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Show Visit us on the World Wide Web http:www ecprogress.com Emery County &&'& . hr t&'lxbthjrtr A 2oop,. tbits wawiv. Home Grown News Since 1900 Tuesday, January 8, 2002 BUM fWft Volume 102 Castle Dale, Utah preparing area management plan The Price Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management will kick off a new planning effort in January which will revise its current resource management plan for areas managed by the BLM in Emery and Carbon counties. A new resource management plan will be the end result of this process and will serve as a blueprint for the future management of 2.5 million acres of BLM lands in Central Utah. The comprehensive plan will address such management issues as wild life, grazing, energy development, wil- derness study areas, recreational use and how all of these uses work together. The BLM anticipates that the planning effort will take approximately two years to complete. This land is truly a national resource and public treasure. As such, the planning process will be managed with extensive public participation in mind. We want and need the publics involvement in the process, said Assistant Price Field Manager Floyd Johnson. kick off the planning effort, a seof ries six public scoping meetings will be held throughout the region. According to officials of the BLM the initial scoping meetings are intended to identify the crucial issues that should be addressed in the plan. These meetings will be held in a workshop setting, allowing for easy discussion of critical issues. In the Castle Valley area scoping meetings are planned for Jan. 29 at the To Number 2 50t INSIDE Green River City Hall in Green River; Jan. 30 at the Museum of the San Rafael in Castle Dale; and Jan. 31 at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Price. All of the scoping meetings will be from 7 to 9 p.m. All meetings are open to the public. Those unable to attend a meeting are encouraged to submit comments, concerns and ideas to the Price BLM Field Office, 125 South 000 West, Price, Utah 84501, attention, Floyd Johnson. Comments need to be received by Feb. 15. Unemployment climbs to 9.8 Emery Countys unemployment rate for December jumped to 9.8 percent from Novembers 8.9 percent, a steadily climbing unemployment pattern that is prevalent throughout the state. Carbon County listed a December unemployment rate of 6.8 percent, up from Novembers 5.8 percent. As a whole Utahs unemployment rate for December jumped to 5.2 percent from Novembers 4.4 percent and is at its highest level since April 1992. Ken Jensen, senior economist for the Utah Department of Workforce Services said, Layoffs continue to push up the unemployment rate. One reflection of this is the 80 percent jump in the number of weeks of unemployment insurance claimed through DWS for Teams Battle On Spartan defense shows its power 14. Buffalo Hunt Hunter takes opportunity to hunt buffalo the primitive way 5 BRIEFLY Ferron man dies compared to the same period in 2000. In December 2001, nearly 60,000 Utahns were unemleap from the ployed, a 36,200 of a year earlier, when the rate was 3.2 percent. In Emery County, layoffs from construction and seasonal work was the driving factor behind the countys rise in unemployment, according to Delena Fish, manager of the Castle Dale office of DWS. She said the DWS office attempts to help layed off workers locate work either in the area or elsewhere. Utahs other primary indicator of current labor market conditions, the rate of increase in the numyear-ovber of nonfarm wage and salaried jobs, has fallen sharply since the first of the year. The current 0.4 percent growth is a tiny fraction of January 2001s 2.4 percent. Utah is seeingits slowest employment expansion since 1987. Between December 2000 and December 2001, Utahs 66,000 employers created only 3,900 net new nonfarm jobs. To put this slow growth into context, Utahs historical average growth rate of 3.5 percent would have produced 38,000 new jobs. For the United States, the unemployment rate edged up from 5.6 percent in November to 5.8 percent in December, er in A Ferron man was killed when his vehicle veered off the road and crashed on the morning of Dec. 28. Cory Shawn Cornish, 27, died as a result of injuries suffered when his car crossed the highway near the Hiawatha Junction on bumped the back of a southbound vehicle and went off the highway into a gully. According to the Utah Highway Patrol, Cornish was wearing his seat belt and no drugs or alcohol were SR-1- er In an ongoingeffort to enhance the Fferron and Joes Valley watersheds, the Forest Service is proposing three ac- According to Trooper Chris Parkins of the highway patrol, there were no skid marks at the scene of the accident and it is believed that Cornish fell asleep while driving. HEAT program helps local families ber of the family and the first baby to be born 12-1- Continued on PAGE 2. in Emery County in 2002. A Baby for the tions to decrease the sediment in streams and reservoirs from areas where active erosion is taking place. In the Dairy Creek and Stevens Creek areas head cutting is slowly expanding gullies, according to the forest service. On South Horn, a concentration of livestock near Barb Wire pond is contributing to erosion. In the heads of Reeder and Black Canyon several areas lack adequate ground cover and concentrations of tarweed, an undesirable native plant, inhibits establishment of more desirable native plants, according to a forest service statement. The forest service proposed actions 5 for the problems are to install gully plugs in the heads of Dairy and Stevens Creek to stop active head cutting. These gully plugs would generally be up to 20 feet wide and eight feet deep, constructed of compacted soil, rock or tires. Also proposed is to contour rip and seed active erosive areas in Black and Reeder Canyon and aggressively treat tarwood sites. Approximately 80 acres would be treated in each area. The forest service also proposes increasing livestock forage distribution by reconstructing three ponds and developing two new water sources on South Horn Mountain. These ponds would generally have dams approximately 100 feet long and 0, involved. Continued on PAGE 2. Forest service looks to enhance local watersheds car accident New Y ear In the first two months of the typical cold season representatives from the Home Energy Assistance Target program have seen a large number of families applying for help with the costs of heating their homes. According to Sandy Behling, who oversees the program for Emery County, 253 clients have applied for the program since Nov. 1. Last year 337 families were helped through the program in Emery County throughout the cold season, which typically stretches from November through March. The HEAT Program is a federally funded energy assistance program that is operated through the State Department of Community and Economic Development. For more information on the HEAT Program stop by the Emery County Community Center, 40 South Center Street in Castle Dale or call for more information. 381-54- Henderson baby first to be born in Emery County for 2002 planned on having their baby Editor, Emery County Progress at their home. Midwives, Joyce Simmon and Kathy Henderson OBryant, assisted Lisa as she of Castle gave birth to her healthy, 7 started off 12 ounce daughter. the new year with a brand pound, Anna Grace was Baby new edition to their family welcomed to the world by her as their daughter became brothers Kaleb, 6, Joshua, 3, the first Emery County and her sister Leah, 5. Joshua baby to be born in 2002. was also born at home and Lisa Henderson gave with two of her children birth to her daughter, been born at home Anna Grace, at their home having and two at the hospital, Lisa, in Castle Dale, on Jan. 2 at who teaches Bradley Natural 9:40 p.m. Lisa and her Childbirth classes, said she husband, James, had prefers childbirth at home. By JAMES L DAVIS The I like it because you can have the people with you that you want to be there. My children could be there. James, who is a pharmacist at Boyds Pharmacy in Castle Dale, agreed. Its much more relaxing, he said. Annas brothers and sister were excited to welcome the newest member of the family to their home and, according to their mom, couldnt wait to love on her. MEETINGS Upcomingpublic meetings for the Emery County area include; The Orangeville City Council will meet Jan. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Orangeville City Hall. The Emery County Fire Protection Special Service District will meet Jan. 14 at 5:30 p.m. in small conference room of the Emery County Courthouse in Castle Dale. The Emery County Special Service District 1 will meet Jan. 14 at 4 p.m. in conference room of the Emery County Courthouse in Castle Dale. The Emery Town Council will meet Jan. 15 at 6 p.m. in the Emery Towm Hall. |