Box 64
Container
Contains 19 Results:
No.540 Keith B. Farr, 2008
File — Box: 64, Folder: 1
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Farr (b.1939) was born in Taylor, Utah. The family moved to Nyssa, Oregon, in 1955. He had a first class license at 16. Gordan Kapps "took a chance" on him, and started him in the radio business in 1957. His first job was at KSRV, Ontario, Oregon. Stations he worked for included KKOG, Ogden; KBUH for Art Fishler; KVOG-TV, Ogden, for Art Webb; KLGN with John Hart in Logan; and KIFI in Idaho Falls, where he worked...
Dates:
2008
No.541 Joel Bown, 2007
File — Box: 64, Folder: 2
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Bown (b.1946) talks about his ski mountaineering experiences that began with the Ute Alpine Club. Equipment was bought from the Deseret Industries and Vibram added to the soles of the old boots. Few people ski toured in the sixties, unlike today. Mountaineering trips included Cardiff Pass, Deseret Peak, Uintas, King's Peak, Colorado Rockies, the Tetons, and eventually south to Mazatlan or Baja. He talks about the...
Dates:
2007
No.542 Bret Wojciak, Micah Renfeldt, and Christian Dean, 2009
File — Box: 64, Folder: 3
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John Worsencroft interviews OARS (Outdoor Adventure River Experts) river rafting guides Christian Dean, Micah Renfeldt, and Bret Wojciak on the banks of the Colorado River in Cataract Canyon. Dean, Renfeldt, and Wojciak discuss how they were introduced to river rafting and commercial guiding. They discuss safety on and off the river and the value of preparation and knowledge to recreation in the wilderness. The...
Dates:
2009
No.543 Steve Bloch, 2008
File — Box: 64, Folder: 4
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Bloch grew up in the suburbs outside of Cleveland, Ohio, and got his degree at Miami University with a focus in Botany and Political Science. The summer before his senior year of college he took a job in Burns, Oregon, and first experienced the west and so after graduation he took a job with the Forest Service in Washington State. He attended law school at the University of Utah and became an attorney for SUWA. He...
Dates:
2008
No.544 Hans Ehrbar, 2008
File — Box: 64, Folder: 5
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Ehrbar is from Munich, Germany, and has a Ph.D in both mathematics and economics. He is self-proclaimed socialist and Marxist. He works for the University of Utah and teaches classes in economics, Marxism, and environmentalism. He thinks that our society wouldn’t be able to just become socialist, so his argument is to reform capitalism to create a social demographic capitalism, but he’s not sure if it’s possible....
Dates:
2008
No.545 Lawson Legate, 2008
File — Box: 64, Folder: 6
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Legate was born in Sacramento, CA and spent his childhood in the Sierra Nevadas and at Lake Tahoe. He was student body president at Cordova Senior High School in Rancho Cordova, California, during the April 1970 earthquake and he helped organize an Earth Week Conference. Joined the Sierra Club while living in British Columbia and helped start the chapter in Nelson, BC. He went back to school in 1980 to get his...
Dates:
2008
No.546 John Urgo, 2008
File — Box: 64, Folder: 7
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Urgo is from Brooklyn, New York, and joined Green Corps, after studying Environmental Science in college, which moved him around the country a lot until he applied for a job with HEAL Utah in 2005 (which tends to focus on nuclear issues). He believes that environmental problems are justice problems and is active in power relations. His work in Green Corps involved a lot of organizing and volunteer recruitment, so...
Dates:
2008
No.547 Kathy Vandame, 2007-2008
File — Box: 64, Folder: 8
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Vandame is a retired nurse who has dedicated her life to air quality in the Salt Lake Valley after reading a Wasatch Clean Air Coalition newsletter in 1997. She would go to Utah Air Quality board meetings and attended the Western Regional Air Partnership, which was the successor organization to the Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission, and that organization became the seed of the Western Climate Initiative....
Dates:
2007-2008
No.548 Jared Roth, 2008
File — Box: 64, Folder: 9
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Roth (b. 1982) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was raised by his mother, originally from New Orleans, and his father, originally from Indianapolis; and was introduced to climbing at fourteen years of age. He gives a contrast between indoor and outdoor climbing, and discusses the progression and classification of climbing and bouldering over his twelve years of experience. Roth was spokesperson for Black...
