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Show t tEimea-cfo- Page 6 News and views from your county agent Grass, squash By Jeff Banks Juab County Extension Agent Grass Seed Selection September is one of the best times to sow lawn seed. The more moderate temperatures at this time of even germination because it is easier to prevent the seeds drying out. Select a good Kentucky Blue-grablend. Many books and pamphlets recommend Zoysia or Bermuda grass. These are warm season grasses not suitable for the conditions here, along the Wasatch Front. To determine the type of grasses in your mixture, check the package for Seed Mixture Analysis. The best grasses are listed under the Fine Textured Types and to the right of each type is the percentage of germination you can expect. The germination percent should be 85 or above. Other subheadings like Coarse Kinds: and other ingredients should read 0.00. No noxious weeds should be present in the mix. Baron, Glade, Fylking, Nuggett, Vita, Windsor are just a few of the quality for which to look. Fescues and rye grasses are useful in certain special situations only. For instance, if you are planting in heavy shade or are anticipating extra heavy traffic in one area these grasses may need to be included in your mix. However, consult your nurseryman on this. ss Sub-headin- CUP ed g: blue-grass- es update... Wednesday, August 24, 1994 Thousands of young people across the country are in AmeriCorps As a rule, clover is not desirable. It tends to take over the grass and it will attract bees and This summer, thousands of portunity to contribute to their care benefits and child care ben- gram throughout the state. become more of a pest than a young people across America be- community while earning money efits if needed. Nationally, up to 200 programs help. gan working toward their for higher education. Members ' AmeriCorps not only helps employing 20,000 AmeriCorps Winter Squash dreams of becoming accountants, focus their energies on the criti- young'people improve their lead- Members are slated to begin by If you have winter squash in nurses, chemical engineers,' and cal issues of education, public ership skills, but also instills in the end of this year. Over the your garden, you may wonder teachers by restoring wildlife safety, human needs and the en- them a spirit of volunteerism, course ofthree years, this multisaid Michael Call, executive di- billion dollar program will emwhen is the best time to harvest habitats, rehabilitating juvenile ' vironment. 26 Memand Utahs offenders rector of the Utah Commission ploy 100,000 AmeriCorps Memwonderful to store how AmeriCorps and this tutoring - on National and Community Ser- - bers. will Utahns receive bers assisare tuition preschoolers. getting vegetable. For more information, call the Squash takes between 85 to their chance as well; applications tance of $4,725 for one year of vice. The Commission was service. They will also lished to, among other things, Utah AmeriCorps hotline at 105 days from planting to matu- are now being taken for memberrity. You should not pick the fruit ship in AmeriCorps, the new na- receive a living allowance, health administer the AmeriCorps pro until it has a deep solid color and tional service movement that will the rind is hard (no moisture engage Americans ofall ages and mark left by a fingernail). Har- backgrounds in what is being vest after the vines have died called the domestic Peace Corps. This new federal program aldown but before the first hard lows freeze. anyone 17 or older the op- To store, leave at least one inch of stem attached when picking. Cure the squash in a warm (75 Utah waterfowl Utahs dove hunt opens Sep- longer and milder temperatures Doves are migratory birds, so to 85 degrees), dry place for 10 tember There 1st. are three a is required to limit the cool to prevail. store in a Then (50 plug days. A few reminders will ensure a shotguns capacity to three things you can count on in Utah: 55 degrees), dry location. Inspect shells. for soft spots occasionally. Some scheduled for the fall 1. Death and taxes (of course); 2. safe and successful outing: Youll never find Karl Malone in Obtain the proper license and The statewide bag limit is 10 of the squash will keep until will a KFC restaurant; 3. A cold snap stamp. Hunters 16 years of age doves, 20 in possession. waterfowl hunters Utah early spring. have a longer split season in 1994 will push doves south three days and older are required to purConsult the mourning dove Fall Weed Control and 95. Zone One duck and coot before the opener. Numbers one chase a habitat stamp with the proclamation for shooting hours. Fall is one of these best times hunt dates will be October 8th and two are irrefutable, but it is small game or combination liFinally, if you plan to hunt r new areas this season, please to control weeds in your yard and through December 5th and De- possible to find doves if you keep cense.' few things in mind. Adult supervision is required respect the