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Show , -- 1 3 V I,'! - C 1 , 1?! t M- - 5 I - -X Vi- f J H . " f.ll i U - - M i MOAB , UTAH 5C 1 C 4 , lltwll vvv. moab t i m es . co m Volume 1C3 Number Thursday, November 29, 2001 MMHMHHmMCiiMaaHMHaMMMi WEATHER Emery pulls plug on Channel 6 FORECAST nrr2 Ta Sxw Sctrd Negotiations on sale of station are 'close' Low 22 High 43 Fnday Party Cloudy hgh vgv by F ran kiln Seal 45 Low 13 Saturday Party Gouty staff writer 'gmJim Low 19" High 43 -- Sunday Party Ctoudy v'i , 22' High 43" Low This map shows the geologic layers that make up the Moab area. Although similar maps have been created m the past, this one relies on updated data. Shake your belly Moaba only local IV news program and reportedly, the nations news broadcast is first cable-onl- y off the air. Emery Telecom, owner of Channel 6 News, pulled the plug on the news broadcast last Wednesday Mike McCandless, Emery Telecoms director of special projects. cited business realms m making the decision He also acknow edged that his company is negotiating with various buyers to sell the station For all intents and purposes weve decided to pull the news U just had to make a decision We have to have advertiser support. he said dunng a phone interv lew on Monday The decision to close the news operation comes on the heels of almost a month of negotiations with a group of Moab bu'inessmen over sale of the station Both decisions to seii the station and to cancel the news were driven by th- - same motivations, MrC andls-said its purely a bus.ness decision We havt n t had a whole lot Ba-aal- lv Continued on Page T2 Decade of work precedes creation of new geology map by Franklin Seal staff writer For opera lovers, its the Met. For art aficionados, its the Louvre. And for geology lovers, its Moab. Whether professional geologist, amateur rock hound, prospector, hiker or river rat, for many, the topsy-turvtopography of canyon country is a treasure trove of geologic beauty. And for them, the world just got a little bit better. The Utah Geological Survey (UGS) recently published a new geology map for the southern half of Grand County that covers a wider area and with new data. Other geology maps have been available for years that cover various parts of the same area. They include the popular Canyonlands National Park geologic map published in 1982, a similar map of Arches National Park printed in 1985 and several smaller, maps of Moab and a few Mead's bel'y dancers show Health Fair participants how they can exercise their ns y through activity instead of eating See Sports 4 Outdoors. B1 Tragic accident Two parents lost their fives and a child survived an accident at La Sal Junction. 7.5-minu- te A6 surrounding quadrangles. But the new UGS South Grand County map not only covers most of those areas and the gaps in between them, it does so with completely updated data most of it col- Moab is sitting lected by the maps auHellmut Doelling, on a wall of salt wthor, ho many acknowledge thaVs about two as the expert when it miles thick and comes to Moab area sur- Extra! Look inside for The Extra' Youll find week'y events, a TV guide, horoscope, crossword, calendar, real estate listings, classifieds and more. about a mile wide. It comes right out of the base. iVs pretty spectacular The dirt on Moab Moab has been se'ected as one of six towns to participate m a new stud antimicrobial tance A c public health problem the increasing resistance of infectious diseases to antibiot.es focus of a will be the multi-facet- ed study in rural areas of Utah and Idaho. B5 f 4 WEATHER HISTORY 60 59 53 48 Nov. 21 ov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 33 .13 27 X2 51 35 X2 44 26 33 25 - Business Directory: 87 Dining & Lodging: B4 Editorials, Letters: A3-1- 0 Historic Photo: A2 Notices: B6 Obituaries: A4 Reg on Review: B4 B1-- 2 To subscribe to The Tlmes-independe- nt call subcrfwnwabtimesOfli CThe This i Tnes-kidepende- nt news-pap- is er T A 37 printed on recycled paper and is recyclable. ic . the and er BLM to study backcountry by Franklin Seal staff writer Trying to manage 1 8 million acres of public lands that are often flooded by a wide variety of recreational users can be a difficult task, especially if you have little solid information on how many people are using which areas, and w hen. Thats why Russ von Koch, recreation manager for the Bureau of Land Management's Moab Field Office is excited to have just received a shipment of 13 new traffic counters. The infrared and seismic patterns road-us- e counters are the key to a new project being launched next spring The backcountry road traffic counts will be used to build a Visitor Use Model which will be one of the first such studies in the country to attempt to gather traffic data on such a large swath of backcountry roads, A quick look along Main Street during any of a dozen full hou-e- " Moab weeks e g. Jeep Safari is sufficient to tell even the most observer that at certain times of the year the area plays ho- -t to thousands of vacationers many of whom are i ca.