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Show A. &AW; .Vernal Express. Bald Eagle In northeastern Utah wildlife wild-life watchers can join with professional pro-fessional biologists and view bald eagles. Utah's annual Bald Eagle Day will be Feb. 4. "The Canada goose hunting season runs until the end of January this year, and we're not sure if that will keep some of the eagles from visiting our two northern Utah viewing view-ing sites," said Bob Walter, Watchable Wildlife coordinators coordina-tors for the Division of Wildlife Resources. "We want to do everything we can to ensure plenty of eagles are available to view." Viewing times are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and there is no charge. In the northeastern region eagle viewing will be a the Split MountainGreen River, located north of Jensen and below Dinosaur Quarry in Dinosaur National Monument. To reach the site, drive north from Highway 40 in Jensen on SR-40 to Dinosaur Quarry. First stop should be at the staging stag-ing area located just inside DNM boundary where displays, spotting scopes and possible bald eagles and other raptors await. From the staging area biologists will direct viewers to other sites where they may have better views of eagles and other wildlife of interest. In past years, visitors have seen bald and golden eagles, hunting hunt-ing and feeding, as well as prairie prai-rie falcons, hawks, mule deer, river otters, pheasants, turkeys, sandhill cranes, porcupines, mergansers, Canada geese and other wildlife. Tip of the Week v fi 3 Exit Kkalty Proh-ssionai.s 709 West Main Street Vernal, Utah 87078 Office: 789-EXIT (3948) Cell: 621-6084 Natalie Carter, Agent iffimrT .... - Get speeds up to 1 .5M with FREE Activation and a discounted modem. Call UBTAnet today - 622.5007 $19.99 promotional pricing good for first 2 months of service. Regular pricing applies 2-month promotional period. 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Two of the eight deer were taken during last fall's muzzle-loader muzzle-loader season and six were taken during the rifle hunt. In addition to the deer that were tested, laboratory personnel person-nel are nearly through testing about 300 elk taken this fall. So far, no elk have tested positive for the disease. CWD had never been found in elk in Utah. "The disease appears to be staying within areas where we've already found it," said Leslie McFarlane, wildlife disease dis-ease specialist for the DWR. "In central and northeastern Utah, we estimate that less than 1 percent of the buck population popula-tion is affected by CWD. In the LaSal Mountains, in southeastern southeast-ern Utah, we estimate about 2 Brazil cutting dependence on energy imports This year, Brazil is expecting expect-ing to become energy independent inde-pendent after almost three decades of work in finding a "cost-effective alternative to gasoline," according to a Wall Street Journal article written by David Luhnow and Geraldo Samor. 3 bedroom 1 bathroom wnew, carpet for $137,500. 800.834.9542 Ext. 102 1 1 i;trar-jEt)-tiqi I 2 bathroom for $45,000. 800.834.9542 Ext. 103 IBTAIBET COMMUNICATIONS We Live, Work Play Here Too wivw.ubta-ubet.com 622-5007 percent of the buck deer have the disease." McFarlane said she was surprised sur-prised to find CWD in two deer taken in central Utah this past fall. "A deer killed near Fountain Green in the summer of 2003 tested positive for the disease, and we were hoping that would be the only deer we would find in that part of the state," she said. "We tested more than 1,000 deer in that area in the fall of 2003 and 2004 and didn't find any other deer with the disease. "The two deer that tested positive pos-itive this year confirms that we do have the disease in the central cen-tral part of the state." The two central Utah deer were taken about eight miles apart from each other near the Spencer Fork Wildlife Management Area, about 20 miles north of Fountain Green. In addition to the two central cen-tral Utah bucks, five deer taken in the LaSal Mountain this past fall had the disease, and As quoted from the Journal, "Gildo Ferreira, a 30-year-old real-estate executive ... pulled his VW Fox into a filling station sta-tion one recent afternoon. Instead of reaching for the gasoline, he spent $29 to fill up his car on ethanol made from sugar cane, an option that's available at 29,000 gas stations from Rio to the Amazon. A comparable com-parable tank of gasoline would have cost him $36. 'It's cheaper and it's made here in Brazil,' Mr. Ferriera said of ethanol." Individuals who use ethanol, such as Ferriera, can expect to save around $350 a year on fuel for their vehicles. While the international price of gasoline is about $1.50 per gallon, ethanol in Brazil costs about $1 per gallon for them to produce. "Even though ethanol gets less mileage than gasoline, in Brazil it's still cheaper per mile driven," said the Journal. Ethanol accounts for 20 percent per-cent of Brazil's transport fuel market while the use of alternate alter-nate fuel is only at 1 percent for the rest of the world. "Brazil's efforts are being closely followed by countries with big fuel bills. India and China have sent a parade of top officials to see Brazil's program," pro-gram," reported the Journal. In 2003, India, the second largest larg-est sugar producer in the world behind Brazil, ordered nine of its states to add a 9 percent ethanol eth-anol mixture to gasoline. The U.S., which imports 60 percent of its oil, is keeping close watch on Brazil's progress. prog-ress. Senator Hillary Clinton has expressed that Brazil is a role model in cutting dependence depen-dence on imported oil. A recent U.S. energy bill signed into law in August calls (ISSN 0892-1091) Published every Wednesday for $24 per year in the shopping area and $36 per year out out of the shopping area within the state and $39 per year out of state within the USA by the Vernal Express Publishing Company, 54 North Vernal Avenue, Vernal, Utah 84078. Periodical postage paid at Vernal, Utah, 84078 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to VERNAL EXPRESS, P.O Box 1000, Vernal, Utah 84078. Steven R. 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Eighteen of the 26 deer came from the LaSal Mountains, four came from the Vernal area, one was taken near the south end of Flaming Gorge, one was killed near Fountain Green and two were taken 20 miles north of Fountain Green. CWD is fatal to deer and elk that contract it. However, according to the World Health Organization, "There is currently cur-rently no evidence that CWD in cervidae (deer and elk) is transmitted trans-mitted to humans." for more than doubling ethanol etha-nol use by 2012. Ethanol costs 30 percent more to produce in the U.S. than it does in Brazil because in the states, ethanol etha-nol is made of corn which has to undergo a process to turn the starch into sugar before it can be distilled into alcohol. According to officials, it could take a few more decades to bring the cost of ethanol down to 80 cents per gallon, which would be equivalent to Brazil's most efficient producers. Substituting carbohydrates for fossil fuels in vehicles is not a new idea. According to the Journal, "Henry Ford's first car was made to run on ethanol. So was the first spark-ignition car engine, developed by German Nicolas Otto in the second half of the 19th century." The U.S. relied on ethanol to expand gasoline supplies during World War II, However after the war, gasoline was so cheap and plentiful plen-tiful that the use of ethanol lost its appeal. Ethanol works great in the warm climate of Brazil, but on winter mornings here, it could be very hard to start a car running run-ning on a high ethanol mixture because ethanol burns quicker at a higher temperature than gasoline. Any vehicle can run on E10, which is a mixture of 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gas. E85 is designed for Flex-Fuel Flex-Fuel vehicles and is 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gas. Flex-Fuel vehicles can run off gas, ethanol, or a mixture (as previously listed) of both. In 2004, there were 81 ethanol plants in the U.S. and together, they produced 3.4 billion gallons gal-lons of ethanol. 90 plants are currently open and 20 more are under construction. - T |