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Show Emery County Progress, Castle Dale, Utah Sjpcoiptts samdl Governor delcares May 2 - Tuesday May 4, 1 999 3B M&dkDcoirs 8 OHV Safety Week in Utah The purpose of 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 Off-Highw- ay Vehicle Safety Week is to i 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 private property. Dont cut switchbacks or take shortcuts. Remember, areas signed as wilderness are closed to all remind riders to be properly trained and prepared for fun and safe OHV riding. h t r t non-motoriz- 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 s Off-Hig- Be sad, be mad, but get it over with 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 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 years. They have brought an enormous amount of happiness and satisfaction to the short anyway, waste their time and efforts residents of this State but that often does not boobing over things they cant control anyway. seem good enough. They have been to the Be sad, be mad, but get over it. NBA Finals the last two years but that does not seem good enough. They have the best I have been cornered more than once lately record in the NBA this year but that does not seem good enough. It has to be What have and asked why I dont write more about track and field, baseball, softball or rodeo. Its all you done for me NOW! I am often reminded of the Randy Quaid very simple, I want to experience what I write character in Major League as he yells from the about. These activities usually occur at the left field bleachers. No matter the situation, same time and during school hours and, unhis remarks always have a negative connota- fortunately for me, I am expected to show up at work some times. I just cant be two places tion. Nothing is ever good enough. As the SLOC has had its own set of prob- at once. This spring has been a busy season for me lems lately, once again the skeptics come out in force. Why is this so? Do these people have but I will try next year to attend more of these nothing better to do than sit at home and wait events and then you can be assured that I will for the negative to happen and then rejoice? write about you too. 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 informamotorized vehicles. tion on OHV laws and riding Try to stay in the middle of areas, contact the OHV Inforthe trail to avoid widening it. mation Center at Detailed trail Trail widening is ugly and exmaps are also available at the pensive to repair. Leave gates as you found Department of Natural Rethem, open or closed, unless sources bookstore in Salt Lake City. posted otherwise. ay 2-- 8, Be courteous when passing hikers and other vehicles. Avoid muddy trails, save them for future trips when they are dry. Off-Highw- (648-7433- h ). Gary Cornell appointed as I with good things only a few Huntington Reservoir (in Sanpete County) is covered with multiple layers of ice and slush the depth of most ice augers. Parking is available near the dam for several ve- WARM days away. 3-- hicles. 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 ' 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 ShoreKens Lake is i I i 15-2- f i f 0 b. ice-fre- e. j line fishing continues to be good in the evenings. DWR a 5 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. 1 y Millsite Reservoir continues to be good for shoreline fishermen. The boat ramp and dock areas have been especially good. Anglers are catching 14-in- and larger trout with a variety of baits. Recapture Reservoir has been good with baits. Scofield Reservoir ice fishing is considered hazardous. The shoreline has been melting back on warm afternoons. Ice-ois expected in two weeks. The limit at Scofield has been reduced to four trout. 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 ff ' l : water and air temperatures 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. ; 5 ot angler pressure. Trollers should try small Rapalas or Triple Teasers. Beginning in 1999, fishing regulations t Large and smallmouth bass will move to small rock structure (gravel) in feet of water. 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 deposited. Males actively guard the nest to chase away intruders. Females are on the Right now fishing is only fair nest only during spawning. Southeastern Area Manager of Utah DFFS DWR could receive much needed funding if Congress passes new bill The Utah Division of ForState Lands has Congress studying Conappointed Gary Cornell as Southeastern Area Manager servation and Reinvestestry, Fire and with responsibility for division programs in Grand, San Juan, Emery, and Carbon Counties. Cornell was most recently Fire Management Coordinator for the division in Salt Lake City. Gary was selected for the position because of his hands-oexperience and knowledge of forestry issues, said Art DuFault, state forester and director. He brings to the position previous experience as an Area Manager for a Males are easy to catch on the day of spawning and for days after. Then they get wary of lures and tend to run when a boat approaches and revisit the nest when the boat leaves. A lure placed right on