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Show The Garfield County Insider March 31, 2011 Color Country Fire Managers Announce 2011 Schedule of Prescribed Burns St. George, Utah – Color Country interagency fire managers have announced plans to ignite several prescribed burns in southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona this year. These burns will be managed by various federal and state agencies including the Bureau of Land Management, the US Forest Service (Dixie National Forest), the National Park Service (Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks) and the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands. The following prescribed burns are planned for this year but will only occur if forecasted weather conditions are favorable and adequate resources are available. Portions of some of these burns may have already been completed or are multi-year projects. 2 miles S of Circleville, UT Horse Valley, 1,000 acres Greenville Bench 6 miles S of Beaver, UT; W of I-15 8,000 acres Red Canyon Piles 1/2 mile N of Red Canyon Subdivision 20 acres Wilson Canyon Piles 15 miles N of Modena, UT 5 acres East Fork GC/Parashant National Monument 309 acres Twins Points GC/Parashant National Monument 1,098 acres Sunset Campground Bryce Canyon NP, Sunset CG 200 acres Zion NP; Zion Canyon Zion Canyon Grass 65 acres Clear Trap Maintenance Zion NP; along eastern boundary 100 acres Pocket Mesa Zion NP; along Kolob Terrace Rd 2,850 acres Edwards Spring 7 miles NE of Paragonah 700 acres 1.5 miles SE of Panguitch Lakes, UT 400 acres Cooper Knolls Henrie Knolls 1.5 miles S of Mammoth Creek, UT 400 acres Duck Creek Fuels Various locations around Duck Creek 500 acres 4 miles W of Duck Creek Village Asay Bench 500 acres Panguitch Lake 1 mile S of Panguitch Lake 235 acres Twin Lakes 1.5 miles S of Blues Springs Meadow 32 acres Ahlstrom Hollow 5 miles W of Bryce, UT 200 acres Dave's Hollow 1.5 miles W of Bryce Canyon NP 600 acres Stump Springs 16 miles SW of Escalante, UT 500 acres Pretty Tree Bench 3 miles N of Boulder, UT 500 acres 1.5 miles SSE of Pine Valley, UT Santa Clara 75 acres Turkey Farm 7 miles N of St. George 160 acres Prescribed burns are management–ignited fires that are used to decrease the risks from wildfire to life, property and resources, to improve ecological process on both public and private lands and to meet agency-specific resource management goals. Prescribed fire projects are conducted in a manner consistent with land and resource management plans, public health considerations (smoke issues) and approved prescribed fire plans. Color Country Interagency Fire Management is an organization of fire management officials in southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona (the Arizona Strip) who promote safe and effective fire management through interagency cooperation. Since many wildfires and prescribed fires are of a multi jurisdictional nature, interagency cooperation provides an ideal background for cohesive ecological, social, political and economical considerations for land management. For more information concerning fire management in Color Country visit our website at www.utahfireinfo.gov, call our fire information line at 435-865-4696 or contact any of the following agencies: Bureau of Land Management (Cedar City) 435-586-2401 Bureau of Land Management (St. George) 435-688-3200 Dixie National Forest 435-865-3700 National Park Service (Zion National Park) 435-772-3256 Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands (Cedar City) 435-586-4408 Bureau of Indian Affairs (St. George) 435-674-9720 It is also time to begin spring cleaning projects to reduce wildfire risks to your property. For information on how you can reduce wildfire risk to your property and increase the safety of firefighters, please visit www.utahfireinfo.gov/prevention/defensiblespace.html Are you a tobacco user and thinking about quitting? it.e4 M 4t.e6e.G The Southwest Utah Public Health Department and Intermountain Healthcare are teaming up to conduct a series of focus groups to find out what resources and services would help tobacco users like you to quit. The focus groups will meet at 6:30 p.m. on each of the following dates: • April 7 at Garfield Memorial Hospital in Panguitch • April 19 at Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George • April 25 at Valley View Medical Center in Cedar City • April 28 at Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George Each participant will receive $30 compensation for their attendance. You must be a current tobacco user age 19 or older to participate. 