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Show SECTION 2athjHcmtii SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 2004 CITY EDITOR i Marc Haddock mhackiockOhefaldextra.com 344-258- 6 Pleasant Grove man may be charged with poaching Caleb Wanted DAILY HERALD An Pleasant Grove man may be charged with poaching after an investigation following a tip to police from an anonymous resident. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources officer Chad Bettridge said on . Wednesday that Pleasant GroveLin-do- n police received a call from an anonymous tipster about 6:30 pjn. on Aug. 25, saying a man was illegally using a hunting bow in a Lindon apple orchard. ' When police arrived, they found Jor-- , dan L Smith, 18, of Pleasant Grove buck that had been with a dead -l Perfect Practice V But when officers returned to Smith's home with the charges, Smith was out of town. "Normally he would be arrested and booked into jail but when I found out when he was out of town, I turned the case over to the county attorney to file See POACHING, B3 in tree climbing challenge vv off 1 1 Caleb Warnock ' FRANK BOTTDaily Herald Members of the Utah County Search and Rescue pull Suzette Smith out of a crashed plane during a training exercise. The plane was placed in the river for training purposes earfy Saturday morning. Hunters losing space, need to find new places for sport Justin Hill . For example, the West Fields area, a once popular bird hunting area between Springville city limits and Interstate 15, was annexed into Springville in the summer of 2003. Now, it is a misdemeanor to discharge any weapon in . the area, and offenses can be elevated to felonies based on threat of injury or actual injury. Other areas where the available hunting territory is Shrinking include Saratoga Springs, Eagle Mountain and Santaquin, said Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. Shaun Button. ."We're just losing more and more open space said Scott Root, conservation outreach manager with the Division of Wildlife Resources. There is a lack of hunting access as a result of urban sprawl, he said. "It's a huge issue, and it has discouraged a lot of hunters," Root said. Pheasant habitat is being destroyed, and predators pockets are formed. So the bird's population has. declined, Root said. Only 2 percent of Utah is suitable habitat for pheasants, he said. When Bufton works on the opening day of the pheasant hunt which falls on Nov. 6 this year deputies have ceived at least 20 to 30 complaints of people shooting too close to homes and farm animals or trespassing. . DAILY HERALD On the first day of the dove hunt last week, a party of hunters headed to the foothills c, of Cedar Valley. ;v e However, the haunt of hunters is now inside the city limits of Eagle Mountain, where hunting is off limits. The hunting party was taught above Lake Mountain Road and just 200 yards from a home. City ordinances forbid the use of firearms anywhere within the city limits that ban includes bow hunters. The hunters received a warning from a Utah County Sheriff's deputy. That's just too close to the homes," said Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. Jo Murphy. v "And our city ordinance just forbids it." The hunting seasons for upland game doves, pheasants, chukar, rabbits and blue are either and ruffed grouse under way or about to begin.. But with explosive growth in the county, it is getting harder to find places to hunt. Private property issues have long Wen a problem for hunters, who must have permission from a property owners to hunt on their land. Now they also face a changing Utah County in which land once OK for hunting is either being developed or incorporated into cities that don't allow shooting within their city limone-tim- , its. ' ready killed a deer on the Saturday before," Bettridge said. DWR staff were able to later confirm that Smith had used his tag on a deer killed by Strawberry Reservoir, Bettridge said. "This deer in Lindon was his second deer," said Bettridge. "He tried to use the same tag." SLC man takes first place wet-- 3 fyy shot with archery hunting equipment. Smith was taken to the Pleasant GroveIindon police station, where he was interviewed by Bettridge. " When he was in the field he had a license for the deer but the tag was de- tached and when cops showed up he got nervous and said he dropped it and couldnt find it, but in reality he had al . DAILY i HERALD Mike Minardi of Salt Lake City fractured his back in two places, punctured a king and lacerated his liver after falling 40 feet out of a tree several years ago. On Saturday he won the Utah tree climbing Master Challenge competition for the second year in a row. Held in Spanish Fork this year, the competition capped two days of events and training sponsored by the Utah Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture and the Utah Community Forest Council. Minardi will represent Utah in the International Finals in Nashville, Tenn., next spring, "Nothing else feels as fulfilling as this kind of work," said Minardi, who is a professional arborist and tree worker Arborcare-Arborscapwith Salt Lake "I am able to climb beautiful trees and do something good for them and good for myself. It's given me a whole new appreciation of the natural world and changed my view of things." After holding a series of jobs as a manual laborer in Wisconsin several years ago, Minardi saw a newspaper article about a professional arborist and contacted the man. The two met in a park and the arborist showed Minardi how to climb a tree using professional equipment. Soon Minardi had landed a job with a tree care company, but six months later he made a dangerous mistake. "I made an error climbing a tree," he said The branch holding me tore out and the rope and saddle and me came crashing out of the tree." Minardi spent three months in a brace. "While I was laid up I did an immense amount of soul searching," he said ' "Quite literally the day after I got out of my brace I went to the park, climbed a and immedirope and got into a tree ately turned around and came back down. I was scared out of my mind I was sweating bullets, but I really needed to do it for myself, to prove I could." Mike Marett, president of the Utah Community Forest Council, said the two-da- y competition, which ended Saturday, gives professional tree climbers, most of whom work for power companies or tree care companies, a chance to hone their skills. ; f : Because many trees are too close to power lines or houses and are therefore inaccessible to cherry-picke- r trucks, nearly every power company and tree care company has some employees who specialize in climbing trees, he said. "It takes a tremendous amount of , : 1 . . CI e. City-base- d . chin-to-h- See See HUNTERS, B3 CHALLENGE, " u (A ' n' 51 B I ' ip B3 " 'I tr JEREMY Mike Minardi uses ropes HARMONDaily Herald to ascend a giant tree in Springville during the state tree climbing championships Saturday. Minardi took first place. W)vW'BSffKTOE'B'RKtiy ifti 1 tfiu JL'iJj cttM n ."W t)r.it dtolitflTiV |