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Show jr iji frp 8 A Emery County Progress Castle Dale, Utah Tuesday April 23, 2002 C OMMENT ARY Message to By STEVEN A. CULBERTSON ( )ul of tin evil of ttu terrorist attacks of SoptoinlxT , 290 1, younger Americans have looked for and found many oMrtunitics to serve their communities, nation, ajid world. Students from elementary schools to middle schools to high schools are taking up I Resident Hushs call to lx Citizens not SHS'tators. Young people are making a dramatic answer to President Hushs landmark call to volunteer service. Studies show young people in the I'nitcd States today are volunteering more than any other generation in American history. Thanks to our most creative teachers, one-ha- lf the high schools and one third of all schools link service to the curriculum Each year, through service-learninAmericas teenagers give over 2.4 billion hours of sen ice buck to their communities vulucd at over $30 billion. If youth service were an enterprise, it would make the FbrtuneoOO. More than three million youth will demonstrate this dedication to service fpr the 14th annual National Youth Sendee 2002. Through tens Day on April of thousands of sendee projects over three days, National Youth Sendee Day (www.YSA.orgdiysd) is a public education campaign that highlights the amazing contributions that young people make to their communities 365 days a year. Youngpeople will design and lead signature sendee projects in areas ranging from literacy and the environment, 1 1 g. 2f-2- 8, mnieirDcas Yomumg to healthcare, hunger, and help for the elderly. As the largest sendee event in the world, National Youth Sendee Day illustrates the President's belief that youth are not the hope of tomorrow in America; they are the hojx of today! President George W. Hush and Mrs. Utura Hush are the Honoraiy of National Youth Service Day 2(X)2. As the first large-scal- e sendee event since the Presidents call, National Youth Service )ay projects in small towns and big cities across the nation will provide an entry point for thousands of young people and fitting recognition for the millions of others who ulieady make service an integral paid of their lives. One of the many teenagers doing a. projiet on National Youth Service Pay is Sara Anncar, age 18. As a young child Sara had been in and out of foster homes. iy the age of 1 4 she was abused, addicted to drugs, homeless, and suieidul. On one fateful day, Sara was to meet her boyfriend and lest friend for a planned rob-bei-y but through various circumstances newer made it to the crime scene. Her Mends received life sentences. At age 15, she was put en probation for evading arrest, tru aney and theft. A local social service ageney was contacted and Sara was plaid in the Methodist Children's Home, Waco, Texas. It was there Sara began what she descritx's as her comeback." Sara is now ITesident of Students Who Are Concerned About Drugs and Safety People w hen service is the common expectation ementary school students about drugs. and in my community. She has been drug-freSo w hat will you do for National Ybuth for two years, and common experience of every young makes straight As as a senior at Waco Service Day and over the next years of Anerican. When 1 see the tremendous High School, and will begin her freshyour fife? Look around your neighborleadership that our Nations young man year at the University of North hood. Where is the need the greatest? people demonstrate every day, Im conTexas in the fall. For National Youth Ser- What person or problem could benefit vinced that day is right around the corvice Day, Sara will lead youth in Waco to from your amazing energy; commitment, ner. raise money for teenagers in Afghaniand idealism? As Martin Luther King, Fbr more information about National stan - using the money raised to purchase Jr. said, Everybody can be great, beYouth Service Day, visit www.YSA.org care packages filled with toothbrushes nvsd (Culbertson is presided and CEO cause everybody can serve. and blankets. It will be a great day for our country of Youth Service America.) Sara, the rerent winner of the Youth Service America-Hasbr- o Teens with the Courage to Give Award, credits her ability to help others with also being able to heid herself. Not every young volunteer has a steiry as dramatic as Saras. Hut leaders like Sara inspire us as adults to remember that there is no magic switch that creates GARY TORRES by the big tree. a commitment to a life of service. We know By Of course we were anxious to show that cultivating a spirit of service is best off our house and my new grill so we wife Several ago, my figured years in done childhood, enablingyouth to be out a sure fire way to get me to help out immediately invited the over. I community leaders and problem-solver- s, All with under estimated how that needed was w'as cooking. alwnys longit no matter what their age. We also would take the briquettes to get hot; so I know that the number one reason young fire of some kind. My love of fire and would then have to hurry things up a before I got people volunteer for the first time is that cooking developed just of out scouts kicked for bit, because everyone was starved and the starting someone asks them to. 1 was forest fire when on starting to go home. My wife would knit earning my Fortunately, schools have been stepon brow and look at me with the a her Cooking ping up to the plate. Much of the growth So I in youth service has been driven by the Stick merit w'ould squirt fluid on the hot coals and badge. 