Crazy Lift ticket Prices!!!!

[Montana St Alum]

Mining is 1000x less damaging to the land than grazing.

There are 2700 acres of mine tailings 1.5 miles east of Park City containing concentrations of heavy metals that affect ground water in a much larger area. We've had problems associated with the tailings at the local middle school as well. One of the problems with tailings is that it takes poisonous heavy metals, which are dilute in the ground and then concentrates them enough that they then become very dangerous. Very large areas in South America and the Tibetan plateau have also been lost to agriculture, with towns abandoned due to the toxic effects of lithium production, which takes about 500,000 gallons of water per ton to produce. Cobalt mining in Congo is another disaster on a daily basis.
It seems unlikely that grazing has three orders of magnitude greater affects than that.
https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/case-su ... -superfund

The choice is not between mining and an over-priced consumer gouging rip-off of a ski area. That is an illogical way to frame it.

Rando, this is not on the topic of high-priced ski tickets. It's in response to the comment on the relative impact of mining and grazing. As often happens, sometimes we get off topic.

[randoskier]

Need both, but don't need grazing in the mountains. Mining must be heavily regulated or it is a permanent catastrophe.

[KDog]

Off topic to be sure, but cattle grazing isn't without it's problems! This is what the BLM does in Southern Utah in order to "improve" forage for cattle.
It's called drag chaining.



Maybe the vegans have it right!(?)