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Show DAILY HERALD D4 Fire near Vernal at 2,600 acres THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VERNAL A Diamond Mountain blaze on mostly Bureau of Land Management land has grown to 2,600 acres. Officials Thursday estimated the fire was 20 percent contained. Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of Downtown Continued from Dl to listen to them and know their needs and help when they are growing and changing." Although the economic development team tries to get large companies to come to Provo like Home Depot, it also spends its efforts helping "businesses that start in people's garages." "We have Novell that started in a student's garage," he said. Birthday Continued from Dl The family likes to hear her tell stories, such as her riding a three-da- y steer drive with her husband Leland when there weren't enough men for the ride or how she bought her first house from a catalog for $600. The pieces of lumber were all numbered and Hendrix and her husband put the house together after the foundation was poured. She furnished the house with $300 and still has some of the chairs and dressers she bought. Hendrix said she's not sure how long her good health will Friday. September 1 2004 Venerable Wilderness Act stands test of tune the fire, which was sparked Tuesday. Two heavy air tankers, three helicopters and two Hot Shot crews battled the fire Thursday. Officials reported steep, rocky terrain and little access to most of the land. No structures were immediately threatened ' ." . Committee, sends a form letter John Heilpr in . such an icon that skeptics dare only try to slow its consequences. Even President Bush has signed off on adding 529,604 acres at a time when environ- mentalists are attempting to use the Wilderness Act to block his pursuit of more oil and gas drilling and timbering on federal land. Only Congress can designate wilderness, although the president has to sign laws doing it. The acreage added so far in Bush's tenure is the least of any president since Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness Act on Sept. 3, 1964. Motorized vehicles and . equipment, such as chain saws, are prohibited in wilderness areas. Camping, hiking, climbing, fishing, hunting, canoeing and horseback riding are allowed; grazing livestock is generally allowed. are mountain biking, commercial logging, oil and gas leasing and mining, except for claims. Rep. Richard Pombo, chairman of the House Resources "And we are proud of that kind of home-grow-n business growth that is sparked by the . university." To assist new local companies, Provo has a business development corporation made up of citizens and business leaders. The members mentor and offer grants to new local businesses. Hill Fellow can be 9 or reached at jfellowheraldexira.com. 344-254- keep up, but she comes from a family line of longevity. Her mother lived to be almost 92 and many of her siblings have lived to be in their late 90s. Hendrix' family says her hard work ethic and tier healthy eating habits from the farm life have kept her in good health. As long as she is around, the granddaughters and the rest of the family will continue to call her when they have questions about cooking and other things. "She's the last one in the family that knows everything," Eve Hendrix said. Another California RepiM- can, Rep. George Radanovich, who chairs the House subcommittee that oversees wilderness, said the pace of adding to it "needs to be slowed down to keep some people from ... abusing the intent of the law by keeping the public off public "We may be slowing it down, but I dont think there's the interest in cutting them off completely," Radanovich said Thursday. "Where there's the interest, T think they can be designated as long as they're appropriate." Last year the Bush administration directed the Interior Department to quit barring oil and gas drilling on land proposed for wilderness but not yet designated by Congress. Since then, the department has issued oil and gas leases on tens of thousands of these acres, mainly in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. Congress this fall might pass two proposals for new wilderness, Radanovich said. Those would create protections for Off-limi- ts road-buildin- g, pre-existi- . ;A -- -- wilderness near Albuquerque, . MM. Nearly 5 percent of the nation is protected as wilderness, in what author Wallace Stegn-e- r, an admirer of Western landscapes, famously described as "the geography of hope." Wildernesses range in size from Pelican Island in des-ignat- ed re Fkjriclato9-million-acr- e Elias in Alaska. Only six states Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland and Rhode Island have none. , "It isnt a lockup forever, but these areas do have a padlock on them and Congress has the key," said Doug Scott, a Seattle environmentalist who wrote a history of the law. Part of the law's staying power, he said, is that "it was designed, most of aD, to put the Congress in the driver's seat." Few of the 114 bills signed by Johnson and successive presidents creating 663 wilderness areas around the nation have been tinkered with, and there never has been an attempt to undo a wilderness designation. "The magic is it requires Congress, which in turn requires the citizenry, to be engaged. "That's where it gets its power," said William Meadows, WrangeH-Sai- nt ' s president of The Wilderness ' Society. His group believes another 200 nuuion acres, much of ft in Alaska, should be considered for wilderness protections; Alaska already contains more than half the nation's wilderness, 58 minion acres or about 16 percent of the state. California has 14 million wilderness acres, or 14 percent of the state. Nearly aD the wilderness added during Bush's presidency is in Nevada; 14,000 acres are in Colorado. Supporters credit the law's success to the power of a uniquely American idea leaving future generations some of the last remaining wild areas, free from design. Other countries have since mimicked it. Utah author and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams sees poetry in a law that defines wilderness as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." . "Those who wrote this legislation into being understood the crucial and subtle relationship between language and