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Show Emery County Progress, Castle Dale, Utah Sjpnntts Tuesday May 4, 1999 3B amndl (OmntdlaDdDirs Governor delcares May 2 - 8 OHV Safety Week in Utah The purpose of Off-Highw- ay Vehicle Safety Week is to remind riders to be properly trained and prepared for fun and safe OHV riding. In a continued effort to promote safe and responsible vehicle (OHV) use, Governor Michael O. Leavitt has declared May Vehicle Safety Week in Utah. OHV riding is a great sport for the whole family and a good way to see Utahs outdoors, said Fred Hayes, OHV education specialist with Utah State Parks and Recreation. The purpose of 2-- 8, Off-Highw- Off-Hig- way Vehicle Safety Week is to remind riders to be properly trained and prepared for fun and safe OHV riding. Riders also need to remember to ride in a responsible manner and protect our fragile environment, he added. Hayes offers the following guide to trail etiquette: Motorized users must yield to users. Ride only on designated roads and trails or other areas marked open for use. Respect closed areas and non-motoriz- private property. Dont cut switchbacks or take shortcuts. Remember, areas signed as wilderness are closed to all motorized vehicles. Try to stay in the middle of the trail to avoid widening it. Trail widening is ugly and expensive to repair. Leave gates as you found them, open or closed, unless posted otherwise. Be courteous when passing hikers and other vehicles. Avoid muddy trails, save them for future trips when they are dry. Trail etiquette and fundamentals of safe and responsible OHV riding are taught through the Know Before You Go! education course. Utah law requires all OHV riders, from age eight until a Utah driver license is received, to complete the training course in order to operate an OHV on public land. Children under age eight cannot operate an OHV on public lands. To register for Know Before You Go! classes or for information on OHV laws and riding areas, contact the OHV Information Center at Detailed trail maps are also available at the Department of Natural Re(648-7433- with multiple layers of ice and slush the depth of most ice augers. Parking is available near the dam for several vehicles. Ice fishing remains fair to good for tiger trout. Anglers should fish in 10 feet of water only a few feet under the ice. Fishing has been best in the evening. Joes Valley Reservoir fishing continues to be slow with little angler pressure. Trollers should try small Rapalas or Triple Teasers. Beginning in 1999, fishing regulations changed in an attempt to control the growing chub population. The trout limit is eight fish, but no more than two may be splake. All splake inches must be released. The reservoir was stocked last week rainbow trout. with 1,200 15-2- 0 b. ShoreKens Lake is line fishing continues to be good in the evenings. DWR ice-fre- e. conservation officer Ed Meyers recommends floating orange or red powerbait off the bottom. Salmon eggs have also been effective. LaSal Mountain lakes remain inaccessible. The LaSal Mountain loop is now accessible and access to Warners and Oowah reservoirs is only a few weeks away. with good things only a few WARM days away. Large and smallmouth bass will move to small rock strucfeet of wature (gravel) in ter. Largemouth make nests at the base of a bush while smallmouth will nest on the edge of a ledge or flat. Nests appear as one-focircular light areas on the dark bottom. Males fan the silt away with their tails as they uncover rocks where eggs are 3-- ot ). sources bookstore Lake City. 2-- flats in open bays. Crappie and 14-in- variety of baits. Recapture Reservoir has been good with baits. Scofield Reservoir ice fishing is considered hazardous. The shoreline has been melting f back on warm afternoons. is expected in two weeks. The limit at Scofield has been reduced to four trout. Ice-of- LAKE POWELL - report updated April 15 report: Wayne Gustaveson, DWR Lake Powell project leader, provides the following. The lake elevation is 3,677 feet and the water temperature is 55 - 60 F. The storm fronts have passed with water and air temperatures : The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands has warming rapidly. Thats great news and spells the beginning of spring bass fishing. Bass have been sulking in deep water waiting patiently for the water to warm. The days are now long enough to get bass thinking about spawning. The only thing lacking was the warming trend needed to send fish shallow in search of nest-- ; ing and spawning habitat. Right now fishing is only fair bluegill will be found at the same locations. Crappie nests will be in dense brush, weeds or even tumbleweed windrows where the wind has piled them. Small jigs, lures and live worms are the key for catching panfish. Striped bass get revved up with warm water. They run to current even if they are not old enough to spawn. The tribu- taries and locations where water escapes from the lake are consistent spring time pro- ducers. Warming increases feeding activity so all fish move a little faster, search longer and are more willing to bite. Spring time striper spots in the Wahweap area include the dam, power plant intake, gravel pile and the back of most