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Show Recreation, i, TV Listings Area Review... Real Estate .... Public Notices Classified Ads SportsSCommunity Thursday, July 15, 2004 Area-Wid- e Deer predation may mean hike in number of cougar permits Week in Review Items from regional newspapers Compiled by Tom Taylor master plan Transportation The of TransUtah Utah The number of cougars Department Brigham City , portation (UDOT) has volunteered to work with Brigham City to develop a Transportation Master Plan for the City. UDOT has conducted similar exercises in several other communities including Cedar City, Beaver, and others. The timing of this process is excellent, since several other projects the city is working on have implications for transportation planning, such as the General Plan update, impact fee study, economic development efforts, transit plan, etc., City Planner Paul Larsen said. UDOT was provided with a list of issues and concerns gleaned from Brigham City staff and from the General Plan open house on May 19. On June 22, Brigham City and UDOT representatives toured the city and looked at each of the items listed. That evening UDOT representatives met with a steering committee composed of a number of local stakeholders to discuss these concerns and determine if the list needed editing or improvement. Box Elder News Journal hunting season in Utah could increase under recommendations being proposed by the Division ofWildlife Resources. People are encouraged to attend a series of public meetings and provide the DWR with their input about the recommendations. Waterfowl hunting recom- mendations for Utahs upcoming season, which are still being drafted by the DWR, also will be discussed at the meetings. Citizens who serve on Utahs Regional Advisory Bank Closure surprses people After 99 of serv ice area years patrons, Ephraim, Utah the Bank of Ephraim was declared insolvent by state regulators last Friday, June 25, and reopened Monday, June 28 as a branch of Far West Bank, Provo. The bank had two offices in Ephraim, one in Mt. Pleasant and another in Hildale. All branches reopened except the Hildale branch which will remain closed. Those accounts will be transferred to the St. George office of Far West. The beginnings of the banks problems were when loans were approved form the Hildale area using leaseholds or buildings that are on the land instead of the land itself for collateral. All the land in Hildale is owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Da- y Saints. In the first quarter of this fiscal year, the bank had reported a net profit of $30,000 but had wrote off $378,000 in bad loans and there were $2.4 million in loans in which the bank was not collecting interest payments. To further aggravate the situation, a longtime bank employee, Randy McArthur, Mt. Pleasant, who was the banks cashier, and an accomplice. Dean Johnson, had allegedly embezzled money and could be in the millions. Gunnison Valley News General outlines reorganization Hill Air Force Base, Utah Gen. Gregory Martin, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, celebrated part of the Independence Day weekehd at Provos Brigham Young University campus where he received the 2004 Freedom Award Friday. The award honors individuals for their accomplishments and sacrifices in the name of freedom. General Martin was among four others to receive the award, including former President Ronald Reagan; Bill Baucom, a Utah native who gave up a football career to serve in Korea; Loyd Lewis, a Utah native who fought alongside, and lost, his twin brother on Iwo Jima during the second World War; and Farouk Darweesh, an Iraqi-bor- n engineering professor at California State University who is helping establish a temporary post-wa- r government in his native country. Hilltop Times Miners celebrate a victory Huntington, Utah Fifty of the original 76 striking miners of the C.W. Mining Company, surrounded by about 60 supporters walked up the road July 6 from where their strike shack and picket lines formerly stood and officially turned over reinstatement letters to a representative of the owners of the p Mine. Their gesture signified acceptance of the mine owners unconditional offer of reinstatement in accordance with a settlement agreement between the United States Government National Labor Relation Board and the C.W. Mining Company. p Mine Sept. The miners began strike activities against the 22, 2003, and were summarily fired by their employers. More than nine months later, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that the miners were fired illegally, that they deserved to be reinstated to their former jobs. Intermountain Catholic Co-O- Co-O- Water tank nearing completion of Richfield, Utah Nestled in the hills southwest Richfield is a substantial piece of city infrastructure that took a major step toward completion last week. The new 1.5 million gallon culinary water tank is being built by Richfield City in order to deal with water usage growth and pressure equalization throughout the city. The lid to the tank was poured Friday morning after weeks of preparation. The tank was actually constructed using three concrete pours, the first for the floor, the second for the walls, and the final for the roof. Richfield Reaper Accident claims lives of twins Sean and Lynn Giddings twin daughters, Charlie Ann and Jamie Loretta, were caught in a fire and died in a camp trailer last Friday. While playing outside their home in Blanding, Utah, the girls were able to sneak through a small access door into the camp trailer where investigators surmised they used matches to start a fire that spread rapidly. The girls were trapped in the fire and perished huddling together. while trying to Family members saw the fire and dialed Local EMS hose. services refire and a with out it garden put local The blaze. fire marthe and extinguished sponded quickly ruled accident. an and scene it shal investigated the Southern Utah News Blanding, Utah -1 Work on expansion ofSandwash Sandwash Reservoir certainly Uintah County, Utah isnt the place to be this summer, unless youre a construction that was once a popular attraction for recreational pursuits is closed while other and boating, fishing crews work installing outlets, tunnels and platforms. By the summer of 2006, Sandwash Reservoir should be humming once at twice its original size of 12,000 acre feet.. again Uintah Basin Standard worker. Most of the lake ber on some units. Most of the increased take would happen in southwestern Utah, where deer herds are struggling. The drought has really impacted the deer herds here, said Nile Sorenson, wildlife manager for the DWR's Southern Region. We're not getting the annual growth on the plants the deer rely on in the winter, and we don't have the