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Show Page E2 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday, April 5, 1392 Little Trickers program Microchips to aid buffalo management Volunteers are needed to help handicapped children participate in recreational and learning activities at Recreation for All Little Trickers program, sail Kathy Edwards, director. The Little Trickers program serves children ages 4 to 12 with developmental delay or behavioral problems. "Our Little Trickers range from being overly active to having delayed communication skills and behavioral problems," Edwards said. When the calf w ith the micro- the animal's previous weight. ANTELOPE ISLAND (AP) State officials are turning to chip is run through the chutes, a State officials said the new scanner will be passed over the wildlife managewill be cheaper, take less ment technology to help keep chip and the animal's history au- process time and be less stressful to the track of buffalo on Antelope Is- tomatically will be displayed on animals. a computer terminal. land. "We needed something that On April 11, the herd's 105 In the the ear had to a permanent, unique I.D. was past, tags calves each will have a computer and be the read information that animal, and the microfor the behind microchip implanted in to the computer. The chip appears to be the way to ear for identification purposes. typed The chips replace the old tags computer then would detail the go," said Larry Griffone of the instate Department of Natural Reformerly stapled to the animals' animal's history, providing formation about inoculations antl sources. ears. Handi-cappe- state-of-the-- art RUINS: train "certified amateurs" by teaching volunteers the classroom, (Continued from Page El) usually through professional conferences and journals and through public education programs. Reflecting on numbers like these, leaders of the government's program have little hope of getting the money and manpower many experts say these ancient sites deserve. "The atmosphere is not there for infusion into the historic preservation program," says the National Park Service's Frank who coordinates the archaeology programs throughout the federal government. Faced with this conundrum, federal archaeologists have become resourceful. Where their budgets have failed, eager volunteers have been invited to fill the void. Local governments and some states already have developed provolunteer grams to tap manpower. low-co- st The Beehive State has a cooperative program with the Utah State- Society to wide Archaeological laboratory and field skills they need to assist professionals. These volunteers help the society and other agencies with emergency digs, such as when a historic campsite is discovered in the path of a proposed roadway. In addition to providing a pool of more than 500 trained volunteers in its five years, one of the program's important has been to make people appreciate the rich heritage resources of the state, said David Madsen.the Utah state archaeologist. "They have the fervor of converts," he says. On the federal level, the Bureau of Land Management has launched "Adventures in the Past " Primarily a program to help the public appreciate its cultural heritage, it highlights ruins, rock art and other archaeological curiosities on the 270 million acres the agency oversees in 1 1 western states. Volunteers have provided BLM with labor valued at more than $1 million, said Richard Brook, an agency archaeologist in Washington. d's "They accomplish work for us across the entire spectrum of re- ARTIFACTS: (Continued from Page El) "This is an area of opportunity that ne states could really develop," Orton says. "People fly all around the world to see Egypt to see the temples; people will fly to Gulch." Grand To this end, Orton has proposed aggressive federal spending on the Grand Gulch Primitive Area, a network of canyons that houses the remnants of dozens of ancient communities tucked within cavernous redrock cliffs. Last year Orton pressed congressional budget makers to spend $6.6 million over five years to build and run a visitors center at Grand Gulch and improve the government's ability to help visitors enjoy the area. His proposal includes plans for hands-o- n digs and lab projects, living history exhibits, museums and other attractions. Orton also is active, along with Wylie, in the Four Corners Heritage Council, a partnership to develop the heritage tourism in that ruins-ric- h region. States have pledged $80,000 to get the project going, and communities in San Juan County already have begun making local ruins a more attractive tourist stop. Advocates say economic development projects like these would go a long way towards solving some of the government's headaches as steward for millions of archaeology sites. For one, the profit motive could prove useful in helping protect the sites. Communities would have a federal-state-loc- al heritage tourism dollars pour into local businesses. "If local people are feeling like those ruins do them some good, then they won't be as likely to turn their heads when they're being looted," says LeAnn Hunt, a Forest Service archeologist in Utah. In addition, tourism relieves some pressure felt by communities that have traditionally relied on extracting natural resources from federal lands. Those communities have bristled as federal environmental laws impose more and more