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Show A2 Wednesday, July 9, 2008 Vernal Express Attorney Fired Continued from Al adding that prosecution of some 51 cases of voter registration fraud will continue both under the county and the Utah Attorney Attor-ney General's Office, where the case originated. Gutz added that names investigated in-vestigated and prosecuted in the voter fraud cases came from several groups and the issue is not as one-sided as has been portrayed. The lone vote to retain Sidwell came from Daggett County Commissioner Stewart Leith. He told the newspaper Monday that he had no comments on the commission's decision and directed questions to the other two commissioners, who voted to end the contract. Floyd Brings was unavailable for an interview, and while Gutz declined to comment on the particulars, the commissioner provided an overview into the commission's decision. "People feel we're trying to withhold information," said Gutz. He explained that the county has followed Sidwell's advice to be tiht-lipjxsi on is sues from the voter fraud case, to the jail escapes last year, to an inquiry into the county's affordable afford-able housing program. "The county's policy toward the media has been to willingly assist anyone wanting access to public records including the media and with regard to other information to remain silent," wrote Sidwell in a letter in response re-sponse to a records inquiry by KSL News Service related to affordable housing. The letter, dated Jan. 11, 2007 - less than two weeks into Sidwell's contract - was posted on KSL's Web site and lists several sev-eral reasons for the county's policy. Sidwell charged the media with being a "private business motivated by profits and not by the truth." He explained that time and space constraints often limit the media's ability to tell the entire story, and added that media tend to reflect a single viewpoint instead of telling all sides of a story. "The media tends to make the news, not report the news," wrote Sidwell. He said reporters often take an "abrasive, aggressive approach, ap-proach, believing they have some higher authority above the law and believing they are entitled nXDress lVS?$ CtSC-IiNl) Pnviicd! postage paid at Vernal, Utah PuKjsiwa kJ 54 X. Yenul Ave., Vernal, IT 84078 POSTMASTER: So:ii iiiiress changes to the Vernal Express at 54 X. Vernal Ave.. 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The full letter and the accompanying accompany-ing story by KSL are available at http:www.ksl.comindex. php?nid309&sid2685763. Daggett County has no local newspaper and is reliant on outside media to report what's happening there. But Gutz said the lack of open channels of information is taking its toll. "The attitude that has developed devel-oped of 'Don't talk to the media,' has killed us," continued the commissioner. He explained that the negative or even non-image of the county has led to a position where it is losing opportunities for grant and loan funds. One decision by the Utah Permanent Community Impact Board has .meant the delay and potentially the denial of a request for more than $500,000 to revitalize revital-ize the county jail, the county's top employer. To keep the jail running, the county is drawing on the the Dutch John Enterprise Fund and passing it through the county budget. But the process of passing funds from one source to the other is bankrupting the county, according to Gutz. He said if the county continues in its current fiscal direction, he's looking at a possibility of not making payroll in approximately two years. Gutz explained that the commission com-mission has decided to take the county in a new direction. He pointed to the lack of information informa-tion released as one cause for the county's officials, employees and residents at large being disjointed and separated into factions. He said he'd rather have the public informed to help bring people together to find solutions to problems within the county. Contributing: Geoff Liesik, Uintah Bains News Service. High Lakes Continued from Al ing area for the equipment was on the dam of Moon Lake, located north of Duchesne. Crews will go in the traditional way, either hiking or by horseback Projected cost is over $1 million. Elliott explained that crews are doing the easy lakes first. Last year the dam at Clements was completed. In 2006 Farmers, Water Lily and White Miller lakes in the Swift Creek drainage were completed. "Surmountable obstacles arose and the project at Clement's didn't always go as planned," said R. Brian Paul, High Lakes Stabilization Coordinator. "But the Clement's Lake stabilization is a true example of how inter agency collaboration can work to benefit "As we complete this project, we are striving to reach a balance bal-ance between wilderness rules and regulations, and having the necessary equipment to complete it in the shortest amount of time as possible," explained Elliott. "I think we are achieving this by not putting the lakes back to original capacity, and doing just what we can to complete it in one summer." Portion of Brown Duck Basin closed for high lakes project Sections of the trails in Brown Duck Basin in the High Uintas Wilderness Area on the Ashley National Forest will be closed until Oct. 15 while work is completed com-pleted to breach the earthen and rock dams at Brown Duck and Island Lake and return the lakes to natural levels. "These closures are to en sure public safety as there will be blasting, heavy equipment work and helicopter flights in the closure area as the dams are breached and secured," said DuchesneRoosevelt District Ranger John R. Kirkaldie. "The public will still be able to