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Show B-2 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 16-19, 2018 Basin Rec targets backcountry weeds rec report Organization seeks helping hands from hikers, bikers PARK CITY MOUNTAIN RESORT Park City Mountain Resort is open for the season, including its mountain coaster, zip lines, and summer lift services. For more information on summer lift operations and pricing, go to Parkcitymountain.com or call 435-649-8111. BEN RAMSEY DEER VALLEY RESORT The Park Record Deer Valley Resort is has opened its summer lift services for the season. For details on the resort’s activities and season passes, visit DeerValley.com or call 435-649-1000. Spring wildflowers are blooming across the Wasatch, but some of the flowers aren’t as easy on Jessica Kirby’s eyes as they are on others. Don’t blame her; it’s her job as Basin Recreation’s open lands manager to look at trailside foliage with a critical eye, because some of them — like the dyer’s woad she was recently uprooting by the armload near Iron Bill Trail — are noxious. She piled the weeds, which can be identified by their clusters of tiny yellow flowers and tall, slim stalks, into a clump on the trail. “They out-compete native vegetation,” she said, explaining why the woad was on Basin Rec’s hit list. “They actually have some chemicals that they secrete into the soils that helps them as well, and they love to take over disturbed areas.” In centuries past, the woad was traded for use as a dye, making cities in England, France and Germany prosperous for the resulting blue color it rendered. But after it was replaced by modern dyeing techniques, the woad’s reputation waned. Now, it’s considered a noxious weed in most western states, and Kirby said, it’s a threat to the Wasatch’s ecological web. She said by supplanting na- UTAH OLYMPIC PARK Utah Olympic Park is open for the summer, including its bobsleigh rides, zip lines, ropes courses, drop tower, tubing and more. For a complete list of summer hours of operation and rates, visit utaholympiclegacy.org. PARK CITY GOLF CLUB The Park City Golf Club is open for the season. For pricing information go to www.parkcity.org/departments/park-city-golf-club or call 435-615-5800. CRATER SPRINGS GOLF COURSE Crater Springs Golf Course in Midway is open for the season. For more information, call 435-645-5588. JEREMY RANCH GOLF Jeremy Ranch Golf Course, a private course, is open for the season. Go to thejeremy.com for more information. HIDEOUT CANYON GOLF The Outlaw Golf Course at Hideout Canyon is open for the season. For details call 435-200-3142, or go to Hideoutcanyon.com/the-outlaw-golf-course.php. MOUNTAIN DELL GOLF COURSE Mountain Dell Golf Course is open for the season. The price for 18 holes is $54 riding or $38 walking. The price for 9 holes is $27 riding, $19 walking. Tee times after 2 p.m. are $42 riding, $30 walking. There is no discount for a nine-hole twilight round. For more information call 801-582-3812 or go to www.slc-golf.com/ mountain_dell_golf_course/. BASIN RECREATION Basin Recreation maintains more than 145 miles of trails for hiking, biking, dog walking and more. To plan a visit, go to www.basinrecreation.org for a complete list of trails. For trail information or maintenance concerns, email Phares Gines, at phares@basinrecreation.org. