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ScienceScopeIn September, the agency rejected a request from astronomers at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., for a permit to build the $16.6 million, seven-reflector array on public land (Science, 10 September, p. 1650). It said then that the 4-hectare site, which is less than 1000 meters from a multitribe steam hut, conflicted with "Indian religious practices." But at the Forest Service's invitation, the Smithsonian submitted a new plan last week. The revised proposal uses the same site, says Trevor Weekes, principal investigator for the Whipple Observatory project, but moves the access road farther from the sweat lodge and sets the dishes closer to the ground. But those changes don't satisfy Native American groups, who object to the presence of any scientific facility so close to the sweat lodge. "[The Smithsonian] can't take no for an answer," says sweat lodge operator Cayce Boone, a Navajo, who feels "betrayed" by the Forest Service for keeping the issue alive.
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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)
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