Editorial Notes

130ASSOCIATION OF PACIFIC COAST GEOGRAPHERS rural and village settings. Two interest-only field trips followed on Friday; a nonwhitewater float on the Snake River with environmental activist and river guide John A. K. Rarker, got rave reviews, especially for the appearance of a litter of coyote pups along the bank. This latter feat was one of the more difficult arrangements of the entire week's program. Another group headed for Idaho's Silver Valley, spent Thursday evening at Kellogg and visited the Lucky Friday Mine (near Osburn), flagship of the Hecla Mining Company, on Friday. Most of this tour took place nearly a mile underground, but with ore averaging 10 percent lead and 16 ounces of silver per ton this was truly a sparkling experience. At lunch in nearby historic Wallace, our host, mine manager Mike Gross, answered so many questions his meal got cold. To all who came and all who helped—thanks! We had a good time, and we hope you did too. John Hultquist Program Chairman University of Idaho EDITORIAL NOTES Following a year in which forty-three papers were submitted, it was not expected that the two score or so papers delivered at the Moscow meetings would yield a large number of submitted papers. And so it turned out. Only eleven papers were received before the extended deadline of October 31, 1981. Each paper was sent initially to two readers, and subsequently two papers were reviewed by a third reader. The rejection rate was high. No paper was recommended for publication without change, and only one recommended for publication with relatively minor changes. As a result, all that was in hand at the beginning of February 1982—the date I had expected to send copy to Oregon State University Press—were the President 's address and one revised paper. Subsequently, two other revised papers were resubmitted. A decision was then made to include two excellent papers that had been submitted in earlier years but for one reason or another had not been published . These totally unexpected problems have led to considerable delay in the completion of copy for press, although it should not result in greatly delayed publication of the 1982 Yearbook. The following scholars agreed to read one or more papers and prepare reviews and make recommendations: Harold W. Bockemuehl, Ronald R. Boyce, Theodore R. Brandt, Frank Cunningham, Lay Gibson, Eugene A. Hoerauf, Earl W. Kerstan, Terril J. Kramer, Kenneth P. Langran, David W. Lantis, Ralph E. Lewis, Richard A. Maedler, Debnath Mookherjee, Gilbert A. Peterson, Franklin Raney, Richard G. Smith, Thomas A. Terich, and Daniel E. Turbeville. I am grateful for their willingness to undertake this task and for their thoughtful ...