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Rural A NopProfit Community Homing Development Orendsotion Development Color Country Community Housing,Inc. 139 North 100 West - St. George, Utah 84770 435-673-3131 - selfhelp@ccchi.net * Some restrictions apply * UTAH'S BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN site to add multi-use trailhead, railroad resort By Christian Probasco - For the Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area MARY SVALE, UTAH— itself as the "community as- of a resort complex of conIt may indeed appear like sistance arm of the National verted boxcars and luxury an inviting confection from Park Service," coordinated cabooses just to the north of a distance but Big Rock efforts and distilled ideas the trailhead. David Grow, Candy Mountain, north of from the involved organiza- one of the owners of the Marysvale on U.S. 89, is tions into a master plan for Big Rock Candy Mountain actually composed of fairly the trailhead. Resort and a partner in the inedible hydrothermically The project had to vie new "Track 89 Resort Vilaltered volcanic carbonate. for assistance with several lage" hopes to have seven And the ponderosa trees other proposals. What made to ten rooms in place by at its base don't bloom it stand out, says Marcy June of 2012. cigarettes and the nearby DeMillion, RTCA commu"The boxcars will be streams don't flow with al- nity planner for Utah, was turned into duplex highthe opportunity to establish style rooms," Grow says. cohol However, the color- jumping-off points for mul- "The cabooses will be sinful outcrop, named by lo- tiple methods of travel and gle occupancy, with one cals in the 1920s after the recreation. queen-sized bed." mythical mountain range in "This is the only trailGrow and his brother Harry "Haywire Mac" Mc- head along the Sevier River Steven donated the two Clintock's song of the same that will provide access for acres on which the Whistle name is becoming a draw OHV users, bikers, hikers Stop Trailhead will be built. for recreationists of the and boaters," DeMillion They also paid for the connon-hobo variety; namely says. structed of an arched timber cyclists, hikers, OHV riders Monte Bona, Director bridge near the resort site. and river rafters. of the Heritage Highway 89 The bridge's timber spans Local government agen- Alliance, which manages were recycled from the roof cies have been working the MPNHA cites other supports of a demolished with the National Park Ser- qualities which made the airplane hangar at Hill Air vice's Rivers, Trails and trailhead a top priority for Force Base near Ogden, Conservation Assistance his organization. Utah. (RTCA) program to de"It fits in with the area's A bridge also extends velop a multi-purpose trail- interpretive mission," says across the Sevier River to head in the narrow canyon Bona. "It plays to one of the the Paiute ATV Trail and bottom between U.S. 89 key themes; the interaction Candy Mountain Express and the Sevier River. of people with the land- bike/hike trail. The plan for the "Can- scape." Visitors at the boxcar dy Mountain Whistle Stop One example of that motel will be within walkTrailhead," was finalized interaction is the railroad ing or riding distance of the and approved on March 11. grade on the east side of the Candy Mountain Express It calls for parking areas Sevier River which Sevier Trail or the local rafting bordered with boulders, a County has converted into business Stoney Ward has non-commercial raft launch the "Candy Mountain Ex- operated out of the resort ramp, picnic area and shad- press" bike/hike trail. The for the last six years. OHV ing trees, restrooms and in- Rio Grande Railroad pur- recreationists will be able to formational kiosks. chased the route in 1908. park their hauling vehicles The trailhead will be paid The line was vital to the eco- for their stay and ride over for in part with a $65,000 nomic development of the to the trailhead to catch the grant from Utah State isolated valleys of central 900+ miles of the Paiute Parks, $10,000 from the Se- Utah. The railroad hauled Trail system, which winds vier County Office of Travel in almost all the goods sold over three mountain ranges and Tourism, $45,000 from in the region and hauled out and connects to a dozen the Scenic Canyon Pres- produce and livestock, and towns in central Utah. ervation Society, through ore from Marysvale mines Grow is enthusiastic a grant from the Mormon and other towns. Passenger about the future of the rePioneer National Heritage service saved travelers from sort and trailhead for a lot Area (MPNHA). wearying overland journeys of the same reasons as DeMore funding will be- on difficult roads. Million. The line was decommiscome available from the "It's a nexus of travel MPNHA and other agencies sioned in 1976 and acquired opportunities," he says. "A as the project progresses. by Sevier County, which scenic highway, an endless The RTCA's contribu- turned it into the "Candy ATV trail, a bike and hiking tion was $15,000 of "in- Mountain Express" hiking/ path and the best raft launch kind" assistance rather than biking trail. However, the site in the area. It's got a lot a financial grant. The orga- lore of the railroad will live of potential." nization, which describes on with the development 1ff |