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Show TOM WHARTON mNOTEBOOK UTAHSnapshot Andy Ingrande QitnER, GETAWAY Jake Criis: Andy Ingrande, 47. assistant soccer The Friends of the Great Salt I.ah hostinga six-hour cl arter cruise on t Great Salt Lake on Sat tod p.m. The nat the Gre coachintraining from Woods Cross. A soccerplayerfor If you can identify where this photo wastak- years, the nativeof Sicily said, “I'mget ting too oldto play anymorebut with my Wilderness Act CelebratesIts it wa: be a winner ae members, $45 for noun Details Page call the Friends of t Ms ‘or seniors and childrer C2. tricks.” tivities hotline at 583-5593 OUTDOORS The Satt LakeTribune warm Sunday morning at the Dek trailhead. Putting on apairofhik and strapping ona pack, I began a ourneyinto the West Desert wilder‘assing the wooden sign markingtheen: trance to this Utah wilderness area, | could only smile. Theterrain did not change. But the feelingdid. Perhapsit wasthe buck deer that greeted us in the meadow. Maybe it was en, you could teach thema few incr® | 35th Anniversary seret Pea experienceI can ce South Shore Mar Sait Lake Ste and be held o1 uise liner anenciosed dining irea ind open tor The groupwill ist five islands, Cos the poundingof A our hearts as we climbedup asteepsection of trail. Or the stiff wind on theridge line. As we WEEKLY SDE te: UTAH TUESHAY looked at the BonnevilleSalt Flats, the Great Salt Lake andthe distant Wasatch Mountains fromthe summit, we could not help but be thankful that such wild places still exist. Like wilderness or not, the conceptofpre- REC ROUNDUP, C-2 MANN LANDERS, C-3 M@ TELEVISION, C-5 SEPTEMBER 7 BWEATHER, C-6 servinglargetracts of landin their natural state remains oneof the most radical adopted by a U.S. Congress. | | Friday markedthe 35th anniversaryof | President Lyndon Johnsonsigning the Wilderness Act. First introduced in 1957 by Sen. Hubert Humphrey andRep. JohnSaylor, theoriginal bill was rewritten 66 times. Colorado Re- ne Aspinall called “ More thanafewpolitical leadersstill echo those sentiments. Yet, the final bill passed the Sen and the HouseofR ‘There are now areastotaling 104 million acres preserved as wilderness Connecticut, Delaware, lowa, Kansas, Mary land and Rhode Islandaretheonly states that do not containdesignated wilderness. Only4 percent ofthe nation’s wilderness lies east of sippi River. tah waiteduntil 1979foritsfirst wilderLonePeak. Another10 U.S. Forest reas, includingthe 456,705-acre High , Were added in 1984. Currentl: 418, acres about 1.5 percent of Utah is desig. nated as wilderness. For a legal government document, the lan guagecontained in the WildernessActre- ‘ins eloquent. Howard Zahniser, the execu tive directorof the Wilderns in the 1950s, wrote the original draft. He died four months before President Johnsonsigned the Consider, for example, the definitionof wilderness: ‘A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his works dominate theland- scape, is herebyrecognizedas an area where the earth andits community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.” ‘The definition seems, at face value, simple. But abig part of the Utah BLM wilderness de- bate revolves aroundwhatconstitutes road. Environmentalists define a road one w. county commissions andoff-highway vehicle Photos by RyanGal foraith ‘The Salt Lake Tribune enthusiasts another. Developments suchas roads, dams orother Brent Coleman,a graduate studentat Brigham Young University, trackstheflight patterns of bats permanent structures are prohibited in wil derness areas. Timbercutting and the opera tion of motorized vehicles or equipment, in: cluding wheelchairs and bicycles, are not al GOING BATTY lowed. Mining operations and livestock grazing can continue only if they existed prior to.an area's designation. Hunting can be en. joyed in areas otherthan national parks. The idea of setting aside often vast amounts | of land grates on many. Because the process of designating wilderness can be difficult and contentious, only one piece of land 20,000: acre area in Oregon has been designated in thepast five years. A coalition of off-highway vehicle organizations, counties and mining groups celebrated the 35th annive Bat studies help chart health of changing Provo River | f Wilderness Act by calling forits “The Wilderness Act is antiquated, inflexi ble, anti-resource management andflies in the face of sound and responsible public policy principles,” says Clark Collins of the Blue Rib: bon Coalition