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Show 9 f I P 9 ! m i i iti Emery County Progress Castle Dale, Utah Tuesday February 17, 2004 3A Public Lands Continued from PAGE 1 made their wishes known that they wish all forest roads to be A. Dickson Huntington reported that the Utah Range coalition has put together a range school for March 4 at the Museum of the San Rafael from 9 a.m - 4 p.m. The presenters from Colorado who put on the range school in Moab in January will be in Emery County. Huntington encouraged all farmers and ranchers to attend. He also requested the Emery County Commission to make a donation to help with the costs of the school. Commissioner Kofford recommended Huntington get it on the agenda at the next commission meeting. Rowley said they are currently working on four projects including the restoration of the old school house in Ferron, the Swasey dugout, repainting the San Rafael bridge and the instal-latio- n of a flag pole at the Woodside cemetery. Ward said the Huntington Cleveland irrigation company is preparing an application to the Bureau of Reclamation for a pressurized irrigation system for all HuntingtonCleveland irrigators. It is a $55 million package and they should know by August whether or not their bid has been accepted. He said the Johnny Jensen Hollow reservoir is also being discussed. PacifiCorp has plans to lease 5,000 acre feet of water to be used as needed and will pay an incentive. Ward said if the pressurized system goes there will be a 0 percent savings in water use. Mesia Nyman gave the forest service update. She began by sayingthe forest service does not have a map of proposed road closures on the Muddy. Nyman said they are going through an analysis to develop a value and a risk to each road which hasnt been done yet. The forest service has also asked users and groups to let them know what they want to see as access. They will accept information from everyone. The information will be used to assign values to the roads. Environmental considerations and wildlife concerns are all taken into consideration. These values will aid in determining if a road will be closed or left open. Sometimes it also means recognizing a road w hich was not part of the forest system and incorporating it into the system. She described the process as being very open and NEPA analysis must also be completed. She said they received a letter from the Emery city council saying they wanted all existing roads left open. The map that Emery had at their council meeting was probably a copy of the map from the Utah Environmental College who has 30-4- . your balance. Emery wants everything left open and the Utah Environmental College wants everything closed. Nyman said they must find some neutral ground, because it is unrealistic that every road remain open. Nyman said a public meeting will be held dealing with the Muddy roads analysis when the values have been determined. We will say here are all the roads and their values, give us your thoughts on them. From the Muddy we will move north until we have evaluated the whole Wasatch Plateau, we have spent over a year on the Muddy with GPS crews out. The travel plan needs updating. We usually dont have conflict on the major arterial roads, but on the level two roads which are often a single lane or two tracks that a lot of people love to use is where we have the most conflict. We want to keep the rumors in check as we continue to manage this wonderful public land, said Nyman. Nyman said they have plans to restore and repair the Seely guard station and would like to have it as a rental. People could rent it for the night and then snowmobile in during the winter and. also use it during the summer. Nyman said they are lacking funds to complete the project and hope to get materials and manpower donated to fix it up. 2004 projects Continued from PAGE 1A. Bear Spring Mitigation Project. The designs are currently being worked on, drawings should be done in March. Leamaster announced that the district had finally received a pilot study waiver from the Division of Drinking Water. He is hoping to advertise and begin construction around June or July and have the project completed this fall. The only thing needed is to get the agreement in place between Genwall, Energy West and ter to once a year, in August. As as that test stays under then the county can remain at once a year testing. the time of their monthly meet-lon- g ingto 7 p.m. until Daylight ings, when it will return to 7:30 p.m. The district will be changing ' CVSSD. The district looked next at raising water and sewer rates. It is required to hold a public hearing, and the district decided that they would prefer to have each city hold its own public hearing. They would like to publish a few newspaper articles to raise awareness. They are looking at raising culinary