Show t Section ' i : Friday April H 2003 The Herald Journal Page 1 Outdoors report Reid trip The Stokes Nature Center will host a field trip to Antelope Island State Park on Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm to explore the park search for shore birds go on a scavenger hunt and check out the brine shrimp Bring lunch water snacks and binoculars TYansportation provided Designed for ages 7 and up and pre-registration is required: Program fee is $10 for $8 for SNC members Also on Saturday the center will host “The Magpie’s Nest" from 10 am to noon Learn about the amazing ways bird build their nests then build a nest to take home For ages 9 Space is limited pre-registration is required Program fee is $5 for and $375 for members non-memb- 4-- non-memb- Benson ride The Cache Veloists will host a 28- mile ride to Benson Marina and the marshes of Cutler Reservoir on Saturday Meet at die northwest corner of Merlin Olsen Park at 10 am rain or shine Ride leader is Cecelia 3 Melder 753-795- Turkey shoot The Cache Valley Hunter Education Center 2851 W 200 North Logan will host a turkey shoot with shotgun games for all abilities at 10 ' am on Saturday Games will include Best of 5 Annies Backers and Bluebirds and prizes will be awarded Cost is $350 per game with guarantee cards available for $20 0 For information call 753-460- Wolf program The Mission: Wolf Ambassador Education Program will present a free program at 7 pjn April 14 at USU’s Engineering Auditorium (EC) 106 Presenters will answer questions and provide educational material regarding the return of the gray wolves Mother wolf “Rami” and her cubs will also appear Mission: Wolf is a wolf sanctuary in Colorado dedicated to educating the public about wolves and the importance of habitat protection For information call (719) re go to http:wwwmis-sionwolfeo859-21- m 57 Black Canyon trip Cache Valley Anglers will host an early season fishing trip to Idaho’s fantastic Black Canyon on Saturday Meet at the northwest corner of parking lot at 8 ajm with your fishing gear and lunch- Idaho fishing licenses may be purchased in Preston for $1050 The trip is open to public and carpooling will be available For information contact Matt Klingler at The Anglos will also host a free evening with Utah DWR fisheries manager Craig Schaugaard and Idaho fisheries manager Dick Scully at 7 pm Wednesday April 16 on the 3rd floor of die Utah Water Research Lab just below 1st dam 1600 Canyon Rd They will be sharing with us what they are doing to improve the fishing in our region and what the outlook is for fishing this summer For information contact Matt at Wal-Mart- ’s - 753-55- : 91 753-55- RV travel: You’re free to move about the country The rolling advertisements me in bold-letter- ed tion-imped- ed basis Two months after the Logan Canyon experience my wife m son Jaden Monique our and I were at a Springville truck wash to pick up our which happens to be the smallest 25-foo- ‘ Common Ground a organization that provides outdoor adventure for people with disabilities will host a cycling activity at 3 pm Transportation is provided and we have some great adaptive cycles To reserve a spot call non-pro- fit 713-02- 88 The Cache Archers will host their annual golf shoot from 9 ami to 3 pre April 26-2- 7 in the foothills above Providence (follow die signs from the Maverick) Archery golf is siiAilar to golf but played with a bow and arrow The shoot is open to all skill levels and anyone interested in archery Seasoned “garchers” will be on hand to help get people started Bring your own equipment Recurves longbows and compounds can all be used in this game Cost is $5 per round and food will be available A special event this year will be a book signing on Saturday by Bowhunter magazine editor TJ Conrads who recently released the book "The Traditional Bowhunter's Handbook” For more information call 563-9433 or Tlradi-tion- al 753-79- 84 serving as a wide screen through which to view a gorgeous sunset over Canyonlands NP and the RV proved to handle curves and steep climbs quite well (ours com- fortably did 75 mph on flat stretch- es of Backing out of the truck Wash parking lot was the scariest part of the drive to the uninitiated nothing short of a North Dakota farm field seems sufficient to turn one of these beasts The best part of RV travel is having the freedom to move about inside the vehicle as you sail across the countryside although seatbelt laws do apply to RVs bar-ring youngsters from riding in the most popular perch the bed above the cab There are seatbelts on the benches beside the kitchen table which