4th
Friday Art Walk. Get your Gallery Guide
and Art Walk map at participating galleries
and hotels. Info: www.artthe4th.com.
Saturday 25th
(CV) Granite Creek Vineyards Music and
Picnic Series: Pat Beary & Ines Vitols.
Bring a bag lunch, reserve one for $7.50
or come for the entertainment! 2515 N.
Rd 1 East, Info: 928-636-2003, www.gran-
itecreekvineyards. com 1:30 pm
(S) Writing Workshop: “Playing with
POV” 8-5 Open Mic for Writers.
TheWell Read Coyote, 3190 W. Hwy 89A
(at Dry Creek Rd in W Sedona) Suite
#400 (behind D’Lish Restaurant). Info:
866-282-9291 or www.wellreadcoyote.
com. 2 pm
(P) Rebecca Cutehands, Native American
Art, is the featured member of Mountain
Spirit Coop. Open 4th Friday Artwalk with
Live Music. 5:30-9 pm
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Friday 31st
(P) Prescott Fine Arts Association.
Opening and artist’s reception: Animals in
Art. Info: www.pfaa.org. 5-7 pm
The Ecosa Institute presents
Transformations: An Evening
of Fine Wine, Food, Art,
and Music
Sunday, Sept. 23
6-9 pm, at the Raven Cafe
Call for tickets: (928) 541-1002
OUTDOORS
Monday 1st
(P) Flyfishing classes with Lynx Creek
Unlimited. Throughout the month. Visit
www.flyfishaz.com or call 776-7088.
Thursday 2nd
(P) 2-Hour Basic Kayak Roll Clinic. YMCA
Aquatics Center. Fee; register in advance.
Info: 928-445-7221 1st Thurs. of each
month 7-9 pm
(P) Open Kayaking. YMCA Aquatic Center.
Practice your roll or paddle around on your
own! Sign up prior to each session. Mem-
bers pay free. Community Members: $5
Thursdays 7:30.
Saturday 4th
(P) Knee-High Naturalists. Highlands
Center. Beginning Aug. 4 continuing the
1st & 3rd Saturdays through November.
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Hands-on, outdoor program for pre-
schoolers and their parents. Pre-register.
Fee: Member $45 Non-member $55. Info:
928-776-9550
(P) Shooting match: USPSA (Practical
Pistol) Action shooting/multiple targets/in
and around barriers in tactical situations.
The Whispering Longtree Range is the
only dedicated action shooting range in
the area. Approximately 12 miles S of
Prescott on Hwy 89. Turn E at Forest Rd
71, half-way between mms 297/298. On
private land - not affected by Forest
Service fire restrictions. GPS coordinates
for the range are: N3425.471 W11233.
371. More info: www.yavapairecreation-
league.com or 928-776-0155. Non-
Member: $15 Member $10
Tuesday 7th
(P) National Night Out – Crime preven-
tion with a twist of fun. Look for block
parties, cookouts, parades, flashlight walks,
contests and youth programs. Info: Officer
Jennifer A. Miller at 928-772-5150.
Friday 10th
(P) 2007 Prescott Senior Olympic Summer
Games in the Tri-Cities area Aug. 10 –
Aug. 26, 2007. Info: Libby Reiman 928-
777-1122 x0 or libby.reiman@cityof-
prescott.net
3-Day Wilderness Tracking Class for dads
and sons. Includes meals. $300-adult, $150-
child. Info: Bob Matthews, bmtracker45@
yahoo.com, www.horizontrackingservice.
com. 928-308-6548. Aug 10,11,12
Saturday 11th
(P) Prescott Audubon Society’s Bird Walk.
Highlands Center 7:30 am. Info: 928-776-
9550
(CV) Take a trip to the Grand Canyon
Caverns. Details: Chino Valley Parks and
Recreation Department at 928-636-9780.
Sunday 12th
Shooting match: IDPA (Defensive Pistol)
Multiple target defensive scenarios all
starting from concealed weapons carry
(CCW). For info/directions, see the listing
for Aug. 4 or visit www.yavapairecreation-
league.com or call 928-776-0155.
Saturday 18th
(P) Nature Nuts Club. Highlands Center.
Children touch nature through explo-
ration, discovery, art, and science. Fee:
Member $45 Nonmember $55 Info: 928-
776-9550 9:30 am
1-Day Tracking Class. Cost-$100 per per-
son, or $150 for two. Includes lunch and
snacks, plus goody bag. Info: Bob
Matthews, bmtracker45@yahoo.com,
www.horizontrackingservice.com. 928-308-
6548. 8 am-4 pm
(P) Professional Bull Riding. Professional
Bull Riders U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Chall-
enger Tour. Prescott Rodeo Grounds. Call
866-407-6336 or 928-445-4320, or online at
www.worldsoldestrodeo.com for tickets.