rights of others and garden. In the fall perennial cember 23rd through January a Typically, cooler storms do for hunters between the ages of ask for written permission to weeds are beginning to store en- 1st. Zone One covers most of push the northern dove popula- 12 and 16. hunt private lands. ergy for winter, and application northern Utah. tion south just about the time Two be Zone will hunt dates of an herbicide at this time can October 15th through November you dust off the old Wingmaster. Two-thir- ds be very effective. and December 17th through Just as waterfowl fill the flyways 27th such For weeds in your lawn as Bindweed (morning glory), January 10th. Zone Two covers every fall, doves tend to follow corridors of large valleys in their curly dock, dandelion, mallow, central and southern Utah. be for ducks will limits migration south. The valleys proand other Bag many puncturevine, vide abundant forage, water a broadleaved type weeds, the ap- four daily, no more than three for resting. Unlike water-fow- l, trees female one but mallards only plication of 2,4-- will be most doves have the capacity to two and no more than effectual. mallard, of Utahs pared to 61 percent two years endure two or redheads canvasbacks or to Nearly high not temperatures and care take Always spray therefore lakes, rivers and streams are in ago, while 37 percent are imdehydration, when there is any breeze or if it one of each. The goose hunt will run from waterholes in desert areas also good condition, according to a paired now, compared to 39 peris too hot. 2,4-- can drift to desirable plant material and cause October 8th through January afford opportunities for good pass study that was presented to the cent in 1992. Water Quality Board recently. For rivers and streams, 60 perwill not harm 8th, except that Washington shooting. damage. 2,4-But 1994 the Water Utah Occent When look for are in good condition now, Qualfrom will run hunt valleys, hunting Countys grasses. tober 22nd through January fallow fields where sunflowers ity Inventory also indicated ap- compared to 57 percent two years 22nd. The daily bag limit for dark and other seed plants are avail- proximately 40 percent of Utah ago. And 40 percent are imgeese (Canadas) is two birds. The able. Large trees adjacent to rivers, streams and lakes are paired, compared to 43 percent daily bag limit for white geese grain fields provide resting areas impaired to some degree. We are in 1992. We believe Utahs wa(Ross, Blue, Snow) is three birds. for doves between feedings and at least holding our own and im- ter quality is at least as good as Waterfowl proclamations are excellent spots to set up. proving water quality in some or better than the national avershould be available in early Sep- Once the migration begins, instances, Division Water Qual- age, Ostler said, but it is difficult to determine because states tember at all DWR offices and greater opportunities are found ity Director Don Ostler said. ' found of 62 liin the southern end of the state, percent Monitoring wherever hunting and fishing Continued on page 8 where growing seasons are lakes in good condition, 'com- - J censes are sold. o CUP in final The Central Utah Project (CUP), one of the largest construction projects ever undertaken in Utah, is in the final stages of development. When finally completed in 2003 or 2004, the CUP will also be one of the most expensive building projects, public or private ever under- taken in Utah, writes Utah Foundation a private nonprofit think tank in their latest research report. Construction costs alone exceed $1.8 billion. With planning, engineering, administration, legal settlements, land acquisition, and highway relocation costs, the total bill for the CUP tops $2.5 billion. Utah Foundation director, Michael Christensen, states, Most Utahns do not have a clear picture of the CUP. They have grown up hearing bits and pieces about the CUP in the news congressional appropriation battles, environmental impact statements, construction progress, delays, lawsuits, cost overruns, etc. The purpose of our report, is to take a look at the CUP, with the advantage of hindsight, and explain what it means for Utah water users and taxpayers. The CUP, states the report, is a complex and massive storage and diversion project that moves about 200 thousand acre feet of water from the Uintah Basin (that would otherwise flow into the Colorado River) into the Great Basin to quench the thirst of farms and cities along the Wasatch Front and in central Utah. The CUP was planned and engineered primarily by the Bureau of Reclamation (the same agency responsible for building such huge projects as Hoover, Shasta and Grand Coulee dams) and authorized by congress in 1956. Christensen states that the federal governments initial purpose in western water projects was mainly to help small farmers by bringing arid lands into production. weeds... Nephi, Utah estab-full-ti- year encourage fine-textur- & s The Bureau of Reclamations mandate, he states, was