1 quickly in schools increase in service-learnin- g Kaboom, a flash of fire and smoke across America. Teachers have found mastered other fire 20 feet in the air and engulfed cooking plumed that linking academic curriculum to and me the deck for a split second. I and techniques hands-o- n community service increases soon became know how many times I lost my dont the retention of information. I know the 1 know Duke of the Dutch but that the neigheyebrows, counsel-in- g academic lessons I remember most were (SWACADAS) a of Guru the bors must it because they have Oven, to enjoyed I the things learned by doing in school group educate junior high and el came out with their water hoses and Grill, and Master of the Microwave. watched every time. After a few years we moved again Technically, the microwave doesnt utilize an open into a new house with a bigger deck and so I embezzled money from our flame, but since nuclear fusion is somehow involved it still qualifies. kids college funds to buy a gas barbecue grill. It had lots of buttons My wife graduated from college and and knobs and put out more BTUs got a real job, so we moved up the social ladder one tiny notch and finally initiid wilderness review that estabthan our furnace. Varoooommm...a female, and the survey analysis found rented an apartment the size of a low rumble and the deck started lished 3.2 million acres of WSAs in the difference between female and male broom closet; but it had runningwater, Utah. Only 12 percent of southeastern attitudes on most questions to be shaking as oxygen was sucked into a flush most and and vent. I could hardly contain bottom Utah respondents (7 percent in Emery toilets; Fbmale were importantly significant. respondents it had a DECK. That meant I could do more likely to either be neutral or myself. YeeHahhh. Houston..we have County) felt that the process of estabsome outdoor cooking. I was so lift off. Honey, you gotta come check lishing WSAs was fair, accurate, and positive towards WSA establishment 1 that out. Honey?? I spot her and the went out 82 this while excited; and 28 For immediately (92 appropriate, percent management. example, It our and first hibachi. kids had and dog over by the big tree of bought addiwomen that percent in Emery County) Ixiieve that tiny percent agreed six inch legs so that you always had to local citizens should have more tional wilderness reviews should be practicing the fire drill again. Instant influence in the designation and lay on your belly to see if the coals flame, instant heat, 100,000 BTUs conducted in order to find additional were hot. The grill wras so small that it areas which may qualify as a WSA management of WrSAs. roasting a wiener. At first I couldnt cook enough, I tried barbecuing only held eight briquettes with the Population change is another compared to only 13 percent of male cookingpower of a Bic lighter so we possible explanatory factor. While everything. One time, I took a side of respondents. And 40 percent of to had cook one in wiener cow at time. a of the and just plopped it on the state Utah women WSA that population growth agreed designation is FINALLY, I graduated and we both an important management tool for duringthe 1990s (29.0 percent) was grill...shortly after that episode, my had real jobs, we bought a real house more than double the national average daughter became a vegetarian. protecting the natural environment I was feelingpretty that had a real deck and of course we southeastern Utah (13.1 percent), grew compared to 27 percent of men. uppity about my at just slightly more ( 1 5.2 percent) The bought a real barbecue grill. The new of women barbeque grill until we moved back to than the national average, and at a is indicative of a broader exclusion of grill was circular and stood perched on the country where several locals have level far below the extremely high built their own grills. These locally top of a tripod and took an entire sack women in the ongoing public lands of briquettes and 40 gallons of lighter made grills are huge, they have smoke debate. Fbr example, in Emery County growth counties sampled by Rudzitis. fluid to get the dangthingstarted. In fait, Grand County, the only county where public land issues are reaching stacks, they have truck tires underin our survey with a relatively high Whew...talk about a fire hazard; me, neath them, they have to stop at the a fevered pitch, there is not a single Port of Entry, they are fashioned out of matches, lighter fluid, and a wood deck woman on the county commission nor growth rate (28.2 percent), responded to the survey in a pattern more closely attached to the house. I wondered why 55 gallon drums and old car hoods and on the 1 1 person public lands council. are attached to big, BIG propane tanks. my wife always made the kids get out resembling Itudzitis survey than any of Recent public meetings being held to of the house when I wanted to barbecue. the other five counties. Fbr example, These things are so big that they dont gather public comments on a potential MOM! Dad has the matches and w hile 74 percent of Emery County even cut up the cow, they just set the National Monument designation have fluid. Which WSAs whole sent cow in there, close the lid and that should been lighter dominated respondents agreed usually by male attendance be opened for mineral and energy and comments. everyone scurrying. She would launch poof you have enough meat for a into her drill, Matthew! Get your little in development, only 46 percent of Grand . The debate over wilderness family reunion. Put in cow at this sister. Katie, Call 91 1 so theyll be here end...out pops roast beef sandwiches at with this County respondents agreed southeastern Utah is often a polarizon statement. Emery County had the time. the Ill Someone the other end. Now thats a grilL I cant get with baby. open ing issue, many individuals lowest population growth in southeastthe door for Meet the in to get one. the front wait dog! But like expressing strong opinions. ern Utah at only 5.1percent duringthe many issues there is a substantial 1990s. number of people who either dont Overall the surv ey found a correlaknow much about it or are not tion between length of time in the concerned enough to express an county and attitudes tow ards WSAs, opinion or be involved. While our I would like to know which of his kids Speeding through Ferron with residents who have lived in the survey response rate was good, more Dear Editor: concerned about; the ones that hes counties for less than 1 0 years having than 30 percent, many individuals did I would like to arto the in the road or the two daughters respond play more positive attitudes towards WSAs. not return their questionnaires and a ticle drive