A Hopi tribal office is organizing a protest march against a decision to allow snowmaking in the sacred San Francisco Peaks in Arizona.
The 8-mile walk will take place on March 25, the same day the U.S. Forest Service will hold a public meeting on the Hopi Reservation. The tribe opposes the use of reclaimed wastewater to make snow at the at the Arizona Snowbowl, a ski area.
The use of wastewater is considered a desecration of the peaks by the Hopi, Navajo and other tribes.
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Salvos continue over snowmaking
(The Arizona Daily Sun 3/18)
Hopis will march to protest wastewater on San Francisco Peaks (The Gallup Independent 3/18)
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Draft
EIS
Relevant Links:
Coconino National Forest - http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coconino/index.shtml
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Coalition protests snowmaking in sacred peaks
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Tribes to fight snowmaking in
sacred Ariz. peaks (02/03)
Forest
Service delays report on ski area expansion (12/02)
Hopi Tribe opposing snowmaking in sacred
peaks (11/20)
Ski area
on sacred mountain expanding (10/15)
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