A View of the Valley: the North Fork Alternative Plan
I hate to fly. It terrifies me. Always has. I haven’t been on a commercial airliner since September 8, 2001, when I ended up stuck in DC over 9/11. My friend Jeff finally persuaded me to go for a ride with him in his little two-seater out of the Crawford airport a few years ago, and last week I was again grateful that he had. Having survived that excursion, I wasn’t too scared to accept the invitation when I was offered the opportunity to photograph the North Fork Valley from the air on an EcoFlight survey.
I sat behind the pilot, Bruce Gordon, and shared the cabin with four other concerned community members, Ty Gillespie from Azura Cellars and Gallery, Jim Brett of Slow Food Western Slope, Sarah Sauter from the Conservation Center, and Marty Durlin with KVNF Public Radio.
The goal was to show people the intricacy of the interweave of Bureau of Land Management public lands with our farms, schools, watersheds, neighborhoods and livelihoods, in hopes of spurring people to protect our quality of life by throwing their support behind the North Fork Alternative Plan.
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