Show i Outdoors Opinion 16 Comics 18 I The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday July 23 1999 - Outdoors report A park of their own Banquet tickets Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife's ban- quet is set for Saturday Aug 14 in the USU Ballroom A social begins at S pm and the dinner and auction at 7 Tickets must be purchased by Aug 1 for the early bird drawing Tickets arc available at Al's Sporting Goods and Sccholcr Vision both in Logan All money raised will stay in Utah for Under the uneasy eyes of the Park Service and archeologists two old friends decide to create a private version of a national park Welcome to the International Petrified Forest wildlife and habitat projects according to organizers More than $30000 in merchandise hunting and fishing trips will he auction or rallied at the banquet Among the prizes are a North Cache elk tag and a Henry mountain bison tag Cache Hikers Bloomington Lakes via the Highline Trail and Danish Pass are the destinations for Cache Hikers this Saturday Plans call for participants to drive north on the Beaver Creek road to Danish Pass and then hike the Highline Trail along the ridge past Willow Flat down to the lakes The hike is about h miles and gains 1000 feet elevation A swim in the lakes is planned and the hike is rated moderate The trip leader is Stephanie Podgorski Participants should meet at 8 am at the southwest comer of the Fred Meyer parking lot For information call 3 Stephanie at 733-107- Mud Flat Mahem Cache Valley Vcloists Bicycle Touring Cluh invites all mountain bikers out for the Mud Flat Mayhem Saturday It starts at Temple Fork at 9 am For more infor3 mation call Barry Crokcr at 730-363- Firewood permits The Logan Ranger District still has about 30 firewood permits available for sale at $10 per cord Permits are available at the district office Monday through Saturday Grouse applications SALT LAKE CITY -Sh- arp-tailed grouse hunters may enjoy two weekends of hunting in Utah this year after the Utah Wildlife Board voted recently to L extend the state's season to nine days " The 1999 hunt will be held Nov in eastern Box Elder County A total of 663 permits will be issued Except for a $3 nonrcfundablc handling fee there's no cost for a permit Each hunter who obtains a permit may take a total of two birds Applications to participle in the hunt will he available by July 27 Hunters may obtain applications from hunting and fishing license agents statewide To be entered in the draw for permits applications must be received through the mail or an overnight mal ciice Hunters are reminded that it w ill take a few days for their application to arrive in the mail and to mail it as far in advance of the Aug 9 deadline as possible Draw results will be posted by Sept 14 at division offices the division's hunter education centers and on the division's Internet website Any prmits remaining after the drawing will be available only by mail-i- n application to: Division of Wildlife Resources PO Box 168888 Salt Lake on a first-coCity UT 84116-888- 8 basis beginning Sept 20 6-- Photo courtesy of High Country News Marvin Hatch By Katherine Drouin Keith High Country News hen seasoned busiMarvin nessman Hatch bought a northern Arizona ranch he and busi- The Continued improvement in waterfowl habitat is bearing results Waterfowl enthusiasts should see the biggest fall flight this year of any season since records have been kept The US Fish and Wildlife Service estimated 438 million breeding ducks this spring in the area it surveys That is the highest number of ducks since the survey began in 1933 12 preent higher than last year and 34 preent over the long-teraverage Mallards the species most poplar with hunters in Idaho numbered 111 million birds IS preent higher than last year and 3 1 preent above the long-teraverage Most other speies were also higher with the two species of teal at record highs Gadwall and redheads showed slight declines Pintail and scaup species that have been in a worrisome decline for years both showed improved numbers of breeding pirs with pintails up 21 percent from last year Idaho hunters may have less to cheer about than most others in the country because the one spot in the prairie breeding grounds that had less than excellent moisture was southwest Alberta That area of Canada generally supplies the hulk of Idaho's northern flight Mild winters during the last two duck hunting season in Idaho severely limited the success of watcrfowlcrs here Weather patterns can be more important in the number of ducks actually seen in Idaho than the overall breeding count m m 60000-acr- e $33 million Paulsell Ranch is littered with Indian ruins artifacts and ptroglyphs The ranch’s resources are so important that its neighbor Petrified Forest National Park has unsuccessfully tried to add the land to the park Although it's not yet opn to the public billboards already promote ' 600000-acr- e animal teeth and bones that are scattered in dry washes throughout the ranch The Paulsell Ranch has long been recognized by scholars from around the country for its archaeological and paleontological value Rare palco-India- n ness partner Terrence “Shorty" Reid-hea- d knew the land would yield more than just hamburger first-serv- Record duck counts and Terrence ‘Shorty Reidhead recently purchased the what Hatch is calling the