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Show TheSalt LakeTribune Utah Stores some stores already reporting Brace for Bleak Holiday Sales sales declines. At 11 aim., Mary Jensen, manager of Martha’s Hallmark Shopin the ZCMI Center, noted her store's sales volume was UTAH shoppers suddenly appeared several blocks to the Wayment discounts any im pact the newshopping complex may have on downtown mall down $500 compared with the same morning a year ago. traffic, noting that customer numbers at the ZCMI Center remained steady after The @ Continued from/A-1 “Forus,that'sa lot,” Jensen said. “I don’t know whetherit's Gatewayopened Nov. 1 “They don’t have the same will be onlyfair, None expect their holid: sales to be good. The I Center in down. town Salt Lake City expect s holiday salestorise slightly, at least enough to match the 1 percent hikeprojected byI analysts, said Melissa Way, the mall's marketing director. Ee “Along with the Crossroads theaftereffects of September 11 or Mot somesayit-is — but people don’t seem to be spendingas frivolously this year.” Sitting outside a store at la: " so/we should be apretty good measure of howthe season is shapingup,” Wayment said. Yet unlike the frenzy that Crossroads Plaza, Drew Simonsof Salt Lake City specu- lated shoppers were drawn to the novelty of The Gateway project just west of the Delta Center. He maybe right. Several of the newly opened stores at The Gateway — particularly the Galy: porting goods store and the Abercrom: bie & Fitch clothing outlet — Ranchers, Feds failed to properly analyze onthe-ground conditions when it renewedthose permits. “The [BLM’s analyses] are legally inadequate and fail to extra money to do that. We're not required to generatealot of fulfill the BLM’sstatutory and publiclands. “It's not a major producer of food by any stretch ofthe imag- bring meaningful change, he merged with Marvel's organizationthis year. ‘Western Watersheds, for- merly known as the Idaho Watersheds Project, has won several grazing battles in the Gem State.It currently is engaged in half a dozen lawsuits and has filed notices to sue in about 130 othercases. In Utah, Western Watersheds chose the BLMas its first target becauseof recent agency decisions to renew grazing permits for another 10 years. in Tooele, Box Elder and Rich counties. The environmental group alleges that the BLM and sustain ecosystem values and balance resource benefits and harms associated with livestock grazing,” according to oneofthe appeals. For example, Cartersaid, the BLM in 1985 identified 132 springs and 16 streams that were degraded in Box Elder County, but the recent grazing decisions do little to address those problems. BLM field manager Glenn Carpenter, who approved the grazing permit renewals, said heis confidenthis decision will be upheld by the Interior Board of Land Appeals. “Oneofthe things [environmentalists want] is additional field work,” Carpenter said. Andthose results look particularly bad with thenation’s from the same period in 2000, according to the RCT National reporting modest gains from the same period. yearso far is down3 percent discounters Retail Traffic Index and valueretailers steveasitrib.com Christmas Magic Fun Gifts That Everyone Would Love To Receive Chair 79. are stopping at nothing to lure shoppers through their doors, with manyalready offering Holidaysales last year rose On BLM Lands has and Crossroads,” McGeesaid. Retailers and mall owners the @ Continued from A-1 customer traffic-at-m: we'd probably be down at ZCMI downtown regulatory duties. . . torestore Compared with last year, been down every week since February. Total t ¢ for the dise The Gatewayoffers. “If Gateway hadn't opened, malls Friday was light with Defend Grazing formancesince 1995. Thesituationis particularly critical for the nation’s malls. slightly more this year for gifts, primarily because of the new variety of stores and merchan. were packed with customers. The crowd strolling along The Gateway’s avenues appeared large enoughtofill the had just 2.3 percent, the worst per- kind of stores,” she said. “The people who shop hereare more price-oriented.” < Cottonwood High School students Melanie McGee and Elizabeth Williams, however, said they intend to spend took place at Utah’s discount retailers, customer traffic at ‘wo downtown Salt Lake malls AZ Saturday, November24, 2001 Desk lamp 39 deepdiscounts andpre-holiday It's no wonder. Vases extra information.” Carpenter defended ranch- ing as a “viable industry” on ination,butthere is still a market andstill a need.” Environmentalists disagree, arguingthat grazingis not only a moneyloser for the federal government, which charges a below-market monthly fee of $1.35 per cow,it contributeslittle to the economy. Less than 3 Mirror 119 percent of the nation’s beef comes from public lands. Cartersaid it is time for the governmentto hold ranching to the same environmental standards ofothersectors ofsociety. “If a factory were dumping ammonia into a stream, it would be fined and required to “Gee,it would have beennice to stop doingit, yet a herd of cows can stand ina stream andpee all day long and nobody does do that and get a wholelot of anything.” Wastebasket 19. ’ D B LADFE Soroy- Eo er OCR Neo URE 3130 Highland Drive * 467-4411 * M-F 10-7, Sat 10-6 Hale Centre Theatre Experience. Historic Trolley Seuare ee Holiday Scie! 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