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[Thomas Robey]

RRFW Riverwire – Another Grand Canyon Lottery Started Today

June 7, 2007

Only days after finishing the 2008 Main Lottery, Grand Canyon National 
Park announced June 6, 2007, that there will be another River Lottery 
for 10 cancelled trips launching this year. The first trip will launch 
in 7 weeks. This lottery began today and will run through noon on June 
12, 2007. According to the National Park Service, the lottery drawings 
will take place on June 13th.

The trips offered include 3 launch dates which are for half size groups 
(1 to 8

people) and are on July 29, 2007, August 8 and 18, 2007, and 7 trips for 
standard size groups (1 to 16 people) and which are on August 11, 18, 
and 27, 2007, September 5, 2007, November 1, and 24 2007, and December 
29, 2007.

Interested individuals must have set up a profile with Grand Canyon 
National Park to be eligible to apply for the lottery. The lottery is 
also off limits to any participant “of other noncommercial or commercial 
trips launching in calendar year 2008”, excluding paid commercial staff.

River Runners for Wilderness continues to offer lottery assistance 
through email and a phone hotline for the daunting 25 webpage sign-up 
and lottery application process. The RRFW telephone assistance Help-line 
is available at (928) 856-9065 throughout this lottery, on a first-come 
first-serve basis. Additionally, lottery applicants can refer to the 
RRFW online lottery tutorial, available for download as an Adobe PDF 
file of 9.5MB at

http://www.rrfw.org/lottery.php by clicking on the link Lottery Primer.

The Grand Canyon River Permits Office also offers help at 1-800-959-9164 
or by email to grca_riv at nps.gov.

Statistics on the just completed 2008 lottery released by Grand Canyon 
National Park show that for December, 2008, there were 64 attempts to 
win the 29 full sized trip dates offered. Five of the December dates had 
no applications at all.

This is in stark contrast with June, 2008, which offered 8 standard 
trips and 8 half sized trips. Here, there were 1,771 attempts to win one 
of the 8 standard trips, and 270 tries seeking the 8 half sized trips.

River Runners for Wilderness has brought suit against Grand Canyon 
National Park for ignoring wilderness protection mandates for the 
Colorado River in Grand Canyon, and for the continued inequitable 
distribution of permits to self guided river runners. Intervening 
against the litigation are the Grand Canyon River Outfitters Trade 
Association and the Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association.

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