Dates:
2008
No.549 Ben Folsom and Maura Hahnenberger, 2008
File — Box: 64, Folder: 10
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Ben is a tree climber in Salt Lake City and owns his own business. He’s done some tree climbing competitions but rock climbing is his real passion. The two sports are intertwined though--one prepares him for the other. Ben likes to do his climbs in a traditional style, using as little fixed gear as possible. He says that there are different rules and etiquette in different locations and also there are lots of...
Dates:
2008
No.550 Jim Catlin, 2008
File — Box: 64, Folder: 11
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Jim Catlin is a native Utahn who has been active in public land issues for more than 25 years. His PhD from the University of California at Berkeley focused on GIS and land use planning. His MS in regional land use planning at the University of Utah analyzed Wasatch Front air quality. Jim began his work in conservation as a volunteer for the Sierra Club. His skills and love of adventure propelled him toward pivotal...
Dates:
2008
No.551 Andrea Heidinger, 2007
File — Box: 64, Folder: 12
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Andrea was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but spent her childhood in Salt Lake City, Utah. In high school she was aware of the poor air quality in the valley and started to bike to school, “Inversions are natural, but what the inversions trapped, the smog and pollution, was not.” Her classes and teachers at Judge Memorial High School were instrumental in her environmental mindset. She has worked for both the...
Dates:
2007
No.552 Steve Frishman, 2009
File — Box: 64, Folder: 13
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Frishman (b. 1944) was born in Washington D.C. He is a technical consultant for the law firm representing the State of Nevada in its contention of the Department of Energy’s application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license for the Yucca Mountain repository. Prior to this, Frishman worked as a Technical-Policy Coordinator for the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects. He discusses graduate school in...
Dates:
2009
No.553 John Edumund Hadder, 2008
File — Box: 64, Folder: 14
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Hadder (b. 1960) was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He currently lives in Reno and works as a staff scientists for Great Basin Resource Watch. Hadder begins with a discussion of his upbringing, role models, and education. He recalls his involvement in various nuclear issues in the Great Basin region, and recounts his evolving role in nuclear activism. Hadder then discusses the nuclear waste controversy including...
Dates:
2008
No.554 Reinhard D. Knutsen, 2009
File — Box: 64, Folder: 15
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Knutsen (b. 1964) was born in Taiping, Malasia to Methodist missionaries. He describes his upbringing (particularly his consistent work with disenfranchised communities) and how he became involved in nuclear issues, starting with his participation in a New England Walk for Nuclear Disarmament. He went on to work on nuclear testing, nuclear power, and nuclear waste issues. Knutsen discusses his time with Shundahai...
Dates:
2009
No.555 Kim Townsend, 2008
File — Box: 64, Folder: 16
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Kim Townsend was born in Owyhee, Nevada, and currently lives on the Duckwater Western Shoshone Reservation. She recalls the many Western Shoshone people who have died of cancers and discusses how this lead her to work on the NUKERISK project to assess radiation doses in American Indian populations from nuclear testing. She describes her role in the NUKERISK project. Townsend also briefly discusses the role she...
Dates:
2008
No.556 Judy Treichel, 2009
File — Box: 64, Folder: 17
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Treichel was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She discusses her background, upbringing, ethical influences, and general relationship to nuclear issues. She explains that she began working on nuclear testing issues, but shifted to nuclear waste in the late 1980s, when Yucca Mountain became the sole contender for a national nuclear waste repository. Treichel describes her position on the Nevada Nuclear Waste Task...
Dates:
2009
No.557 Charles Cutler Esplin, 2005
File — Box: 64, Folder: 18
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Charles Esplin (b. 1918) recalls herding sheep in the 1930s near Bunkerville, Nevada, on the Arizona Strip. He talks about the life (and sometimes death) of sheep herders, BLM permits, the canyons and general terrain, weather challenges, and the habits of sheep and cattle. The sheep were sheared in April,then were returned to North Fork for lambing in early May. He discusses counting the sheep by using markers...
Dates:
2005
No.558 Edward I. Hashimoto, 1984
File — Box: 64, Folder: 19
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Hashimoto (b. 1911) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He relates stories heard from his father, who came to the United States in 1896 as a railroad worker and became wealthy as an investor in various western companies. He describes his early life in the Japanese section of town, going to the Stewart School and East High, and graduating from the University of Utah. Other topics include treatment of the Japanese...
Dates:
1984