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Jessica Kirby, Basin Recreation’s open space management supervisor, hauls an arm-load of Dyer’s woad, a noxious weed that produces yellow flowers, toward the truck as she and volunteers maintain and beautify the newly rerouted lower section of the Iron Bill trail near the Utah Olympic Park on Saturday, June 2. tive vegetation, the woad diminishes food supplies for native animals. “Wildlife habitat, forage, and scenic value as well — there are so many things in open space that we protect, and the weeds compromise that,” she said. But pulling up woad and other invasive plants like garlic mustard, which looks a little like a nettle with small white flowers, is a big job, especially considering Basin Recreation’s jurisdiction. SOLDIER HOLLOW GOLF COURSE Soldier Hollow Golf Course is open for the season. Call 435-6547442 for details. Rates change throughout the day. See http://www. soldierhollowgolf.com/rates/ for details. MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION For trail information, including maps and conditions, go to mountaintrails.org. WASATCH-CACHE NATIONAL FOREST The Heber-Kamas Ranger District maintains trails and campgrounds in the Uinta Mountains east of Kamas. Wolf Creek Pass, Guardsman Pass and the Mirror Lake Highway are open for the season, according to the Utah Department of Transportation. For more info, go to FS.USDA.gov/uwcnf or call 435-783-4338. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD STATE PARKS AND RESERVOIRS Jessica Kirby, Basin Recreation’s open space management supervisor, right, talks with Dirk Beal, left, about Dyer’s woad. The weed out-competes native plants, reducing habitat for native animals, which makes it antithetical to Basin Recreation’s mission to conserve the land it oversees in the Wasatch Range. For information such as water temperature and current conditions at Jordanelle and Rockport state parks, visit StateParks.Utah.gov. For information on the Echo Reservoir, call 435-336-2247. The The organization cares for land around the PRI trail system, the Rasmussen area behind Jeremy Ranch Elementary School, the drainage between Toll Canyon and Summit Park, the Road to Arcylon trail, as well as the Glenwild trail system and parts of the Mid Mountain Trail. “It’s a lot of area,” Kirby said. “It’s almost 200 miles of trail and 3,000 acres of property.” And while property owners are legally obligated to pull noxious weeds, a lot of the responsibility still falls on Basin Recreation’s staff. To maintain the area, Basin Recreation employs four fulltime trail workers, one project manager, five seasonal trailbuilders and two open space workers, one of whom is Kirby. “I gave myself tennis elbow last year pulling weeds,” she said. “That’s how hard we go.” So Kirby is asking for help – especially from those that use remote sections of Basin Recreation’s trail systems. She asks the hiker, biker community to lend their mitts in removing noxious weeds. She will provide a bag, (“I typically give then a contractors trash bag, which is way more fancy then a regular garbage bag,” she said) which budding weed removers can pack along on adventures, Weather Park City statistics for the week ending June 14 Temperatures: SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY High for the week ................................ 85° Low for the week ................................. 39° Precipitation: Total for the week ............................. 0.00” ACCUWEATHER UV INDEX Some sunshine A morning thunderstorm; clouds and sun A morning thunderstorm; periods of sun Periods of sun with a shower or t-storm Clouds and sun with a shower or t-storm Winds: SW 8-16 mph Winds: S 7-14 mph Winds: S 6-12 mph Winds: NW 6-12 mph Winds: N 4-8 mph 76°/54° 75°/53° 70°/48° 68°/48° 70°/51° TM Ogden 82/61 Elko 78/48 Salt Lake City 83/68 Saturday .......... Sunday ............ Monday ............ Tuesday ........... Wednesday ...... Sunrise 5:54 a.m. ......... 5:55 a.m. ......... 5:55 a.m. ......... 5:55 a.m. ......... 5:55 a.m. ......... Sunset 8:59 p.m. 8:59 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Moonrise Moonset Saturday .......... 9:09 a.m. ........ 11:52 p.m. Sunday .......... 10:20 a.m. ................ none Monday ........... 11:30 a.m. ....... 12:35 a.m. Tuesday .......... 12:39 p.m. ......... 1:12 a.m. Wednesday ...... 1:45 p.m. ......... 