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Monday, August 15, 1994 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. A5 Shuttle to scan Rwanda for gorillas collected from navigation satellites and standard topographical maps to create an extremely detailed overview of the terrain the gorillas roam to ascertain their preferred habitat. In the four months since ethnic slaughter forced millions of Rwandan to flee either government Hutu forces or rebel Tutsis, hordes of displaced Rwandans have encroached on the gorillas' territory, Steklis said. Refugees have tramped through the rain forest en route to Zaire and back. Some, afraid of disease in the camps but terrified of execution if they return home, have built crude shelters nearby, cutting down trees and stands of bamboo for firewood, Steklis said.

There's no evidence they are killing any mountain gorillas for food, he emphasized. "We arc quite excited about the possibility that in this current flyover we might actually be able to detect the negative impact on the forest," Steklis said. Studying mountain gorillas is just one of the unusual tasks assigned to the radar system, which was originally intended for traditional environmental monitoring. On this flight, it will map the habitat of endangered pandas in China for the National Geographic Society, survey stagnunt pools in areas with malarial outbreaks, scan the Saudi Arabian sand for traces of oil and minerals, and search in Israel, Egypt. Oman.

Cambodia and China for hidden archaeological treasures. AC Tt, r. KNOW THE DIFFERENCE By MARCIA DUNN Associated Press riter CAPE CANAVERAL, Ha. -The most advanced civilian space radar can penetrate the Earth's ice, sand and vegetation. It sees with ease through mist, and this week NASA hopes to peer through the mists of Rwanda to track the imperiled mountain gorilla.

Human trackers who normally keep tabs on the foraging gorillas are gone, evacuated from the Dian Fossey research camp in April when the tiny African nation imploded in an orgy of slaughter. The $366 million radar system made its orbital debut that same month aboard the space shuttle Endeavour, scanning the fog-bound volcanoes of Rwanda, Zaire and Uganda where the gorillas live. Naturalist Fossey spunt almost 20 years of her life studying the gorillas and protecting them from Soaehers, who cut off heads and ands for cruel trophies. She was killed nine years ago by a machete-wielding intruder who was never caught. The poachers' threat has diminished, but now the gorillas' shrinking habitat is being squeezed by tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees.

Space researchers hope to ease their plight with fresh radar images sent from Endeavour on a 1 0-day environmental mission that begins with Thursday's launch. "The ability to do this remotely is not something I think she would have ever imagined," said H. Dieter Steklis, executive director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and a primatologist at Rutgers University. "I think she would have imagined we would always be somehow yoked to using traditional techniques, that the only way to physically protect gorillas was by having people out there. "While we still do that, and it's very important," he said, "this adds a dimension that allows us to better manage the resource, to actually plan a conservation strat- egy." Steklis plans to overlay the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's images with data Eric Alden Age 44 Supports Term Limits Mason MarshAP Kenai Air Alaska pilot Marc Johnston inspects the Dante II robot after it was airlifted from a volcanic crater at Mount Spurr to the Kenai, Alaska, airport Saturday Dante robot rescued from Alaska volcano i Helicopter lift comes over a week after fall Will Not Take Money From Investment House PAC'S Stan Smith Age 70 Broke Term Limit Pledge -Now Seeking Fourth Term Takes Campaign Donations From Same Companies His Office Does Business With Wants To Invest Wyoming's Money in Foreign Bonds Supported Giveaway Loans to Fly-By-Night Companies Opposes Overseas Invest ment of Wyoming's Money By T.A.

BADGER Associated Press writer Believes in the Secure Investment of Wyoming's Money We wanted to focus on getting the job done right. We didn 't want to take any chances with any distractions. "It was a very easy slinging job," she said. Dante got into trouble while climbing back out of the crater after a week of walking and gathering scientific data deep inside Spurr, which erupted three times in 1992 after 39 years of dormancy. While picking its way up from the crater floor, the $1.7 million robot tipped over Aug.

5 ANCHORAGE, Alaska The Dante II robot that spider-walked its way into a volcanic crater was lifted out by helicopter Saturday, more than a week after a misstep sent the 700-pound NASA explorer sprawling in the boulder-strewn landscape. TIME FOR A CHANGE Terry Keith, Alaska Volcano Observatory after getting mired in a 30-de-gree slope of sloppy mud created when a spell of sunny warm weather melted snow cover that made walking easy for Dante on the trip down into the crater. Until Saturday, rescuing Dante had been problematic. Last Tuesday project workers used a helicopter to try to lift the robot by its Kevlar-reinforced fiber-optic tether, but the cable snapped and Dante tumbled about 15 feet farther down the boulder-strewn slope. During that attempt a Carnegie Mellon student researcher suffered a broken leg when he slipped and fell while working on the rim.

After the much-publicized failed rescue, Keith said scientists decided not to announce the second effort in advance. "We wanted to focus on getting the job done right," she said. "We didn't want to take any chances with any distractions." Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University took advantage of good weath-er to mount the hurry-up retrieval of the eight-; legged robot, developed for NASA and brought to Alaska to test its ability to explore terrain similar L'to that encountered on other planets. A Kenai Air Alaska helicopter lifted the robot from its rocky perch about 400 feet below the jrim of the volcanic crater at Mount Spurr and set it down on a runway several thousand feet lower Ion the mountain, said Terry Keith, scientist-in-TCharge at the Alaska Volcano Observatory in Anchorage. From the remote volcano it was to be flown ribout 60 miles across Cook Inlet to Kenai, where "the helicopter that lifted it is based.

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