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Show iTunrs-3nfcrpntir- (Die Thursday, March 15, 2001 nt MHO Arehart named Utah Technology Teacher of Year Mil h.u-- Aii hart, hi'turv .mil l at Grand German (ouiitv Miililli- Schtml, nd' (hu- tab - 'hi Lnologt Teacher Var tur 2U01. lit is, is nt'll a I o( tin- pie-'ente- an annual a technology i onferonce wet k ago m Salt Lake Gitv and 'poti'iired hv thi- Utah (oahtion n) F.iiut at lunal Teihnologs il't KTi Hi- wa' horiuri-- with a run- ilaqui and a check fur $r()) "Hi.'tu Arehart iim - technology da in hi' i niuM l.i'-ruo- Ih i' c lrui-i- ui witli al ni wur kmp mi a hi' 'tudi-nt- ' (alli-- helping colleagues at his school to uni- technology m their classroom hour of these colli agues wrote letters of support in re- that history flects Arehart'' i.' niadi- niurt meaninptul hv t uihitig t la people w ho created tin hi'torv Not onlv do hi' 'tu-d- i - t te-l- - nt' 'tudv thi- avx.,rd at hi-l- Thn project tn an lii'tor, thi- of MMiplt- w thi-- Ann-n-- rite Weh nomination tor this award One of those letters 'luted, Mike has a lot of enthu-'lu'ifor teaching and is willing Art-hart'- s i pap'e-abo- u ut Point pri 'i ntat nui' about hi'torv, and Each writ printed hiogruplut thi-in- ( ri ati- - low to 'hart- his exjn-rtisHe showed me how easy it was to use technology tu motivate and teach stu- . .'tudint will ireatt ativwluri-frotfurtv to fifty hiographit' r t rinii-'th i ai Not only dot-- ' Arehart ti i hrmlogv in hi- - i la.'.'rooni, hi 'm ml' m mV hour' each dent' in my clu'sroom. Hvron rhri'tensen, principal Grand County Middle School, 'ays of Art hart, I have known Mu hue as an outstanding edu- - of ti wt-i-- cator fur five years. He always strives to do his best and to make the learning experience for students nitarurigful. He is one of the most creative teachers that I know. His classroom environment is very artistic and appealing He is personable with stu-d- t nts and motivates them m a positive way. Above all, he sets high exjrectations for students to achieve." Arehart traveled to Washington. D C. last September w here he represented Grand County School District at a Spotlight Schools Tethnology Conference sponsored by the U. S Depart- - (SATURDAY, MARCH, 17 OPENING NIGHT DECEPTION EDOM 6-- pm EDEE! 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Center 89 N Mam Ben Si tinuel Southwest Landvajies Louise Seiler, Mask Collection Conn-mpoidi- Castle Valley Comments by Ron Drake I The results are in Of the 490 surveys that were sent out to residents of Castle Valley Willow Basin, Castleton and property owners living out of the area 62 percent responded with completed surveys, a good response, said Castle Valley Mayor Bruce Keeler The results basically followed other survey results and polls taken m ?ne past and provided a good indicator of the community'' the mayor said Limited commercial development was opposed by 68 percent of the respondents with 28 percent in favor and four percent with no opinion Over 80 percent opposed non home commercial activity A vast majority does not want to see development on the trust lands Fifty-ninpercent who responded said Castle Valthc-iwas ley primary residence while over 85 percent who replied live within the town boundaries An interesting statistic indicates that 74 percent of those who live here are 45 years of age and older and nearly halt ot the residents are between 45 and 54 years old Sixty-fivpercent of those who live here have one or two people living in each home Water is the biggest thing people are concerned about in the area with 90 percent ranking it with a number one rating Following closely to the aquifer in e r e importance are open spaces, tranquility, quietness, view and wildlife The mayor indicated that copies of the complete survey results will be available at the next town council meeting to be hold Wednesday March 21 beginning at 6 30 p m at the Church of Latter-DaSaints building 9 Jesus Christ of The annual community clean-u- p day will be Saturwill March this 24 be under the direc day, year and tion ot the town rather than being handled by the prop- erty owners association as in past years There will be two large Dumpsters placed at the community lot during the day with a third Dumpster being rotated back and forth from the landfill As in the past, there will be restrictions placed on what will not be accepted such as batteries and refrigerators A complete list cf restricted items and hours of operation will be posted at the main gate and in next weeks column The town is getting preliminary results from the hydrology study that indicates, from the information received e so far, that the minimum lot size will remain the same for the Trust Lands around the valley The official report has not been received yet, but so far it looks like no significant change, reports Mayor Last Wednesday, March 7, the Castle Valley Planning and Zoning Commission met with representatives from the Utah League of Cities and Towns for a work- shop meeting