1:45 a.m. Ely 81/49 Full Last New June 20 June 27 July 6 July 12 Craig 74/48 Park City Provo 85/57 Price 79/56 Richfield 79/54 Moab 81/63 Cedar City 79/56 Aspen 70/47 Grand Junction 72/61 Cortez 67/50 St. George 89/72 MOON PHASES First Evanston 74/50 76/54 Wendover 82/61 SUN AND MOON Farmington 68/55 Page 78/67 Shown is Saturday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday’s highs and Saturday night’s lows. Grand Canyon 66/46 NATIONAL CITIES City Albany Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Boston Buffalo Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus, OH Dallas Denver Saturday Hi Lo W 84 61 pc 61 51 c 92 72 pc 85 66 pc 82 66 s 81 69 pc 91 72 pc 95 77 pc 91 69 pc 90 71 pc 90 69 s 95 77 pc 87 60 pc Moisture from Bud will bring some rain to southeast Utah and southwest Colorado on Saturday with a shower or thunderstorm in eastern northeast Utah and northwest Colorado. The remainder of the region will be dry with some sunshine. A mixture of clouds and sun will prevail Sunday with a shower or thunderstorm from Park City eastward. ROAD CONDITIONS REGIONAL CITIES Logan 79/52 Sat. Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. The higher the AccuWeather UV Index™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Shown is the highest value for each day. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 High; 11+ Extreme. Please see Noxious, B-6 Saturday, June 16, 2018 REGIONAL FORECAST FIVE DAY FORECAST FOR PARK CITY ALMANAC or they can pull the weeds upP by the root, preferably withoutm spreading the seeds, and put them right into their backpacks. “The main thing is, once the weed is pulled it needs to be taken off-site,” she said. Those not ready to pull and dispose of the weeds themselves can send Kirby a photo — with its geolocation data enabled — via email, or send a Google Maps pin. Kirby said anyone is free to pull the weeds to their hearts’ desires, so long as the weed isn’t the only thing growing in a large area. “If you were in an area with 80 to 90 percent cover of the weed, you would need to take measures,” she said. “Mainly, going back and reseeding.” If a large area is cleared without any remedial vegetation planted in its place, it can create a mud field and cause erosion. “Luckily, we don’t have a ton of places in our open space that are that invasive,” she said. “Occasionally we do find places where you have to come back and do mitigation afterwards.” Kirby said, sadly, that the county will probably never be able to fully eradicate the woad and other noxious weeds. City Aspen Boulder Butte Colorado Springs Elko Ely Evanston Flagstaff Gallup Grand Canyon Grand Junction Gunnison Idaho Falls Jackson Hole Mesquite Missoula Ogden Page Pocatello Provo Pueblo Reno Rexburg St. George Salt Lake City Spokane Sun Valley Tahoe Twin Falls Yellowstone Saturday Hi Lo W 70 47 t 86 61 pc 54 41 r 86 56 t 78 48 pc 81 49 pc 74 50 pc 60 43 t 67 49 t 66 46 t 72 61 t 69 48 t 72 47 pc 66 42 pc 95 71 pc 58 48 r 82 61 pc 78 67 t 74 46 pc 85 57 pc 92 62 t 84 55 pc 70 50 pc 89 72 pc 83 68 pc 73 57 sh 67 48 pc 71 41 pc 72 50 pc 57 35 t Sunday Hi Lo W 68 43 t 74 56 t 58 44 c 80 52 pc 76 44 pc 75 40 pc 64 46 t 69 40 s 77 45 s 75 34 s 76 59 t 66 41 pc 71 47 t 62 44 t 96 70 s 68 51 c 82 57 pc 89 67 pc 77 49 t 82 56 r 89 57 c 68 52 pc 71 51 t 92 67 s 86 63 pc 79 59 pc 68 47 t 58 35 pc 74 48 pc 55 33 r Interstate 80: Generally dry weather is expected across the region on Saturday with a partly sunny sky. US-40: Dry across much of the route Saturday; however, far eastern areas can have a shower or thunderstorm. TRAVELERS FORECAST Travelers heading into far eastern Utah and Colorado can encounter a shower or thunderstorm with wet roads and lower visibility on Saturday. The remainder of the region will be dry with no weather-related travel problems. WEATHER HISTORY Damaging hail pelted Dubuque, Iowa, on June 16, 1882. Bits of material were found in the hailstones, including gravel, blades of grass and even live frogs. 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