Show ocw'r'-’- vw1 d'V‘w'"w'T n'rrTT hTv rw '' -- w r‘' MtO tWirw' nrr' www a i a i£ A ' - f A JWT' MW if '“ tuuSJmtwnuhanyklndtt auttofttewan" - 'i-t-- SrMtm i(J Pago 16 ThuwdayJuly91998 The Herald Journal Logan Utah V ' RcbfMri flewSffca the worry of ‘90s urban cores And stressful commutes are no longer confined to weekdays Even weekend traffic around popular shopping malls can take hours to navigate The Sierra Chib reports that between 1970 and 1990 almost 20 million acres of rural land were developed nationwide By Bonnie Elba Scripps Howard Newt Service 0 of the most promising areu for bipartism political compromise comes in the form of rising constituent concern over suburban sprawL If air and water pollution rs consumed each year by developers’ for industrial and residoitial pur- poses: roads malls home communities and office buildings So what’s the political solution? A number of enlightened state and county lawmakers are fighting back against suburban sprawl by dedicating portions of state budgets or county bond issues to buying and preserving open land New Jersey Gov Christie Todd Whitman (a crusader in many respects) last month made a politically courageous proposal to raise the state’s gas tax and use the money to buy undeveloped land As an opponent of almost all new taxes for social purposes this is one proposal I would wholeheartedly support The New York Tunes reports Whitman is not alooe in her campaign to save what little greenery her state still affords (only 2 million out of New Jersey’s 9 million acres of land have been spared desecration by concrete) Georgia lawmakers are bull-doze- ban sprawl is becoming their 1990s equivalent There’s nary a city in America that has not doubled or tripled in physical terms since the 1960s and whose suburbs which were barely in existence a mere four decades ago nave vastly outpaced in size economic vitality and population die urban cores around which they were originally formed Washington DC is one such example When this writer moved here only 23 yean ago Potomac Md was a distant town dotted by horse farms The outpost's crossroads consisted of a general store across the street from a gas station and a few quaint shops on a third comer for- merly rural paradises: Los Angeles’ “Valley" (home of the famous Valley Girl) to die south and Northern California’s Silicon Valley Commuters suffer through as much as two hours of traffic in either direction to reach jobs in both Bonnia Elba host of tha PBS pragma To toe Contrary11 writN Mi column umMv for Scrippf Howard News 8ervfce Her 102404317(aqCampuSaraaxonL address la update on Logan pioneer memorial To the editor I write to provide a progress report on the pioneer memorial to be placed on die grounds of the Logan Tabernacle As this is a community activity it is important that you know what is happening The First Presidency of die Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints authorized the placing of this memorial upon the grounds of the Logan Tabernacle under two conditions They were: 1) that this be a “unique community sesquicen-tenni- al project” meaning that it would be paid for by the community and 2) that the site on the tabernacle grounds and the design of the statue would be approved by the First Residency They have given formal approval of both the site and the design The clay miniatures (approximately 18 er inches tall) of the pioneer family have been completed They have been cast in resin computer scanned and larger-than-lireproductions have been mechanically created in a dense substance Most of the Styrofoam-lik- e enlarged reproductions have arrived at Bill Hill’s Mendon studio (they come in pieces — heads torsos- - etc) and have been covered with thin “skins” ortf clay Bill and his assistant Lisa Jensen are now adding details to bring each figure to life Once the figures are completed five-memb- fe (approximately the end of August) molds will be made and the statue poured in bronze The tallest al parks at least with dogs this During recent “dogs vs wildlife” refresher course a cottonh tail jumped from under a nearby and took off apparently deciding to test the quit of the law Hank good rabbit-brus- Your view i' ChHe fund Connecticut Republican Gov John got another ticket the other day - a Rowland warns to spend $160 million on ticket for hiking with my dog Hank bonds to buy and save 20000 acres over We’d somehow wandered across the five years And Minnesota legislators buck borders of a — rinmt monument It approved $140 million to buy parkland was such a remote area that I nearly and open space far citizen enjoyment jumped out of my skin when Hank let It took almost two decades but we out a short bark Another person was the have begun to conquer our most pressing last thing I expected to see let alone a environmental problems — air and water park ranger And so I got the standard lecture about pollution Skies over most cities boast relatively dean and certainly breathable dogs harassing wildlife I know it’s stanain Once-dea- d rivers (such as Washing-- ! dard because I'd gotten it before years ton’s Anacostia) are now safe for fishing ago in Rocky Mountain Park There I’d and swimming: Our next battle is pre-- errantly let my dog off the leash The had about five Serving what httie'rSHf space' we have left And politicians ofdl parties who minutes of free- want to win votes in November's elec- - dost then we got lions would be wise to keep this issue nailed I vowed to front and center stay out of nation- Midwest phenomenon? California's' attraction as a home state has diminished Ir By mirage figures stands 7 feet not including the elevation of the site and base The proposed site will be an elevated (3 feet) area approximately 30 feet in diameter contained by a low wall matching the decor of the tabernacle On the elevated surface will be large stepping stones allowing viewers to walk up to and around the statue that total has been received thus far We are extremely grateful to individu- is good since Hank’s been trying to catch critters all his life Don't misunder- stand I’d be horrified if Hank ever caught a rabbit But I know what the odds are The only critters Hank ever chases are hawks For some reason Hank hates hawks I think maybe he envies their haughty independence Wriiers on the Range land But die laws imposed by immense canyons unclimbable Muffs incoming blizzards and rattlesnake dens The only other law I had to abide by was the law of Be Home By Dark Like the rough-legghawk I left no tracks I became a shaded ow barely noticed by the creatures whose wildness I studied While I was out wandering the juniper hills my family was enlarging its “fear-of-suc-ces-s” ”- For all the sheriff verbal warning ?