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WghtainclustonsanmotoBkely to be gathered out of a multitude of than through any kind of itive selection’ Amartcan pirM (1I7MM1) The Herald Journal Logan - Sunday Utah- April Page 30 28 1996 Our view 3 Locals deserve praise for logging regulation efforts has finally taken action on the troublesome issue of logging on private lands And proving the old adage that anyone can make a difference a group of local activists and one legislator can probably take some of the credit for the newly authorized state task force studying the issue Local environmental activist Jack Greene and Logan High School vate forests have already been logged many of them in an irre- er legislation He referred their con- sponsible manner cerns to the state Division of SoverThis is an issue of concern to all eign Lands and Forestry of us Cache Alley’s contribution Logging on private lands is a matto the timber industry has been ter of concern because of its exploobvious to anyone who spends time sive growth throughout the state in the surrounding hills The busiThat rate has increased fivefold in ness of private logging needs to be the last three years examined by all sides The conState officials have been asking and cerns opinions of sellers buyfor voluntary compliance with a interested and observers need to ers program they developed to regulate and aired discussed be private logging Now they admit In the end the result will be that program is not working informed decisions that will we Of course there are divisive the state’s healthy ensure kind issues surrounding any of reg- hope ulation on private lands But there forests while at the same time are legitimate concerns that state respecting individual rights Your view both thrive We think the population of Cache Valley is large enough and the Let there be an indoor (and outdoor) ice rink interest high enough to support both To the editor facilities in her April 17th editorial Karen Erickson expressed some reservations about the community project to build ‘a Janet Borg N Logan nd indoor ice rink in Cache Vkl- - lb the editor: Dgs i eratively with humans for at least 5 thousand years Dog’s demonstrable domestication dates to 10S thousand years ago The process of developing this association probably goes back at Department BCIA is a nonprofit organization composed of community members who volunteer their time Ills our aim to provide a year-roun-d indoor rink for the benefit of all counties in the region There will least 50 thousand years Over these mil- lennia dogs and cats adapted their be public sessions at convenient and popular limes practice sessions for hockey players and ice skaters and hockey games and ice skating performances Group and private lessons will be available School church and private groups will be able to rent ice time The list of possible uses is practically end- instincts and behavior patterns in accom- modation to their interaction humans They depend on us with These animals cannot survive oa their own and live normal healthy lives Without human care they starve contract dis- eases wounds and injuries that condemn acquire machine-cause- d them to premature often slow and agonizing deaths Are humans as good as their bond? car-rou- By Tad P Pease ut two environmental activists a Farm Bureau official and a forestry professor together in the same room to talk about wilderness and you’re unlikely to get agreement on much of anything Unless of course the topic extends beyond environment issues That was the scene last weekend in Wellsville Canyon when a journalists’ group convened to learn more about con- icrvition and land-us- e issues On those topics a panel that included Utah Farm Bureau head Booth Wallentine Utah Few issues so divide Westerners as conservation issues at least media covthe question of how to use and preserve erage is marked by “total disinformathe land Those disagreements were dear tion” “bias” and as a result the “press’s loss of credibility” among the public as presenters ranging from conservationThe result of the press's conflict-base- d ists like the UWA’s Carter and the Sonoran Institute’s Williams to the Farm mindset is that journalists are both creatBureau's Wallentine and US Rep Jim ing and even becoming the story themHansen — whose proposals in Congress selves dividing us into rabid factions to privatize public lands have made him and fanning flames of resentment so that public enemy No 1 in some circles — reporters will have clear-cstories to cover Rather than hold and public debated questions of land-us- e up a mirror to society the press increaspolicy Wallentine acknowledged that over ingly — whether out of laziness or — offers a the past 20-plyears of butting heads with the UWA's Dick Carter he and image that distorts and oversimplifies social issues and keeps the pot boiling Carter have come to respect each other us wrong-headedne- although they never agree on much When we treat them decently the animals We live with can be relied upon to respond with charming companionship heavily on the nation's sweeping telecommunications law enacted this year to take account of extraordinary technological accomplishments and to open more doors to communications developments that are already reshaping the world we live in The telecommunications law facili- tates mergers but docs so in the name of economic and technological enterprise in a free open competitive market Even if the number of major telephone companies should shrink they might also be competing with each other across the AlaUard Fillmoro Herald Journal IU ’W Pan J&TAQ6 fport you ATPit 15 se under talcs of conflict and anger that Other views Telecommunications merger reflects need for change ng of fun-hou- ss te headlines “Dick Carter is one of my most fearsome make Carter USU forest resources professor One upshot of such Mark Brunson and conservation activist opponents” Wallentine said “because and author Brooke Williams agreed on he a so good” in swaying public opi nton press coverage is that the story is always on Utah wilderness But Carter and Wal of disagreement and conflict never just one thing: the press Media cover- Jentine were allies on Saturday in their about copimon ground and democratic condemnation of the' media as a disrupsolutions One result of this mentality in age of land-us- e and other tive influence in society — whether the the press as the Salt Lake Tribune’s issues is irrequestion is the future of Utah’s public environmental reporter Jim Wbolf rueand lands or any of a hundred other topics fully acknowledged is a general lack of sponsible divisive “Divisiveness has characterized covercivility both in