Box 61
Container
Contains 26 Results:
No.476 Forrest S. Cuch, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Cuch (b. 1951) was born in Roosevelt, Utah. A member of the Ute Indian Tribe, he currently serves as the director of the Division of Indian Affairs for the state of Utah. Cuch begins by discussing his upbringing and experiences crossing between the “Non-Indian world” and the “Indian world.” He then moves to a discussion of the controversy over high-level nuclear waste storage on the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes...
Dates:
2008
No.477 Riley Cutler, 2007
File — Box: 61, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Cutler (b. 1952) begins by sharing his childhood in Preston, Idaho. He lived in a farming community, and he explains just what that meant to him and to his friends. They worked the farms, sometimes along side of immigrant farm workers. He had an active outdoor childhood, learning to ski among his many activities. The family moved to Panama City, Panama, and Riley went to the American High School in the Panama Canal...
Dates:
2007
No.478 Craig Denton, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Denton grew up on the east side of Salt Lake City. He attended Highland High School. A non-Mormon, he had the perspective of being on the outside looking in. Topics discussed include empty spaces like vacant lots that have since been filled in, the concept of wilderness, proposed wilderness areas of Utah’s West Desert, the Las Vegas water grab, his love of fishing and the Bear River, his career at the University of...
Dates:
2008
No.479 Carrol Firmage, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Firmage camped throughout Utah as a child with her family. She married Ed Firmage whose educational pursuits took them to Berkeley, California, and then to Israel on an Albright Fellowship. When they returned to Salt Lake City, they began to take weekend trips to the Escalante-Boulder area in southern Utah. Inspired by the scenery, they became interested in landscape photography. Ed’s father was an activist who...
Dates:
2008
No.480 David George, 2007
File — Box: 61, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
George (b. 1946) was born in New York and attended school in Massachusetts before the family moved to Colorado, where he became interested in climbing. He studied engineering at the University of Utah and climbed in the Wasatch with Joel Brown and Jock Gliddon. He recalls climbs in the Tetons and Wind Rivers. Later climbs took him to Canada, the Alps, the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan, and Nepal. Topics discussed...
Dates:
2007
No.481 Scott Groene, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
Groene discusses why he attended law school and how he became a paid “enviro.” He started his law career working for Indians in Mexican Hat, Utah. He also lived in Bluff and Moab, Utah and Washington D.C. while working for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. He is now executive director of that organization. He describes some of the environmental issues he has worked on over the years, such as livestock grazing,...
Dates:
2008
No.482 Vai Hafoka, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
Hafoka (b. 1959) tells us about her young life in the Tongan Islands, then her move to San Mateo California. She describes, with excitement, her trip from Tonga to the United States in 1970, and shares the importance to her of her Tongan traditions. She describes her family’s relationship with the LDS church, including her arrival at Brigham Young University at the age of 17, with a book and tuition scholarship, a...
Dates:
2008
No.483 David Hanscom, 2007
File — Box: 61, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
Hanscom (b. 1941) grew up in Rumford, Maine. His father introduced him to skiing at an early age and he skied for his high school ski team. He skied the Nordic Combined events, which were comprised of combined scores from cross country skiing and ski jumping. He talks about older equipment, such as pine-tar cross country skis, and skis that had no camber and just dragged. He went to Middlebury College prior to...
Dates:
2007
No.484 Ronald Soren Hanson, 2009
File — Box: 61, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
Hanson (b. 1931) recalls growing up in Logan, where he contracted polio in the fall of 1937 at the age of six. He was sent to the Los Angeles Children’s Hospital for nine months. He relates his experiences with daily physical therapy, hospital food and care, his fellow patients, schooling and overall care, a return to Los Angeles for a series of follow-up corrective surgeries, and the use of orthotic devices to...
Dates:
2009
No.485 Marc Heileson, 2008
File — Box: 61, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
Heileson grew up in Provo, Utah, where his experiences with camping and backpacking left him with a love for Utah’s wilderness. He grew up watching the political scene change, allowing more encroachment into the wilderness for oil and gas development, He was introduced to the Sierra Club while working on the senatorial campaign of Wayne Owens. After he received his degree in Natural Resources from Utah State...
Dates:
2008