-u- al obviously quite viiting the backcountry. Ju.--t check out the mud on their fenders and the bikes in their racks. Currently, the Moab BLM has a number of methods for estimating how many recreational are v various areas under their care, including Ltah Department of Transportation 'L'DOTi highway traffic counts and National Park Service visitation figures But managers such as von Koch say they need more ders tailed data Continued on Page A2 3-- 28.15 Inside The Times Sports: over ment Canyonlands four-wheel- -N- Gold Medal Mile Walk gathered at the Moab Information Center last Saturday morning to see Participants of a a new sculpture be unveiled. They then boarded buses to Rotary Park where the walk began Participants strolled the Mill Creek Parkway to the bridge over Main Street, then concluded their walks at the MIC Officials from the Salt Lake Olympic Committee were on hand to award Olympic pins to all participants A health fair at the MARC followed the event See Sports 4 Outdoors, Page B1 Photo by Penny Richards Doelling says his new map is an improve- Arches maps. It covers so many areas that arent covered by the --Hellmut Doelling, Arches or Canyonlands map maker maps. Whats more, he adds, its a little more accurate. I picked up a little more detail, but I had to reduce it down" because the scale is smaller it covers a wider area. The map is the result of almost 10 years work, much of it field work the part Doelling loves best. Its a marriage of high technology and good or a bike, legwork. Ifyou go on a know you youre going too fast youll miss something. Walking is the best way," he says. A Doelling field trip begins with a drive to a backcountry location and a hike typically 6 miles in a day. You get to a vantage point and you mark the photos, he says. He uses aerial photos taken in serial pairs and views them through a stereoscope. Then, on the ground, we find where the contacts between the various formations are and where the faults are and where the landslides are and we plot these on the photos in ink. Later, back in his office, he scans them into a computer. After 40 years of making maps in that fashion, Doelling, at age 71, recently stepped back to only work. But he still puts in 35 hours a part-tim- e week, though only 20 of them are paid. Its just fun to do, he says. I like to go out in the desert. I just enjoy walking about and seeing whats out there, and writing about it. Its just a fun job, in my opinion. Sometimes the bugs get to you; it gets a little hot, but other than that its very pleasurable to go resis- nt high-pno- face geology. Gold Medal Mile Walkers j j POOR COPY out there, It's certainly not the pay that keeps him going, he adds. Some of us arent destined to be rich, but were destined to be happy Doelling has been fascinated with the geology of canyon country most of his life, he says. And one of the reasons is salt. Like the dominant theme of a symphony, the major constituent of the bedrock Paradox Formation salt underlies and shapes the complex maze of mesas, canyons and valleys lying above it. Moab is sitting on a wall of salt thats about two miles Continued on Page A2 Tailings meetings set for Dec. 11 by Franklin Seal staff writer The new owner of the Atlas tailings pile the Department of Energy DOE has set a date and time for the first in a senes of Moab meetings on th toxic wa-t- e conThe meeting will be held in troversy 7 Hall Star at p m on Tuesday. Dec ( i long-runnin- g 11. Milling around the MARC meander at Moabs Annual Christmas Craft Fair 2000. This years event will take place at the MARC on Saturday, Dec. 1 from 10am -- 5 pm Later that evening the community is rvited to gadrer on the court house lawn for the Christmas tree lighting at 5 30 p m. A highlight of the Canyonlands Chnstmas festival is sure to be the Electric Light Fa'ade next week, on Dec 8 beg'nmng at 7 p m Fair-goe- rs DOE Grand Junction Office spokesperson Audrey Berry said the meeting was to inform Moab citizens on the status of the Moab Project DOE jargon for the Atlas pile cleanup. The agency would not be seeking public comments dunng the meeting, she added. Reportedly, however, they will hold another meeting for that purpose sometime after a National Academy of Sciences NAS i i Continued on Page A2 |