in a recent release. “There can be no doubt that it would neverpass any mod ern Congressinits present form. Perhaps. But, like it or not, the Wilderness Act re: mains one of the most significant piecesof en. vironmental legislation of the 20th century. In his 1961 book The Soundof Mountain Water Wallace Stegner said this about wild places: ‘We simply need that wild country avail. able to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of measuringourselves and our sanity as cre BY SCOTT NOLAND THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Straightening a river is no easy job. Makingit wendagain may be even harder. But the Utah Mitigation and Reclamation Conservation Commissionis doing it any. way, a project that will affect the river's wildlifeina big way It plans a multiyear project to re meander the Provo River, removing care: fully placed boulders late-'40s Central Utah straightening, which too fast for important and berms from the Project flood control made the river run insects and fish that trackiny bats 11 mation Conservation Commission hired Coleman and several doctoral students to study the bat population. When the com mission completes the river work, comput ison studies can be made Since bats eat insects and live in differ ent environments according A computer screen shows a sono: gram ofa batcall, It's part of the technology Brent Coleman uses to trackbats. rely onits waters. Bugs, frogs and fish are expected to re: turn to their restored habitat in full force. iduate slaves” the wee hours most suminer nights the pr two years, The Utah Mitigation and Reel; in the area. It's a question that has had Brigham to their spe cies, changingthe river's peed and rout may change which batslive where alon, the river, The way bats are built impacts the way they can forage for food,” Coleman said There are two basic categories of bat High and low aspect, The former have more Young University graduate student Brent But scientists do not know howthe river re-route will affect other animals that live Coleman with a team of polar fleece-clad See BAT STUDIES, Pape C-6 tures, a part of the geography of hope: THT] OTe September and October are two of the best months to fish in Utah. After the Labor Day holi day, crowds disappear. Manyof Utah's lakes and streams were heavily stocked for the Labor Day weekend, A number of good holdover trout should be avail able. The cooler temperatures make fish more active, often moving them closer to the shore line, making them more vulnera ble to shore anglers, Here are some of the state's top fishingar eas as reported in the Division of Wildlife Resources’ latest state caught by anglers using power bait just off the bottom near the inlets. Tributaries are closed to fishing throughSept. 30. STRAWBERRY RESER VOIR Anglers have been catching fair numbers of kokanee salmon in the reservoir using needlefish. Both shore and boat angling good. Shore anglers are doing well with a two-hook setup. Bait one with a night crawler and the other with green PowerBait DEER CREEK RESERVOIR Success has been reported as wide fishingreport fair to goodfor smallmouthbass CAUSEY RESERVOIR Fishing pressure islight, but the Use a tube jig or other bass lures along the rocky shoreline. Early anglingis good, Splake are being mornings have been thebest time to troll for trout. Remember to release all perch GREEN RIVER~ Fishinghas been good to excellent, with lar surface patterns working well Caddis hatches have becomespo radic, but there arestill reports of evening action below Little Hole. Fordryfly fishing, try hoppers. ants, beetles and cicadas, insizes eight to 10 or elk hair caddis. black orolive, in asize16to 18, A goodstrategyisto fish nymphs or streamers in the morning until mid-day surface action picks up. SCOFIELD RESERVOIR Fishing has been slow for shore anglers, But boat anglers areex periencing fair to good success by still fishing with bait ortrolling with silver flatfish or a pop gear and worm combination. A minor fish kill has been in progressfor the last two weeks. Several hun. dred fish have died as a result of warm water temperatures and low dissolved oxygen levels. SI Wa ter levels remain high and suc ce has been good for 15-inch rainbowtrout, A few are now ap proaching18 inches, Somelarger cutthroat have been taken as well. If using spinninggear, try black jig or spinners, Remember that this is an artificial flies and lures only water with a limit of two trout which must be over 18 inches, |