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...same advice applies to other lands and waters. Backpackers competing for summertime space in the famous shelters along the Appalachian Trail, from Maine to Georgia, must preregister months in advance. And it is the same for Arizona's Aravaipa Canyon, a stream-fed desert site with unique wildlife, where only 50 camping permits are granted daily...
Getting on the water is also difficult. Most of the 22,000 slots for riding the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon go to commercial companies. Individuals face a minimum waiting time of three to five years. The toughest permit: the one to traverse Northern Idaho's Selway River, a rafter's prize because it is navigable only a few weeks of the year. The odds of winning the pass...
...Lissaman, derives most of its annual $17 million revenue from the monitoring and control of air pollution and hazardous wastes. One current contract, for example, involves determining the contribution of Arizona's giant coal-fired Navajo power plant to the haze that sometimes hampers visibility around the nearby Grand Canyon...
...reportedly living in Southern California, has said through third parties that he is in the U.S. to vacation and conduct "a broad survey of American society." So far, he has visited the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas. His friend Lu Keng, a Hong Kong journalist, says this "research" will keep Xu in America "for quite some time." Says Lu: "My feeling is that he won't go back to China until Li Peng is no longer in power. He may want to avoid retaliation." Xu's old associates in Beijing may be cursing him, but Lu says the former envoy...
Before the surprise announcement in January by platinum-haired Democratic Governor Rose Mofford that she would not seek re-election, it looked as if the Grand Canyon State would have a calm 1990 gubernatorial election. As the secretary of state who inherited the Governor's mansion in April 1988, Mofford, 67, was Arizona's Jerry Ford, healing the wounds inflicted by Mecham's impeachment for financial improprieties. She was ahead in the polls before she decided, "I want to start living for Rosie...