access Brown Duck and Island Lakes during this time frame along temporary access routes." There are two area closures and two trail closures within about Vz mile of each other. Both are located within the Brown Duck Basin. The boundary for the first area starts at the junction of Forest Service Trail No. 065 and the Island Lake Temporary Access Trail Reroute. It heads west into Island Lake for approximately 300 feet, then south for about 800 feet, then east for about 1 ,500 feet, then north for about 450 feet to Island Lake Temporary Access Trail Reroute. The closure boundary then heads west, following the Island Lake Temporary Access Trail Reroute, but doesn't include the Island Lake Temporary Access Trail Reroute, before heading back to the beginning point at the trail junction. The second closure area boundary begins at the junction of FS Trail No. 065 and Brown Duck Temporary Access Trail Reroute. It heads west-southwest for about 120 feet to the shoreline of Brown Duck Lake, then south for about 650 feet, then east for about 600 feet, and then north for 225 feet to the junction of FS Trail No. 062 and FS Trail No. 065. The boundary line then travels trav-els north along FS Trail No. 062, but does not include the trail, to the junction of Br own Duck Temporary Tem-porary Access Trail Reroute. The temporary access trail reroute ig not included in the closure. Water Report Continued from Al spillway the end of June as water users benefited from a longer than normal runoff flow that kept this reservoir flowing over the spillway up until the end of June. "Right now, Montez Creek people are in pretty good shape," explained Kettle. Montez Creek shareholders don't start keeping track of used water if the pond keeps filling and the reservoir finally started to drop towards the end of June. Another positive point for Montez Creek water users is that the system is totally piped from the dam to the last user. Montez Creek users benefited from filling the pipeline early in the year when the reservoir is still filling. The pipe line uses about 25 percent of the allocated water to fill the line. "Piping the system saves at least 25 percent of the allocated water in the system," said Kettle. "This is the third summer for piped water and there are users that can't thank us enough for the water savings." The piped ditch makes it easier for the ditch rider to keep track of water usage also. Kettle explained that all the water is metered with each share of water equal to about 0.8 percent of a foot of water out of the lake. The system was also engineered engi-neered so that most of the users can water at the same time so each individual farmer can water to his individual needs and desires de-sires and when the water share is used, they quit sprinkling. " It took three or four phases to complete, but it is a good irrigation irriga-tion system now, " said Kettle. "It is 1 00 percent better than it was. We can't believe the difference it SEE WATER REPORT on A3 City Zip4 Cash or Check only, Sorry No Charges Energy Ed Continued from Al University of Utah's Department of Energy and Geoscience Institute Insti-tute (EGD, as well as, director of USTAR at the USU extension campus. His work will keep him primarily in Salt Lake City. "We're in touch daily," said Mark Raymond, USTAR's regional re-gional associate director. "That includes the time of his tour of duty in Iraq." "I've been in this position for over a year, not including the last six months in Iraq's Green Zone attached to the embassy," said Walker, responding to Raymond's remark. Walker, 30-year Special Forces officer in the TJ. S. Army, recently returned from service Iraq. Although he was not directly assigned as-signed to Iraq's energy industry, he says he managed to squeeze in time to work on rebuilding Iraq's energy fusion cell. "Their energy industry is rudimentary," Walker explained. "Remember the sanctions? Well, they worked. Iraq's energy industry is a shambles. Unlike the Uintah Basin, which is a high-tech leader by comparison to just about everyone else." He is referring to energy innovation in-novation technology that has led researchers to identify 1.5 to 2 trillion barrels of oil in the Basin in just the last few years. But, getting it out of the ground and into the hands of consumers will take even more creative research. "The resource is so vast, un less you work in the industry you have no appreciation of how truly big it really," Walker said, although stops short of offering specific detail. "We'll always have issues like transportation, refinement and the environment," he explained. "But we can do this. The reality real-ity is that other are countries Estonia, Jordan, Canada and Brazil capture the bulk of their oil from oil shale." "Twenty years ago, research and development could drill well-holes well-holes and never know the precise location of the resource, " Walker continued. "Not so, today. EGI's Landmark 3D Imaging program, which was a multi-million dollar gift iti'ihe- W of U.,! has 'ended the guessing game of where subsurface resources remain. Now we know where to drill with certainty." "This kind of technology allows for a smaller physical presence, fewer emissions and greater extraction success," explained ex-plained Raymond. "And, USTAR provided the initial funding to prove the research application of the technology." Raymond is enthusiastic in his explanation of the computer software, which permits computer-imagery of the subsurface geology without drilling a hole, driving a truck or marring the landscape. Greater efficiency in extraction extrac-tion means less environmental hartfi." 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