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Show Russell Jacobs 24 February 2010 MD: So maybe in part, some sort of personal responsibility or accountability to, um, to keeping a place as it is without the, sort of, the appearance of human impact? RJ: Yes, yes. I mean you have to bring the masses in, you do. And there's places, for instance, on the saddle of the Grand Teton. There are areas that they do not want you treading on, because the plant life takes years and years and years to recover. So they've got markers and signages that tell you, ya know. And also, there's only a certain amount of people allowed on the mountain, which will, which they've engineered, or come upor, I wouldn't say engineered, but they've realized that the mountain can only handle so many people per day. And, so that's been managed. And I've been goin' up there for thirty years. There's not too many years I've missed, and it really hasn't changed, that I can see. The only part that I can see that's changed is, of course, Teton Glacier, which is diminishing. Um, they say it's from global warming, and who knows, but the Teton Glacier's shrinking. It will probably not be there. It'll probably melt before-in my lifetime it probably will be gone, which is unfortunate. It used to be a lot bigger. MD: Uh, maybe, slightly switching directions, still concerned with the environment: have you ever been politically involved in efforts to protect the environment? On a level of, sort of, personal politics, community politics, whatever the case may be. RJ: Well, professionally, I think I've ... Professionally I've been involved in, in my profession being a city planner, urban planner, and the canyons being under the county's jurisdiction. I think myself, along with my colleagues, have made a huge improvement in the density that encroaches on the slopes that are contiguous to the mountain. So we've limited what can be built, density. And, I think, in that part, I think I've made a contribution. On a personal level, uh ... I can't recall. I mean I... I probably talk to people 12 |
