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Show A foundation for the future by Stephanie Powell and Angela Brown, Manti-L- a Sal National Forest interpreters Sitting atop Mount Peale in the Manti-L- a Sal Mountains, we contemplate ideas for getting our job done the best way we can. We are the first interpreters on the Manti-L- a Sal National Forest. As interpreters, we dont speak foreign languages; we get asked that quite a lot. Our job is to be a link between the public and the Forest Service and inform people about the forest so that users can eryoy it for years to come. We have talked to numerous campers, riders, hunters and fishing enthusiasts that eqjqy this beautiful land. We want to help them understand how to preserve it. The Manti-L- a Sal National Forest includes the Abqjq and La Sal Mountains as well as the Wasatch Plateau. Visitors use the forest for many things such as hiking, camping, fishing, mining coal, and raising livestock. The treasures of the ATV one of the nations first range ecology research stations was put up Vern Canyon near Ephraim. The main focus was g to study the impacts of on the land. The Manti-L- a Sal National Forest can continue to sustain people making a living off the land and having fun on it It is important that we do it in a way that the forest can sustain. As Manti-L- a Sal interpreters we are here to be a link between the public and the Forest Service. We present programs to groups and organizations about forest wildlife and the uses of the finest Over the past three months we have met, taught listened and laughed with people all over southern Utah. Every one was different, but one over-grazin- thing remained the same. their National Forests. Our season will end, and we will leave. Our message however will stay, and maybe help our children be able to see and enjoy the same beautiful forests that we see today. forest include petroglyphs, cliff We would like to give a spedeer and cial thanks to Canyonlands dwellings, bear, elk, a 10,000 year-ol- d mammoth Natural History Association. it discovery. organiThey are a The history of this forest zation out of Moab that helps tells a story of being used by protect and support programs locals for generations. Around like these on the Manti-L- a Sal the turn of the century it was National Forests. overgrazed to the extent that They loved non-prof- It b more difficult to be an honorable man for week than a hero for fifteen minutes. a Jules Renard D0ta3anEro4n&4BD New family and InPOl hicfnn IUUai IIIOlUly THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday. September 19, 2001 .iilctV - Page 7 ROUND THE REGION class starts E0 October 17 Ute Tribe capitalizing on flourishing market Writing family histories or local histories is the focus of a new CEU-SJworkshop that runs from Oct. 17 to Dec. 6. The class meets two hours each week on Wednesdays from 7 p.m. in room 208 at the Technology building. The class is offered it as a credit or class. The cost is $64 for credit and it $10 for Instructor Bob McPherson says the students will learn how to write a family history and more. I think there are people around here who want to write about local history as well I think we can help them to do that, he said. McPherson says students will learn interviewing techniques and use local resources to develop their histories. Students will work on individual course projects that range from personal family histories to topical history like local business, industry, or people. C one-credit-h- 5-- non-cred- non-cred- Students will research newspapers, books by local authors, microfilm, and material from state-wid- e libraries. Students from McPhersons workshop have published their completed projects in publications like Blue Mountain Shadows. 1 view the workshop as a community service class, that enriches both the students and the local community, said McPherson. ill Ute Indian TVibe has found a niche in one of the fastest growing beverage markets in the world: bottled water. Growing faster than soft water and beer sales, bottled water is hamming a significant portion of the beverage business. It is projected that the sales of bottled water will grow by 20 a year over the next five years. The Tribes newest enterprise, Ute White Rocks Water Bottling, went online in June and is now producing an average of 15,000 bottles of water daily, under three distinctly Indian labels at a new plant in White h Rocks. The White Rocks and Crystal Blue bottles of water are stocked in most Uintah Basin grocery and convenience stores. They will reach the Wasatch Front stores in coming weeks. The TVibe is also courting foreign markets, where the bottled water is expected to find quick acceptance because of the attraction Europeans and Asians have with anything NaRoosevelt - The Nu-Pa- tive American. Uintah Basin Standard Cortez airport reopens with tight security Cortez - The Cortez Municipal Airport was given the green light by the Federal Aviation Administration to resume service, but with vastly stricter security measures, the result of terrorist acts that utilized commercial airlines as weapons. Airport check-i- n procedures nationwide have changed. At the Cortez Airport, police officers will be stationed in the terminal and s. lobby to monitor activity, help check baggage and give For the time being, travelers with vehicles are being directed to a parking area north of the airport. Cortez Journal pat-down- Cougar and bobcat killings investigated Cedar City - The illegal killing of seven cougars and 15 bobcats northeast of Panguitch is being investigated by the Division of are asking for the publics help in determining who is responsible. Tb date, officers have seized 65 illegal snares while conducting the investigation. The illegally taken cougars and bobcats are found dead in the snares. In addition, officers have documented the killing of two foxes and one hunting hound, which were also caught in the illegal snares. The official added the wildlife officers have been investigating the case since 1998 and it has proven very Wildlife Resources. Conservation Officers difficult to apprehend those responsible. m 0 ri 0 0i 0 101 Garfield County News Exercise Your Right to Vote With Out Great Selection of Candidates Every Vote Will Be Heard & Counted ! ! o C Steve Younq For CouncHman QuAlifiEd to COMMiTTEd PtHpnMgUrtiiitewmH 11 Serve TO MoNTICEUo |