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Show Wednesday, July 2, 2008 (r Fish survival in Calder Reservoir better than expected, DWR says Vernal Express Biologists with the state Division of Wildlife Resources have found live fish in Calder Reservoir. "The recent nettings in Calder Reservoir found more fish than many anglers predicted," said DWR fisheries biologist Ed Johnson. John-son. "We received quite a bit of feedback from anglers who felt the lake iiad a complete winterkill, winter-kill, no live fish. I'm happy to say Calder has a healthy population offish.", Johnson said when biologists biolo-gists walked the shorelines of the Diamond Mountain lakes immediately after ice-off, there were definitely dead fish lining the banks, especially at Calder and Crouse reservoirs. "I was given some hope for Calder however, as I heard a splash when I walked it and another an-other biologist saw several rings he felt had to have been made by fish," he said. "Over the next few weeks we took calls from concerned anglers who feared the reservoirs had completely winterkilled. Johnson said as biologists waited for the water to warm up v. - N 1 i i r Michele Swasey (left) and Nikki Merrell hold up a couple of the rainbow trout caught during the Calder Reservoir survey; Photo: Ron Stewart, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources ffi fT tr rr -j- fr - A ' - - V t ' ' ' ' ' " ' ? ' ' ' ( i ' ' i 1 f ' i 'i I , "i'r Plans for old museum concrete dinosaurs started 60 years ago Outside the old museum building along U.S. Highway 40 stand three dinosaurs di-nosaurs (Ceratosaurus, Stegosaurus, and Camarasaurus) displayed in what was described in newspaper archives as a violent combat pose. Regardless Regard-less of how onlookers feel they are portrayed, their larger more colorful kin in the garden have overshadowed these objects. Ironically these three models were here years before the garden models, and had almost never been completed, but that is jumping ahead of the story. Lifesize prehistoric models seem to have always been part of the museum's history. As far back as 1 948 G.E. Untermann tried to get Avard Fairbanks (dean of the art department at the University of Utah) to make statutes of an Allosaurus and Uin-tatherium. Uin-tatherium. What happened to Fairbanks' Fair-banks' building models is unknown, but letters and other correspondence in the museum archives between Mal dtfhMrn r- fin ii TRUSTED SECURE RESPECTED Dale Van Pelt WK).KW.1W Cell: 470.640.X727 Host an Student t J - Make a lifelong friend 1 ' ; from P.nrich your family with tmotlicr culture. Now you can host a high school exchange ex-change student (girl or boy) from trance, Germany, Scandinavia, "Spain, Australia, Aus-tralia, Japan, Brazil, Italy or oilier countries. Single parents, as well as couples Willi or without children, may host. 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"Last year we changed Calder to a 'trophy' management scenario," sce-nario," said Roger Schneidervin, DWR regional aquatics manager. "Our goal is to utilize the natural productivity of this reservoir to raise larger fish, providing an exciting alternative to Matt Warner War-ner and Crouse reservoirs, which are managed for fast fishing and higher catch rates." The trophy management strategy comes with trade-offs though. "To produce the big fish an iJ i lard Fillmore Malin, who had sculpted the entrance columns and lentil of the old museum, and Untermann in 1 950 indicate that idea of concrete versions of the two prehistoric animals was moving forward. Malin suggested that the models be made out of an aggregate ag-gregate of marble chips and cement, and then washed with an acid bath to bring out the color. The estimated cost, including $5,000 for Malin's pay, was $9,400. The statutes were never made. Malin was an artist of note from Salt Lake City, who studied art in New York, and for a brief time worked with Gutzon Borgulum - of Mt. Rushmore fame - on the Stone Mountain Memorial in Georgia. He is more famous for the Sugarhouse Pioneer Monument in Salt Lake City and working on temples, but the prospect of doingdinosaurs interested Malin, and eventually some sort of agreement to construct dinosaurs for NJ Since 1907. Specialists in Oil and Gas field and Construction Insurance and Risk Management. Proud Representatives of the Travelers Insurance and Bituminous Insurance Companies. I MiukIv Valley tmurjiuv .... Y AiiKv, Im. 4 604 25 Road POBux 1509 Grand Junction, CO 81502-1509 Exchange Todayl abroad. Ptixail fnim France, 17 ir.v l.oves the outdoors and ploying soccer. Pascal's dream has been to spend time in America learning about our cus-' loins and attending American high school. asse glers get excited about requires some sacrifices," Schneidervin said. "The reservoir must be managed with much lower fish densities so the remaining trout have plenty of food and space to grow. "We changed the (bag limit) to one trout greater than 22 inches in length and