Posted inDecember 7, 1998: Vail and the road to a recreational empire

Terrorist tactics always undermine progress

“We’re always a little afraid.” That’s what a staunch environmentalist told me shortly after I retired from the Idaho Legislature and left a big-firm law practice to work for the Idaho Conservation League. “Afraid of what?” I asked him. So he patiently explained certain realities of being an environmentalist in an Idaho Panhandle timber town. […]

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