I got a note from Ken Salazar the other day. I was glad to hear
from him. It had been a while since we had visited. Well, OK ...
we've never visited. The secretary of Interior doesn't know me
from Adam's cat. But still, it was nice to hear from him. I
don't get all that much mail, aside from the Cabela's catalog
and the AARP magazine. So I opened the darn thing.  And lo and
behold, it said I'd been appointed to the Wyoming Resource
Advisory Council (RAC). What the heck is that, you ask? Well,
according to my note from Secretary Salazar, it's a group
"composed of citizens from diverse backgrounds," whose job is to
"provide advice to the Bureau of Land Management on management
of public land resources."  Dang ... I guess I'm a citizen from
a diverse background. Short of California, you can't get much
more diverse than Sweetwater County these days, though this
eighth-largest county in the country boasts only four persons
per square mile. And I've been advising just about everybody who
would hold still on public-