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Show i Page iTbe A6 (TimfS-3iibrpmbr- Thursday, September nt 3, 2001 OUR TOWN ich Trails IVLvny by Adrien F. Taylor 5 AWflP to its ra"J to conceofate on wa t?,i plant put if to fits space iras wee smce e a'e a1! nurP on the Nt Vjf Vr;d T. a It1 tr jrr, p- e ttrrofisf arJ Pentagon Goff ef c those Cerv r at has rap-- ; ' ot a3egcte to -t.me Le 'e ,re fidjfntode And t Aii. Le so-'vj tr,HSe ev"'ts sd s in. and a course s chafed tor ' i1, U'ure I get ahead of my serf Step back to 1969 when were successful in their request tot a legislative ne item m Utah State University's budget tu estuc. sh the Southeastern Utah Center tor Con-- t riuing Education That Ime item has grown over the to he point where it serves all four count.es in this part ot trie state Things have changed a lot since those days when USU f ew a plane-loaof professors from Logan to Moab seve-a- l times a week for hands-o- n teaching Nowadays much of the teaching is done by distance television and students intereducation, w-- two-wa- y acting in ciass from several sites aiound the state. A whole new world' Several people have ta ked about the great accomplishment of gaming this funding And rt is. The College of Eastern Utah and Utah State University will be able to buy the building where higher education is now, plus the two other buildings on that parcel of land. Classrooms have been almost impossibly cramped as programs have grown, and now there will be room to stretch and grow some more. And yes it is an accomplishment, but more imporBut Mcab t-- J j'h te dt-cn- - " e fefsjf a! aide an". iH.ev 1 tv- Oeia pilot ' oa Bufi Fianders is at honr-- ust h.ja He York Tes d ly nig' ! ti. ' a' r , ..sed i t if" t to Ca rc rr, Sure r e a it te fy ng a Soofi enough OitXiSOun depending on y V e'sp-er.tive am also amous about a fnend Abo f pa out o Birmingham Erg'and Tuesday morning en roue to Sait City A.th a connection in Chicago Adi Le relieved to bear from her wherever she is What do knoA is that she is sae, since ail Ameman An.nes Ahich .s flights were on the ground by more than can be said for the thousands of ,.r tims this tragedy aft A of delegation people supporting the Muah Higher Education Center traveled to Cedar City last week to let the Utah Community Impact Board knoA Ahat they think The result was an interest free lean to buy Re building. Ahich is a huge step towards ensuring the future growth of higher education here which so many people feel is important to our community What we have available to us now is ether a $1 5 million ioan. or a $1 1 million loan and a $200 000 grant to be matched by $200,000 to be raised through other means Can we raise that much money7 would hope so It seems to me that if San Juan County can raise $2 million in donations to match federal money for their scholarship program, that we can raise $200 000 in Grand County O' I d as r i N-- g' I ' I lae c.ter.s I v off$ i I I i it is a milestone The 'oad ahead will also be full challenges as we pick up and move on. We will now nave the opportunity to begin some of those things which people identified during our feasibil'ty study in 998 At the top of the list are economic development activities, which go hand in hand with higher education everywhere would like to thank members of the Moab Area Chamber of Commerce and others who took a day and a half to go to Cedar City in support of the Moab Center And would like to say publicly that Cleal Bradford, Bill Redd and Bevan Wilson, who are members of the ClB, were moving forces behind the approval of our application. Its nice to have friends in such places tantly of lfesHetea e 1 of y flame-throwe- rs ' Being a person with way more curiosity and interests than I can afford, I have some decisions to make. Lake most people, I suppose, I simply do not have enough time or money to do all of the many things that pique my interest. Since I am interested in and curious about so many things, Im wondering whether I should concentrate all of my resources on one or two of them or whether I should continue to dabble in many interests but not really get deeply into any of them. I do not happen to care much for horses, but having them for a hobby might help illustrate my problem. Those w ho love horses spend their money on them. They build nice corrals and sheds. There has to be some place to store the hay. There are saddles, bridles, blankets, grooming supplies, vet bills, and, of course, horse trailers and a reliable truck to pull them. All of these things absorb their time and money. Some of the things I am interested in include Barbara, writing, metal detecting, fishing, kayaking, hiking, biking, fitness, camping, drawing, firearms, geology, prospecting, photography, travel, church service, my truck and music, not necessarily in that order. And, the list goes on. Any one of my interests could absorb the bulk of my time and dollars. I am inclined to just continue doing what I am doing which is a little of several things. Such a course means that I will never master anything. Said another way, there will always be someone doing any given thing better than I can do it. That thought hurts my pride just a twinge. There is a bright side, though. It is summed up in the 20-8- 0 rule. It