$18 7:30 pm, Sun. Aug. 19 at 1:30 pm.
(P) Veggie Car Derby! Come build a veg-
gie car and race it! At the Prescott
Farmers Market. YC Parking Lot. Open
7:30 am-12 noon.
Sunday 19th
Shooting match: USPSA (3-Gun Match--
rifle, pistol and/or shotgun) Lots of targets,
lots of movement, bring lots of ammo. For
info/directions, see the listing on Sat. Aug. 4
or visit www.yavapairecreationleague.com or
call 928-776-0155.
Monday 20th
(P) Prescott Astronomy Club’s Star Party
Highlands Center. Observe some of the
spectacular features of our nearest celes-
tial neighbor, the moon. 7 pm
Sunday 26th
Cowboy Action Shooting (The Old West is
reborn). Bring two sixguns, an old west
shotgun and a lever action rifle. For
info/directions, see the listing on Sat, Aug 4
or visit www.yavapairecreationleague.com or
call 928-776-0155.
Tuesday 28th
(P) Zoo by Moonlight at the Heritage Park
Zoological Sanctuary. Info: 928-778-4242
ext 15 or www.heritageparkzoo.com. 8-
9:30 pm
Thursday 30th
(P) Free mom and baby zoo class with
Stroller Strides. Exercise with your baby.
Heritage Park Zoological Sanctuary. Info:
kammyamberg@strollerstrides.net. 9 am
WELL-BEING
Thursday 2nd
(P) Basic Ongoing Yoga Class with
Highlight
Barbara Gitlin. your event
The Pyramid at the Grove
print
Studio,in119 andAve.
Grove online
Info:for $18.
928-541-
1398 orhighlight.readitnews.com.
yogabarb@msn.com Thursdays
from 5:30-6:45 pm
Friday 3rd
(P) Every Friday and Saturday Metaphysical
Readings with Bob and Sara at Cuppers
Coffee House. 1-4pm
Saturday 4th
(P) Body Movement Workshop at Yoga
Shala, 322 W. Gurley. Info: www.cynthi-
abowkley.com 2-5 pm
Birthing From Within
with Jenna Israel, Doula Mentor
Prescott-area classes for women and
couples interested in birthing with
deeper awareness and learning useful
pain-coping practices. Weekly classes
start Aug. 4. More info: 928-273-0348.
Monday 6th
(P) Meditation instruction. $5 fee. The
Church of Spiritual Living, 3755 Willow
Creek. Info: Call 928-772-6826. 6 pm
Thursday 16th
(P) Ask the Angels. Green Room, Cuppers
Coffee House; 226 S Cortez. Practical
messages channeled for all in attendance.
$5 love offering. Info: Debby Taylor 928-
772-6826 4pm
Friday 17th
(P) 200 & 500 hour Yoga Teacher Training
programs with Cain Carroll, Yoga Shala.
500-hour begins Aug. 17. 200-hour begins
Sept. 7. Info: YogaShalaArizona.com.
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NIGHTLIFE
All bands play in Prescott unless otherwise
noted.
Wednesday 1st
Jonathan Hust and Not Really Gone 6
pm Coyote Joe’s
Long Live Logos, Shady Grass, Madison
County 8 pm The Raven Café
Live Jazz - Brian Lachance, Larry
Cantor and more 6:30 pm 129 1/2
Restaurant and Jazz Bistro
Thursday 2nd
Sir Harrison and The Blues Kings 3pm
Flagstaff on the Square
Friday 3rd
Holly Light Kactus Kate’s in Cottonwood
see: www.hollylight.com
Kenny James 6 pm at Coyote Joe’s every
Friday.
