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Show SATURDAY, February 15, 1997 Che Salt Lake Tribune Utah Weber Davis SaltLake Utah Red Wood Burning Prohibited Yellow Wood Burning Discouraged GreenWood Burning Allowed AIR QUALITY 533-7235 pens BUSINESS Page B-S Seed Pushes for Police Review Navajos DecryKilling of Sacred Crows During Investigatio n of Horses’ Illness BY REBFCCA WALSH bacteria, often found in rotten food According to WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo traditionalists are questioning why tribal veterinarianskilled 15 crows in an effort to pinpoint a mysterious illness responsible for the death of 12 horses. Richard Anderson, a Navajo medicine man, says people have expressed concern to him aboutthebird killings In Navajo culture, crows are held in high regard and repre: roles in two healing fi cer Youjust d said lives on the portion of the reservation Navajo Veterinary Services, the crows were humanely destroyed and there are noplans to 1 more birds “What we have been able to determine so far is that the crows are eating dead animals’ carcasses. and carcasses are known to harbor botulism. said Ernesto Sandigo, a doctor of veterinary science who works with the veterinary-services program In that area [northeast New Mexico] thereseemsto be a high number of ad animal carcasses. Weare in ho means suggesting that crows are spreading the illness. We are testing to determine how thehorses wereex posed, if indeed the cause of death is in western New Mexico. The reserva: botulism. tion also spills over into southeastern On Jan. 10, horses in the Navajoowned stables in Crownpoint, N.M began dying from unknown causes Utah from Arizona, whereit is mainly located Although tests are not yet conclusive, preliminaryresults are pointing to a type of botulism as thekil the horses in New Mexico, Bu botulism is the culprit. the question At first it was thought to becolic 1 Chairwoman Review Board She simply aking it to a < audience: the Council Fed up with police reluctance to open the department's inner workings to more scrutiny, Seed resigned this week froma study committee. The group had been looking at how resi idents to back off ¢ open in terms of complaints against police offic We were meet ou ice repre: atalives ‘out of « f e believed we would come up with ct something real,” Seed said. “We don't have to do it with them. We can push it fromour end Since1993, the review board, madeup nes Sex review-boz or Deedee Cor of three officers and threeresidents, has miftec to discuss the make rec ommendations he heard nearly 20 cases. No witnesses, in- cluding those who filed the complaint but the animals failed to respond to standard treatments. Whentests suggested it might be botulism, the 21 surviving horses were administered See NAVAJOS, PageB-4 a " roblerri May ‘ant rant evidence and decide which cases are hopes to use the San a models as a base for ssion. ‘The authority ogi heard C Seed’s have of fi do not this this kind kind of of ré ed are allowedin the hearing. Police present}; study committee¥ near ap proving a new audit remains how the horses to thepoison producedbythe botu! e Cit Seed hasn't given up her quest tc reform the Police Department's Citizen mit x would S» looked at ev gainst stead, police administrat J iu t « on the committee suggested a less-intru t Counties Search Onto Identify | Olympic Ski Sites Slap Lid On Wilds | a BY MIKE GORRELI «: a fallback BY BRENT ISRAELSEN Those three site the most atte locations for ha About two dozen county com- missioners met behind closed Olympic cross-countr doors Friday to discuss wilder. ness issues with Utah Gov. Mike biathlon competiti nvisioned for the \ area of Parley Wasatch Fron Leavitt and his key natural-resources advisers. The event was sponsored by the Utah Association of Counties (UAC), whose officers booted a find out Salt Lake Tribune reporter and two environmentalists out of the g, heldat the Salt Pa ilderness advocates, the se. crecy is “deja vu all over again. etition and ble after t said Mike Matz, director of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alli- y for ski Wasatch Mountain State Park ance Two years ago, state and county officials met behind closed doors to begin a statewide wilderness | designation process that led to a Utah congressional-delegation- | | environmentalists. The bill died | backed wilderness bill opposed by in Congress. ferred