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Show Tuesday, September 24, 1991 5A Emery County Progress F arm official cautions against wilderness An official of the Utah Farm 14, C. Booth Wallentine, Bureau says further wilder- executive vice president of the ness designation will have Utah Farm Bureau Federavery significant impacts on tion, said the Wilderness Act the economies and lifestyles of of 1964 states that grazing of rural Utah. livestock where established In a hearing sponsored in prior to the effective date of Salt Lake City by Utah 3rd this act, shall be permitted to District Rep. Bill Orton Sept. continue subject to such rea sonable regulations as are deemed necessary by the secretary of agriculture (or, in the case of BLM, secretary of interior)." He said, unfortunately, livestock producers are soon faced with many additional concerns wherever desginated. On Sept. 7, 1990, the New Mexico Department of Agriculture released a study that identified numerous concerns wilderness designation creates for agriculture," Wallentine testified. Among these concerns are difficult, if not impossible maintenance or new construction of water facilities and fences, difficulty of distributing salt, restrictions on livestock handling, and veterinary treatment, etc. Also bureaucratic delay or wilderness areas are KUED to discuss environment SALT LAKE CITY What is, our responsibility for preserving or developing resources? How. do we weigh Hie greatest good for the greatest number when making these choices? How do we weigh the need for preservation against the need for raw materials, ' energy or economic growth? And, most importantly, in the continuing struggle between environmentalists and developers, can there be common ground? KUED explores these critical ethical issues in an hour-lon-g Cambridge forum-formdiscussion led by Harvard Law Schools Professor Charles R. Nesson and produced by at KUEDs Hollace Curtis. Seeking Common Ground: Environmental Ethics airs Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 9 p.m. on KUED, Channel 7. The panel discussion isnt as easy as deciding whether Special Olympics to hold Classic Utah Special Olympics will hold the Second Annual Fall at Sports Classic Nov. 5 7-- 9, Utah State University in Logan. Athletes from across the state will compete in basketball, aquatics (swimming and diving), gymnastics and powerlifting. i Basketball competition will include skills and tournament play with youth and adult divisions. Competition in aquatics will include free style, backstroke, breaststroke, medley and relay. Both artistic and rhythmic gymnastics will be offered with all ground competition in both mens and womens division. Powerlifting will include bench press, dead lift, squats and combination. Registration for the fall sports classic include a preliminary registration deadline of Sept. 30. Those wishing to compete in aquatics must qualify from their geographical area games. Registration for area games must be received by Sept. 30. Final registration for the fall sports classic must be received by Oct. 21. All athletes must have current medical release forms to be eligible. Utah Special Olympics is a sports training program offering olympic-typ- e year-roun- d beginning fitness events for those under 16 years, of age1 and lifting division! in the competition for children and adults with mental retar- dation. For more information on the fall sports classic call Utah i Special Olympics at state-wid- e. ' f growth and development are good or bad," producer Curtis said. The agenda is tougher. The panel looks at how we make decisions about our denial of requests for environment, who should make these decisions and who diffishould enforce them cult issues that go along with changing or preserving the West." Nesson, moderator of the critically acclaimed PBS series "The Constitution: That Delicate Balance, applies the Socratic method to elicit the wisdom of a panel comprised of Utah scholars, community and business leaders, and representatives of environmental organizations. They explore the dilemmas that policy makers, developers and environmentalists face each day and the decisions that affect the quality of life for all of us. The discussion panel will be comprised ofKenneth L. Alke-mexecutive director of the Department of Environmental Quality; Patricia Hanna, professor of philosophy and dean of the University of Utahs College of Humanities; John G. Francis, professor of political science; Shelly Car-do- n Teuscher, associate director of the Utah Petroleum Association; Richard Prows, president ofProwswood International Construction; Terri a, emergency motorized access, conflicts with the public, particularly some who are hostile to livestock grazing, trail maintenance, poor livestock distribution resulting in less efficient use of forage, invasion and spread of noxious weeds, brush and other undesirable plant species, adverse impacts on lands adjacent to wilderness areas, and outright restrictions on grazing." He said there are many other adverse impacts that make livestock grazing uneconomical in wilderness areas.' Wallentine said a study of the current grazers in Utahs BLM WSAs shows 75 percent of them believe predator control will be difficult, if not impossible, in wilderness areas. He said a good example of this is the Wasatch-Cach- e National Forest Mt. Naomi Wilderness area, where aerial predator control, the only truly effective method in this area according to government animal damage control officers, was not allowed this past could prove he had lost four out of every 100 of his sheep to coyotes. And now, the Forest Service has decided to elimi- nate any aerial control in Mt. Naomi, despite promises by former Ohio Rep. John Seiber-lin- g in hearings that there would be no change in predator control methods in the area, Wallentine said. We believe environmental purists will continue to use every method available to reduce or eliminate grazing within and adjacent to wilderness areas despite the stated will of Congress, and we believe there is already evidence that land managers will succumb to these pressure tactics," he said. Wallentine said agricultural people, as well as municipal and industrial water officials, are deeply conemed about the potential impact ofwilderness designation of water development, the opportunity to change points of diversion, and impacts on water rights. He said in a recent hearing before a Utah Legislative Committee, state water engineer Robert Morgan testified he could not assure water right holders and future water users that wilderness designation will not adversely affect water rights and further development of water for a growing Utah. Wallentine also said lives- long-standi- tock grazing within the 3.2 million acres of BLM Wilder- ness Study Areas in Utah provides 95,345 animal unit months of forage for stock belonging to 339 permittees, or 19 percent of the total BLM permittees in the state. The Wayne Owens proposal would dramatically increase that," he added. Almost 80 percent of Utah is in federal or state ownership. Because of this, an estimated 70 percent of Utahs y livestock must use public land for some part of the years forage, he said. Access to public grazing land is critical to the g of numerous rural Utah communities. And this impact is felt right here in Salt Lake City on main street in credit and many other businesses." Wallentine urged Orton to work with Congress to minimize the amount of wilderness designated on Utah BLM lands. Farm Bureau and other agricultural groups testified in favor of the current Utah Forest Service wilderness, he said. But disappointments through adverse impacts on grazing causes us to look with great disfavor upon more wilderness in Utah, particularly when we have more national parks and monuments and other singleuse restricted lands than almost any other lower 48 state," he said. non-dair- well-bein- Does Your Heart Good. 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