come in handy for playing games reading books or watching 5) int videos in transit Wfe ended up spending the first night in an overpriced over-fu- ll campground in Moab and di&cov- ered one of the shortcomings of our home away from home: the heater didn’t heat much It conked out completely at about 3 am afire battling the cold desert air a pattern that was to be repeated nightly due to a complicated sys- tern of batteries and natural gas that shut down when the battery drained to a certain point A tent would have been warmer Hiking the red rocks of Arches in the sun the next day got our blood flowing and introduced us to a multitude of others who were tethered to their vehicles by the limited range of legs very young or old At popular Double Arch at SeeRVonC14 Birds canoeists flock to BR By Mark R Johnson with the Bridgerland Audubon Society to make a binding field-tri- p down a section of die Bear Riven With spring migration underway the excursion was well timed for bird sightings After convoying to the put-i- n I (Messed the binoculars to my eyes and scanned first glassing left to right then back again my ' vision swinging in that myopic tunnel of magnification Finally I zeroed in on the nest and focused on tiie that blended tuft of perfectly into the late winter landscape: a great horned owL He scowled I smiled back And so another species joined our budding bird list for the day I wouldn’t have semi die owl without Bryan Dixon of the Bridgerland Audubon Society our guide for the morning From his canoe just ahead of ours Bryan was helping those of iis a little less versed in the feathered world He'd pointed out the nest atop a shag in tire identified its tance neither-here-nor-the- Archery golf ly Story and photo by Lance Frazier 91 Cycling outing novice-friend- NASCARish check- r flags painted on RVs the white sparkling Web address the smiling faces peering out side win-dows after spending a construe- morning studying them up close in Logan Canyon ' last summer I knew I had to drive one Not having $70000 to spare buying was not an option But renting was thanks to an inreease in the number of companies offer- ing recreational vehicles on a short-ter- size of and most RV With 75000 miles on the odometer the vehicle had already traveled the equivalent of 75 summer vacations We had chosen to spend a week on the quintessential Utah vaca- ion: a clockwise loop through the five National Parks which we fig- ured might be near empty by Octo- bre Fora little over $100 a day (excluding fuel costs) we became a motel on wheels free to roam and sleep wherever we wished Until we reached Arches Nation- al Park that is Arches of course is bursting at the seams with visi- tors these days and when we showed up at dusk foolishly hop- ing that a stray campsite might remain we were turned away by a frazzled ranger The drive down had been beauti- ful with the extra large windshield re gray-bro- juro-bfe- d dis-th- en iywtfi and I along with nine other participant had joined v Jean Lown Bryan and co-lead-er northwest of Logan and ing our seven canoes along die riverbanks several of us drove and then vehicles to die take-ocarpooled back It took only a few minutes to make the drive the canoeing though would unfold over several hours Fickle spring weather turned out to be on our side that morning and die sun began to emerge from cloud cover as our flotilla ' pushed off and headed down river We soon shed layers broke put die binoculars As far as binding abilities go I’d rank myself in die category But that really didn’t matter Bryan and Jean and a few cither more experienced members of die group were very willing to assist us in ut - identifying anything we came across Ami we saw plenty Half-floati-ng half-paddli- ng down the calm waters we looked for bud life on the river high in trees and tucked inside the reeds Maybe “looked” is too firm a word — more like encountered Almost immediately we saw a harrier hovering out and powerful ahead A second later a kestrel clipped by moving on sharp little wings long-tail- We spied ed red-wing- ed black- birds in the shrubs along the jiver “Those birds scolding you” Bryan said with a smile “are marsh wrens" I looked around and everyone else from their own canoes was trying to locate the bird of the moment That’s how ft would go: all of us ' glancing around until someone would see something and then ' point ft out to die rest everyone quickly lifting their binoculars homingin See BIRDS on C14 " Jean Marti R JotvworVFor The Herald Journal Lown and Bryan Dixon lead a group of birda recent outing on the Bear River ers on |