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Re: [OM] OT depleted Uranium from Idaho

Subject: Re: [OM] OT depleted Uranium from Idaho
From: rtomcala <rtomcala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:27:02 -0500
Opps! not to list.

rtomcala wrote:
 
 I dreamt of staying but the options on how to make a living seemed very
 limited.  I'll always fondly remember the place (not fondly the
500,000+
 miles that I spent riding a bus the year that I was there).  I haven't
 been trout fishing since, there didn't seem any reason to anywhere
else.
   How did you make your living there ?
 Rand E.

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> 
> "James N. McBride" wrote:
> >
> > Shhhhhh.  Don't tell everybody about this place. I came here to spend one
> > year....that was in 1962.....and I never left. We live in Idaho Falls part
> > of the time and just this side of West Yellowstone part of the time. There
> > are so many outdoor things to do it's impossible to work it all in. There
> > are even a few things to photograph.  /jnm
> >
> >> >
> > >
> > > I resent that !  I spent a year on that high (>5000 ft) desert helping
> > > to deplete that uranium.  If you like outdoor sports (hunting, fishing,
> > > skiing etc) you're real close to heaven.  Definitely heaven if you're a
> > > photographer (I was, but pre-Oly 1965)).  Where I lived (Idaho Falls)
> > > sat at the foot of the Sawtooth Range and the edge of the desert and
> > > right near the lava flats (towards Blackfoot).  Social life was a bit
> > > slow, a Mormon town in the middle of nowhere, but the other stuff mare
> > > than made up for it.  The only place with better odds on getting nice
> > > trout for dinner is your local fishmonger.
> > > Rand E.
> > > P.S.  Oh yes, the combination hunting, fishing, trapping license for a
> > > year was $6.35 and in many places trout season was 12 months long and
> > > the limit was 25 fish a day.
> > >
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> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > "James N. McBride" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Tank armor is also now being made from depleted uranium. This is being
> > > > manufactured on the desert in Idaho of all places. /jnm
> >

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