press coverage and in the they said and even issues” said Carter larger society age of land-us- e threatens social This is borne out by a recent national in Utah whose positions on land-us- e have earned him threats and Molotov poll which finds that “Americans think poet “I fear for cocktails in the mailbox of his Hyrum their country is becoming a nasty place future freedom of the press” said Walhome as recently as this month The to live where bad manners uncouth drilentine The problem he said is that the press's concentration on conflict has vers unholy language and unruly kids medial constant focus on conflict and endangered the entire land-us- e debate are crowding civility out of society” as land-us-e and makes agreement increasingly diffithe Associated Press reported last week disagreement on conservatfc&and issues feeds division among neigh-bor- e cult he says Eighty-on- e percent said lack of civility is and works against cooMation and Brooke Williams whose work a serious social problem that has worssolutions to problems through the Sonoran Institute seeks leg- - ened over the past decade The occasion was the annual meeting islative solutions and common ground in Part of that rampant social incivility of the region's Society of Professional and wilderness said the panelists at the USU journalism the debate over land-us- e Journalists — student and working joursays the press sees only two extremes in conference can be blamed on the press's nalists from Wyoming Colorado Utah covering volatile issues ignoring the concentration on conflict and divisiveconand New Mexico — at a day-lon- g ness Of course reporters are often the majority oS public opinion in the middle ference at Sherwood Hills sponsored by Conflict and divisiveness are sexier and bearers of bad news and cannot be held the USU communication department and easier to cover than the complicated posresponsible for the disasters that occur titled “Wilderness Tomorrow? Covering sible solutions thst make up common and must be reported But they can be the West” For journalists the lessons blamed for accentuating the negative (to ground were both about land-us- e and conserva“The press must stop trying to foster warp an old show tune) No reporter likes tion reportage and perhaps more impora happy ending — after all train wrecks rancor and confrontation” said Wallentantly about how angry the public gets tine whose career in radio and media make great headlines Conflict and diviwhen journalists do (and don't do) their relations for the Farm Bureau give him a sion often are the keys to the story and jobs of reporting public issues fairly and perspective on both sides of the issue completely See PEASE on Page 21 and wallentine says that on land-us- e and lovin loyalty As spring approachskating together or watching your kids es we face an animal population exploand grandkids skate? sion that will condemn nine out often of As it stands now skating enthusiasts the kitties and puppies bora to the nasty must drive more than an hour to skate in fate described above Please if you own Opdcn — a roundtrip of more than 100 cats or dogs have them spayedneutered miles and a hazardous drive in winter The cost is very little compared to the Warm weather prevented the outdoor cost of feeding litters rink in Merlin Olsen Park from opening The average cost of the operation would this year Last year the ice lasted only feed one medium-size- d animal fix six two days — not much for a family who months and would barely feed an averwants to skate together age litter for two months It would feed If you doubt the benefits of an indoor the litters of the frown litters for less rink watch a public session at the Ice than a week Spayingneutering prevents By Script Howard News Service Sheet in Ogden You'll see people of all “roaming" animals that may have to be in kids around there: retrieved from Animal Control at costs wobbling ages out The courts and federal and sute reguoversized skates teenagers practicing that can well exceed that of the operalators will have their work cut out for tentative axel jumps grinning adults tion If you know of animals that have them in deciding whether to permit the children fun and as much as (he the Cache Humane wild” having Society “gone proposed S23 billion merger of Bell grandparents waltzing in elegant pairs and the Animal Control can loan you Atlantic Corp and Nynex Corn two You'll see all the things you saw at Merto that enable will you traps capture Baby Bell phone companies that are lin Olsen Park But instead of seeing them long enough to take to the vet already giants even when standing apart these uplifting scenes a couple days in After their operation you can release In determining w hat to do in a process winter (at most) you'll see them every the phone companies hope will take just the of See VIEW YOUR ea Page 31 12 months year (if you wish) day regulators will naturally rely We hope the outdoor and indoor rinks t black-and-whi- ut hot-butt- They have been domesticated for millennia Cals are known to have lived coop- facility is entirely up to the City of Logan and its Park and Recreation On the press civility and conflict Wilderness Association leader Dick Dogs and cats should be allowed to live with dignity We want to reassure the rcaders of the Herald Journal that Bridgerland Community Ice Rink Project (BC1A) has no intention of replacing the outdoor rink at Merlin Olsen Park The future of that less Most importantly the rink will provide recreation for the youth and families of Cache Valley Yt le will have a safe fun and ai ordal ile to go What could be a more fiuni-Iilacc PaNfrlT!! Those are not the only issues State officials say landowners are often taken advantage of by unscrupulous loggers Any future regulations could outline protections for private sellers And time is running out according to State Forester Arthur DuFauIt About half of Utah’s pri- about possible year-rou- EVERH0NE5 affected by the private deals stu- Hun-sak- But dmad "TOAffiC OR DRNMG TU80U6H VCUOW and the public interests including watersheds could be adversely A' he slate dents approached Rep Fred kIqNIDonT yJAffTfetiSPEfOit WcaAMS TtfftOU&H Editorial poi (iff cut of fVtfON ft $tcau'wt our Macey- - The ODWon page to MmM to I el pubhc impartanoa and pnowda mantoara cl eweommunayMhafatiimtarfwirwewa Paraonai ooturnm cartoons and wac Sam faSad Ww arwions cf wWi and EdaortH wider tw Iwadtag Bur rasant Vw wew at tfw Haratd Jownal rw vouiDon Mutwi ov ri 7 I 'J si ft Km dovo BRUCE SMTTHUuWtoar OWIES McCOUlMnanrona Nynex provide assurances they would give competitors a chance in their local market? 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