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Show Thursday, October 1, !W8. THI: DAILY' HI R ALD, Provo, I'tah With (fears nHuiirJnBiig disease According to a 1991 survey population is infected and contracted by the U.S. Forest deformities caused by the disService, visitors to the Green ease are common. River below the dam spent $25 Studies are under way to million a year in the area. More determine how whirling disease than $21 million is spent annu- is affecting kokanee reproduction in Porcupine. The whirling-diseasally to fish Flaming Gorge. Under the best scenario, parasite attacks cartiWilson said, The disease is lage in the head and spine of slowed down or stopped altoyoung trout or salmon, somegether by Fontenelle Reservoir." times resulting in deformities. DWR. Kokanee salmon in Flaming The neural damage sometimes There's not only Flaming Gorge could be the most affect- causes the fish to swim in cirGorge but if it got below the ed. Whirling disease was discles, which gave the disease its fishdam into the covered in northern Utah's name. The disease is hardest on ery of the Green, it could be a Porcupine Reservoir in 1994. naturally producing populaNow, 70 percent of that salmon tions of rainbow trout. It is not very serious blow." - SALT LAKE CITY Utah officials fear the whirling-diseas- e parasite found in a Wyoming stream could spread to Flaming Gorge Reservoir on the border and to the Green River belaw. The parasite was found in Forty Rod Creek, about 40 miles upstream from Fontenelle Reservoir near Kern merer. The gorge is about 50 miles down the Green from Fontenelle. "It is certainly disturbing to hear it is on the Green. As far Utah-Wyomin- g blue-ribbo- The Associated Press Residents of town south of In time, resident David Glynn said there will be a plaque attached to the tablet that advises the Utes they will heart." this tiny Telluride have shown their respect for the land by dedicating a monument to the Ute Indians, the "Blue Sky People of the Shining Mountains." Mayor Monica Olson said the town's 120 or so residents are grateful to the Indian tribes for taking care of the land they called home in the Ronald McCook, Northern Ute vice chairman have many residents who would just as soon take all the roads to Ophir off the map. ... Life as we know it could be diminished in a heartbeat. We understand this beautiful land sacred to us is disposable to "We 1800s. The residents also want Ophir to remain the way it is instead of watching development transform it much the way Telluride has grown. "We're not trying to attract attention to Ophir," Olson said. others." The monument, dedicated Monday, is a rectangular stone that sits amid five spruce trees in a clearing. In the background are the towering slopes of the Rockies. I become infected," said Wilson. Biologists have taken eggs from kokanee in Flaming Gorge to stock other Utah fisheries and Wyoming waters with salmon. Anglers from across the nation come to Flaming Gorge n "This came from the OPHIR, Colo. harmful to humans. "Kokanee have the potential to infect an entire watershed because after they spawn in the rivers they die and release the spores back into the environment. We are very concerned about the impact should the salmon at Flaming Gorge e Tiny Colorado town dedicates monument to Utes HOME FURNISHINGS be "forever welcome" in Ophir. The monument was suggested by Northern Ute Vice Chairman Roland McCook of Fort Duchesne, Utah, after he rejected the town's offer of a lot for "a permanent home." Ophir residents met with r Ute leaders over a period before constructing the monument. McCook said the rock will be a symbol of his people's presence in the area. This came from the heart," McCook said at two-yea- Monday's ceremony. That's why I came. I am convinced they are sincere in what they say." I I EJW AT&T has always had the largest digital wireless network in North America. Then we gave you states with no nine western roaming charges. Evidence of found in celled creatures that crept slowly up the evolutionary ladder until there was an explo- The Associated Press WASHINGTON Complex animals may have evolved far earlier in Earth's history than previously believed, according to researchers who say tiny tunnels preserved in rock in India were dug by burrowing, worm-lik- e creatures more than a billion years ago. The tunnels, about the size of a soda straw, are thought to be the oldest trace fossil ever found and probably were carved by hoping to catch large lake trout like the state record fish landed in 1988. Lake trout are quite resistant, but not immune, to the disease. The big lake trout rely almost exclusively on kokanee for food and could be dealt a severe blow if the salmon numbers crash," said Steve Hrayon, of the Flaming project River area. He said rainbow trout in the reservoir are stocked at 8 inches and thus avoid the early dangers of whirling disease. Gorge-Gree- n animals rock worm-lik- e billion-year-ol- d sion of new, complex life forms during the Cambrian. But Seilacher, a professor emeritus at the University of Tubingen in Germany, said that discovery of the worm tunnels in India shows that there were multicellular animals, with and intricate complicated lifestyles, more than a years before the Cambrian. "This means that the birth of worms that lived under the multicellular animals was at muck at the bottom of a shallow least twice as long ago as we sea, Adolph Seilacher of Yale thought," he said. "It means that animals have a much longer University said Wednesday. A report on the study is to be history that we once believed." The announcement, made at published Friday in the journal Science. a German news conference, met Multicellular animals made with immediate skepticism a dramatic appearance in the among some paleontologists. fossil record about 540 million "It this were true, it would be of at the beginning years ago very important," said Bruce what is called the Cambrian Runnegar, a UCLA paleontoloperiod. Animals then developed gist. "I would like to see eviskeletons, shells and mineral- dence for animals 1 billion ized bodies that were preserved years old. But I don't think this in the fossils. discovery represents the final, Before that, it has been unequivocal proof." Seilacher and his colleagues believed, life consisted of primifound the tunnels, now eroded that tive, organisms left no trace in the fossil record. to mere meandering grooves, in Scientists generally believed sandstone in northern India. The rock was formed from that life started some 4. billion sand that once was the floor of with simple, singleyears ago soft-bodie- Page C7 Wyoming conoid spread ion as impact on the reservoir and the river, it is anybody's guess," said Chris Wilson, a Division of Wildlife Resources biologist at the Fisheries Experiment Station in Logan. To think of it occurring in the Green River is quite unsettling. We have major fisheries in that drainage," said Randy Radant, chief of aquatics for the The Associated Press - half-billio- n d a shallow sea. Seilacher said he creabelieves the worm-liktures lived in the sand and fed on a mat of decaying organic matter that coated the sea floor. The organic matter, he said, probably was the bodies of microorganisms and algae that lived in the water, died and sank to the bottom. Seilacher said the path of the tunnels seem to purposely follow the contours of the sea floor, as if the animals were feeding from below on the organic debris. Some of the tunnels have branches, he said, suggesting that the animals sometimes dug forward and then backed out to take a new burrowing path. This, he said, suggests a complex life form that had nerves, instincts and senses. The shape of the tunnels, said Seilacher, suggests the animals moved by a wavelike action and could have been coated with a mucous that eased the passage through the sand. Seilacher said the sand containing the tunnels hardened over time to become rock and this preserved the impressions of the tunnels. In recent geologic times, the rock has been lifted up and layers eroded away, revealing the tunnels as grooves in the soft stone. e And in 1 998, you'll be getting more benefits. - m r AT&T rHr--A mmvr in t' v rOR Digital PCS customers don't have to shop around to get a better deal. THESE CAVfMACI . Forever. Automatically. a VrA at 172 E. 1300 So. Orem Harvest Festival EC .sr . 1 1 ft 1 I ? 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