water and sewer $3 a month starting July 1. Leamaster would like to have all public hearings held in March or April. They would like to show comparisons with other communities such as Carbon County and Green River; and also show the loss of mineral lease money; property tax happenings and also show the services provided by the district that residents are not being charged for here, that they would be charged for in other areas. Some of these benefits are that the district maintains and installs sewer laterals, whereas other communities make the homeowner do their own; the annual cleaning is provided at no additional cost; and Kylasin Bell, of Price, attends Bald Eagle Day. Pet Of The Week A Bald Eagle and a Golden Eagle were set up for the day. By COREY BLUEMEL, Staff Writer Bald Eagle Day was cel- ebrated around the state on Feb. 7. Division of Wildlife Resource officers set up a viewing station at Desert Lake, east of Elmo, for the residents of surrounding areas to utilize. Officers of the DWR had been scouting around the area for several weeks to locate the choicest viewing spot. Several bald eagles were in the Desert Lake area for some time. Utah has the largest population of wintering bald eagles of any state in the western United States. As the numbers of eagles declined drastically in the 1960s, the bald eagle was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 1972. Subsequent to the introduction of DOT to the US following World War II, the decline in the numbers of bald eagles was noted. The determination was made that the use of DDT was, in fact, having a severe effect on the population of the national symbol. Eighteen years later, in 1995, the bald eagle was upgraded to Hawks and owls were on display. the threatened status. The population numbers are on the increase, but constant monitor- Photos by Corey Bluemel the wintering population had plenty to eat. On the Saturday set aside for specific viewing of the eagles, they were nowhere ing is required to ensure that the numbers continue to rise. It is estimated that approximately 13,000 bald eagles winter in the lower 48 states. Of that to be found. The display that was set up on the roadway outside of Elmo was not wasted however. Ofiicer of those birds Brent Stettler had stuffed and 13,000, winter in Utah. This number in- mounted bald eagles, a golden dicates the significance of Utahs eagle and several types of raptors on display. Stettler was on winter habitat. DWR officers had been hand to answer any questions, r watchingthe eagles, and carry- and hand out information and I ing roadkill animals to the posters, as well as hot drinks, f Desert Lake area to be sure that h NEW BEGINNINGS Bible Prophecy Seminar College of Eastern Utah, SAC Ballroom 45 East 400 North St. Price, UT 1 This adult male rabbit was brought in injured. After some care he is Understand for Yourself: Bible Prophecy ready for a loving home. His adoption Revelation Symbols and The Beast! is only $20 which includes his medical care. the replacement and mainte- nance of fire hydrants. The district has not raised the rates since 1977. They would like to show the difference in material costs from 1977 to 2004. The bottom line is that the income is not covering the expense of the service provided. The 2003 Culinary Water Usage report was reviewed. The total district use was 462 million gallons, which is the lowest it has been since 1994. Each community has used less culinary water than last year. The average usage per gallon per person per day was about 156. The states average is around 300. Leamaster quickly reviewed the snowpack report and stated that there is usually a lot of precipitation expected from now until April, but if we do not receive it, we will have about the same amount of water as last year. Leamaster also announced that the district had received the SamDisinfection 1999 the pling Waivers. Since water test to the district has had that for chlorine can cause cancer, if too much chlorine is fed through the system. Since 1999, the district has Bald is Beautiful closed. Worwood said, Well, theres for more Call Emery Animal Health information. 361-253- 9 Sponsor: BKs Stop & Shop Opening Night: Friday, Feb. 20 7:00 p.m. & Continuing: Nightly Except Mondays Library Wednesdays SAC I Athletic Ballrooml Center SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE SUJPPEM. ASCENSION ST. MATTHEWS A Christian Fellowship based on Lutheran and Episcopal Traditions Serving at 522 North Homestead Blvd., Price February 24, 2004 Serving from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. DONATION Single $3.00 Family $10.00 stayed under the regulated amount. Now that they have received the waivers they can reduce testing from once a quar Children 3 and under free when accompanied by an adult! 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