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Show Page Six - The Pyramid - November 6, 2003 Outdoor art, offers hunting with a twist artists make money. Realizing that painting was not his talent, he took a different trail and it has really gone somewhere. It began when he was introduced to the world of computer graphic design and realized he could create his own version of art. For more information on Kings Outdoor World, call 4 or write PO (435) Box 307, Mt. Pleasant, UT 462-133- 84647. On an early Macintosh computer, using his great love of wild life and the hunting industry, he created a form of art which no one else was doing. Now its a e for his industry company which is respected n as. Kings and Outdoor World. For thousands of years, man has been a hunter. When hunting for especially large animals, man tends to brag about the animal size. A hunter traditionally eats the meat, and may create a trophy from the head and horns for display. Many ofthe artistic came perfect photo of trophy animals. So Robert used photos of live creatures and photos from the hunt to create digital recreations of what the living animal would have looked like before it was killed King would create a realistic photo of an animal that appears to be alive but in all reality may have been dead for several years. He combined parts of various photos to create a picture of a living creature which is as and realistic as accurate graphic computer design back then. With help, he started a business small graphics known as Wildlife Wonders in 1994. In 1995 the name changed to have created have been compiled into screen savers for computers and artistic poster prints suitable for framing. They also found that hunters wanted more information which could help them find the trophy-siz- e animals so they developed mapping software known as Map Academy. Using the United States Geographical Survey Topographical maps they have made it possible to plan hunting trips on a computer complete with the ability to add way points from a GPS unit. All that information can then be printed for easy reference during a hunting trip. As a further extension of the company in 1999, they started to develop their own camouflage clothing. Most of that type of clothing already on the market is designed for use only during one season of the year which means you have to buy a different set of clothes for each different season. Kings believed that problem could be overcome, so they created Kings Desert Shadow Camouflage Clothing which is designed for d use. They developed a camouflage pattern which has survived three years of extensive testing. It is claimed that you can hunt from the high mountains of Montana to the low deserts of Arizona and everyand still not thing have to change your camouflage. Its a pretty tall claim, but testing by experts in the field appears to prove the point. It has been and has drawn interest from military clothing providers. Robert started putting together the concepts and ideas for a hunting magazine Kings Outdoor World and produced their first calendar. Each year since, they have produced a yearly calendar which has been extremely popular. About 100,000 calendars are sold well-receiv- in 1996 and in 2Q01 they launched their first issue of "Hunting Illustrated." It also has been and currently has over 100,000 magazines in circulation nationwide and into Canada. It caters to hunters with all the traditional hunting information but also includes ATV reviews and a wealth of other interesting information and event reports. All of the magazine layout and production prep is done in Mt. Pleasant, after which the finished magazine master is electronically sent to the printers and distribution companies. well-receiv- they Kings Outdoor World most everything they offer. For well permits Foreclosure Repossession Garnishments Debt Collectors today lor your FREE Initial cononltotlon ir itl- ('l ' is a producer and distributor which does product wholesale and retail. They make or produce UJATiSl! Call Pleasant. Geographically located in the middle of the western U.S. where they want to be. Up until 1999 the company was located in Elk Ridge near Payson. They needed to expand and their new headquarters are next to the mountain range where they were doing most of the work anyway. They expect to expand even more and will add additional buildings in the near future. Currently their base staff is about people and expands during the holiday seasons to around 20, not counting the clothing manufacturing division staff. Kings rule is quality and believes a product is not worth anything unless it is good quality. They are known for qualiand ty big animals. Their aim is to provide the best quality in all they do and produce. 12-1- 5 year-roun- possible. It is an art form like no other and requires a great deal of patience, technology, and skill. His first creations were mostly for fun, but he discovered that people were very interested in the art form and were willing to pay for it. Roberts skill combined with good equipment made it possible to display pictures of incredible animals, realistically, for everyone to view as if they were photographed while alive. At first it was very slow work because of the limited abilities of early computers which were very expensive. The first graphics design computer he used cost about $20,000 and only had a 300 megabyte hard drive which was the largest he could get. Robert learned how to do it on his own because there were no classrooms or colleges that offered training about pho- tos and calendar pictures they along, photos were taken of the creature as a remembrance of the hunt and this tradition still holds true. But it is extremely difficult for most photographers to be in the right place and right time with the right lighting conditions to take the their information They also rely on other businesses with store fronts and Kings wholesale products are available to about 500 stores nationwide and Canada. In Sanpete County, Big Pine Sports, Fairview, and IFA stores carry the Desert Camo camouflage clothing. Kings also offers hats, jacktravel bags, ets, duffle bags, bow bags, ATV bags, gun scabbards, as well as other items. Their world headquarters are located southeast of Mt. on-lin- e. jaw-droppi- well-know- cameras gets a lot of daily traffic daily. It could take hours to view all with 12 animals all nestled into a dream shot. full-tim- When Their products are sold by mail order from a printed catalog (each year they send out about 500,000 catalogs) or on their extensive Internet web site. Their web site is very large, but is all handled in house which gives them control of what is shown and available on the site. Their web site yearly and have been award winners for each of the last three years. Kings produced a poster photo print entitled "The Magnificent Seven" in 1997 which portrays seven large mule deer with full sets of horns in an outdoor group photo. Actually a combination of several photos, this poster established a reputation for Kings Outdoor World. During the years since, they have produced six additional posters. One of their latest posters is "The Dirty Dozen" and was created by using 30 images which were