abundance of summer vegetation that man) of the nursing does need to produce enough milk for their faw ns. On top of that is predation by cougars. Sorenson sas the ratio of fawns to does in the Southern Region last fall was 5 fawns per 100 does, and the overall number of deer on the regions units ranges from 75 percent to less than 25 percent of the number called for in management plans. Were doing several habitat projects to improve the habitat the best we can, but we need some relief from the drought to really see habitat taken during the upcoming Councils will take the public input received to the Utah Wildlife Board when it meets Aug. 12 in Salt Lake City to approve Utahs 2004 - 2005 cougar and waterfowl procla- mations. The Southeastern Region meeting will be held on July 27 at the John Wesley Powell Museum in Green River at Times book review Master of the Sublime in photography Tom Till , by Marjorie Miller contributing writer Its an elite group whose membership cant be bought, begged, borrowed, or bribed. It has only a few members, maybe a dozen worldwide. Membership doesnt come easily and entails not only years of sacrifice and dedication, but a constant honing of ones cre- ative talent and technical abilities. And the competition is fierce. 6:30 p.m. have to keep up my quest for the perfect Delicate Arch rainbow. Tom continues, This love of the land is the wellspring of inspiration that keeps me going when my truck slides into the ditch in the dark on drenched, abandoned forest m gnats reduces my ears to bloody stumps, or when my legs are ravaged by oozing open wounds gained from the tiny tickle of one poison oak and, of course, Moabs own Tom Till. Since 1977, approximately 20,000 of Toms images have appeared in print in maga- Toms love for this region and his chosen vocation has created a photographic work of heart and passion in Plateau Province, where canyon, river, mesa, and mountain are zines like National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Life, in various calendars, newspapers (including the New York Times), advertisements, coffee table books, guide books, cards, and in over two dozen books that feature Toms work exclusively. The Tom Till Gallery here in Moab displays a rich sample of Toms photos and books, and if you happen to visit when Toms friend Jan is working, let him tell you what it really means to belong to the exclusive club of the worlds top landscape photographers. If you ask Tom about his artistic recognition, he just smiles in his humble way, but in his majestic new book, Plateau Province, A High Desert Portfolio, he writes about some of the difficulties that come in following the path (or in his case, the backroads and remote trails) to success, and theres no question that its the path of his heart. Tom writes, I have hiked to Delicate Arch perhaps 60 or 70 times hoping to capture a rainbow with the arch. Most times I use the three mile round trip as a conditioning hike and get no photos. One evening though, in rain so cold and driving that most of the hundreds of normal summer visitors had gone, a rainbow did appear. I was so flabbergasted that my dream had come true that I was almost unable to work. Even using an umbrella didnt keep water off my lens, as the wind howled, and the skies opened, and the sun shot through from the west. Unfortunately, the image was a bit soft because of the rain drops on the lens, so I leaf. captured with the sublime color, richness, and texture that always frame his work. Tom has somehow translated onto paper his mysterious talent for capturing the drama and spirit of a place. The book is like hiking with someone who takes you Continued on Page B2 A Look conditions improve, Sorenson said. One thing we can do for the deer right now is allow additional cougars to be taken. Once the deer herds bounce back, we can cut back on the number of cougars that are taken and allow cougar numbers to also grow." entry strategy. Last seasons quota was 482 cougars. About 65 percent of the quota is reached each season, so this years quota of 527 could result in about 344 cougars being taken. The DWR is also recommending that 259 permits be issued for 12 limited entry units and eight units managed under a combined limited entry harvest objective strategy. Last season, a total of 244 permits were offered for limited entry units. About 60 percent of the hunters who obtain a limited entry permit are successful at taking a cougar, so a projected 156 cougars could be taken on these units. Last season, Utah hunters took 426 cougars. That was below the 475 to 500 cougars the division had projected might be taken and two fewer than the 428 cougars taken the season before. Under its recommendations, the DWR is projecting that 500 cougars might be taken in Utah this season, which begins in late Novem service roads, when I go weeks in the field and hike dozens of miles without a decent image to show for my work, when a cloud of Colorado Plateau Theyre called the Lords of Photography, and members include the likes of Josef Muench, Eliot Porter, David Muench, Ansel Adams, Philip Hyde, Jack Dykinga, and Art Wolfe The DWR is recommending that a quota of 527 cougars be set for 32 harvest objective units and eight units managed under a combined harvest Back in Time Fire Dept, gets $60,000 for fire safety equipment The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) has approved over $60,000 for fire operation and firefighter safety provements at the Moab ley Fire Protection District, announced Utah Senators Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett this week. Our local firefighters work tirelessly to ensure that our communities are protected from fire hazards, said Bennett, a member of the Senate Appropriations Com- mittee that approves the USFA budget. This funding will not only contribute to this mission, but will also help the Moab fire department to on Page B2 Have ZTZrTu,d Submit it to The For digital An ill-fate- d T- -l Times-independe- nt files: http:www.lib.utah.edudigitalunews . . . attempt to establish a commercial route on the Colorado and Green Rivers Attempts were made in 1902. It brought The Undine, planned to carry freight and tourists between Green River and Moab (and points between). The boat was 56 feet long and eight feet wide and steam engine and a paddle wheel in the stern. Comhad a 22 horsepower, manded by Captain Frank Summeril, it made its initial voyage in February 1 902. On May 21 of that year, on its return trip from Moab to Green River, it overturned at Big Bend, about eight miles north of the Moab ferry 6 (7.5 miles upstream from the present Highway 1 91 bridge). Its captain had tried to steer through the first riffle using the wheel only, Photo from The Far Country causing the Undine to overturn. coal-burni- imVal- |