Show ifiwtiL lietyTtaiwa jrf 2W The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday December 6 £4 Mfc wmm ff 1987 Wildlife biologist feels good fences can make for very good neighbors By Judy Magid Tribune Lifestyle Writer When Patricia Johnston was in high school she had the opportunity to take a class in wildlife biology She turned it down “I thought it was just a class to teach boys about hunting I wasn’t interested” she laughed A wildlife biologist for the US Bureau of Land Management Salt Lake District Ms Johnston changed her mind when she came West from her native Minnesota to attend Utah State University “I studied wildlife science and range management at USU whereas in high school I had only taken those science classes that were required Although my father was an expert with the fish and game department in Minnesota before he became a full-tim- e professional artist I never took classes in high school I took art classes” biology or other science-orienteshe continued She thought about that when she visited a high school wildlife class recently “I was invited to talk to a class with 30 students all boys I suspect that the girls thought ‘wildlife’ only meant hunting” she said For Ms Johnston the job of wildlife biologist encompasses everything from helping rebuild waterfowl nesting grounds and improving ‘‘guzzler'’ for existing wildlife in the western Utah desert to evaluating the Mountains as potential habitat for bighorn sheep ‘‘My father said ‘You’ll love the West’ and I do” she said For five years she worked with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in range conservation around Vernal and Roosevelt Part of the job involved helping ranchers get the most from their native range lands She explained that a rancher might say that he couldn’t raise as many cattle as his father did on the same land He would want to know if there were any way to improve the yield “There are a lot of things that can be done to help improve ranges” she continued “We can suggest plowing and some control burning A knowledge of botany is important You have to know that you can replace ‘cheat grass’ with something that animals will eat If you do that you've already made an improvement in the range “It also helps to know that ‘loco weed' is addictive if the animals once develop a taste for it You want to get rid of it before they like it" She said that being a “range con" (range conservationist) is a good occupation for women and men “The ranchers and other people who came to us for help asked only that d Ss - we knew what we were doing” she said “Once people know you’re qualified there’s no problem” She left the USDA to move to DuBois Wyo where she taught in an adult Audubon camp and broke and started Tennessee walking horses “The adult Audubon camp is terrific” she said k sessions It’s intense but a lot of fun I taught “It goes for three botany I had studied plants in school but working as a ‘range con’ taught me a lot more” She returned to Utah in May As a BLM wildlife biologist she is not necessarily “on the other side” of ranchers’ problems “For instance there is a need to keep deer off the farms No one including the farmer and rancher wants to kill all the deer to keep them off the land But there are things that can be done to help things run smoother “For instance say antelopes run through a farm getting stuck in the fences or breaking them One solution is to build a different kind of fence Almost any kind of a fence can keep a cow inside But if you make the spaces in the fences wide enough the cow will stay in but the antelope can go right through without getting caught or destroying anything “Most ranchers and farmers like to have the deer and antelope and elk around just not in their fields You can’t solve all the problems but you can two-wee- help” Although most people think gene splicing and genetics are the only things new in biology Ms Johnston said that wildlife biology is a new field too “We’re dealing with wild animals They are not in cages where we would be able to observe them all the time When I go out to see if an area is suitable I don’t have a control group so I can see what’s best by comparison “There are constant changes in the wilds We have to make sure food is available all year long” Currently there is discussion about bringing a herd of bighorn sheep from DuBois to the Stansbury Mountains “There used to be bighorn sheep in the Stansburys years ago It looks good so far I can go out and say there's good summer range here and good winter range over there “Only when you get the sheep out there they may take off over the mountain for the winter instead of being sensible and staying where we think the range is better “You have to draw on your experience you have to use your gut instinct” She still does some weaving and she writes free-lanc- e articles for equestrian magazines “I wanted to be like my father the artist Charles Johnston and like my mother the writer Patricia Johnston” she said Patricia Johnston wildlife biologist for the Bureau of Land Management believes good fences can mean good neighbors for domestic stock and wildlife as well as for the people What kind of meetings do you have in your office? By Kate Callen United Press International theLOS ANGELES — Ah the weekly office meeting That ater of the absurd starring in no particular order The Grouch (“I could be finishing my report now”) The Raconteur (“Wait’ll you hear this story”) The Eager Beaver (“Here’s how I would have done it”) and of course The Boss (“So tell us what's on your plate this week”) Most of their work week in workers spend up to meetings according to management surveys and whatever parts they may play many view this forum as time wasted long-playin- g white-coll- ar w one-fourt- h m THAT SCRAMBLED WORD QAME by Henri Arnold and Bob Lee Unscramble these six Jumbles one letter to each square to form aix ordinary words rtte1 ixi Donovan Greene an industrial psychologist who advises businesses in the Los Angeles area thinks that attitude means opportunity wasted “Office meetings are an important part of how a company does business how it communicates” he says “You can just do so much through memos phone conversations and the electronic mail Eventually you've got to meet to deal with face-to-fa- important issues” Greene often hears the old joke about the committee that met to design a racehorse and came up with a camel instead He doesn’t think it’s funny Office meetings he points out helped put a man on the moon “We learned a lot about meetings during the ‘60s in the early years of NASA” he recalls “No one had ail the experience or knowledge to make the decisions required to put a man on the moon safely Getting the brain power together in the same room was critical to the success of the early space program It also demonstrated the value of consensus decision-making- ” Unfortunately too many office meetings fail to produce consensus because of poor staging and a bad script says Greene Run-o- n lackluster meetings often are led by managers with no agenda and attended by employees with no real chance or desire to participate he says Sometimes a few people dominate the conversation and everyone else stays quiet Other times staff members are only called on to recite their current worklist “Meetings should be more than just going around the room and saying ‘What are you doing this week?’ ” he says “You can do that through the electronic mail” f Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer as suggested by the above cartoon PRINT YOUR ANSWER IN THE CIRCLES BELOW r W-- - This primer on successful business meetings begins with data from workers national surveys of nearly 1000 white-collThe surveys found that “the average manager and technical professional of their total work week in meetings” say the auspend nearly thors and those meetings seem to be getting longer and more frequent But they aren’t getting any more useful Survey data show that more than 50 percent of the time spent in meetings is wasted say Mosvick and Nelson ‘There are too many meetings lasting too long and woefully mismanaged and 240 causing many companies to lose the equivalent of 30 man-day- s man-houa year for every person who participates in business conferences” they say The six most common complaints about office meetings listed by Mosvick and Nelson are: 1 Getting off the subject by jumping from topic to topic or bringing up irrelevant issues 2 Meetings with no set goals or agenda 3 Meetings that run too long (often because they got off to a late start) 4 Poor or inadequate preparation by the boss andor the staff 5 Meetings that reach no conclusions or produce no decisions 6 Disorganized meetings especially those marred by excessive Mos-vick- ar one-four- th rs 15 ball bonus pak 3--9 PW MEN'SLADIES GOLF SHIRTS MEN'S STRIPES OR SOLIDS BRING IN THIS AD FREE BAG TOWEL WITH BAG McKay Diamonds 139” John Anderson and Sarella I an Duren MO” STARTER SETS MEN'S OR tkAP!£S SO STATU 6039 MebAi - Set M 00 Hoars: 9 12" PflO LIKE CAST IR0KS PRICED!! 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