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Shapiro now says that Mt. Graham was not a controversial topic in 1985 when he wrote the memo. "We did not even know what a red squirrel was," he says...
...wrote that if the center chooses Mt. Graham to house its telescope, Harvard-Smithsonian Center would use its influence with the U.S. Forest Service to allow development of Emerald Peak. In exchange, Harvard-Smithsonian would receive telescope equipment or viewing time on Arizonia's Max-Planck Radioastronomic Submillimeter...
Harvard-Smithsonian's proposed six-telescope array would measure submillimeter wavelengths, light waves shorter than radiowaves and longer than infrared. The Center, a joint venture of the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory, is deciding whether to place its telescopes at Mt. Graham or at the 13,000-foot Mauna Kea in Hawaii, says Irwin I. Shapiro, director of the Center and Paine professor of practical astronomy...
Shapiro has been in touch with officials at Arizona at least since 1985 about the possibility of housing his telescopes at Mt. Graham...
...February of that year he wrote a memo discussing the Mt. Graham choice and noted that Harvard-Smithsonian could receive some material benefits from opting for the Arizonia site...