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...into adrenalized assembly lines of sport. At the Home Ranch the pace slows. Its 580 aspen-studded acres offer cross-country skiers 20 miles of trails glistening in 2 ft. of new powder. Twenty guests-the inn's capacity-enjoy wine-and-cheese parties in the meadows, photograph elk, ermine and eagles, soak in private hot tubs and feed resident tame llamas. No sounds of sports cars, chain saws, chairlifts or rock music from après-ski lounges pollute the mountain air. At $75 a day, including instruction, equipment and dinners of prime rib and smoked turkey...
...King Louis Philippe. He lived grandly and, despite his success, always just beyond his means. He published two volumes of his adventures, illustrated with his own drawings and displaying an exuberant narrative style. He described the Blackfoot-Crow country as a land "where the buffaloes range with the elk and the fleet-bounding antelope; where wolves are white and bears grizzly; where the rivers are yellow ... the dogs are all wolves, women are slaves, men all lords." All this was imbued with a sympathy for the Indians shared by few of his countrymen, full as they were of their vision...
Well, not quite. The Ellis cutters and sewers will be making use of new technology: a video-tape machine with a pause button. "When we get a good picture of Lady Di," Ellis says, "we can freeze it." Elk's reports that 200 of the copies have been ordered so far. "Every shop in England that has a royal window wants...
...Elk Rapids, Mich...
Animals are also reappearing. Pocket gophers, once regarded as pests because they eat young conifers, may prove to be man's allies: their labyrinthine burrowing improves soil aeration and helps water flow through the compacted ash. Elk and deer have been spotted around water sources in the blowdown area. Though fish are unlikely to be seen in Spirit Lake for years, bacteria and algae have colonized the lakes to become the first link in a developing food chain. The insect population was heavily damaged, but scientists are now finding ladybugs feeding on the sap of green bracken ferns, which...