Show Page February 21 1975 8 by phil frank FRANKLY SPEAKING A poignant jubilee The woods: peaceful by Jean Johnson in the oneness We see good and evil There is no good and evil in nature only a cycle And if we are not a part of nature I don’t know what else we could be We have tried to deny our primitiveness we look with scorn upon the cave man who worshipped the forces that he saw affecting him — wind sunlight rain and fire He knew he was just another animal who hunts and is hunted He saw himself as a part of totality now we think we are totality We can build air conditioned and When I can be no other place I heated humidified cars go to the woods There are no dehumidified houses earth-shakin- g decision made trains and boats and planes (We there Each chipmunk fern and have ho need to worry about wind sunlight fire or rain we ice crystal has its particular can create our own) We can duties to be a part of the oneness build greenhouses and zoos for They never doubt that they me animals that we find interesting belong and they easily draw into their certainty Those we don’t find interesting The woods teach me many can be effectively exterminated lessons Such fine instructors by building an univerand humidified heated cannot be found at any inon center I dehumidified shopping watch the perfect sity teraction between the small their habitat We wonder why we feel so scrub and the giant lodgepole soil until the The fragmented whyZSlre’s no on feet its can stand the lodgepole satisfaction We are trying to on a tightrope carrying and take over Then the scrub tippy-to- e the fat lady under one arm We slowly wastes away in the thick shade to return in another life have cut off our source of balance — our relationship to the There is no loss only addition us hold will I watch my snowshoes leave that Universe pp in its surthe in wounds web crusty deep face but they will heal with the We don’t have to become next blizzard Or the surrounding hermits in the woods to regain snow will melt also sloughing off our balance I believe that Henry the ephemeral scar In like David Thoreau could have been manner I would have my scars almost as peaceful in a fourth wear away floor walk-u- p in New York City as The woods do notvalways teem he was at Walden Pond But the with joyful sights of dancing woods deserts and plains are snowflakes and tumbling brooks fantastic instructors of my Sometimes there is death There existence I belong to them and are forest fires droughts and they to me They whisper simple predators But death is not evil it secrets in my ear that would be is not a loss It is just one part of much more difficult to unwhole is and it the It is necessary derstand in a fourth floor walk-u- p beautiful because it belongs I would like to hang onto my We humans live so far from the we in it for awhile they are are even teachers when forest You will find no other animal no anxious to instruct my children plant no mineral no entity or too I will vote for tenure and I force that has doubts about its hope the bulldozers concur part scrub-babysit- s His RMANCAl Editor Managing Editor Newt Editor Sports Editor Photo Editor On Comput Editor "Wire Editor Copy Editor Staff Wrltert Richard Brady Sue Hodgson Tony Collis Allan Walker Joy Reedy Kathy Dumont Jay Wamsley Leslie Blanchard Susan Coltharp Diane Foots Undo Perry Ken Sink Kent Perry Becky Cassler Ourrlster Keen Chert Powers Steve Watkins Tim Staff Reporters Eric De lea Cottam Linda Backstrom Jean Johnson Sports Staff hotogrophers Contributors Business Manager Advertising Accounts Secretaries Doug McCulloch Steve Stout Brent Hewlett Ron Rico Edafe Oddo Mike Ross Rick Mills Steve Leggett Donna lee Sottomfield Warren Cook Brent Meikle Debbie Drage Xlml Eyre Randi Hoffer report r ©COLLEGE MEDIA SERVICES - BOX CA 94709 Y Viewpoint How to manage preditors? by Terri Todd Agricultural What do a blackbird squirrel coyote jack ground rabbit bobcat and starling have in common? They are either termed predatory animals (any mammal or bird which preys on livestock poultry game animals or birds) or depredating animals (any mammal or bird which causes damage to livestock poultry or agricultural crops) as defined in Senate Bill 114 the Department Commissioner would serve as chairman and the Supervisor of Wildlife Resources would be vice chairman Why couldn’t a member from Sierra Club Wildlife Society Audubon Wilderness Society and even a student majoring in Wildlife have a position on the 13 member board? non-predato- ry Some of the duties of thfe commissioner of the Board would be to ’’specify ways the numbers of predators and depredating 1975 session of the Utah animals may be reduced inLegislature SB 114 supports cluding but not limited to hunstrict control of predators The ting trapping denning chemical second bill the Predatory toxicant and the use of aircraft” Animal Management Act (HB This includes rare and en162) essentially will put predator dangered species as well The of control in the Utah Division predator control Board would Wildlife where the responsibility also create bounties on for managing predatory animals designated predatory animals and rare and endangered logically belongs predators This act shall apply to ALL Federal lands ALL state Wildlife and Agricultural lands and ALL privately owned Act Prevention Damage lands unless the owner objects 114) (SB SB 114 was proposed by In a letter to Governor Calvin Robert Clyde a Wasatch County It is more com- L Rampton on January 8 1975 sheep rancher ” — — eoyote - 'the: nvlron m en taT'Coordlrratlng" pTTcratd 'th an the Eradication Act but would also Committee under the State like to see the control of Planning Coordinator submitted predators placed in the Depart- the following commentary on the ment of Agriculture It provides bill “As an advisory body to your for the ’’creation of an Wildlife we are vitally concerned and office Agricultural Board bill is hopelessly amPrevention this that Damage within the Department of biguous places far too much the This “Board” hands of a group tn power Agriculture” would be composed of 13 persons clearly representing special from interested associations and interests Is so loose that it governmental agencies — four must include every animal from the Utah Wool Growers species — even man makes no Association two from the Utah provision for input from trained Cattlemen’s Association one ecologists provides no limits or from the Utah Turkey Grower’s controls on what methods of Association one from the Utah destruction can be employed or Agricultural Land Owner’s who can employ them flies in the face of important recent Association one from the US Forest Service one from the trends toward growing Division of Wildlife Resources awareness regarding the inand one from US Bureau of tricate interdependency of all life The forms and respect for life itself” Land Management Agricultural and wildlife Damage Prevention Act This bill and one other have been proposed and are before the - Student Ufa Staff REPORT IS THE MGSt HElTRlL lM DEClPfMG UlMETMEE THE PATIENT REALW NEEDS TUB CPERATim-JT- S TH( Predatory Animal Management Act (HB The 162) Council on Utah’s the Resources prepared Animal Management Predatory Act which would put predator control in the Utah State Division They would manage all wildlife including predatory animals They would also have the “duty to protect propagate manage conserve and distribute wildlife including both protected wildlife and predatory animals The throughout the state Division of Wildlife Resources is empowered to investigate and determine the effects of wildlife including predatory animals on the ecology of this state and the effects of management of such wildlife on both the ecology of this state and the conomic damage caused by such wildlife” This act would not ereate a bounty on predatory animals of Wildlife This is a look at both bills Now you will have to decide which bill you would like to support I can understand that in ’some areas The" coyoTe'"and“l)TlTer”“pfedaT6rs are a nuisance and economic detriment to stockmen I do respect their complaints and support predator However such control wildlife management measures should be conducted by Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and not by the stockmen themselves Consideration for environmental values rare and endangered1 species of wildlife and the desires of all the people of Utah (not just the stockmen) is paramount I Therefore reject any needless destruction of wildlife as advocated by SB 114 and support the control and management of predators as presented in HB 162 s |