to reclaim the desert lands of the West by building dams and canals and selling irrigation water to small farmers. But over time the Bureaus mis- sion evolved. Its primary constituents changed, Christensen points out, from small farmers to big farmers, cities, land devel- opers, construction contractors. Dove Hunt opens September 1st in Utah seasons are : of lakes, rivers, streams are in good condition says Water Quality Board D two-thir- ds D D stages and politicians. TBday water officials generally agree that the eventual fate of CUP will be to supply water to the cities along the Wasatch Front. According to the Foundation report, the CUP was the result of several factors. First, it owes its existence to the Colorado River Compacts of 1922 and 1948, which divided up the waters of the Colorado among the states in the Colorado River basin. Second, the CUP came about as a result of a genuine belief that the water was needed in order for the state to grow and prosper. With this belief came the fear, regardless of the Colorado River Compacts, that the state must put its allocation to beneficial use or risk losing it to downstream states. The third factor behind the CUP was a practice that prevailed in congress from about World War II until 1975, that assumed for the federal government the primary financial obligation for water development. The fourth factor is closely related to the third. It is the economic impact of federal dollars. The mere availability of significant amounts of federal money to boost Utahs economy was certainly a powerful incentive to get behind the CUP. Christensen summarizes, Without a belief in the need for the water, the fear of losing our allocation, the willingness of the federal government to pay for it, and our desire to have them do so, the project would have never been started. By the late 1980s however, the CUP was uncompleted and way over budget, and attitudes in congress had changed. No longer was it in the mood to approve expensive water development projects as they had in earlier jy.r. it ''Sffy.Si ' ;s. Cl yn.Uf i'Cj V.ij i i V i tj.O rt-- H. ( iGG J ; NIOSH warns agricultural workers that they may be at risk for organic dust toxic syndrome The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) warns agricultural workers that they may be at risk for developing organic dust toxic syndrome (ODTS), a common respiratory illness that may follow exposure to heavy concentrations of organic dust contaminated with microorganisms, Workers are typically exposed to this dust when shoveling or moving organic materials such as oats, wood chips, composted leaves, and silage. An estimated 30 to 40 of workers exposed to organic dust will develop the disease. Yet, despite its common occurrence, ODTS is not a widely recognized illness. It is probable that thousands of workers have been affected by a disease they knew nothing about, said NIOSH Director Dr. Linda Rosenstock. Moreover, many have been misdiagnosed and received unnecessary or inappropriate treatment. Preventing this illness will be much more likely when workers and physicians are aware of the syndrome, its causes, and its symptoms, she stressed. The syndrome is characterized by fever occurring 4 to 12 hours after exposure and e symptoms such as general weakness, headache, chills, body aches, and cough. Shortness of breath may also occur. In addition, pulmonary function may be impaired, and an increase in the number of white cells in the blood is comenvironyears. Furthermore, mental concerns had gained a mon. Listening to the chest usumuch stronger voice in Washing- ally reveals normal breathing are ton. The result was the Central sounds, and chest normal. Antibodies typiusually Act of Utah Project Completion 1992, which made a number of cally associated with certain alimportant changes to the CUP. lergic lung diseases such as One of the most important was farmers lung are usually not the imposition of a local cost present. ODTS usually disappears share. This requires Utah tax24 hours to a few days within of to the 35 percent payers pay worker is removed from the after cost of the project. remaining the exposure. No specific therapy This requirement is forcing wato treat ODTS. Howneeded is ter officials to scramble to come the ever, obsyndrome may often be the of with up ways meeting as bronchiacute misdiagnosed states. the ligation, report or farmers tis, influenza, lung Continued on page 8 disease, which may lead to un flu-lik- necessary or excessive therapy with antibiotics or medication. Agricultural workers and employers should minimize the risk of exposure to organic dust by taking the following precautions: Be aware of the adverse health effects of breathing organic dust. Inform your doctor about recent dust exposures when seeking treatment for respiratory illness. Carefully harvest and store agricultural products to minimize spoilage. Use automated or mechanized equipment to move de- cayed materials. 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