canyons, including Warm Creek, Navajo, Last Chance, Rock Creek and West Canyon. At Bullfrog Halls, Mold wall is most notable, but look upstream from the mouth of Mold Canyon right at the point where Mold wall gets small and peters out for a large school of stripers. Also check the first point of the steep wall downstream from Halls Marina, and the mouth of Lake Canyon. At Hite, main channel islands are good as is the Dirty Devil and Trachyte Canyons. Pessimism is such a nasty word. Nothing good has ever come from this negative characteristic that often seems all to prevalent in some people. Pessimism makes all dreams look like nightmares. I dont understand why people allow this trait to live and breath. This past week as the Jazz lost a couple of games, some people acted as if all was lost and the end was near. Why is this so? Do we expect a team to win every game in a 82 game schedule? Or in a 50 game year like this? Do we not expect a let down at some point? Do we not expect the other team to play great once in a while? The Utah Jazz have been one of the most successful franchises in the NBA the last 15 you done for me NOW! I am often reminded of the Randy Quaid character in Major League as he yells from the left field bleachers. No matter the situation, his remarks always have a negative connotation. Nothing is ever good enough. As the SLOC has had its own set of problems lately, once again the skeptics come out in force. Why is this so? Do these people have nothing better to do than sit at home and wait for the negative to happen and then rejoice? it over with these people not have a life? The decision has been made to host the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake for several years now, but yet there are those certain few that still want to complain. Even right now they want the state to give the games back. What A disgusting thought. What a cowardly act that would be! Whether the decision to host the Olympics was good or bad does not matter any more, it now matters only that we do the best job we can. The games are ours and it is up to us to put on the best games this world has ever seen. It is no longer the time to be whining and complaining. It is instead the time to be acting and doing. I have no idea why people, when life is so short anyway, waste their time and efforts boobing over things they cant control anyway. Be sad, be mad, but get over it. Do I have been cornered more than once lately and asked why I dont write more about track and field, baseball, softball or rodeo. Its all very simple, I want to experience what I write about. These activities usually occur at the same time and during school hours and, unfortunately for me, I am expected to show up at work some times. I just cant be two places at once. This spring has been a busy season for me but I will try next year to attend more of these events and then you can be assured that I will write about you too. DWR could receive much needed funding if Congress passes new bill Congress studying Conappointed Gary Cornell as Southeastern Area Manager servation and Reinvest- 3 doomed either to predation from other fish or due to lack of oxygen as silt settles on the nest. Spawning will occur lake wide when the water temperature exceeds 60 degrees. Look for bass in the backs of coves and canyons and on shallow and larger trout with a ' Area Manager of Utah DFFS six-coun- ty areas have been especially : Southeastern with responsibility for division programs in Grand, San Juan, and Carbon Counties. deposited. Males actively Emery, was most recently Fire guard the nest to chase away Cornell intruders. Females are on the Management Coordinator for nest only during spawning. the division in Salt Lake City. Males are easy to catch on the Gary was selected for the because of his hands-o- n for of and position spawning day after. Then experience and knowledge days they get wary of lures and tend to run when of forestry issues, said Art a boat approaches and revisit DuFault, state forester and dithe nest when the boat leaves. rector. He brings to the posiA lure placed right on the nest tion previous experience as an and patiently attended catches Area Manager for a the male most of the time. area in northeast Utah and Practice catch and release if were sure hell provide the necyou want. the eggs to hatch. essary leadership to manage Without the male that nest is important programs in his Millsite Reservoir continues to be good for shoreline fishermen. The boat ramp and dock good. Anglers are catching 5 sad, be mad, but get years. They have brought an enormous amount of happiness and satisfaction to the residents of this State but that often does not seem good enough. They have been to the NBA Finals the last two years but that does not seem good enough. They have the best in Salt record in the NBA this year but that does not seem good enough. It has to be What have Gary Cornell appointed as Huntington Reservoir (in Sanpete County) is covered Be ment Act which could funnel $4 to $6 million annually into wildlife management programs The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources could receive $4 to $6 million annually to fund badly needed wildlife management programs if the national