Ferron that coal trucks? Speeding through 73 percent of survey respondents in surprising number returned them which was in your paper on April 9, Coal mining is a big industry in this southeastern Utah had lived in their blank with a note saying that they 2002. a lot of people. Coal area, employing 1 knew little about these issues. Those county for over 0 years, with 57 Roy Edgell was quoted as saying: I trucks are a necessity in this industry. who did respond have high rates of percent having leen residents for over have had 24 kids in foster care and Im How many coal miners do you think 20 years. activity on public land. Over 40 concerned about their safety. Coal would be mining coal if there was no In surveys across the globe negative of percent respondents hunted or trucks come by and shake the house. way to transport it? There are a lot of attitudes towards protected areas have fished on public land duringthe past The other day my son was almost hit people out there bad mouthing coal often been linked to complaints about year, while over 50 percent spent time by a coal truck. I have been in an accitrucks without having thought this isthe impact on economic livelihood involved in either Vehicle dent with a coal truck. I think the speed sue through. Driving a coal truck is not activities such as grazing, wood (OHV) use, hiking, camping, or limit is too high and the study was boan easy job. Drivers deserve a lot more collecting, and hunting. Livelihood sightseeing on public land. need to hide in the bushes respect than they are getting. gus. They were also a concern in opportunities Research on public attitudes and stay all night. - Deborah Gueden our survey as 64 percent of respontowards protected areas has been dents felt that WSAs hinder economic conducted due to the belief that land livelihood opportunities. The percentPOLITICALLY CORRECT managers need this information in Tim Huber age was higher in Emery County (73 order to better develop management percent) and lower in Grand County objectives and plans. While it is clear Mo. foU (40 percent). In burgeoning tourist that a substantial portion of southeastHAT WOT A.Kf areas such as Moab the present of ern Utah has negative feelings towards WSAs may be viewed as providing DON'T EEN I the designation and management of economic opportunities, while regions KNovJ and KoU. Ml WSAs, these surrounding areas dominated by agriculture and resource are increasingly utilized being by SALARY 6 extraction are more concerned about people livingoutside the region. The NONE OF HOUR and increasingrestrictions regulachallenge for public land managers in BUSINESS! tions. southeastern Utah is to mitigate As with any survey, the surv ey of from these weekend hordes impacts southeastern Utah paints only a partial wiiile better integrating local commupicture of attitudes in each county, and nities into decision making and some effect from of management. A difficult recipe but one respondents is evident. Fbr example, that has been found to be essential in only 30 percent of respondents were successful conservation of environments that are being added to a world wide list of formal protected areas. Durrani in an Assistant Professor e 1 MY CAVE, MY VIEW Cooking on a Stick 1 peer-to-pe- in-la- er Local Residents Express Attitudes Toward Wilderness Study Areas By JEFFREY DURRANT, PhD Wilderness? National Conservation Area? National Monument? Fmery County is certainly involved in the growingworldwide trend to designate formal protected areas. In 1!)!)7 the World Conservation Union identified over 54 thousand protected areas worldwide. Along with this increase in formal protection has come numerous researchers such as myself who are interested in the social and biophysical interactions and impacts of protected areas. Considerable research has concluded that the effectiveness of protected areas relies to a great extent on involving the local human population in policy formation and management of these areas. This realization has led to numerous efforts to better understand local attitude's towards these prelected ureas. A survey was conducted by the Hrigtium Young University ( leography Department in late 2001 directed at understandingthe attitudes of southeastern Utah residents towards public land in general and the establishment and management of Wilderness Study Areas (W.SAs) in particular. More than 000 residents in six counties returned surveys that asked respondents if they agreed, disagreed, or were neutral with 1 1 separate statements concerningWSAs. Five of the survey statements were essentially identical to those asked in a survey conducted by Gundars Itudzitis, the results of which are published in the Ixxtk Wilderness amt the ( 'ha no-in- n American West (l!(!)(i). This surv ey, which did not include any Utah counties, found considerable support and positive attitudes towards Wilderness areas in eleven counties spread across several states. Our recent survey of southeastern Utah residents did not find a similar level of support. For example, in Itudzitis survey 53 percent of respondents agreed that the presence of nearby Wilderness areas was an important reason why they moved to or stayed in their county. Only 1 4 percent of residents in southeastern Utah (3 percent in Emery County) felt the same concerningWSAs. In addition, 66 percent of respondents in southeastern Utah (74 percent in Emery County) felt that WSAs should lx opened for mineral or energy development compared to only 22 percent of the respondents in the counties sampled by Itudzitis. Several possible reasons for the substantial difference in attitudes towards WSAs between these surveys stand out. 'Flic debate over wilderness designation has been particularly intense in Utah, with few opponents or supporters of wilderness beingpleased with the Uureau of I .and Managements Letters to the editor should focus on public issues rather than private personalities or entities. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ay in the Dejsirtment of Geography at Brigham Young Uninrsity unit may be contorted by email: jod2(p ianait.byu.edu) AA A A A A A A. - y ft ,ft 4 (POOR |