Sydney Fonnesbeck and Brodie Bovero of the league presented an overview of what the planning commission s role is in the town and more specifically helped them on the new subdivision ordinance. They also went through the entire zoning ordinance and talked about writing a new subdivision ordinance. Town Clerk Dorothy Harding said it has been interesting getting through to them about our unusual situation of dealing with the Trust Lands Administration. Their knowledge and expertise, however, will be a big help to us Concerning the lot of wild, unsupported misinformation is circulating about the spruce in North Creek. It is important to make decisions in our A Professional Office Space for Rent If you are in the Information Technology Industry, and in the market for a new work place, consider renting office space at the Footprints, Inc. office building. It's the center of information technology - in the center of Moab! . Five things everyone who loves the Blues should know: Logging in steep spruce forests has definite, measureryone wants clean, abundant able impacts on proper waterwater in the desert, and for this shed functioning, including reason, timber sales, grazing and increased sedimentation and Ev- road building are often not allowed in municipal watersheds. Major legal battles have been fought by towns against timber companies that destroyed their watershed. Yet some folks have fallen victim to the urge to do something to improve on the creators plan in North Creek, succumbing to ing that we may not have a mountain any more to look at, that if we do nothing we will have nothing but dead trees. They are willing to log and do certain damage to their watershed in a futile effort to stop the inevitable loss of part of the spruce component of the forest, which lpfl to its own process will not impair functioning of our watershed and will result in more aspen and meadows, exactly the changes we would like to see. Perhaps suspicion of anything en-ronraentalists support fuels this response. Far from coming in the 7th inning, we have been involved with this project from the beginning and feel that the common good is not served by logging North Creek. If any aspect of this project is 7th inning in nature, it is the Michael Arehart mi nt of Education. He has also attended several state technology conferences sponsored by the UCET organization. From these conferences, Arehart brings back to his school ideas and methods for using technology to enhance the teaching and learning process. Students and staff of Grand County Middle School have all benefited from Arehart s leadership in bringing new technology strategies and methods into our schools, says a Grand County School District press release. We congratulate Mr. Arehart for an award well deserved. MOVE-I- N Network Access Common Conference Room Copy and Fax Machines Available BW & Color Laser Printer Privileges FREE Cleaning Sendees SPECIAL: Sign up for one year lease & get one month network access FREE! PRIMS O A 121 E. 100 S. & 259-438- 4 In the Abajo Mountains Service documents reveal watershed based bn careful thought and complete facts. People usually find common IT Geeks: North Creek Municipal Watershed... mountain regional entomologists John Anhold and Steve Munson, who have studied the beetles in North Creek. These official Forest Dear Interested Party: ground on watershed issues Attention five-acr- Keeler Show-Mixe- faster spring run-of- f. This means soil loss that wall impoverish the future forest and clog the municipal water collection system. Snow melt will occur faster, leading to intensified water shortages in dry years. Timber removed will not be available for sprouts and existing vegetation. usually cost prohibitive without government subsidy. meadow, aspen grove, and sub-seto arrive again at cliold max growth sprucefir forest. I occurred, these forests are just too wet and cool to easily sustain a burn. Proximity to Monticello means a rapid response to fires in this vicinity. Many ways of reducing fire potential exist beyond logging and should be explored. goals we have for the forest will be met best by allowing nature to take its course, then harvesting the bonus, such as clean, abundant water, beautiful beetle-killespruce logs near exand healthy and abunisting roads, r ' dant game. , Dead trees are also a beautiful and necessary part of a healthy forest, The Forest Service has so thoroughly eliminated dead trees in our forests that they now kill living trees to create snags for species, such as squirrels, bats, owls, and woodpeck- The risk of catastrophic fire In the spruce fir ecosystem is very low. Although fires have A massive spruce beetle epidemic will have less negative impact than a timber sale, particularly one involving skidding and road construct- -, ts d ' larly in light of the present status of the Forest ervice,s handling of the i problem: More than a year age, in an effort to reduce spruce bark beetle populations, hundreds of giant, living spruce trees in the North Creek