Jackson Jones Jazz Trio 8 pm The Raven
Café
The Iron Kings 9 pm Brian’s Irish Pub
Blue Wail 9:30 pm Lyzzard’s
Clint Mapston 5 pm Lynx Lake Café
Saturday 4th
Jonathan Best 1:30 pm Granite Creek
Vineyards Summer Saturday
Rafe Sweet 2 pm Heritage Square in
Flagstaff
Don Cheek and the Cheektones 5 pm
Coyote Joe’s
Arms and Sleepers 8 pm The Raven Café
Devon Allman’s Honeytribe 7:30 pm
Orpheum in Flagstaff
The Kingsmen 7:30 Prescott Valley
Entertainment District
Sunday 5th
David Kellerman 3 pm Lyzzard’s
Carnuba 6 pm Coyote Joe’s
Tuesday 7th
Brad Newman 5 pm Coyote Joe’s
Little Feat 7 pm Orpheum in Flagstaff
Wednesday 8th
Ashley Anderson 4 pm Coyote Joe’s
Jonathan Hust and Not Really Gone 6
pm Coyote Joe’s
Thursday 9th
Sarah Crews 8 pm The Raven Café
Friday 10th
Kenny James 6 pm Coyote Joe’s
Combo Deluxe 8 pm Jersey Lilly’s
Big Daddy “D” 9 pm Brian’s Irish Pub
Major Lingo 9:30 pm Lyzzard’s
Saturday 11th
Vyktoria Pratt-Keating 1:30 pm Granite
Creek Vineyards Summer Saturday
Don Cheek and the Cheektones 5 pm
Coyote Joe’s
Combo Deluxe 8 pm Jersey Lilly’s
Sammy Davis Band 9:30 pm Lyzzard’s
Sunday 12th
Combo Deluxe 2 pm Piñon Pines
Carnuba 6 pm Coyote Joe’s
Monday 13th
The Barn Owls 8 pm The Raven Café
Tuesday 14th
Brad Newman 5 pm Coyote Joe’s
Friday17th
Kenny James 6 pm Coyote Joe’s
Combo Deluxe 8 pm Jersey Lilly’s
The Lab Rats 9 pm Brian’s Irish Pub
Trainwreck 9:30 pm Lyzzard’s
Saturday 18th
Combo Deluxe 2 pm The Spirit Room,
Jerome
Don Cheek and the Cheektones 5 pm
Coyote Joe’s
Jonathan Hust and Not Really Gone 6
pm Coyote Joe’s
The Folk Sessions 7 pm on KJZA 89.5FM
Agent Orange door open 8 pm Lyzzards -
this is a ticketed event
Chris Black 8 pm The Raven Café
The High Rollers 9 pm Brian’s Irish Pub
Kings of Pleasure 6 pm The Prescott
Valley Entertainment District
Tuesday 21st
Brad Newman 5 pm Coyote Joe’s
Wednesday 22nd
Ashley Anderson 4 pm Coyote Joe’s
Thursday 23rd
Jazz Summit 8 pm The Raven Café.
Ticket info: (928) 771-1268
Friday 24th
Combo Deluxe 7 pm Piñon Pines
Jazz Summit continues 8 pm The Raven
Café
Saturday 25th
Pat Beary with Ines Vitols 1:30 pm
Granite Creek Vineyards Summer
Saturday
Don Cheek and the Cheektones 5 pm
Coyote Joe’s
The Folk Sessions 7 pm on KJZA 89.5FM
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The Sandrails 9 pm Brian’s Irish Pub
Combo Deluxe 9 pm Smokin’ Harley’s in Artist Spotlight
Mayer
Poor Kids Without Cable 9:30 pm
Lyzzard’s
Acker Night with Fire Ridge and more in
Melanie Banayat by Ross Hilmoe

Downtown Prescott
elanie Banayat is proud of her her-
The Prescott Jazz Summit various loca-
tions in Prescott: call (928) 771-1286

Sunday 26th
The Prescott Jazz Summit continues vari-
ous locations in Prescott: call (928) 771-
1268
Combo Deluxe 5 pm Lounge Clarkdale
Carnuba 6 pm Coyote Joe’s
Tuesday 28th
Brad Newman 5 pm Coyote Joe’s
Wednesday 29th
Matthew O’Neill 8 pm The Raven Café
Friday 31st
Kenny James 6 pm Coyote Joe’s
Terry Wheeler 9 pm Brian’s Irish Pub
The High Rollers 9:30 pm Lyzzard’s
Yellowman plays the Orpheum in Flagstaff
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M itage, a mixture of Filipina, Pascua
Yaqui Indian and Spanish. Her art –
colorful, rich and sensuous studies of women –
reflects that background.
Melanie is a listener. Her paintings come
to life from the stories of the many people she
meets, mostly women.
“I paint because I want to be able to
touch people’s lives in some way,” she said. “I
find it to be a healing place for me, really.”
Melanie’s four children have also provided
inspiration. She says their unconditional love
has taught her how to paint from her heart.
She painted Blue Boots (pictured) after
seeing Latin American singer-songwriter, Lila
Downs, performing in a pair of incredible blue
footwear. Read the full story of Blue Boots on
Melanie’s website, www.banayatfineart.com.
See new original work by Melanie at the
Summer Art Festival, August 11th & 12th, on
the Courthouse Square, and at Van Gogh’s Ear
Gallery, 156 S. Montezuma Street .

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