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Show Wednesday, May 17, 2000 B-10 77e Par fr Record fi1lgg?m5l SSB3gS2 OSDft' The Right Carpet Can Make Any Room Spectacular! Roadless Initiative targets OHV use Groups fear that Roadless Initiative may impact forest access for off-road recreation Many off-road vehicle recreation recre-ation groups in Idaho fear that Clintons soon-to-be-announced Roadless program may focus on closing between 50- and 80-mil-lion acres of the foiest to families who enjoy using Jeeps, trail bikes, sport-utility vehicles, snowmobiles and mountain bikes to access backcountry areas. In many states, the acreage being identified for access restrictions by the Forest Service match the amount of forest lands currently being managed for multiple-use recreation. In California, the 4.3-million acres targeted by the Clinton program for "roadless" designation is almost exactly the number of acres of federal timberlands above 4,000-foot elevation that are now being used by outdoor enthusiasts. The 25-page summary of the roadless scoping meetings stated that probably the most contentious con-tentious issue of the entire debate over toadless area protection protec-tion is the question of whether motorized access will be or should be restricted. Don Amador, the western representative rep-resentative for the Blue Ribbon coalition says, "I hope the ClintonGore administration listens lis-tens to the thousands of local residents, res-idents, retired Forest Service employees and motorized recre-ationists recre-ationists who are concerned about their rights to access our forest lands in a responsible way, "Having been involved in the 'roadless' process for a number of years, I feel the Forest Service has a long way to go to prove to the motorized recreation community commu-nity that this is an up-front and non-biased process. ""' The long-term .credibility of the agency to deal - with local communities and various user groups is at stake," Amador concludes. con-cludes. Adena Cook, the public lands director for th? Coalition, said, "In Idaho, there are eight- to nine-million acres of National Forest System lands now counted as 'roadless.' Almost all of those lands are roadcd or have trails and accommodate motorized recreation in one form or another. anoth-er. If the lock-up trend of he . Roadless Initiative is as unyielding unyield-ing and blunt as the process has been, we erpect the impact on recreation to be devastating." Cook concludes, "The summary summa-ry of the half-million public comments com-ments was released on Friday, May 5 Support for access, diverse use and motorized recreation recre-ation was referenced throughout the document. It is evident that they heard us, but did they listen?" lis-ten?" The Blue Ribbon Coalition is a national non-profit recreation group that champions responsible responsi-ble multiple-use of public lands. It reoreuents over 850 organiza tions and businesses with approx imately 6(X),iK)U members. Sanpete County to preserve outhouse heritage H"l .1 ib 1 f -V. 'It-j .! ij. . UtU0llm.m,rmd . Mthnm .; J .' --Aatt ": lAnlrMIW) I Sftfacbk -" ...... I Mes s Ski Cam . -m lnt ' 1 Sfw! lit M Total Skin Care Product Systems Park City Skin Care SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Sanpete County Heritage Council has launched a campaign to save outhouses. !f you rank all of our inventions and modern conveniences in order of importance, indoor plumbing has to be right up there near the top. Most people were happy to get rid of their outhouses. Why would anyone think about saving them now? Because, says Monte Bona, a member of the council, outhouses are an important and vanishing part of our history. More stories, more folklore, more chronicles of daily life centered cen-tered around the outhouse than any other outbuilding on the property. prop-erty. People developed euphemistic names - going to visit Aunt Susan, going to the White House, visiting the castle, stopping by the biffy. Practical jokes - tipping tip-ping over (preferably while occupied), occu-pied), moving around, painting graffiti -- were common. Outhouses showed up in cartoons, on postcards, even in literary works both great and small. No one advocates a return to those days. No one misses the frigid jaunts in the winter, the sweat and smell of the summer, the plain inconvenience of it all. Yet outhouses are starting to be an "in" thing once again, at least We have 42 outhouses that we know about that are still standing. Of course, some are in better shape than others." among nostalgia buffs. People are collecting outhouse out-house memorabilia, setting up Web sites, writing newsletters. Historical societies are encouraging encourag-ing preservation. Museums have sponsored exhibits. Outhouse digging dig-ging excavating abandoned pits to see what r e s might have been e d there has become a popular pastime. Outhouse races have become a quirky sport Bona was visiting California last November and read a newspaper newspa-per account detailing some of these activities, and he realized Sanpete County could catch the nostalgic wave. He put a notice in the local paper and was pleased with the response and interest. "We have 42 outhouses that we know about that are still standing. Of course, some are in better shape than others." oth-ers." He hopes to put together some grant money to help people restore the ones that are in the worst shape. He hopes to print up a booklet similar to one they did on old barns when the Smithsonian's "Barn Again" exhibit came to Ephraim in 1998 so people can take an outhouse driving tour. And he hopes to make people mere aware of the history his-tory and value of keeping MHMmmaMaM sor0e outhouses around. "We're just saying, 'Dont knock them down. Fix thorn up and store your rakes or something in them. That's not too nutty is it?" What surprises many people, he says, is that much of rural Utah is not as far removed from, the outhouse out-house era as they might think. Some of the outhouses in Mt. Pieasant and Spring City, including includ-ing the one in his own back yard, were built in the late 1800s or around the turn of the century. But many are WPA usodels that were built in the mid- to late- Whenever and however they were built, the outhouses are worth saving, says Roger Roper, historical preservation coordinator coordina-tor at the Utah Division of State History. ' "We lose so much of the little stuff that makes up life," he says. "We have the big Victorian homes, the important buildings and churches. But our view of history his-tory gets skewed." ' The historic American ou. house has a great story to tell, says David Shayt, museum specialist in the division of cultural history at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C "We'd love to collect one, if we could find a well-documented, well-documented, weM-preserved one." He's just been working 'on an exhibit of bathroom plumbing and thinks a study of outhouses would be interesting, too. "That whole evolution from the early ones to the modern porta-potties is fascinating." fasci-nating." And he applauds' efforts of local groups to preserve what they have. ' "We've put them on our endangered endan-gered species list, says Boas. "They're a part of our history, t part of who we are. And you have to admit they're a lot nicer to keep now. You can use them for storage or dcorativ purposes. And there's no smell." Ill' r"9r"l :?5 7 if I ill I S Lowest Prices ? 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