reduced the annual stocking rates. When last spring's surveys showed nearly three trout per hour in the nets, we cut the 2007 stocking rate even further. There were actually actu-ally too many fish in Calder for the new regulation to have its maximum effect." Schneidervin said although the hard winter temporarily took away the fishing opportunity at Crouse; nature actually helped the DWR at Calder by reducing trout densities to just about where the agency want them to be." "This is supported by the fact the trout netted in Calder averaged four inches longer than those collected in Matt Warner," he said. "Despite being stocked the previous year at the identical size and time." X 4 , the Utah Field House was made. In 1962, Malin started theprocess of making the full-size dinosaur statues stat-ues by first making small-scale clay models. Then, working from the small models, he made full-size models at the Otto Buehner and Company in Salt Lake City using three-quarter inch iron piping for basic body structures, struc-tures, followed by adding wooden pieces and laths, with Styrofoam inside the cavity. For the outside body he added clay and eventually made plaster molds. To complete the dinosaurs, he cast the models out of Utah granite and Portland cement. The final casts weighed 3 1 tons, with the Ceratosaurus topping out at 1 8 tons. The entire group was moved to their present location by the fall of 1964. The story does not quite end yet, The cement Diplodocus (the original Dippy) molds had arrived in 1952. and it was to be part of a larger vision of dinosaur models at the museum. Dippy had actually been cast at the same factory as the three concrete dinosaur set and by early summer of 1957 was totally in place at the museum. The set of three concrete dinosaurs and Dippy were to be part of an entire sequence of dinosaur groups, 12 in total, the remaining eight would be cast in fiberglass by professor Elbert Porter. The planned final groups, all to be paid for by S.A. Dunlany Hunter in memory of his wife Dorothy, would have some notable dinosaurs including a full-size Apatosaurus (70') and Barosaurus (60'). However, in 1963 a major disagreement dis-agreement arose between Untermann and 1 lunter over the security, display and management of Hunter's collec-tionof collec-tionof thousands of antique treasures (125 bells, oriental art, tapestries, native American artifacts, etc) and minerals that was supposedly donated to the museum. During the 1 1 -month disagreement, Hunter threatened to remove all support of funding for the concrete dinosaurs andmove his collection to Roosevelt or Grand Junction, Colo., but an agreement in 1 964 showed that the three dinosaurs would be completed and that the minerals would stay. What happened to the remaining artifacts is another story that is incomplete. I 789-3511 V TRAVELING SOCCER Vernal Girls All-Star 8's under team, the Crush, placed fourth out of 12 teams in the Gran?- ; Dash & Splash Tournament. Members of the team include Madison Rouska, Savannah Kar.' : Morgan Reynolds, Jacee Murray, Dacey Slaugh, Cassidy Kennedy, MaKayla Gamble, Macfe: -.i Hadlock, Ellie Benedicto, Erin Daggett, Alyson Birchell and Madysen Petty. Coaches are Trevy i Birchell, Jen Rouska and Bryan Rouska. Junior Golf The Junior Golf League had their third day of competition for the season at Dinaland Golf Course on June 24. There were a total of 22 young golfers participating par-ticipating in the competition for the day. Golfers were boys and girls ranging from age 6 to 14. Two girls participated for the day. Elizabeth Hacking, 7, shot a 106 for the day. Nicole Begay, 12, scored the grand total of 50. Boys ages 6 to 14 made up 20 out of the 22 kids participating for the day. In the 6-year-old group there was only one competitor, Aidan Massey, whose score was 60. Three 7-year-olds took part. They were Kade Bailey, Ethan Jones and Gage Searle. Bailey had the best score of the three with a 68. Gage Searle was right behind with 69. And Ethan Jones finished up with 87. The only 8-year-old taking part for the day was Eli Bailey, who ended up with a score of 75. There were two 9-year-olds taking part, Kelton Huber and Hunter Lawj Out of the two Iaw ended up with a slightly better score of 61 and Huber finished not too far back with 65. The division with the most participants for the day was the 10-year-olds, with participants including Jaden Walker, Austin Harding, Mitch Larsen, Tyler Gross and Tyler Begay. Tyler Begay had the best score with 49. Larsen shot 81, Gross 82, Walker 82, and Harding 84. The 11-year-olds included CLASIFICADOS ...are worth the time in the... xpress 54 North Vernal Avenue Vernal, Utah -435-789-3511 www.vernal.com Have Laser treatments done right here in the Basin Clinic that you have heard about on the Oprah Show, ia Vogue, Bazaar, Self, and Time. Magazines and other media coverage! i- riV imr tW. - - . .1 mm-' JM. ,M 1... . . ' a .. 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