Show r I ' Page 24 —The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday April 6 2001 Bird refuge faces dry year Grizz By Lance Frazier fears outdoors editor Which would be an unfortunate setback for Trout who piloted the refuge’s recovery from severe flooding in the early 1980s and is plan-r- y niiig improvements to the visitor center roads and dikes Officials are ailso hoping to construct a $15 million education center this year or Trout manager of the Bear River Migrato- Bird Refuge recently received a national award for his efforts- but what he would really A1 like is a little rain Or snow or sleet or hail any form of precipitation will do because without more water the refuge will be dangerously dry this summer All entities with water rights above the refuge take their shares first and with snowpack measurements in the area below 60 percent of normal Trout says the marshes may not be very marshy by August “If it stays diy we’ll wind up With less than 58 percent (of normal flow)” he notes “The forecasts show a bleak year" Following a dry 2000 a second straight year of drought would heavily impact bird migrations Trout says Some water birds are likely to bypass the refuge entirely and others will leave early as ponds dry up and the plants waterfowl ' rely on dwindle ' The meager snowpack Trout observes we’re gonna have a tough year' for water birds When the water gets that low we only get return flows” that remain after irrigaI tors take their portion " the last end of summer By only one of five units at BRMBR contained water and that one was only half full “This year should be worse than that” Trout ii means Continued from Page 13 - l “semi-starve- high-quali- ty hill on the dirt of snakes but one day while J tree-Becaus- Auto Care Heating Auto Care prepar- - stepped over a rock several feet above the river a rattlesnake stuck its diamond-shape- d head between my feet A couple of fisherman on the south side of the river must have thought I’d gone crazy when I hopped skipped and jumped through the middle of their Alignment Spring 753-429- Work stop m m m i 5 boad SO yea n iiprlM — Expires April IS SOOl I Gasoline Fbod Crafts CY CRAFT jSfxi i weekly Sale --- — 25 : Silk Floral Garlands- OFF 1 i '20 - Car Wash ! 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dip my line and hurried toward the river As Sir Hansom Lizzy Scully a USU graduate student in journal- ism hopes to make a career writing about environ- Later while driving with my ly down Blacksmith Fork I decided' to stop at a hole where I had caught the largest brown trout of my life I asked my wife to give me five min- ing to start my lawnmowerI spied a large snake coiled next to my foot I jumped backwards over the lawn- mower and two lawn chairs before realizing it was a harmless' garter snake: While I was carefully using a shovel to transport it to an empty field my neighbor Roxanne stopped her Jeep to ask if she cotild take it home to her son Ryan When I agreed she calmly unwrapped the snake from my shovel and carried in her hands few years later I stepped on a rattlesnake while running through the Continued from Page 13 tall grass above our home The rattlesnake started buzzing and struck While taking a shortcut up the hill I between my legs as-- jumped four nearly walked into a rattlesnake at the feet into the air and several feet down base of a large scrub oak the hill Even though that snake was it was still dark I couldn't only 20 yards from our home I didn't tell where the snake was located or dare to go after it A neighbor later whether there was more than one found a den of rattlesnakes under the After several seconds I decided the ' washing machine in her basement 1 safest route would be to slowly back thought I had outgrown my fear ' many of their conservation efforts are geared towards maintaining ecosystems that could support the big bears at a later date Gilbert still believes grizzlies should be a part of the High Uintas or the Book Clifts places sufficiently remote for wolves and grizzlies “Grizzlies could be brought in without a lot of impact” he says “They would be a great umbrella species” Carter echoes Gilbert’s thoughts “Intact ecosystems require top level predators like grizzly bears” he says “They should be part of this system inherently and ecologically “Human beings have the responsibility for bringing those grizzlies back We won't haye wilderness in Utah in my opinion until we ' haye grizzly bears here” box-lik- road-- ' ad “Some people take this as evidence that they are much healthier” he says “Healthy is a relative term I think in the last 10 years the grizzlies at least haven’t been declining” However a slight increase in mortality of next adults would send the population into decline For his efforts Trout was honored by The “So we are right on the edge” Gilbert fig' ures “They still need to be managed extremely National Wildlife Refuge Association and Fish and Wildlife Foundation as the carefully There is not a big surplus of bears' Refuge Manager of the Year Trout manager of We can’t lose any” the BRMBR since 1989' helped the refuge Dave Mattson a research wildlife biologist after six years of flooding by the Great with the USGS Forest & Rangeland Ecosystem Salt Lake From a rented office and with no Science Center says that the bear’s movements staff and little budget he rallied volunteers who likely result from a lack of food in the Yellowe stone ecosystem If confined to a raised $50000 in cash' materials and services fall numbers zone their could and donated nearly 17000 hours of labor In recovery 'Gilbert says natural causes and human deciaddition Trout was instrumental in the estab- sion have curtailed the Yellowstone grizzlies' lishment of the Friends of Bear River Refuge which helped construct boardwalks and overprimary food sources — whitebark pine cutthroat trout Army cutworm moths and winter-kille- d looks and is supporting the education center bison and elk — leaving the bears in a “It was very humbling and aiso very heartd condition” ' warming’’ Trout says of the award' adding that and Mattson Gilbert his staff and the volunteers played a huge role agree that the amount of habitat is a better indicator of a in the refuge's recovery “A whole bunch of people were involved in the work and I got the healthy grizzly population than population counts recognition It’s neat to see the refuge recognized as valuable ” Although the IGBC is aware of this informaTrout also credits Utah’s congressional dele- tion officials say they are required by law to toward delisting animals gation with procuring money to keep the refuge work ' no data that suggests' that I've seen “There's afloat but even money can’t buy what isn’t that grizzly bears should be delisted” says there away and take the long way up the Snake HUPC’s Carter “It’s a purely political issue” Carter and other' conservationists argue the IGBC is bowing to pressure from conservative ’state governments and the Bush administration which wants to open up the Yellowstone area fa vehicle increased oil and gas drilling' off-rouse housing developments and trophy hunting Sharon Rose of the US Fish and Wildlife Service says the conservationists are overreact-in- g and “Some of the groups just don’t like the species coming 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