International Petrified Forest Land and air tours will shuttle tourists through the area to ooh and aah at the tumbled stones of pueblos and the fossilized wood sites Pueblo religious and community centers and artifacts that may be more than 10000 years old have been found in the region Reidhead and Hatch hope to tap into the millions of tourists who flood northern Arizona every year to visit places like Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest National Park And the venture's hoard of directors a group of local businessmen say they want to manage the property for “preservation education and profit" Hatch says “We want to keep it there for future generations" Hatch 63 and Reidhead 67 are descendants of Mormon pioneer families who settled the area in the late $38 million Paulsell Ranch with plans 1800s They've been buddies since they attended high school together in the 1940s and have made millions selling cars and construction materials Although neither has formal training in archaeology or paleontology they've been poking around in the desert all their lives engaging in “salvage archaeology" as Reidhead puts it They say preservation not profit is their main goal However Reidhead adds “We have spent quite a bit of money and we hope to get it back someday" At the Paulsell Ranch tourists will he supervised but Hatch and Reidhead anticipate some poaching once they open it up to tourists “Most people probably are gonna pick up a piece of wood darn it" Reidhead said He doesn't want visitors to the ranch to be policed like tourists at the nearby national park Petrified Forest staff “have a mania for that" he says Faster than a speeding bullet? The phrase may soon be relative with new ammo OAK RIDGE Tenn (AP) — It sounds like something from a science fiction tale — a rifle that can be adjusted so its user fires bullets at varying speeds such as “stun'' “disable" or “destroy" Now researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory say they have made the first step toward building such a weapon A prototype rifle equipped with an electronic firing mechanism and guided by a laser rangefinder is still about a year away But researchers say they already have developed an aluminum-base- d gunpowder replacement that can control the speed of a bullet Government officials including Energy Secretary Bill Richardson witnessed a test firing of the technology in May Enthusiasm for the design is said to be high at the Energy Department and the Pentagon where the search for nonlcthal weapons to guard nuclear installations or arm peacekeeping missions abroad is explosive energy — potentially four times greater than TNT “It has always been on the wish list of people for the past 100 years to be able to utilize the power of this particular reaction” Taleyarkhan said He declined to discuss technical details citing pending patents For his May demonstration isnHKwnM nr r into a park Petrified Forest National Park Superintendent Micki Hellickson is reserving comment on the International Petrified Forest for now Hatch “is free to establish any kind of a business he would like and he is free to call it what he'd like" she says Hellickson also holds out hope the National Park Service will someday acquire the property ‘The National Park Service has outlined in its general management plan a very broad vision for the expansion of the park" she said ‘That vision includes the acquisition of at least a portion of the Paulsell Ranch That vision is still valid” In the meantime she's keeping an eye on what happens at the Paulsell Ranch “We would be concerned if we felt the resources in which the Park Service was interested if any of them were threatened We don't know See PARK on Page 17 - TtrnoKrtirrtwnfyitrkTHiTTTrfT Blacksmith Fork: n Fishing well with caddis PMDs yellow sallies and nymphs Logan River: Upper Logan fishing well with dry flies like caddis and PMDs while lower Logan is still bubbling with high water and challenging fishing Hyrum: Very good with spinners in shades of brown Bear Lake: No report Little Bear below Porcupine: Good with caddis and PMDs Daniels: Good with damsels and Hot tip This late in summer try small hoppers and attractor patterns on Just about any area waters especially streams and soft plastics beaver leaches Treasureton: Spotty Newton: Black buzzbaits in y and white morning and mid-da- buzzers in evening Also for tiger muskie perch crankbaits Porcupine: Closed to vehicles at gate at dam Bear River Black Canyon: Water variable but fishing good when water is low Bear River Narrows: Good with nymphs streamers and dry flies Source: Mark Sipes at Al's See BULLET on Page 17 HwaM Journal graphic Features: Sunday Focus: Gardener’s market s ' OR COPY it Fishing Report a priority “I can tell you why we arc interested with this technology" said John Busic with the Defense Department's Joint Nonlelhal Weapons Directorate “Right now with rubber bullets you set a range where they are effective If you get outside of that range they are not effective at all And if you get too close you risk permanent damage or even death if you hit someone in the wrong place" The technology is being developed by Dr Rusi Taleyarkhan and his team in Oak Ridge based on what scientists know happens when molten aluminum comes in contact with water The aluminum oxidizes releasing hydrogen and to turn l i 752-212- 1 f |