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Show Fire danger extremely high in southeast Utah The fire danger in Utah ranges from medium in the northwest to extremely high in the southeast according to a recreation report issued by the Bureau of Land Management. Paui L. Howard, BLM Utah state director, -urged recrea-tionists recrea-tionists to be very careful with fires while enjoying the outdoors. One BLM-administered recreation rec-reation site in Utah is the Calf Creek campground 12 miles east of Escalante in Garfield County. The campground, situated on both sides of a sparkling year-round stream, is a verdant oasis surrounded by towering Navajo sandstone cliffs. Drinking water and toilet facilities are available for the 10 camping units, three individual picnic units and one larger group picnic unit. A . supply of firewood is maintained main-tained for cooking on the metal grates at each site. There is a volleyball court but you supply the net and ball. You may camp at Calf Creek for as long as five days. Beaver dams form ponds that provide a home for wily, mature trout that in this gurgling, clear water are a challenge to the skill of any angler. Many birds find the lush vegetation and abundant water of the canyon bottom an ideal habitat. Among those you may see are the hummingbird, humming-bird, downy woodpecker, golden gold-en eagle, mourning dove, and western bluebird. There is a marked three-mile three-mile trail to spectacular 126-foot high Calf Creek falls at the head of the box canyon. Numbered signs, in conjunction conjunc-tion with a leaflet available from a repository at the beginning of the trail, identify trees, shrubs, geologic formations forma-tions and Indian pictographs approximately 1,000 years old. The trail is strenuous --particularly --particularly on a hot day (carry a canteen of drinking water!) -but the falls area, once reached, is a spray-cooled, shady haven of beauty well worth the effort. Calf Creek is so-named for the weaner calves uiat early settlers penned in the canyon. |