goes something like of the effort achieves eighty-per-cethis: Twenty-perceof the gain. Of course, if you want to get final mastery of anything, you have to be willing to give until the last few months ot that monumental war, however, that we saw the scariest of all weapons used against our Pacific fleet. The Kamakazi pilots, who acted as human guidance systems to steer aircraft directly into our ships It is their bomb-lade- n to who is willing to commit suicide someone hard stop to make a hit. I'm sure that those sailors, no matter how bravely they had served, were terrified by the Kamakazi pilots. Now. our nation has been dealt an act of real war. We will all be waiting to see how it unfolds. For once, it is comforting to be living in a small, isolated community I'm quite sure that Star Hall or the MARC building will be safe from terrorist attacks. I'm not sure, though, how safe I'll feel flying to large cities, as usually do several times a year. I'm not even sure I even want to visit a big city for a while. I Accolades and Admonishment with regard to issues in our community Bouquets to Kent Dalton. GCHS football booster, who made a huge effort to obtain dinners for n the athletes and cheerleaders when their game was delayed until 10:30 p.m. and didn't end until after midnight. Due to his efforts and foresight, the students didn't go hungry. dimes-Jlnbcpcnbe- nt ) UPS Entered as Second class Matter at the Post Office at Moab. Utah under the Act of March 3, 1897. 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Dann Hawk Lane Miller Supervisor Betty Ba.ley Ron Drake Ron George Oliver Hams Distribution Ryan McDowell ManagerSa'es'Design Mail Room Kelly Jed Taylor Backshop SalesProduction Regional Correspondent Green River Correspondent Castle Valley columnist Columnist Columnist Sports eighty-percen- t of effort. 111 gold-pannin- g fifth-whe- after-mark- after-mark- 1 inch-lon- g single-minde- d Writers on the Range Forest Service needs to get back to the basics The Forest Service, unsure of its responsibilities in the wake of almost eight years of policies, is once again dragging us through an unfortunate campaign by post card. Environmentalists and timber industry groups, using sophisticated computer lists and letters, are spamming agency offices with vote cards in support of or against the roadless policy formulated by former Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck. The trouble is, good Forest Service policy is not decided by voting. The only vote that counts was last November when Florida cast its votes for George W. Bush. The Bush administration now gets four years to enact a program in line with its own political, economic and social view. The Forest Service gets to do what the new President wants them to do and what the Congress authorizes them to do. This is anything but a popularity contest. Previous Forest Service management rushed to get a vote in on a roadless rule before Clinton left office. But never in the history of the agency have Forest Service leaders pretended the management decisions are decided by a vote. If we really want to make a plebiscite out of every forest policy decision, let's get it on the ballot in every state. Last time, Dombeck tried to make the decision and then build a pile of votes to back it up. This time around, at local forests throughout the country, the chief is asking for peoples opinions, with the deadline for response Sept. 10. Dale Bosworth will then weigh the substantive comments those that contain new or important information and make a decision. Thats exactly what the Forest Service is supposed to do. They are professionals with real experience on the ground, with thousands of years of combined experience in watching what happens to forests when certain things are done to them. Criries of the agency, including the timber industry at times, dont always like it, and they dont have to like it. A single roadless policy covering 60 million acres was doomed from the start Some roadless patches should wild and without roads. But others remain roadless hands-off-the-la- Brick Bats and Bouquets t Coloration. High Country News by Frank Carroll She Oil ENVIRDN-iFHtLVn&- ndj just go metal detecting now and then, never doing serious research and never expecting to make the big find. Ill do a little fishing, but mostly from the bank. I'll take a few nice photographs but none masterfully but never work composed. Ill do a little trailer the beaches of Nome. Well park the in a shady aspen glade somewhere on the Blues or the La Sals, but probably won't make it to Mexico. Ill continue to putter on my truck, adding an gizmo here and there, but nothing too major. Speaking of gizmos for the truck, there is another adage that we shade tree mechanics ought to commit to memory: Nothing fits as cleanly, installs as easily or performs as well as promised in the ads. Barbara and have made a commitment that requires driving in the dark one night. My night vision is nothing to brag about so a couple of years ago I installed a pair of driving lights on the truck. I have them aimed off to the sides so that they bathe the shoulders of the road to better see the deer. I decided that I needed more light so I bought another gizmo" for the truck. It is a relay that fits