landscape," Williams said. "How we speak about wild, open country is closely aligned with how we treat it. Open lands open minds." Lincoln County, Nev., and 11,000 acres dubbed the Ojito areas. "Wilderness designations often result in lasting controversy and a sense of resentment" if they dont have widespread local support, cautions Pombo, WASHINGTON Forty years and 106 million acres after Congress decided the wilderness should not be spoiled by people, the law is . nearly 770,000 acres around to colleagues who propose new THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' revo-iutionar- y, hu-m- an Charges dropped against Sunset councnman I Tammy McPherson can be 9 reached at or tmcpherwnheraldextra.corn. judge has dismissed charges Sunset against a FARMINGTON Amid alle- City Councilman who was acgations of witness tampering, a cused of sexually assaulting a young boy. However, the charge against Mel Vern H. Wood was dismissed without prejudice, which gives prosecutors the option to refile charges later. Wood was charged in November with aggravated sexual abuse of a child, which carries a sentence of up to life 'in prison. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 344-255- It's not too late! Court documents say the dismissal mojtion was filed "based on the fact that the child victim in this case has apparently been tampered with to a significant degree by one of the defendant's witnesses." The document also states that prosecutors plan to investigate the alleged witness tampering for possible prosecution. According to previous court documents, Wood caused "injury to the genitalia of a male child under the age of 14 years of age" sometime between Oct. 24-2- 6. trial had been A three-da- y set to begin Sept. 15, but is now canceled. Wood lost his council seat in last year's elec- tion. He has lived in Sunset 49 years and served as the public works director for Clinton for 20 years, retiring in 2002. He also served on the board of the Davis County Mosquito Abatement District. Burning Man sets sights on permanent location Don Thompson THE Call today for PRESS BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. Burning Man started as a vanishing flight of fancy on a San Francisco beach, an artwork that literally disappeared in a puff of smoke when artists torched an eight-fowooden figure 18 years ago. The fleeting nature of the bizarre annual ritual of renewal has always been part of its'ap-peNevada's seventh-largecity rises from the remote Black Rock Desert for a week each summer, returning to dust and ash after the Saturday night immolation of the central icoa But now organizers are seeking a permanent location as they try to morph from a once-a-yecounterculture event into a nation- and world-wid-e enterprise that will integrate into and influence mainstream society. Founder Larry Harvey envisions a place where affiliated nonprofit organizations could gather perhaps with a conference center, a park for the event's trademark huge outdoor exhibits, and facilities for creating interactive artworks that could be transported to gatherings nationwide. "That's going to be a huge leap, and it's going to take some Harvey said. ' The most likely location is in your F Water Check. Tn) ASSOCIATED TGF T73 ot al st ar Your sprinkler system will be checked for efficiency and output, and you will be given suggestions and a customized watering schedule for your own landscape. offered as a public service by Central Utah Water Conservancy District and USU University Extension . fund-raising- ," I Prcvlilna FcIto Fen & EZsincrfcs Fcr Cvcr 32 Yeas! Nevada or nearby, relatively close to the festival 120 miles north of Reno. But some participants at this year's event said the thought of permanence is contrary to the Burning Man experience. "This is about leave no trace and that includes the art," said Colleen Wynn, 35, of Seattle. . "It's temporary art for a temporary audience. "That's what's so unique people spend thousands and thousands of dollars for something that goes away. "Forming a permanent collection, I think, would take away from the original spirit,'' she said. After this year's event concludes on Labor Day, Harvey expects to devote more of his time to that venture, and to his dual role as president of the Black Rock Arts Foundation, which seeks to promote Burning Man-styl- e art and activities everywhere. Since last year, the organization has created regional networks, with rules designed to avoid the commercial exploitation that officials have fought aggressively, sometimes with lawsuits. Even the display of logos is discouraged, to the point organizers ask participants to mask , company names emblazoned across rental trucks used to haul equipment into the desert. The licensing has created trepidation for some who fear the free spirit so central to Burning Man is being trampled by a Big Brother-lik-e "BMorg," sometimes shortened to Borg. "It's not a franchise, insisted Harvey. The regional groups should ' keep the organization fresh with innovation even as the central organization provides coordination often through innovative use of the Internet, he said. He pointed particularly to events during the last year in Texas, London and Dublin, Ireland the later two events drawing a majority of participants who had never been to the original Burning Man. Wearing a sarong and sunglasses on the Nevada playa, Mike Caron, of South Hadley, Mass., said he has attended regional events in his home state with friends. But Caron, who has one leg and goes by the nickname Capt. Ahab, said the regional events only give people "a taste" of the Burning Man experience. "I find it hard to think they can surpass this," he said. "The goal of the regionals is to keep the spirit going." Some of the groups now scattered across the United States are forming their own alliances and connections. "The fact that it's leaping those boundaries is more promising than anything else IVe seen," Harvey said. "What I'm interested in encouraging is people doing these things not out in the woods or in the desert, but in their home towns," he said. "Well be a million strong it just wont be at Burning Maa" the Net Burning Man: www.burningman.com. On UQffl I Shdeout, ducted AC, cruise control, AMFMCassette, TV, Generator, awning and more. 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