BLM Dedicates Portal Station to Remember Worker Killed in Rafting Accident

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Story Published: Aug 8, 2008 at 3:56 PM MST

Story Updated: Nov 21, 2008 at 12:22 AM MST

By Nate Eaton

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FREMONT CO. - Dozens of people gathered in Fremont County Friday to pay tribute to a Bureau of Land Management officer who died in an Alaskan rafting accident two months ago.

"Hippie Joe" Leffel worked at the St. Anthony sand dunes for the past 10 years.

Friday the BLM dedicated a portal station while friends and family spoke of how much Leffel loved life.

Emily Leffel, Joe's Wife: "He gave his whole time, all of his time, to the dunes during the summer except when, of course, we went rafting and that was our one passion."

Leffel died in June while rafting with friends in Alaska.

With his monument, the BLM and his family says a part of him will now always live at the St. Anthony sand dunes.

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