limits on mining, ranching, and logging. Now heritage tourism could mean replacements for the jobs lost to those curbs, advocates say. In San Juan County alone, planners estimate that between 56 and 64 jobs will be created under their heritage tourism strategy. Wylie calls it "a real The people who support heritage tourism development admit that new problems go hand in hand with the benefits. In the Grand Gulch, for example, archaeologists have made note of die damage that has been done by unchecked tourist traffic in and around the ruins. Mud and stone walls of the cliff dwellings withstood hundreds of years of use und sandals and bare der feet, but hiking boots already have ground some sites into sand. "That IS a big problem," says one federal land manager. Heritage tourism advocates answer this criticism by pointing out that visitors can be steered away three-year-o- ur o. one-tim- ld ur NANCY LIVINGSTON from vulnerable and overused sites and it will be in the communities interests to do so. For the most part, the forest service's Hunt agrees, but she also has seen firsthand how more visitors naturally mean greater impact on a site. She recalls the case of an old sandal that lay perhaps ancient on a particular sand dune for more than a decade. Hikers might turn it over in their hands before they .replaced it and headed down the trail. Just recently the sandal disappeared. "We can have a situation of loving things to death," Hunt says. "Delicate things can't take that kind of traffic." Lamented another federal archaeology enthusiast: "It's the only way we are going to be able to protect these fragile, delicate PROVO CITY LIBRARY won't be able to meet the (MULTIPURPOSE ROOM) o si4 1 s- T'jGkI i-- --Mm THURS.,APRIL9 7:00 PM we have truck drivers; our youngest volunteer was 6, and our oldest is into their 90's," Schamel says. "I'm just afraid the program is going to become so great that we iaiUiUU Jl V -i Something Extraordinary: Celebrating Our Relief Society Sisterhood. 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When his parents them are graduating and movir; attended a parent-teachconferaway. ence, all four teachers told mem Volunteers for the Crisis Nur how he had been behaving much are asked to volunteer for one ; sery better, and chey praised the Little three-hoshift a week. Dunne-tha- t Tricker program for this accomshift they will help children plishment, Edwards said. Little Trickers is the fastest with arts and crafts, play games read with the children. t growing program in this area right now. Without volunteers, this proa mental health" Alpine House, gram would not be in existence, transitional home, needs volun-"- -' Edwards said. teers to help with yard work. Volunteers do not need to have For more information on these experience working with handi- and other volunteer opportunities,5 capped individuals, but they must call the United Way Volunteer be patient and enjoy working with Center at 374--8 108. i children. Individuals or groups can e help on a regular basis or basis. service said the work has been instrumental in helping historians sponsibilities we're charged understand how the common soldier lived. Separated from the with," he says. Volunteers are needed every The biggest hit, though, has champagne drinking, meat eating from 3:30-- 5 p.m. until bethe enlisted left men Wednesday officers, been the U.S Forest Service's amthe end of hind medicine bottles, canned fish May. Starting in June bitious "Passport in Time" prothe second week of Auand beer bottles instead. through program gram, a correction notice volunteers will be needed unthe about "We're gust, learning that matches volunteers with pressknown person not just the three days a week, from 9 a.m. to ing forest service archaeology On page 5 of the Sears April 5 noon. she elite," says enthusiastically. projects nationwide. The Uinta section you may advertising both Volunteer coordinators at National Forest was one of two For more information on behave received, there is an error BLM and forest service to point a Kenmore Refrigerator 71151 testing grounds for the program in the coming a Little Tricker volunteer, huge benefits of the volunteers. call the United advertised as having glass its first year, and this year 69 Volunteer Way BLM logged 50 work years valued shelves. This model does not Center at 374--8 108. projects have been slated for forhave glass shelves. Also, on at $1 million from its volunteers, ests in 24 states. Other volunteer opportunities while more than 700 PIT conpage 37, of the Sears mailer include: One in the Strawberry Valley, scripts have you may have received this put in more than 30,-0- 8 week the Kitchenaid Cooktop 1 hours service so far. "Piecing Together the Puzzle: The Volunteers are needed to help 33781 is actually a Kenmore "This is the only way we are prevent child abuse. The Family History and Artifacts of the Fort cocktop. We apologize for any been has Douglas Encampment," inconvenience this may have going to be able to protect these Support & Treatment Center's revisited all three years. Situated fragile, delicate resources," says caused. Crisis Nursery is desperately in the Unita National Forest east of Schamel, who also lobbies Conseeking volunteers for spring and Provo, the site served as a base gress for the Society for American camp for 700 soldiers. Archaeology. 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