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Excerpt: After 34 years of flying deep into the Central Idaho backcountry, Ray Arnold knew his days of delivering mail were numbered. The 72-year-old had hoped that in a few years he would pass his job to another intrepid pilot. Instead, the U.S. Postal Service plans to eliminate his contract for weekly mail delivery by "air taxi" to residents in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness… Mail delivery by bush plane in Central Idaho will end June 30, according to a letter the Postal Service sent to patrons in late March. "This is not something we want to do," said Al DeSarro, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service Western Region in Denver. "You have to consider the cost factors. It's a prudent business decision." But it could have major effects on tourism and recreation-related businesses like Whitewater Expeditions, the Buckskin Bill Museum and River Store at Five Mile Bar on the Salmon River. Source: http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/727644.html ---------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt: Alamo Helicopter Tours is launching a commercial division focused on real estate and land surveys, pipeline and powerline surveys, construction progress shots, wildlife surveys, aerial photography and aircraft management. Based at Stinson Field, the company began offering sightseeing tours to the general public in April. "We've had tremendous interest for specialized flights from land developers, contractors, production companies, business and private land owners," says company president Randy Riggs. "Many businesses have the need to do aerial inspections and photography of property, projects or live stock and wildlife, and we have the experience and capabilities to provide all of these services." Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2008/06/23/daily27.html ---------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt: Searching B.C.'s West Kootenay for minerals such as copper, lead and zinc used to start with visiting fields and examining data. But a helicopter flying out of the Trail Airport in recent weeks is taking the mineral exploration process into the future by dragging a 14-metre-wide electromagnetic transmitter and receiver along as it surveys neighbouring valleys. Warner Miles, of the Geological Survey of Canada, says the circular transmitter dragged by the helicopter creates a magnetic pulse that penetrates the ground. The data can then be used by exploration companies to pinpoint promising sites for ground inspections and drilling to determine the extent of the mineral deposits identified… The survey work got under way in mid-October. Work was initially slowed by equipment problems, including a rented helicopter that wasn't powerful enough to pull the big transmitter ring. The $600,000 survey is being conducted for Natural Resources Canada and Geo-Science B.C., under a program called the Targeted Geo-Sciences Initiative. The contractor is the Toronto office of Fugro, a Dutch-based company specializing in airborne, sub-surface surveying for the mining, oil and gas, and environmental sectors worldwide. Source: "Transmitter helps search for minerals." The Globe and Mail (Canada) 6 Nov. 2008: British Columbia News, S2. Academic Universe. LexisNexis. University of Texas at San Antonio, John Peace Library. San Antonio, TX. 21 Apr 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt: IT started on Revelstoke’s North Bowl, a heavenly slope of knee-deep powder and big open expanse once traversed by only a small band of hard-core heli-skiers. Then the bowl gave way to a narrow chute that slices through an ice-encrusted pine forest and a steep glade that framed dramatic vistas of the Columbia Range… Skiing Revelstoke used to require a Herculean effort: a chopper, a pilot and at least $600 — and that’s for a single run. Situated in the boondocks of British Columbia, about six hours northeast of Vancouver by car, Revelstoke has long been considered the heli-skiing capital of the world. Blessed with a half-million acres of snow-blanketed ridges, the mountain is revered by extreme skiers as a kind of Alpine promised land — much the way surfers talk about Oahu’s North Shore. Even its name evokes a whiff of masculine daredevilry. Now, following decades of fits and false starts, the mountain opened to the masses last winter, with a new gondola, a high-speed lift and 1,500 acres of skiable terrain, enabling anyone with skis to reach the heights of Mount Mackenzie without the aid of helicopters or snowcats.
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