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Show Wednesday, October 8, 2008 B3 Vernal Express f fell f 'V . , O-....... '.;'. . 4 :.,,. JtH.LU I USFS now seeking public comment on grazing allotment reauthorization h- f. - i. t- r - s?v i, T t t ! ; ; , , - ? j 11 - 1 c Sterling Downard and Sean Roper duel with chainsaws at Dimma Skogur, the haunted forest at Remember The Maine Park. The forest is open from 8-11 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, through Oct. 25 and every evening during the week of Oct. 27-31 . Stroll through a cemetery, hear things that go bump in the night, be chased by chainsaw-wielding lunatics and take part in an exorcism. Wholesome fun for the whole dysfunctional family! Admission fee is $10 per person. Utah's delegation honored by NFIB The National Federation of Independent Business, the nation's leading small business association, has named Sens. Robert Bennett and Orrin Hatch, both Utah Republicans, and Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, as Guardians of Small Business for "their outstanding voting record on behalf of America's small business owners in the 110th Congress." NFIB President and CEO Todd Stottlemyer praised Bennett, Ben-nett, Hatch and Matheson for "standing for small business," citing their NFIB voting records. re-cords. "Small business owners pay close attention to how their lawmakers vote on the issues affecting their businesses and employees and stand by those who stand for them," Stottlemyer Stottle-myer said, in presenting the group's coveted Guardian of Small Business awards. NFIB's voting record tallies 11 key small business votes in the U.S. Senate taken during the 2007 and 2008 sessions, and 10 key small business votes in the U.S. House of Representatives taken during the same time. In the Senate, the issues ranged from tax relief to affordable af-fordable health care and from lower energy costs to regulatory reform. In the House, issues included tax relief, card-check legislation, protection from lawsuits law-suits and regulatory reform. In all, NFIB will present Guardian awards to 58 senators and 194 representatives who voted favorably on key small business issues at least 70 per-centofthetime per-centofthetime duringthe 110th Congress. The U.S. Forest Service's RooseveltDuchesne and Vernal ranger districts are proposing the reauthorization of grazing on 10 allotments on the Ashley National Forest and are seeking public comment. Allotments from the two districts dis-tricts are being publicly scoped together to enhance efficiency. The purpose and need for the proposed action is to provide forage for domestic livestock. Following a public comment period, an environmental analysis analy-sis for these grazing allotments ' will be prepared and made available avail-able for public review. The allotments allot-ments being reviewed are Farm Creek, Dry Gulch, Pole Creek, Yellowstone, Petty Mountain, Mule Creek OnOff, and Lake Fork, which are administered by the RooseveltDuchesne District; and Mosby Mountain, Whiterocks Canyon, and West Whiterocks OnOff, which are administered by the Vernal District. Dis-trict. As a part of reauthorizing livestock grazing, the proposed action would incorporate an adaptive management strategy. The strategy was developed by an interdisciplinary team of resource specialists and is a planning and monitoring process, pro-cess, that identifies desired resource re-source conditions and establishes benchmarks and management standards that would maintain or move toward desired condition on 205,061 acres. The benchmarks identified below will form a basis for moni-toring-to compare the allotment conditions with the specified benchmark. These would be incorporated within existing livestock grazing permits and revised Allotment Management Plans and would compliment existing Forest-wide standards and guidelines currently found therein. The RooseveltDuchesne and Vernal districts have determined that an environmental assessment assess-ment will be sufficient to analyze the potential environmental effects of the proposed actions. At a minimum, the following alternatives will be described and analyzed: 1) continue grazing graz-ing with an adaptive approach to livestock management; or 2) no livestock grazing. The district rangers, as the responsible officials for the allotments al-lotments will: 1) decide whether to authorize continued livestock grazing on the allotment; 2) if livestock grazing is authorized, decide under what parameters livestock grazing will be implemented; imple-mented; or 3) decide whether the selected alternative may have significant effects and whether to prepare an environmental impact statement. In making the decision, the Forest Plan, available scientific and other technical information, issues raised by resource specialists, special-ists, public scoping input, and public comments on the proposed action, environmental effects, and other relevant information will be considered. Forest officials will decide whether or not to implement the proposed action or another alternative developed by the Forest For-est Service in response to specific resource issues. They may choose one of the other alternatives or may select components from among the proposed action and alternatives. The public is invited to offer substantive comment through Nov. 14, 2008. Substantive comments are those within the scope of, are specific to, and have a direct relationship to the proposed actions, and include supporting reasons that the responsible official of-ficial should consider in reaching a decision. Comments received, including names and addresses of those who comment, will be considered part of the public record for the project. Send written comments to: John R. Kirkaldie, District Ranger, Rang-er, Roosevelt-Duchesne Ranger District, at 650 W. Highway 40, RO. Box 127, Roosevelt, Utah 84066. Comments may also be hand-delivered hand-delivered to the above address during regular business hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding federal holidays; holi-days; or submitted electronically to: comments-intermtn-ashley fs.fed.us. It would be most useful use-ful for the Forest to receive your electronic comments in Microsoft Word or rich text format. For further information concerning con-cerning the proposal, contact Allen Huber at the Roosevelt Ranger District, 650 W Highway 40, PO. Box 127 Roosevelt, Utah 84066, by phone at (435) 781-5226, 781-5226, or by e-mail at ahuber fs.fed.us. 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