ial for pi We'redisappointed the gover- nor would embark on his role as peacemaker by beginning the process with only one side in thede. bate,” Matz said Leavitt, time prep t even h sioners because it was their show In dismissing TheTribune from the meeting, Salt Lake County ves the president of UAC's executive committee, argued the gathering But a UAC memorandumsays the meeting's purpose was for avitt to “present his new incre. mental wilderness plan We have asked [Leavitt] to ex plain his plans for each of the 14 whi is US. 1 t V he y iffiliated urveve Any ing € sites ea je t I nd h k for the § id commi t nclusi 1 je t the Wa but al be could t bi have pe Judge Snuffs Tobacco Firms’ Claims Drunken-Diving Bill Dies; NewVersion in the Works his thinking,” the memo states. The memo makes no mention of litigation or legal matters. Leavitt BY SHEICAR BY DAN HARRIE saidlitigation was discussed only E Wilderness and the new Staircase-Escalante Na SALT A bill proposing the tional Monument dominated the discussions. LAKE nation’s | TRIBUNE toughest standards for | drunken driving appeared to crash and burn Friday in the Utah Houseafter slamminginto awall of law-enforcement Friday's meeting appeared to opposition. But a scaled-t least the spirit of the version may yet survive | and Public Meetings nearly hourlong debate on the merits | lowering the legal driving limit from alcohol content to 0.04 percent and drawbacks 0.08 of percent blood The act's provisions were “not intendedto hide from the public a The proposal by Rep. Nora Stephens, R-Sunset, would have made Utah's driving-under-the-influence level the dialogue lowest in the nation. It would take a 180-pound person twe governor and counties about the future of our public lands,” she said County commissioners called beers in an hour to reach it; a 100-pound person single beer or cocktail We're not telling people not to drink, we're just te the meeting because many are un comfortable with Leavitt's latest them if they cho to drink not to get on our highwa said Stephens, a nondrinker. "If we have the political cour ap | Se BILL, Page B-4 } | J) A Utat judge has re remptor bacec ste 1 Philip Morri: Co., Lo that sued the Jan ¢ 1 am { and Brown and Wi sta: their denied the a ants request say Graham to hire outside att handle the case on a continger | | fe ‘ The judge said Grahan agreement ¢dow not violate tac any f The ement fee sp file Jaworthe jobconttuonal proature of the Le Ast er ed attor t could af battle with these guys ab ha: F ue of ha Inewse for 19 3 to the ekin ne i } h te 1996 I st against Graham, decided Sr¢ trict Judge William Thorne also b Thorne idy su iF cof Hid not have the the legal right, to file He 0Y PAHYS idge, jam dunk before Atty. Gen. the companie Representatives narrowly defeated House Bill 65after a | Act, said Sharon Sonnenreich. general counsel for The Tribune See COUNTIES, Page B-4 ie he f guarar diamond See SEARCH, Page B-4 counties show wilderness boundaries on maps and justify “incremental” I h y Mindi Hullinger walks down Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City on Friday with designs on spreading a little St Valentine's Day cheer in the office of a friend mits in a closed meeting call for an looked 1 de del Re he time BRIGHTENING UP A GRAY FEBRUARY DAY cuss litigation, a topic the law per between the tor rt : ! i intrud | commissionersplannedtodis Utah Open nser ' under the Utah Openand Public Meetings Act Millard County Commissioner Lana Moon, a ” official, said violate at f le did not meet the legal definitic briefly. Grand backin, And. m fficials learr Commissioner Brent Overson the * Squaw Peak Pr es a nost f F vironmentalists were told to leave, said later he would not have opposed an open meeting but he deferred to the commis- “meeting” | L pos who had not arrived yet when the news media and en of a Utah Lake r = Possible L_sites ruling “well-written” 1 it we tel other now tobacco companic She noted that her office ¢ the resources battle ‘0 companie the e¢ arrangement \ sible for the stat nder the a firms wold receive judgment or sett and it { di the t k fi ris said in a brief state Hl appeal Thorne’s KJ. Reynolds said the con eed time to examine before they can d pr We have hard The judge ruled the compani {id not meet the legal requirements wralory judgment. But n they had, Thorne said he Hd not ha an opinic ri ahiant mi nee et pa m 5 ' ee TOBACCO 84 ' |