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B2 Casper Star-Tribune Border to Border Thursday, September 25, 1997 Tribes disappointed with Enzi gaming legislation seniors: began sept. RIVERTON (AP) U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi did not consult with the Arapaho or Shoshone tribes before introducing legislation that would bar the Clinton administration from approving any new Indian casinos without state approval, a tribal attorney said. Enzi, offered the legislation as an amendment to an Interior Department spending bill the Senate passed last week.

"The tribes are concerned that the legislation would have been introduced by a member of the delegation from this state without having called the tribes to at least ask their opinion prior to the introduction," said John Schumacher, a Shoshone tribal attorney who said he also was speaking on behalf of the Arapaho tribe. Enzi has said the amendment would guarantee local communities some say on where new gambling operations are located. "In the last few years the number of casinos and craps tables on reservations across the country have exploded, with the Secretary of the Interior approving more than a total of 160 Indian gambling compacts affecting nearly half the states," Enzi said in a statement. Enzi's amendment, which places a one-year moratorium on the secretary's authority to approve new tribal gambling compacts, was not contained in the House's version of the spending bill. Negotiators from the House and Senate will later decide whether to include the provision in the final measure.

Enzi said the one-year pause would allow time for the National Gambling Impact Study Commission to inform Congress and the public about the "true political, social and economic effects gambling has on people's lives." A Supreme Court ruling in 1996 barred Indian tribes from suing states that refused to allow them to open casinos. Since then, the Interior Department has been trying to decide whether it has the legal authority to approve such operations over the objections of a state. Schumacher said Enzi's amendment provided enough of a change from the normal course of business that he should have consulted the tribes before taking action. "They (the tribes) thought it was inappropriate for Congress in an appropriations bill to attempt to alter the basic legislative scheme that had been the product of negotiation over an extended period of time between tribes and the states in this country," Schumacher said. Continued from B4 various other state and federal sources, and from payments made by seniors for their meals.

The centers themselves are owned by the county. While expressing their own frustrations and concerns about the senior center operations, the commissioners said they can't take any action yet. But Zeiger -who met privately with the Senior Services Board on Monday -said, "There are some pretty strong movements afoot to solve this problem." During the meeting Tuesday Zeiger would not say how the situation may be resolved. Despite repeated questions by Rawlins resident Iona Daily who has also served as a spokesperson for the seniors he refused to predict how soon some action may occur. The controversy began in early September after the board fired Day and, in protest, some Rawlins center employees walked Program creates wildlife management partnership INCEST: 6-year crusade the public know the type of effort that is going on and to get the idea of the objectives out there." Committee member Jack Steinbrech (R-HD 48) said in Wyoming, the public, the hunter and the landowner are often one and the same.

"I think the average sportsman doesn't even know when he's on private or public land and that to me is the ideal situation," he said. Outfitter changes Committee members heard from Duaine Hagen, a member of the Board of Outfitters and Professional Guides, who asked them to sponsor changes to the Wyoming statutes to give the board authority to raise its license fees for guides and outfitters. The board was created in 1989 and license fees were set at $300 per year for outfitters, $75 per year for full-term guides and $25 for a 14-day temporary guide license, Hagen said. Most of the other state boards received the authority to raise license fees through action by the Legislature in 1992, but the outfitters board did not, he said. "We've come to the point where we want to keep our current operation intact," Hagen told the committee.

"To do that, we're going to have to ask for a fee increase." He said the number of licenses for outfitters in the state has decreased from 382 in 1992 to 347 in 1997. "But we've also had a tremendous increase recently in inquiries to our office about getting outfitter licenses," he noted. "We've made some good cuts to reduce our costs and we've USE: Park Service Continued from B4 has been, historically, without regard to public input or (the National Environmental Policy Act)," she said. Buxton said the overall agreement "appears to be a done deal that will affect public use of the park." "We intend to voice our concerns to protect the rights of all of the public, not just a small segment," she said. The governors of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, protective of the multimillion-dollar winter tourist business around Yellowstone, also have expressed concern.

They earlier urged the Park Service to fight the lawsuit vigorously. "We're concerned the litigation is intended to limit if not off the job. Since Sept. 5, only a handful of people have been eating at the Rawlins center; most Rawlins seniors have been eating meals prepared by volunteers and served either in the park near the center or more recently at St. Joseph's Catholic School cafeteria.

Seniors have contributed more than $2,000 for meals, Day told the commissioners. Though they took no action Tuesday, commissioners said they won't let the situation continue much longer. "I'm as upset as you people are," Commissioner Gary Graalman said. "I kind of feel like I've been kicked out, too." Commissioner Linda Fleming of Baggs noted the county provides $211,419 for senior center funding. "I'm not willing to let that much commitment sit idle," she said.

"As a county commission we will do everything in our power to do the healing and to get that center back on track." The woman saw on television that Wyoming does not have a statute of limitations on most crimes, Kenny said, so she worked through the Anchorage, Alaska, police to get the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office (BHCSO) involved. With help from the Umatilla County, Sheriff's Office, the woman obtained a hidden tape recorder and got her father to admit that he was the father of her child, Kenny said. He said the BHCSO asked the Wyoming Attorney General's Office and the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) to help with the case. DCI investigator Lynnt Callaghan dug up school records, hospital records and Raymond Howey's criminal records in different states and finally obtained an arrest warrant for Raymond Howey, Kenny said. He said Darlene Howey also was soon arrested, and both waived extradition to Big Horn County where they entered a plea agreement with Big Horn County Attorney Lynn Garrett VALUE! Continued from B4 was suspended, and she will be on probation for the remainder of it.

She also was fined. Raymond Howey was ordered to pay fines, restitution and court costs, including $1,785 in genetic testing fees investigators spent trying to prove that Howey fathered both his daughter and her child, Kenny said. He said Raymond Howey received a suspended prison term of four to five years on the incest conviction and will be placed on supervised probation upon his release from the Wyoming State Penitentiary. "The victim decided in 1991 that this was a bad thing that had happened to her, and she wanted, if she could, to bring her parents to justice to account for it," Kenny said. He said the victim, who lives in Alaska, tried for years to get her parents prosecuted.

But most states have statutes of limitations that prevented her from bringing charges against the Howeys. Special Introductory Offer from VIDEO PROFESSOR9 The Best Computer Instructor in the World! taken some steps to try to get as efficient as we can get," Hagen said. The board is considering raising outfitter fees possibly to $400 or $450, he said, "depending on how many new outfitters we do get." Committee members agreed to draft a committee bill for legislative consideration of the increase. to conduct study eliminate winter recreation" in Yellowstone, Wyoming Gov. Jim Geringer said.

The full environmental impact statement on winter use is expected to take up to three years to complete. A more cursory environmental assessment will be made of possible interim trail closures, and the Park Service said it will be released for public comment by Nov. 15. The comment deadline will be Dec. 15, and a final decision about temporary closures will be made by Jan.

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Access incentives don't always have to involve dollars, Arha said. "Rewards have to be offered, but not always monetary," he said. "Some landowners are looking for money, but a lot are also looking for things other than dollars." Possibly, the agency could develop strategies focusing on technical assistance, cost-sharing, payment for habitat, payment for access, license allocations or increased vigilance as incentives for landowners, Arha told committee members. The program should make wildlife management a partnership enterprise in which the landowner, the hunter and the public each contributes to appropriate services and from which each derives appropriate rewards, he said. "We'll also need public involvement in every phase of these programs," Arha said.

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