Conservation help Utahs herds recover, after the devastating winter do not hunt or fish. If the act passes, Kimball said the money might initially be used to purchase conservation easements on vital wildlife habitat, and to increase the Divisions outreach programs to the pub- of 1992-9- The decrease in hunters, brought about in part by the deer hunter cap, also has resulted in the Division less federal receiving Pittman-Robertsolic. Act The extra funding is badly funding. These dollars are needed, Division Public Ser- raised through an excise vices Section Chief Cindee tax on hunting equipment and are allotted to state Jensen told the board. Jensen said the Division wildlife agencies, based in has started taking mea- part on the number of huntsures, including instituting ers who reside in each state. The April 13 meeting of a hiring freeze on filling vacant positions, to stay the board was an informawithin revenue the Division tional meeting only and no is projecting it will receive in action was taken. Other informational items the coming months. presented to the board inAmong reasons for a decline in revenue was the loss cluded a discussion of Coof $1.6 million in general operative Wildlife Managefund money the Utah Leg- ment Units and their relaislature provided the Div- tionship to elk farms, a reision for a period of four view of issues within the Book Cliffs area, briefings years in the The legislature autho- on sensitive species and rized the supplemental conservation programs, funding to help cover rev- and discussions of open enue losses the Division sus- space initiatives and Divitained after instituting a sion land management n and Reinvestment Act, being studied by Congress, is enacted. Congress may vote on the bill this summer, Division area. Director John Kimball tbld Cornell is a 1973 graduate of the Utah Wildlife Board at Northern Arizona University an April 13 meeting in Salt with a B.S. degree in Forestry. Lake City. He worked for the U.S. Forest Kimball told the board Service in several positions and that the act, which would joined the Utah Division of For- redirect some of the revestry, Fire and State Lands in enues generated from off1976. oil and gas drilling to shore The Division of Forestry, Fire state wildlife agencies, had and State Lands manages the from support bipartisan fire states forests, provides in Congress. If both parties management, aids communipassed, the Division could cap on deer hunting tags to ties with urban forestry, and receive funding as early as assists private forest landownOctober 1999, Kimball said. ers in forest product utilization would pay for The money and insect and disease control. manageBLM nongame species The Southeastern Area Ofwatchable wildlife, ment, fice is located at 1165 South and wildlife education proHighway 191, Suite 6, Moab, grams. Nongame species Utah, 84532, and may be are species for which people reached at (435) The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency of the Department of the Interior, recently announced the availability of Public Rewards from Public Lands, a mid-1990- s. announces new publication featuring benefits of public lands 259-376- 6. nic and recreational sites, Wilderness Areas, and proximately $1.2 billion and activities on the public lands generated public lands, whether re- approximately $1.3 billion. lated to conservation, recre- The BLM shared these reation or commodity extrac- ceipts with states where the tion, helps ensure that well lands are located. In 1998, pass on the magnificent the states received over $740 open spaces of the West to million, including $119 milfuture generations. The lion in Payments in Lieu of BLM manages 264 million Taxes. In addition to the national acres of land and more than c 560 million acres of subsurpublication, covers face estate, making it the copies with nations foremost preserver are also available. Copies of and guardian of open space. Public Rewards From PubPublic Rewards points out lic Lands may be obtained the benefits that the Ameri- from all BLM State Public can people receive from the Affairs Offices and from the diverse resources on agencys headquarters in public lands, in- Washington, D.C. The publication will also be available cluding livestock forage, energy and minerals, timber, on BLMs Home Page at fish and wildlife habitat, sce- - www.blm.gov. agency, said BLM Acting Director Tom Fry. Every activity that we manage on the BLM-man-age- state-specifi- full-col- BLM-manage- In the world of horses, a palomino is a light tan or golden mane and tale. A d horse with an ivory or sabino is a roan or light red horse with a white belly. cream-colore- ar- chaeological and historic sites. The publication provides detailed information on specific recreational arpublication featuring the eas of the public lands, as benefits that the American well as each public land people receive from their states heritage assets. Public Rewards notes that public lands, including the agencys role in conserving the BLM generates more funds than it spends, makopen space. Public Rewards from Pub- ing it an asset to the taxlic Lands celebrates the BLM payer. In Fiscal Year 1998, as the nations open-spac- e the BLMs budget was ap- d d |