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Show Page Four - The Springville Herald - February 8, 1984 J. Collin Allan doing his share to feed starving elk By Michael Olson J. Collin Allan has plenty to do. He's a Nebo School District Board Member; he's manager of the Spanish Fork Branch of First Security Bank; and he's Bishop of Mapleton Seventh Ward. So how does he relax on cold winter afternoons after struggling with his day-to-day duties? He feeds about 220 elk that have found respite from raw nature in his old orchard in south Mapleton. Every afternoon at 4 p.m., Collin and his son Clark, also a busy man, studying pre-law at Brigham Young University, load up a pickup truck belonging to the Division of Wildlife Resources and haul 35 bales of hay to scatter on a small pasture just below a little orchard where the elk have stripped the bark off each tree from ground level to some six or seven feet high. The daily feeding has been joing on for about a month now, since the day Collin contacted Rodney John of the Division of Wildlife Resources and reported the plight of the animals he had been watching move in on Mapleton seeking shelter from starvation. "Here's a classic example of what it's like for these animals," said Collin the other day over the phone from his office at the bank. "Look out at your front lawn and imagine digging down through the snow and ice till you hit the lawn. Then think about scrabbling around trying to find eight pounds of grass to eat. That's what it takes per day to feed an elk." His description shocks one into realizing what these majestic animals face each day just to stay alive. Collin noted that the elk movement into the Mapleton area has been relatively recent, during the past ten years or so. During the harsh winter of 1952, it had been deer only that people had seen pushed into the valleys by starvation. Now, it's mostly elk, and what deer there are seem unable to compete very well with the larger animals. Collin said he had seen several orphan fawns, which he had been feeding, die during the cold snap, and this leads him to believe that most of the fawn crop this year has suffered decimation in the foothills, becoming easy meat for the coyotes. He demonstrates the difference between elk and deer and their feeding habits this way: the deer is content to nibble at the leaves of, say, a sage brush; but an elk will simply grub out the whole plant. So the elk in the Mapleton area have simply pushed the deer on to other areas where competition for the meager remainders of winter is less demanding. Unlike some other areas of the' County, the people around Mapleton have been relatively tolerant of the starving animals, Collin says. The one thing that he did notice, however, was during the early stages of the elk migration, snowmobilers would chase the animals in the deep snow, forcing them to lunge in flight as the machines split the big herds. "If they were to do that now, with the animals in much worse shape, it would certainly kill some of them. The animals are in great stress. A hundred yards in a panic run can do them in. People shouldn't bother them now." The animals, though in pitiful physical condition, yet maintain much of their natural instinct for finding means of survival and for avoiding man when necessary. Mr. Allan notes that those who come to view the elk are surprised to find them elusive when the herd is approached from a different direction from the one the hay truck uses. People find they must stay in their vehicles in order to get very close, even though the animals will allow the hay deliverers close access. ac-cess. "One man from Provo," illustrates Collin, "dressed in white and tried to approach from a field but was unable to get close to the elk." Even more interesting is an anecdote Collin tells of how the elk were able to get to the hay at the top of his barn. "The snow had slid off the roof of the barn and onto an old wagon at the side," he tells. "The icy snow was solid enough for the elk to clim it and eat about a ton off the top." As for Mr. Allan's property where the elk have been sheltering among the apple trees and eating the hay in the little nearby field and cleaning up a four-acre crop of corn, which was to be feed for his cattle, there is hardly a fence left standing. The fields look like something out of World War I with barbed wire strung all over the place. But sympathy for these animals comes through loud and clear in Collin's actions and in the obvious sincerety with which he describes this hopefully soon-to-be-ended-by-spring situation. IB IS J z- , it Joanna Fullmer attends National 4-H Symposium A bird called a grebe builds floating nests on rafts of decaying vegetation in lakes and ponds. It fastens the rafts to cattails and weed stalks. In arctic and alpine regions it sometimes snows red, due to tiny plants mixed in with the snow. Joanna Fullmer Community School offers intermediate Spanish class Springville Community School Director Allan Curtis today announced an-nounced that registration will begin immediately for an intermediate conversational Spanish Class to be taught at Springville High School by Glenn Bird. The class is designed for those who have had some instruction but desire further grammar and practical skills development. The course will run for ten weeks, commencing com-mencing Tuesday, February 14. Sessions Ses-sions .will be held Tuesday and Thursday of each week from 6 to 7 p.m. Registration will be accomplished ac-complished by all interested parties calling Mr. Bird at 489-5314 until February 11. Although the state is pronounced Ark-an-saw, the river running through it is pronounced Ar-kan-sas, like the state of Kansas. Jeanna Fullmer returned home this last week from Washington, D.C., where she attended a National 4-H Symposium-Economics, Jobs and Careers at the National 4-H Center. Fullmer was one of 45 delegates from 20 states. The sessions were designed to help volunteer leaders and staff become more effective managers in implementing im-plementing a curriculum that will help young people in decision making, career selection, job skills and economic understanding. During the five-day training program, delegates participated in workshop sessions on understanding young people, integration of career emphasis in existing 4-H projects and activities, exploring community resources and job seeking skills. An all-day simulated training session emphasized resume preparation, interviewing skills and techniques and 4-H visibility and publicity. One of the most exciting parts of the program was sharing ideas with I others through a trade fair and other sessions. Fullmer presented a planned program for career development. She has become a resource person for the State of Utah and plans to apply her newly-acquired newly-acquired skills in developing a career program for the youth in our State. You can learn more about how you might be involved in 4-H, as a member of volunteer leader by contacting Donna Bird or Jim Jensen at the Provo Extension office located at 10 South 200 East. Phone 377-2797. Two cups of water weigh about one pound. 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