drainage were tut down to attract spruce bark beetles as trap trees. We were assured hat these trees and the developing brood would be destroyed before the Spring hatch of 2001, literature we received from the Forest Service repeatedly states that this must be done by the Fall before the hatch, as the beetles usually fly before Spring access and disposal of the trap trees is possible, due to enow. The district ranger did not allow the burning of these trees last Fall until it was too late to deal with them all. If these trees are not dealt with before the Spring hatch, beetle populations in the area will dramatically increase. If the Forest Service bungles even a small project such as cutting and disposing trap trees to reduce beetle populations, how will it perform on the much bigger, more com- s are a natuion- .Spruce ral phenomenon, one that cycliers. The three-toe- d woodpecker, cally plays itself out time and time which has dramatically declined in damagain without catastrophic There is not a measurable age to the forest. Not all the 6pruce this forest and is considered to be a increase in Spruce bark dies, and other species are re- sensitive species, preys almost exclubeetles in The North Creek leased and nurtured by the dead sively on spruce bark beetle and is drainage. In fact. Forest Service trees. Once they fall, down trees natures buffer for beetle epidemics, studies show a slight decrease in actually increase water retention consuming more than 98 of the larvae in ideal conditions. A sure way beetle counts from 1997 to 1999. and slow run-off- , as well as addThe claim that North Creek is on ing their nutrients to the soil,' to avoid having more endangered ; the brink of a massive beetle epi- which results in a healthier, richer species in San Juan County is to avoid altering habitat of sensitive , demic is based on a feeling, not forest and properly functioning on scientific data. This forest, as species such as this, , plicated, and sensitive project of logA lingering concern is the integ- - ' ging a municipal watershed with is true with nearly all spruce forests, will probably eventually be and aspen groves, meeting another rity of the Horsehead, Resourceful steep slopes and slow recovery local citizens have volunteered their infested with bark beetles as it important goal without federal inrates? The Forest Service attempted labor to manually maintain the to improve the watershed years ago nears the end of their life cycle. terference and expenditure of taxHorsehead in the past, and can by terracing the high peaks, leaving (This is currently happening payer dollars. across much of soutFiern Utah and behind scarred mountains and duThe forest in North Creek is again. Putting the Horsehead upcitiin concerned the of hands the West). keep bious results. Perhaps it is better not reaching maturity: Someday, There is no known way to sooner or later, many of the spruce zens is certainly preferable to alterto gamble with timber sales when atop a spruce beetle epidemic. trees will die a the forest natuing entire ecosystems and fooling the stakes are so high! Many have tried, many studies rally cycles variously though with municipal watersheds, particu-- . have been done, but no one claims WHAT YOU CAN DO: to be able to stop it Some feel that can slow but it. this Indian Creek tractor logging, thinning only 1. Ask Glenn Casamassa to do everything possible to deGlenn Casamassa and Elaine Zieroth which was added just last month delays the inevitable and damages stroy or remove the trap trees before the spring hatch. Remind Monticello District Ranger him that he promised all of us that this would happen.' to make the project more economi- the watershed. After several years Manti La Sal N. F. Supervisor 2. Ask the Forest Service to thoroughly consider what, if Manti-L- a Sal National Forest cally appealing to mills. Ig this how of fighting the beetle in the Dixie, anything, to do about dim a spruce forests in the region that 599 Price River Drive Fishlake and Manti, Forest Serw e should use our watershed? are already naturally reverting to earlier succession types, such P.O. Box 820. The Forest Sendee has done a vice biologists have publically forest through beetle inas meadow, aspen, and Price, UT 84501 conceded defeat "Timber sales m lot of research on spruce bark festations, re and other means. Ask them to consider the problem on a landscape level. For information and the USES documents referenced, beetles and the effects of timber those forests now aim only to sal3. Ti ll the local and regional offices that a timber sale in contact Red rock ForestaF riends of the Abajos sales in spruce forests. Kedrock vage the economic value of the for your municipal watershed is unacceptable. Call Forests received copies of a num- dead logs. Helicopter logging, the for Elaine Zieroth, or better yet, Glenn Casamassa, ber of tbse studies from Inter least damagingloggmg method, is write; fear-mong- er die-off- -- vi 259-166- 587-204- 1 1sid htr hr F ryr F ; " |