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Show SECTION 0 SATURDAY. APRIL 8, METRO EDITOR Joe Pyrah 2006 ipyrahheraldextra.cpm 344-258- 6 Residents team to form game bird conservation group , Caleb Warnock DAILY HERALD Hoping to save pheasants in Utah County, residents have formed a conservation group. A group of 15 game bird enthusiasts have formed a Utah County chapter of Pheasants Forever, a national organization that works to preserve habitat for pheasant, quail and other upland game birds. "Pheasant populations today are down drastically from the past," said Scott Root of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. "Development has hurt us, and loss of habitat. We are trying to help the pheasants the best we can." But help can be hard to come by, he said. DWR officials used to do a pheasant count each year, traveling a fixed route to count the birds, but as development encroached, the route had to be abandoned. Not in his Now no population counts are done. late 1960s, said Cade Powell, a biologist with the national orga- pheasant and quail farms, one of which was located in Springville, had to be closed in 1993 because of expense, he said. Now the state, uses fee money from hunters to buy pheasants from private farms and stock the birds in state hunting grounds each year just before the hunt. At its zenith, hunters took 300,000 pheasants in Utah in the nization of Pheasants Forever. "Now the harvest is down to 20,000 to 30,000 birds." Organizers of the new Utah County chapter of Pheasants Forever hope to reverse that trend, said Jeremey King, chapter president. "I have grown up hunting here in Utah County," he said. "Lately State-ru- n . See BIRDS, Birds of a feather I Next meeting of the Utah County chapter of Pheasants Forever 7:30 p.m. April 18 I Youth sporting clays tournament 29 in Vineyard For more information about Pheasants Forever, jeremeycrfs.net or call 688-709April D2 IHCDlans Around Hanging backyard Springville resident for c mics m supermarkets ..TE tmm concerned about possible hikers, trail SALT LAKE CITY Katie Ashton HERALD 'AILY eville Shoreline Trail is a ! WW, Mr 5 r ,1 iv5- - v solution for . K the public and the project that will span 100 miles along the Wasatch Front from BrighamCity P t V'-.-' V'""'- . - f I r tr-r- V rr f 11 - community." David Nemelka to Nephi. v resident The trail will parallel the eastern shoreline of ancient Lake Bonneville. Salt Lake City, Provo and Bountiful have completed sections of it. , tf i fT . ' 1 A k . V"i "I'm not opposed to the trail at all," Nemelka said. "This will be a better solution for the public and the community ." The City Council, at Tuesday's meeting, voted in favor of moving the trail with the condition that there wouldn't be too much of a grade difference, Council- - ' man Ben Jolly said. This comes at no cost to the city, Jolly said. Nemelka purchased his property 10 years ago from a developer. At that time the proposed trail section was on the back side of his property. But because he purchased additional property behind him, Nemelka's backyard was split in two by the trail. After working for a year with Springville to find a solution, Nemelka said he isn't sure when the trail will be put in, but he's ready for it. The trail "may or may not happen in our lifetime," Nemelka said. Nemelka's property wasn't the only piece of development standing in the way of the proposed trail v The city needs to purchase additional property before it can be fully developed, he said. vices. The visits are expected to last ty&Sv vRfv . v 'v SALT LAKE CITY PRESS - Bradley Jr. has been ordered to stand trial in the 1991 abduction-slayin- g of a fellow Kennecott Copper security guard, who purportedly had been having an affair with Bradley's wife at that time. Bryan Ruff, 22, disappeared Dec 10, 1991, from a Kennecott guard shack. His skeletal remains were discovered in July 1993 in Utah County. first-serve- d Smith's considers the clinics another expansion of services offered to shoppers, including pharmacies, video rentals, d eateries and banks, photo finishing. "We think it's going to be a popular service," said Smith's spokeswoman Marsha Gilford. University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics in Salt Lake City also is looking at opening tiny clinics staffed by nurse practitioners and designed to offer economical and convenient care. "There really is a need for these types of clinics," said Rob Lloyd, University Hospital's executive director for ambulatory services and community clinics. "It's wonderful for mothers to be able to scoot in quickly with a fast-foo- ( If. 4Mi ROBB COSTEUODaily Herald Vetter, from Portsmouth, N.H., takes a ride on the giant swing ropes course in Provo on Friday. Vetter said, "It looked kind but also kind of scary, and it looked like one I could handle because you just have to sit there." Vetter and other students from the BYU 100th Ward took a break to relax before finals at BYU and UVSC. Autumn Bradley, 37, was charged with e felony murder last detecSeptember after a cold-cas- e case. tive reopened the He was bound over for trial Thursday following a preliminary hearing before 3rd District Judge Judith Atherton. Prosecutors claim Bradley forced Ruff into the trunk of his car and drove 46 miles to the Cedar Fort area, where, they say, he shot Ruff five times in the back. Kristi Kalskett, Bradley's first first-degre- Dale B. Vj4 about 15 minutes. In the test phase, only one nurse will work at each location, accepting patients on a first come, basis. Nurses can provide some immunizations and can administer pregnancy tests. Nurse practitioners also can write prescriptions. Bradley to b e tried in 1991 THE ASSOCIATED Inter-mounta- in Health Care plans to operate clinics in supermarkets, with the first one opening next week. IHC calls the limited-servic- e clinics ExpressCare, and the first one will be in a Smith's Market' place store in the Millcreek area of Salt Lake County. Another is to open in May at a Farmington Smith's. If the two locations do well, more clinics could be installed in Smith's Marketplace stores and possibly in other grocery outlets. "These clinics really meet the needs of busy individuals," said Phil White, assistant vice president of operations for IHC's Intermountain Medical Group. "They have gained a lot of popularity in other parts of the country. "The time has come to introduce this in Utah." Utah Medical Association spokesman Mark Fotheringham said physicians are concerned that consumers who go to a store clinic may spend more money if their problem is serious enough to be referred to a doctor, urgent care facility or. emergency room. "You get what you pay for," he said. "If you are concerned enough to go in and see a doctor, I'd say go see a doctor." The clinics will care for minor medical conditions, such as sore throats, ear infections, seasonal allergies, sinus infections and insect stings. Each visit will cost $35 plus the cost of any additional ser. mmmsmmmmmmmsmmmsmvi To prevent hikers from passing through his backyard on the unfinished Bonneville Shoreline Trail, Springville resident David Nemelka has decided to swap land with the city. The section of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail in Springville isn't under construction yet, Nemelka said, but as it stands it would run through the middle of his backyard. Rather than selling the city the several hundred feet of land .that would con- nect the trail, "I'm not Nemelka has worked out a opposed to deal to move the trail at the proposed trail behind all. This will his property. The Bonnbe a better ASSOCIATED PRESS wife, testified that she believed Bradley was aware of her affair with Ruff, and that he had repeat- edly accused her of having an affair with the victim. Defense attorney Loni DeLand attacked her credibility, saying she was fidgety while testifying and that there were contradictions in , her testimony. A forensic scientist testified that a scuff of red paint found on one of the victim's boots matched the paint on Bradley's car: . n sick child." Dale Bradley, left, loofes at his defense attorney, Loni Deland, during a hearing in Third District Court in Salt Lake City on Wednesday. Bradley is chargedwith the 1991 murder ofBryanRuff, ' a Kennecott Copper guard. LEAH HOOSTEN APdooI |