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Federal programs. Those programs without ers have enticed the public to tour the
support and community, interest can fall loop and Halley’s Comet raised our natu-
easy prey to the budget ax. By being involved ralist activity attendance to an average
and showing you and the community care, you of over 300 people per activity! —Joel Mur
will be helping to ensure that the Red Rock
Canyon will not be shortchanged when the
When the telephone rings and the caller
management dollars are allocated. Red Rock
says he has a videotape of a large cat,
Canyon is important to Las Vegas. Your talent perhaps a mountain lion, your first thought
and concern and time are critical to making
is...a practical joke. Well, it’s no joke.
the present programs in Red Rock Canyon BLM and Nevada Di-
more than just fleeting glimpses of what
vision of Wildlife
might have been.
looked at the
visitor’s home video
Sincerely, of a black mountain
lion filmed from
Roger Schmitt Calico Vista. Black or
melanistic colorings are
March/April 1985 very unusual in the puma,
Joel Mur announced that the Visitor Cen- or cougar, as they are also called.
ter will be opening on Tuesdays, starting There are believed to be 6 to 10 lions in
March 5, 1985. Volunteers are needed to the Spring Mountain Range. We are very lucky
staff the building. to have this rare black kittycat in
Red Rock. —Joel Mur
November 1985
Sweet Pinyon Muffins September 1986
1 cup ground pinyon nuts Job Opening...sales assistant. Begin-
1/2 cup whole wheat flour ning salary $3.75 per hour . . . 63 hours
1/2 cup water per month.
3 tbsp. honey
2 tsp. baking powder November 1986
1/2 tsp. salt FORRC members donated 9,000 hours last year.
May 1987
Combine dry ingredients.
Second Annual Juried Photography Show.
Add water and honey and mix well. Pour into
June 14—August 2, 1987. Red Rock Canyon
greased muffin tins and bake for 1/2 hour
Visitor Center.
at 350º. (Yields 6 muffins)
September 1987
March 1986
It has been our busiest year ever!
Halley’s Comet Watch, 2:00 a.m. to dawn. . . . Over 80,000 visitors from October 1,
The March Comet Watch is still up in the to the present.
air. John Kalas, President
of the Las Vegas Astronomi- November/December 1987
cal Society, wants to do Help Wanted . . . Volunteer to solder batteries
some additional checking and into listening wands.
observing to ensure that our
Visitor Center will give us a March/April 1988
good view of Comet Halley. Vandals hit again, and again. As most
of you are aware, we have a continuous
problem with vandalism at Red Rock Canyon.
May 1986
Is it the calibre of our local clientele?
March was very busy! Almost 8,000 people
entered the Visitor Center . . . The FORRC
Sept/Oct 1988
donation box received over $500 . . . School This will be your last issue of the
groups are starting to come out to go to Desert Trumpet unless you renew your
fossil ridge and Lost Creek Trail. The flow- membership.
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