- knows Hank wu charing deer The only deer Hank ever chased wu a young buck who turned and chased Hank The county hu a leash law and so I reluctantly agree to restrict Hank's freedom Hank knows all about freedom — he came from foe local pound whep he u short time Ask my aunts and uncles how much land they have and they’ll answer in the thousands of acres when they : really only have deeded rights to n few hunched The rest is public land which they are permitted to use only by for cattle grazing But they’ll tell you it’s family land prior-righ- ts And they’ll freely complain about foe system that grants their use One uncle “watches over” a flock of cranes on “his” permitted lands but doesn’t want the wildlife service to know they’re Those cranes don’t know they’re endangered They’re doing fine Those government fellows will come in and make sure I can't use that pond for anything else” Ironically the cranes seem to 03 ' ‘ wu locked up for the crime of being Hank homeless and I agree that foe only true freedom is way out in the desolation where people don’t care to go and where only the laws of lightning and wildfire prevati I'm thinking about moving our there It's hard for Westerners to rid irpsychu of illusions Wings outlined by n rainbowed sun-- ’ u hawk circles high dog a above taunting Hank aad me with its piercing call of elusive freedom Go ' hawk go! red-tail- ed ChHa MNar Ivm In Moteraas Colorado She Is a contributor to Widen on toa Range a aarvloo ol High Counby News based In Paonia Col- - White House LOGAN PIONEER MEMORIAL PROJECT and send it to Bartell W Cardon 1211 N 1400 East Logan Utah 84341 Donations of $100 or more will be listed in a special keepsake dedication booklet Please indicate if you want die listing to be in your name in the name of n business or in memory of a pioneer ancestor (give the birth and death years) My teleif you have phone number is 752-66questions You will receive a receipt for tax purposes Thank you in advance ! visions of carnage She calls the sheriff who’s inclined to give me (not Hank!) n Our neighbors were all doing the same and every “reclaimed” acre now followed the Law of No Trespassing The Homestead Act encouraged us to think of the land being ours through use and we obliged in an amazingly there -- turns Hank turns chuing hawk and shadow-haw- k - Go Hank got But to my new neighbor from the cky Hank’s banting down foe tanyou brings forming ve Uni’ thought it wu necessary but we were destroying the intrinsic freedom of foe land and its nhhitnt in order to make : it productive for us Z-- if that were true the West wouldn’t bear the many scars it does Many of the homesteads in northwest Colorado have now reverted to big sage and creosote We all should fear God in God's country f And so I take Hank for n walk down in the canyon below foe house where he redefines the meaning of by chasing another hawk Hawk Othor views als families and businesses that have thus far donated to this project However $33000 remains to be raised Now is the time to make your contribution if you have yet to do so or consider adding to your donation if you have given Scripps Howard News Service before Please write your check to Bartell W Cardon Logan of the five Blue Heeler that he is sat obediently at my side not batting an eve He’d been listening to that ranger’s lecture which The complexity of the project has All this set me to thinking about freemade it necessary to move the dedication dom and the native laws of the West I grew up wandering the high desert of to the second week in November The cost rtf the project is now estimated to be northwest Colorado Collecting rocks $133000 Approximately $100000 of and tracking nntelope I followed only ' thrive in the pond that they share with occasional caale and irrigation pumps I’d like to think the reason we had more freedom from regulations when I wu n child wu because we were more responsible then and cared better for the MMer asking voters to support a real estate transfer tax to set up a land conservation But then the roads to and from downtown DC became bigger and travel time from lucrative downtown office jobs to secluded homesites in idyllic Potomac contracted Now nouveau-rich- e rather garish manses stare down each other’s bathroom windows separated by tiny yards of just a few feet And development after development of expensive but nonetheless tacky houses and strip malls line the suburb’s main rood for miles and miles to the north So too in the suburbs of Chicago Detroit Atlanta and Miami It's not just an East Coast Southern or An : Another 400000 such acres are being were the environmental bogeymen of the 1960s and 1970s then subur- greatly since suburban sprawl ate up i - - A e a federal appeals panel hu ruled that the Secret Service does not have to be secretive in testifying before a grand jury con- XActing three-judg- lickety-spl- it case of illegal This court wu no cerning 'accusations presidential activities more convinced than US District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson by foe admin- istretion’s arguments One of the administration’s contention wu foal the courts dwuld estab- lish still another special privilege for foe president but why? Because of the expressed fear that allowing Secret Scr- - The administration's forlorn appeal a delaying tactic in by some Kenneth Starr’s investigation of Presi- If the president is innocent wouldn’t it be in his inter- ests to push hard for a con- ’’ dent Clinton’s relationship with Monica ’ Lewinsky the former White House intern Ron this print of view foe foci clusion? vice testimony would put the president’s fife in jeopardy? Johnson said earlier that it’s u wu seen hud to believe a president acting within the law would put himself at risk out of feu that a grand jury would hew that the appeals court acted within several weeks of the Johnson ruling is almost much a setback to the president foe decision itself Stare often gets the Mame for how long this investigation is uHmj --— and be may deserve tome of the criti-tins — but the administration is scarce- - u u about his activities The appeals court also found it unrealistic that testimony ly a major propellant force If the by agents would place a president in president is innocent wouldn't ft be in danger especially because federal law his interests to push hard far a conclusion? 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