Show Th Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday October 26 1997 — Pago 15 Cossacks ride again on Russia’s windswept steppes GUMIJARtmKAYA Russia (AP) — At a bend in the road two men in green combat fatigues stand in the middle of the dusty asphalt clutching white batons The spot Is nearly desolate one direction an abandoned mine shaft overshadows a ramshackle cemetery In the other a small Ukrainian customs post sits in tall grass But it’s here on a nearly b unmarked stretch of Russia's southwestern border that the future of the Don Cossacks begins says Ataman Vladimir Fetitov ‘Next year we hope to have horses” Fetisov says gesturing at the golden fields of the That’s the real way to patrol border" Fetisov is the local Cossack chief or ataman And his men are some of the first Cossacks — the legendary “Horsemen of the Steppes" — to return to their people’s traditional vocation of protecting the long borders of the Russian motherland They've been at it for about six months at Stanitsa Gun- - USU team THERE'S ffr NO BXCUSB documents FOR ADUSE Can Green River narrowing HELP WANTED! 1 -8-00-897-UNK FBfKNOBMflWhWltlDRNfelMMMi By Cliff Cahoon USU Metis Relations Don Cossack regiments in Russia's armed forces Decades after the communists tried to wipe them out the Cossacks are riding again So far is bringing them back to life" uys Sergei Dontsov a Cossack who serves as deputy chief of the president's commission on Cossack forces experiment But step by step the about 120000 Cossacks from around Russia have signed up more than 30000 of them from bestowing legitimacy oa the Cos- the Don River region "If the g""MnMnit mustachioed man in a lambskin hat astride a raging stallion cutting down enemies of the motherland with a flashing sword darovskaya a village of 3300 Cossacks snuggled alongside a river Until this summer the Cossack border patrols here and a handful of other places were just an Russian government has been sacks and In July President Rnri Vrffri" fnraidtv JhCL FULL FLAVOR MEALS Dinosaur National Monument is a narrower river than it was 33 years ago before Flaming Gorge Dam was built In research done for an MS degree in geology at Utah State University Paul Grams found the river width decreased from 11 to 22 percent The largest decrease came in areas of tire monument where mean annual flooding was down by Working with Jack Schmidt associate professor of geography and earth resources in USLTs College of Natural Resources Grams studied a 60 kilometer or ttco&itff' ' from nomads hi itiiaiiii (FC2GG SMOOTH IBS! 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We do More than any other Utah insurance company It's called control and it’s what the power of choice can do for you And now as part of The Regence Group an affiliation of Blue Uni- Cross and Blue Shield Plans in Washington Oregon Idaho and Utah ar ment for fall quarter currently stands at 21240 students with 16349 taking courses on the USU campus The total includes nearly 6JXX) taking courses off campus More than 1200 of these are at the Uintah Basis branch campus and the rest are enrolled in courses at various sites around Utah This total for 1997 compares to 20LS0S students last year during the —me time fall quarter we offer more strength more choice and more control than ever before It's a dunce you can live with For a good long time Regence BlueCmss BlueShield of Utah New member ef Tie Regence GntigjRbieCiM BlueSkieQPUm Meet Strength Mere deice Mere Centrelfer yen wwwbcbaulshceni LOGAN 1 ORIGINAL two-thir- through the eastern Uinta Mountains in Dinosaur National Monument For purposes of his study he divided this section of river into six subsections — three in canyons and three in open park areas of the river He presented his findings at the annual meeting of The Geological Society of America held in Salt Lake City His paper was entitled “Degree of Channel Narrowing Related to Complete and Partial Flow Regulation in Canyon and Meandering Reaches of the Green River Utah and Colorado The researcher found that three N UICE BAR |