the nest and patiently attended catches 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 doomed either to predation area. Cornell is a 1973 graduate of from other fish or due to lack of oxygen as silt settles on the Northern Arizona University with a B.S. degree in Forestry. nest. He worked for the U.S. Forest occur will lake Spawning Service in several positions and wide when the water temperature exceeds 60 degrees. Look joined the Utah Division of Forfor bass in the backs of coves estry, Fire and State Lands in and canyons and on shallow 1976. The Division of Forestry, Fire flats in open bays. Crappie and and State Lands manages the found will at the be bluegill same locations. Crappie nests states forests, provides fire will be in dense brush, weeds management, aids communior even tumbleweed windrows ties with urban forestry, and where the wind has piled them. assists private forest landownSmall jigs, lures and live ers in forest product utilization and insect and disease control. worms are the key for catchThe Southeastern Area Ofing panfish. Striped bass get revved up fice is located at 1165 South with warm water. They run to Highway 191, Suite 6, Moab, current even if they are not old Utah, 84532, and may be enough to spawn. The tribu- reached at (435) 2-- 3 n six-coun- ty 259-376- taries and locations where water escapes from the lake are consistent spring time producers. 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 Moki Canyon right at the point where Moki 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. 6. Do ment Act which could funnel $4 to $6 million annually into wildlife management programs not hunt or fish. help Utahs herds recover, If the act passes, Kimball after the devastating winter said the money might ini- of 1992-9The decrease in hunters, tially be used to purchase conservation easements on brought about in part by vital wildlife habitat, and to the deer hunter cap, also increase the Divisions out- has resulted in the Division federal reach programs to the pub- receiving less do lic. Pittman-Robertso- The extra funding is badly The Utah Division of Wildneeded, Division Public Serlife Resources could receive vices Section Chief Cindee $4 to $6 million annually to Jensen told the board. fund badly needed wildlife Jensen said the Division management programs if has started taking meathe national Conservation sures, including instituting and Reinvestment Act, be- a hiring freeze on filling vaing studied by Congress, is cant positions, to stay enacted. within revenue the Division Congress may vote on the is projecting it will receive in bill this summer, Division the coming months. Director John Kimball tbld Among reasons for a dethe Utah Wildlife Board at cline in revenue was the loss an April 13 meeting in Salt of $1.6 million in general Lake City. fund money the Utah LegKimball told the board islature provided the Divthat the act, which would ision for a period of four redirect some of the rev- years in the enues generated from offThe legislature authoshore oil and gas drilling to rized the supplemental state wildlife agencies, had funding to help cover revbipartisan support from enue losses the Division susboth parties in Congress. If tained after instituting a passed, the Division could cap on deer hunting tags to receive funding as early as October 1999, Kimball said. The money would pay for nongame species manage- BLM ment, watchable wildlife, and wildlife education programs. Nongame species are species for which people mid-1990- s. Act n funding. These dollars are raised through an excise tax on hunting equipment and are allotted to state wildlife agencies, based in part on the number of hunters who reside in each state. The April 13 meeting of the board was an informational meeting only and no action was taken. Other informational items presented to the board included a discussion of Cooperative Wildlife Management Units and their relationship to elk farms, a review of issues within the Book Cliffs area, briefings on sensitive species and conservation programs, and discussions of open space initiatives and Division land management pro- grams. announces new publication featuring benefits of public lands nic and recreational sites, The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency Wilderness Areas, and arof the Department of the Inchaeological and historic terior, recently announced sites. The publication prothe availability of Public Re- vides detailed information wards from Public Lands, a 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 apagency, said BLM Acting proximately $1.2 billion and Director Tom Fry. Every ac- activities on the public lands generated tivity that we manage on the 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 d diverse resources on agencys headquarters in public lands, in- Washington, D.C. The pubcluding livestock forage, en- lication will also be available ergy and minerals, timber,- on BLMs Home Page at fish and wildlife habitat, scewww.blm.gov. BLM-man-ag- state-specifi- full-col- BLM-manage- In the world of horses, a palomino is a light tan or golden mane and tale. 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