into my headlight circuitry and causes the dims to stay on when I switch the lights to bright. It does what it claimed to do which gives us much better light covercut age of the road ahead. However, I have an in the back of my hand that attests to the truthfulness of the adage that nothing installs as easily or fits as cleanly as described in the ad. I think I have made my decision as to whether I will attempt to do just one or two things but do them very well, or embrace many things for the experience they can give me. I know that I will have to be careful not to envy those who are so much better at doing the things I do. And, who can tell? I may yet become about something and become very good at it. So, g, around us It wasn't non-metall- the other What to do We witnessed horror. We watched the butchery of in Normandy where the sea was red with blood. We watched the battle of the Pacific when the enemy each being routed from caves with cruel night at the Ides Theater on The March of Time" newsreal We saw entire Pacific islands, once lush with palm trees, totally denuded. We watched with sickness the liberation of Germany's concentration camps and could not, from the comfort of Moab Valley, believe the conditions of the liberated prisoners who were lucky enough to have survived death in those camps It made our discomfort over food rationing seem a little petty There were always pinto beans and vegetable gardens colu- the terrorist tragedies in New York and Washington, D C Some of us are furious Most of us are sick at heart. Some of us are both And many are calling for massive retaliation That even appeals to me, but at this point we don't know who to retaliate against But I m afraid we haven't seen the last of it This was a carefully orchestrated attack of terrousm It is one thing to protect public facilities from the ground We have, over the last few years, seen so many barriers placed at publ'C structures in Washington, D C that it is a little hard to get around It is tough to protect attack from the air And by utilizing nearly full airliner fuel tanks as instruments of destruction it makes it unnecessary to carry explosives into this country All it takes is a person or persons with guns to do the obs They can be smuggled through security at airports in very small pieces and assembled on board Many of ma'eriai those pads are plastic, or other When they are carried and used by people who are willing to die in the process, that makes it even worse Suicide bombers are unthinkable in our society That is not the case in other places in the world, where some societies believe that killing themselves for a cause is a glory to whatever almighty they might worship As a young teenager. I witnessed World War II through its entirety We had morning reports over the loudspeaker in school. We read about it in our Weekly Readers "My father had maps pinned on our k.tchen walis and stuck pins in it daily to show the extent of the front lines both in the Pacific and in Europe because Rlic.ies on RiUicLand use by Ollie Harris by Sam Taylor is difficult to concentrate on anything this week, z Idle Thoughts from Mt. Waas I Community Comments It EXP pmm6es-t- I I mn-wise, VANG fWRD need to be logged and thinned and restored to the open forests of the past. park-lik- e Still others should be maintained for their recreation potential or special attributes. The point is, each is different and must be looked at individually. One effect of a blanket policy is that doom many of these acres to killing fires, when thoughtful management, including logging and thinning, really makes sense. Any firefighter who has ever lifted a Pulaski in an attempt to stop a wildfire, knows that fire science follows the same immutable physical laws no matter what the philosophy of the beholder. What I mean, is that denying that fires burn hotter on acres where 500 trees now grow instead of the 70 that were there 100 years ago is just not credible. By not managing some of these roadless areas, we are guaranteeing fires and insect attack The alternative to cutting trees is burning trees. The absence of prescribed fire is wildfire. If its not OK to clear-cu- t small patches of forest, how come its OK to burn to the ground huge patches of forests in endless summer fires? The Government Accounting Office just concluded, in effect, that burned while Mike Dombeck waffled. Instead of dedicatihg Forest Service resources to purposefully thinning forests by logging and brush control or prescribed fire, the former chief spent his time trying to "ram through regulations banning roads," editorialized the Wall Srv Jnornal, and use federal and state species protection acts to declare large swaths of land. Decisions about the fate of a specific area should be made on the ground in each specific case. Its time for the Forest Service to stop the charade, stop the voting, and get down to the business at hand. Its time to treat each special acre with the care and concern it deserves. Time to relegate the grandiose past and those thousands of spam cards to the Clinton library. Frank Carroll is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is P-o- off-limi-ts director of communications for Potlatch Corp. in Leu iston, Idaho, and has fought fires for the Forest POOR |