then artistically manipulated to portray a realistic scenario by Ray M. LaFollette MT. PLEASAN- T- In 1991, Robert King realized that although he has a great love of western art only great t l.owest price 1,500 per Vi acre foot Safety course in Spanish GUNNISO- N- In an effort to increase safety awareness among Latino farm workers, the Sanpete County Farm Bureau and the Sanpete County Extension will be teaching a Farm Safety Course in Spanish, Nov. 12 and 13. Class time will be each evening from 6:30 to 9 p.m., in the Gunnison Valley High School Library. There is a small cost in order to cover handouts and refreshments. is required, but would be helpful. This will be the same Farm Safety course that Farm Bureau and USU Extension have sponsored for many years in Sanpete Topics to be covered include safety features on the tractor, instrument panel and controls; pesticide safety; safety around electricity; daily maintenance, protecting your body; fire extinguisher demonstration; dangers of PTO demonstration; safe use of tractor and farm machinery; ATV safety; safety on the highway; livestock safety; farm accident slide show with discussion. The course is a great benefit to employers in their responsibility toward farm safety training for their employees. Local employers are asked to strongly encourage or require their Spanishspeaking employees to attend this farm safety course. To or questions, call Norman Jensen at or Craig Poul-so- n pre-regist- Call Arley (435) or Cliff (801) 436-837- 4 571-758- 5 not er 435-528-35- at 2. Kings Outdoor World, Mt. Pleasant, has become world renowned with its computer-designe- d wildlife calendars and posters. The company has also launched a new' line of camouflage clothing available at local outlets that can be worn from the mountains to desert settings. Bennett supports healthy forest bill WASHINGTON D.C.-Ut- ah Senator Bob Bennett recently voted for the bipartisan Heahliy Forest Restoration Act to restore forest health, prevent catastrophic wildfires and widespread insect infestation in the national forests, and reform administrative and judicial review processes. Bennett remarked on the Senate floor that the bill would not only impact our nations forests in general, but those in Utah in particular. Bennett pointed to the spruce bark beetle infestation in the Dixie National Forest and how this bill will help prevent similar situations from occurring in the future. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman .Thad Cochran, Mississippi shared Bennetts concern for the beetle infestation in the Dixie Forest. "In 1991, a forest health aerial detection survey was made in Utah that discovered the bark beetle in certain parts of the Dixie National Forest. Forest health specialists advised that it might bp to suppress the necessary epidemic by removing some of the infested trees and thinning some of the standings. The Sidney Valley Recovery Project, as it was called, was a strategy to suppress the spread of the epidemic into that area. As soon as this was an- different three nounced, environmental groups filed appeals of the project and, naturally, it was delayed while those appeals were heard. Finally, after the delay, the Forest Service was upheld, and the appeals were examined and found to be without merit. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance chose to file a suit in federal court. There were the typical delays connected with litigation, and the federal court Finally threw out the lawsuit. There were appeals to which were begin with, disavowed, and then a lawsuit. When that was disforest managers the avowed, could go ahead with the effort to protect the forest. The only trouble was, at that point, too much time had passed to stave off the infestation and the trees were destroyed. If you drive through the Dixie Forest, which I have done, it almost makes you sick at how terribly decimated the forest has become. The only reason it is destroyed is that the Forest Service professional managers, trained in dealing with these kinds of epidemics, were prevented by special interest groups from going in there until it was too late. I would suspect there were mailings made in these environmental groups saying: Help save the Dixie Forest from the people who would build roads. Well, they saved the Dixie Forest from the people who might put in logging roads, but they killed it in the process. The epidemic has now spread and there is no stopping it. There is no going back. There is no saying, lets reverse this. The trees are dead and the Dixie Forest is a blight. The people who live there and know how to take care of these things are sick at heart at what has been done, while those special interest groups, most of whose members do not live in Utah, can claim victory. Well, they cannot claim victory in the lawsuit because they lost the lawsuit. They can only claim victory if their goal was to destroy the forest. It is summarized by one of the former managers of the Dixie Forest who says, It leaves us with the strategy of win the lawsuit, lose the forest. have a terrible time understanding why people I who claim to be friends of the forest, friends of the environment, end up producing this kind of result. Fortunately, the Dixie Forest has not yet caught fire. But the trees are just as dead either way. The blight is there either way. We may have been spared the devastation of fire for the communities the around Dixie, but we have not been spared the devastation of the epidemic that has destroyed this portion of the Dixie Forest. I applaud the administration for this healthy forest initiative and am pleased with its overwhelming support." Senator Cochran added to Bennetts concern in the following comments on the Senate floor, "On the Kenai Peninsula in south central Alaska, for instance, over 300,000 acres of forest have been lost to a spruce bark beetle infestation, which we are told could have been avoided, but was not because of litigation and appeals. The Dixie National Forest has 11,240,000 acres that have been devastated by the spruce bark beetle as well, which could have been treated, but treatment was slowed by the appeals and litigation in that situation. Need for HEAT assistance growing SALT LAKE CIT- Y- The number of Utah households that received assistance to pay utility bills last winter set another record. From November 2002 to April 2003, 32,764 households in the state applied for and received Financial assistance from the federally funded Utah Home Energy Assistance Target (HEAT) program to pay for electricity, natural gas, and other fuels to keep their homes warm during the period. That is an increase of 678 homes, or two percent, from the previous year. The number of homes served by the HEAT program in Utah has reached a new high each of the past low-inco- more than 7,000 additional homes have received help from the program, an increase of 21 percent. "The numbers of families applying for and qualifying for HEAT assistance continues to grow year after year because of me continual rise in the cof.t of heating fuels such as natural gas, propane, and oil," said Sherm Roqui-ero, manager of Utahs HEAT program. 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