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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, August 5-8, 2008 Tfte Park«record Utah losing one of last off-road pla When you lease an office here, you'll have a dedicated T-1 line to blaze you through the internet. And your tech support will be live, easy to reach and helpful. Giving you a lot more time to be more productive. Tkb Pfuutxtxt&faUoii Ft* You*. EttttUtg O(kte NuJi. Office fcttfine?? tenter 435.655.9696 www.gatewaybusinesscenter.com 36 HEBER AVE., PARK CITY, U T 8 4 0 6 0 ^ p-.r-ry:--'U: ••;• , ^ Officials seek public input for Bear Lake plan FESTIVAL The intense turquoise blue waters of Bear Lake invite tens of thousands of visitors each year who enjoy varied recreational opportunities and, no uoubt, would like that to continue. As officials with the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands begin development of a comprehensive management plan for Bear Lake they invite all in '• prusei • rs the first annual i'l Wine K stival. Admission is includes access co nil vintner 'rant booths. Resta// ratifs Grappa Lugano Xh^ Trec.Kvojrji.^^JPinc Restaurant. Thfe Blue BoiirInn * Tfony Caputo's Cafe Trio Market and Deli Chimayo Wahso Fresco Italian Cafe Foundr) knee-jerk reaction is to close areas.1' Christensen said most of the cacti were found in areas not often visited often by off-roaders, "but they want everything kept open." It's easy to see why. The badhmds, which are especially suited foi dirt bikes, consist of rolling hills of wind-sculpted Mancos bhali >..i! alternating with shallow ravines. Riders worship the lift or bounce their machines Utah, yet has made an effort^3. designate routes on only 3 mil'1* lion of its 23 million acres of land, though increasingly the rest is being marked off-limits *Q any motorized travel. In aJH U t a h still offers more than 70,000 miles of dirt roads, tracts and trails. • V,' The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance wants tfte> Factory Butte area for part of>3 larger wilderness complex, aad cited the distinctive, forbidding landscape as a reason. Now ifc'fi the cacti that are making a difj { m Times have changed. We've had j^t I? fere nee. spongy, ury Both species can grow in the, open areas for so long, people can just soil, compar- fine-textured alkaline soils. £ ( | One can be hard to find. ThSj , _, , , • ing it to powgo and go... The law is we have to pro- der skiing. Wright fishhook - a small, bar* tracks mostly rel-shaped cactus with creamteCt thOSe plants," They say their colored flowers - retracts Qfl get washed - Cornell Christensen away by sum- shrinks nearly underground dur« mon- ing winter, popping back up x*\ BLM field manager mer spring. " I t ' s a survival tecJiG soons. nique," said Heather Barnes, a T h e defined by a natural basin along scenery is another draw. It's one botanist for the U.S. Fish and ,>/, Stale Route 24. Off-road advo- of the largest, most spectacular Wildlife Service. This region of south-centra} cates counter that in a landscape badlands on the Colorado with few natural barriers, it will plateau, geologists at Brigham Utah also holds pockets of be impractical to draw any Young University determined in Winkler cactus, a small, leafless 1980, when all-terrain vehicles globe-shaped succulent with boundaries. Swenson said regulation were still a novelty with three pink flowers. It was listed in 199§ by the Fish and Wildlife Serviqe should be the exception, not the wheels. rule, for the barren moonscapeIt wasn't until 1986 that as a threatened species; the rare^ like land around Factory. Butte, Honda ushered in a more stable, Wright fishhook was classified as a 1,500-foot-tall monolith that four-wheel ATV, and today tens endangered in 1979. looks vaguely industrial. His of thousands of these machines Christensen said a survey th#t group advocates management and dirt bikes roam Utah's pub- BLM commissioned last spring with a light touch and accuses lic lands. Many riders come from found both species in thp BLM of lurching from a hands- Colorado and California, where Factory Butte area. Once they off policy in Utah to strict regu- the BLM long ago clamped down were discovered, BLM became lation of its lands. on off-road travel. obligated to protect them. * , Utah is one of the last "We're just trying to do the "The BLM has failed miserably to manage ATV u s e , " Western states still largely wide- right thing," Christensen saifL Swenson said. " N o w they're open for travel on public lands. "We know we got some damage, behind the eight-ball, and their The BLM controls nearly half of to the cactus." Christensen. A decision will be made by higher-ups at (he Interior Department, where the review could take as little as two weeks or as many as six months, he said, depending on how ( V ;>• ! , tics play out. The restrictions couKi . the form of designated roui areas kept off limits and upci. "play" areas such ;>s u pi rice rkl ers call Swing Arm City, which is ••- Sundance 1 CAINVILLE, Utah (AP) For off-roaders, few places are as good as the badlands around Factory Butte, where the terrain seems perfectly suited for a knobby rubber tire. "If ever there was a place God created for off-road recreation, Factory Butte is it," said Michael Swenson, executive director of the Utah Shared Access Alliance. This Wild West of off-road travel may not last long, however. The Bureau of Land Management is moving to impose regulations as early as September, the start of riding season, on some of the baddest of the West's badlands, about I SO miles south of Salt Lake City. The decision chips away at Utah's standing as one of the last Western states where BLM lands are still largely open to crosscountry travel. "Times have changed," Cornell Christensen, a bureau field manager, who has been watching all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes crawl over the nearly 200,000-acre Factory Butte district like an army of ants. "'We've had open areas for so long, people can just go and go." ' It wasn't noise, traffic, ruts or erosion that forced £LM, after years of pressure from conservation groups, to take a hard look at drawing boundaries here on off-road travel. Instead, it's two little-known, delicate species of cacti classified years ago as threatened or endangered and only recently discovered around Factory Butte. "The law is we have to protect those plants," said C» t i l that are interested to share in the process. "The goal of the plan is to provide direction for the management of the bed of the lake and establish procedures for implementation, monitoring and amendment," said Dave Grierson, sovereign lands manager for the division. "It's crucial to the plan's development that the public www.parkrecord.com www.parkrecord.com www.parkrecord.com I a.m. until 11:30 a.m. at the1 Garden City Main Office! Building, 145 West Logan Itj Garden City, Utah. ! lt If you can't attend one of trre meetings, no problem," addetf Grierson. "'' "We invite anyone to visit oiif1 Web site and provide us witfi thoughts and concerns." The Webt site is www.forestry.utah.gov/sovlands/bearlake.php. ^ *] wwww.parkrecord.com m>iTi. rj - ,'fi, lit •;M'MI;';. MORTUARY Also featuring the vintners of the Conveniently located at entrance of Parley's Canyon Sundance Isabel uincs. 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