| Show 2 flier r Standard-Examine- Saturday December 2 2000 5C Stan Bird the Weather Examiner forecast: Today’s 23 chopping days until Christmas i ' For Logan 43 7 Z '’kU r The Great Salt Lake ”" Brigham City ' 45V : 43 f 44° Morgan City - nmir Idaho 45 23 Sun and high clouds ' 25- Sunday Today I 43 Layton 44V 2 Farmington - 44V ? 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Western gov- ernors urged federal authorities on Thursday to do more to reduce the chance of major wildfires like those that charred millions of acres last summer Federal agencies that manage the nation’s forests should take additional steps including more efforts to remove brush and smaller trees that provide fuel for fires members of the Western Governors’ Association said at their winter meeting The recommendation which is part of a resolution the association was expected to adopt unanimously on Friday conflicts with the view of environmentalists who argue that removing smaller trees and debris will lead to what they consider excessive logging in national forests But Republican Gov Dirk Kempthorne of Idaho where fires burned about 13 million acres this summer said failure to thin the forests has created an unsafe situation “The current forest health policy is not working and I contend it went up in smoke this season” Kempthome said In its consensus resolution the governors’ association maintains that millions of acres of federal forests are m “poor ecological health and are at an unacceptable risk of wildfire insect infestation and disease” In all about 40 million to 65 million acres of U S forest are at moderate to high risk of fire mostly in the western United States said Colm Hardy a Forest Service researcher who atconference m tended the two-da- y San Diego “We’ve probably had in terms of wildfires the worst year since 1910” said Kempthorne the chairman of the association Wildfires burned more than 6 5 million acres this year The average is about 3 million acres and the low is about 15 million according to the US Forest Service 10-ye- ar SALT LAKE CITY - The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance has filed suit to delay well at ling of a new natural-ga- s an existing well site in eastern Utah SUWA claims drilling at Peters Point near Desolation Canyon about 55 miles north of Green River should not occur during wmter because the area is dril- important winter-rang- e habitat for deer elk and bighorp sheep “The animals are already in their w inter range because of the harshness of November” said SUWA spokesman Mike Reberg But Wasatch Oil and Gas Corp of Farmington holds the gas lease “There is nothing in our lease that says we can’t be out there in wintertime doing this work” said Wasatch President Todd Cusick “These folks at SUWA are either confused and misinformed or are truly extremists” The oil and gas lease was authorized in 1950 Two years later the leaseholders drilled a gas well that has been in continual production since said Cusick The gas is transported via a pipeline that runs adjacent to a gravel road to Last Carbon Wasatch’s new well would be drilled about 20 feet from another well that the company says has deteriorated There would be no additional surface disturbance and no new road construction according to Bureau of Land Management spokesman Don Banks SUWA which filed its suit in federal court Thursday contends the additional truck traffic required to assemble and disassemble a drilling ng would add unnecessary stress to the wintering big game It contends a BLM environ I r front-yar- Ttie Associated Press - MAKING A POINT: Gov Mike Leavitt addresses fire management concerns as Idaho Gov Dirk Kempthome (left) and Oregon Gov John Kitzhaber look on at a news conference at the Western Governors Association meeting in ern Rockies many of them the direct result of man's development into bear country the federal government’s top bear biologist said “The majority of our dead bears now occur where we have people building and developing private land in grizzly habitat” Chris Servheen grizzly recovery coordinator for the U S Fish and Wildlife Service said on Thursday “New residents in many cases move to Montana and want to have a piece of wild country and build a big house and put out a bunch of bird feeders and deer food in big San Diego Thursday The Clinton administration authorized an additional $2 9 billion to hire more firefighters and buy more equipment and to re move brush and small trees in response to this summer’s fires said Forest Service spokesman Matt Mathis mental assessment in June stated Wasatch is prohibited from drilling between Nov 1 and May 15 to protect wildlife and watersheds However when BLM finalized Wasatch's drilling permit the decision failed to incorporate the wintertime restriction according to SUWA's lawsuit Banks said Wasatch intended to complete its drilling before Nov 1 but when the company was unable to meet that sched sno orr n snow fs i tubs” d privately owned but those private lands are the source of more than 60 percent of the human-bear conflicts he said ' Very few bears die on public land for the most part” Servheen said “Most die on ” private land Eight of the grizzlies killed in the past year were the victims of illegal shootings including a female with two cubs and another with one cub is)3dsljtv'(U: f ti a tt I (q ) ts iM k’A f ? (c A he said Seventeen percent of the 9500 square miles in area is ftsft Regent Assisted living C! Dv’1 i‘v ule the BLM conducted a supplemental environmental assessment That document signed Nov 22 gave Wasatch permission to drill for a 21 day period and determined that impacts to wildlife would be minimal rh I’ tie J 1 t i ’ c -- A t' t t Bloch said BLM has ignored its own biologists in making that determination and has shown no good reason why Wasatch cannot wait until May 16 to begin I Pets Welcome All the benefits of assisted living with the advantage of private apartments ce “When you do that in grizzly bear habitat you get grizzly bears in your front yard ” The 20 known deaths m the northern Continental Divide ecosystem this year were the most in 15 years Servheen said TwenMISSOULA Mont ty grizzly bears were killed by humans this year in the North- DENIS POROY Associated Press St a Count of grizzlies killed highest in 1 5 years SUWA files suit to delay drilling at existing well site The Associated Press cwstums Personal! a1 24 Spevial Pneing Pm ate Hi rttire Care Model TuLae Verier’ D E7X3 ‘ r ' Hvi3 REGENT A pountri Independent Or Assisted Lhing m (eSOl) Isn'T s 1 1 475-511- 11 I i h 1 if nSc Hln f |
