Idaho Governor again wholeheartedly agrees with Mr. Banholzer

http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005124281&var_Year=2009&var_Month=01&var_Day=07

Something that is not being much mentioned about Flintstonian cell phone philosophies is that those who think differently / progressively are often still shunned in some small Idaho communities. When the miracle of cell service first came to Stanley, the word was to keep its availability mum. If a tourist asked, tell em it was not there, became the accepted wisdom. You can bet though that when two of those Canadian wolves came starkly chomping on a town elk that same Stanley summer, cell phones quickly replaced church bells as the emergency communiqué.

The first late autumn, after a small cell antenna was installed at Redfish Lake, a man and his son were helicopter-rescued from Thompson Peak, subsequent to its icing up during their adventure. The fact that they were saved; largely due to lifesaving cell phone technology was totally downplayed.

This is a copy of the letter I sent out to various parties, when the first part of this cell phone proposal came around in 2004. (click to enlarge)

Immediately after writing this, I realized that I had forgotten that someone also lost their life around Pole Creek several years before, when a tree was felled on top of them. Sometimes I've expressed to friends that I think this valley has selective amnesia, when it comes to common sense safety protocols. Locking your doors for a few weeks after somebody you know get's burglarized and things like that.

For a long while, my mindset grew even stronger towards this orientation of safety via better phone service. After all, the tower is proposed in a proximity where backcountry sportspersons and avalanches often intersect. Then about two weeks ago, I was stung reading about how bees are not finding their way back to hives and that the likely culprit is our cell phone signals emanating on and near the same essential wavelengths, which bees use to navigate. Beekeepers are calling for an investigation. One of the best stories about this involves local woman Heidi Albrecht and was written by Dana Dugan: http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005115131

An important point is made in Heidi's "Save the Honeybee" Campaign story, when Dana quotes Einstein, "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left," he said. "No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."

Equally important to those who confidently believe that they will survive a plague of monumental proportions like this -there won't be any more of that staple food we know as beer!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~There needs to be an investigation!

Supposedly, when naval vessels wrongly warshiped the earth with an overabundance of inter-fearing sonar, many whales lengthened their songs in order to adapt! Other channels reveal different takes on this . Some folks strongly believe that many whales mourn our good earth and are choosing to beach themselves on purpose.

Back to the latest buzz on the bees: Should we be hoping that the much needed bees can adapt to our interference waves as well as some of the whales have? Perhaps, there should be an investigation of some sort. With this most recent revelation of "Colony Collapse Disorder", it's difficult to determine what the best option is. Improved cell phone reception, or improved bee navigation. But, here's my two cents and I hope the infomation helps in some way.