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Show riitray' it y-B yft'r A-12 f Par Record Tuesday, December 23, 1999 eina rele aircase Escalante Nat'i Monumen Antelope b St 1 . OAMES TIQUES of Park City (435)647-2919 GIVE US A TRY... CALL SHARON FOR A FREE ESTIMATE. Thorough and detailed cleaning, at an affordable cost. Your home will sparkle and smell fresh. We follow up after cleaning to make sure you are satisfied. If you're not satisfied, we re-clean at no additional charge. COMPLETE CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED... Insured and bonded, mm? KANAB, Utah (AP) There hadn't been a reported antelope sighting in the Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument for the last 25 years. The animals were reintroduced reintro-duced but mysteriously disappeared. disap-peared. Now, experts are trying again to bring the antelope back home. Approximately 1(H) prdnghorn anfclope were captured last Thursday night on Parker Mountain. The antelope, with their orange, white and black markings were taken to Kanab, about 310 miles south of Salt Lake City, where they were released just as morning broke. "This is putting a native animal ani-mal back into it's historic habitat," habi-tat," said Harry Barber, wildlife biologist for the 200 million-acre monument. "This allows people that visit the monument to see another big game species, other than deer or bighorn sheep." The Bureau of Land Management and the Division of Wildlife Resources have been working the last three years to restore antelope the population. Its' not clear why the previous reintroduction failed, but Barber isn't taking any chances this time. "The reasons are uncertain," Barber said. "But we're going to be monitoring these animals more closely to see if they disappear disap-pear again. Experts decided to bring the antelope to the Grande-Staircase because the vegetation and setting set-ting are close to the animal's historic his-toric habitat, said Barber. Officials also looked into several sev-eral archaeological sites in Kane County, adjacent to Kanab, where they found the bones of antelope, deer and bighorn sheep. In reviewing journal entries from 100 years ago, Barber said pioneers mention antelope on the Arizona Strip, but they had mistaken them as llamas. "We suspect what they saw were antelope," said Barber. . The BLM plans on keeping a close watch on the animals, which have been marked with a numbered num-bered ear tag, More law enforcement enforce-ment has been assigned to patrol the area and wildlife officials plan to fly over the area to make sure the antelope survive. Barber said. . il Antelope hunting will not be allowed in the area until the population pop-ulation increases and can sustain itself, Barber added. Until then. Barber will have his eyes on the precious animals. "It's one of the ultimate career duties," said Barber. Scientists seek 1 4,000 Utah women for study SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Researchers want to recruit 14,(XX) Utah women as part of a national study on the effectiveness of a new way to determine if a fetus has Down syndrome-while still in its first trimester. They say the new method is less invasive, "Only 22 percent of Down babies are detected before birth in Utah," Robert Ball, a perinatologist perinatolo-gist with the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, told a news conference Thursday at LDf Hospital. "The results of this clinical trial will have a profound impact on the way pregnant women are screened for the syndrome and will likely determine the standard of care for screening all pregnancies in the future," Ball said. The Utah portion of the two- year study is being conducted at Ogden's McKay-Dee Hospital, the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and LDS Hospital, both in Salt Lake City, and the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, Nationally, 60,000 women are expected to enroll in the study also being carried out by hospitals in New York City, Boston, Michigan and Texas under an $11 million grant by the National Institutes of Health. Researchers will use ultrasound on fetuses between 10 and 14 weeks' gestation to measure the distance between the skull and the back of the neck. At a certain thickness, the fetus is believed to be at high-risk for having Down syndrome. Doctors will then take a blood sample from the mother to examine exam-ine certain hormone levels. By combining the results of the ultrasound, blood test and the mother's age, they will make a risk assessment for Down syndrome. Initial tests indicate the procedure proce-dure is approximately 80 percent accurate, Currently, doctors test the mother's hormone levels between the 15th apd 20th week of gestation, gesta-tion, which gives a 60 percent detection rate for the syndrome, Mothers at high risk may undergo under-go an amniocentesis, in which fluid is drawn from the amniotic sac around the fetus to test for chromosome chro-mosome abnormalities. The invasive procedure carries a slight risk for miscarriage. Results of the test are often unavailable until about halfway through the pregnancy. The trial is expected to show confirming data that the new pro cedure is at least as accurate as the old one, "We are going to have the benefit bene-fit of exposing fewer fetuses to risky procedures," Ball said, "This is a big deal - a huge deal - not just nationally, but internationally." The researchers admit recruiting recruit-ing 7,000 women a year for the program pro-gram is an aggressive goal, but they hope the free ultrasound and reassurance reas-surance of a normal pregnancy will motivate them to participate, Flint Porter, a perinatologist at LDS Hospital, said the new ultrasound ultra-sound test may also help better identify fetuses at increased risk for other birth defects, especially heart problems, "The study is designed to test this hypothesis and to determine whether this method of testing should be used routinely in the care of pregnant patients," he said. Forest service wants to close trail to snow vehicles JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) The U.S. Forest Service is discussing a proposal to prohibit snow vehicles on part of the Salt Pass ski trail area in Bridger-Teton National Forest. Snowmobiles and the like would be banned in favor of cross-country skiing and sledding, sled-ding, according to Greys River District ranger Mesia Nyman. The area has two groomed ski trails which have been "unofficially closed" to snowmobiles snow-mobiles for several years, Nyman said. The ski trail area encompasses encompass-es about 2,100 acres on either side of U.S. 89 south of Fish Creek. Other parts of the forest remain open to snowmobiles except for small areas of wildlife winter range, Nyman said. Snowmobiles can even parallel paral-lel or cross some restricted ski trails, she said. People with snowboards, sleds, inner tubes, and skiers of all abilities find recreation opportunities along the Salt Pass area, which is easily accessed by U.S. 89, she said. 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