Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White River National Forest of northwest Colorado. It is the home of the largest elk herd (about 18,000 in all) in North America. His base is Meeker (pop. 2,356), the sleepy seat of Rio Blanco County, a town without a traffic light or a movie theater. In winter deer wander through town and are sometimes killed by motorists on Main Street. The town's economy depends heavily on the elk and deer season in October, when thousands of hunters invade the area. In summer people fish for trout in the clear lakes and streams...
...folks around Meeker, Madison's badge and uniform are considered a source of special, even secret knowledge that no one else has. Wherever he goes, he is asked how the elk survived the winter or what lure the trout are currently hitting on up at Trappers Lake. People stop Madison's wife Nancy on the street to solicit her for inside information on such matters...
...summer the same ranchers complain endlessly to Madison that "his elk" are grazing on their cattle pastures. In winter they blame him when hungry elk and deer are busting their fences and devouring their haystacks. "It's not that folks don't like Jeff personally," says Herb Hughley, who operates the Valley Motel on Highway 13, which runs through Meeker. "But they don't like bureaucrats in Denver making laws about what they can and cannot do here...
After weeks of heated debate last winter, the School Committee voted not to renew Lannon's contract in August, thus ending the Superintendent's nine-year tenure...
...lies. There are footprints under the maple tree that grows over his grave. People have been here, although the snow around the other graves is untrammeled. It was June when we buried him-the summer solstice. The day I return is Ash Wednesday. He lies there in the cold winter ground. I make a snowball with my hands, pack it firm, and lob it gently at the grave. There doesn't seem to be anything else to do here...