THE `WHY BOTHER EXPANSION'.An emergency environmental injunction against ski developer Vail Vail (vāl), town (1990 pop. 3,569), Eagle co., W central Colo., on Gore Creek, in the Gore Range of the Rocky Mts.; founded as a ski resort 1962, inc. as a town 1966. Associates' proposed mad through prime lynx lynx, name given to several related small, ferocious members of the cat family. All have small heads, tufted ears, and heavy bodies with long legs and short tails. All are primarily terrestrial, although they are able to climb trees. habitat in Colorado's White River National Forest has been denied (see "Troubled Homecoming Homecoming Odyssey concerning Odysseus’s difficulties in getting home after war. [Gk. Myth.: Odyssey] You Can’t Go Home Again revisiting his home town, a writer is disillusioned by what he sees. [Am. Lit. ," cover story, March/April 1998). The road is the first step in Vail's so-called CATIII expansion, which, if approved, would develop the backside BACKSIDE, estates. In England this term was formerly used in conveyances and even in pleadings, and is still, adhered to with reference to ancient descriptions in deeds, in continuing the transfer of the same. property. of the mountain and make Vail the largest ski area in the world. Nicknamed the "Why Bother Expansion" by locals, CATIII has generated substantial opposition, though sympathy for the ski area following possible arson arson, at common law, the malicious and willful burning of the house of another. Originally, it was an offense against the security of habitation rather than against property rights. there has rebuilt some support. Environmental lawyer Dave Zuchoski says, "I think that the politics of ski area expansion are really going to turn. People who live in the high country are realizing that bigger is not better." Environmentalists hope that a three-judge panel will put an end to the expansion this year. CONTACT: Colorado Environmental Coalition, 1536 Wynkoop Street, #5C, Denver, CO 80202/(303)534-7066. |
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