Show i t: Section Friday March 22 2002 Page 1 The Herald Journal sets up ticket system Outdoors roport Zion ORC outings ZION NATIONAL PARK Utah (AP) — Hit ers who want to take one of this park's most popular slot canyons this summer will have to run the gauntlet of a tottery The change will require Visitors to sign up by or fox three months in advance of exploring the Subway in the park’s remote Kolob region That nvans hikers have until now to sign up for an opportunity to visit the canyon narrows in June when die onset of summer makes water fords more bearable The Subway officially known as the Left Fork of the North Creek contains several pools of water making competition for summer permits fierce The route saw 6£41 hikers last yeu a nearly threefold increase from 1998 The lottery marks a change brought on by ' increasing competition for the permits that limit The Outdoor Recreation Center at USUwffl host a telemarking trip at 8:30 ajn Saturday and a snowshoe- ing trip at 1:45 pjn March 27 Reregister for trms at the ORC Participants should rent or provide their own equipment Call for details 797-32- ail 64 CAPS match This month’s CAPS match is free to any shooter who has never shot with us before Hie match will consist of six stages including a USPSA classifier A new shooter orientation class will begin at 7:43 ajn and join the match at 9 ami at the Cache Valley Hunter Education Center three miles west of Logan on the Valley View Highway (Hwy 30) Eye and ear protection are required and spectators are welcome For information contact Richard Meacham at 787-81- Subway hikers to 30 on any day No camping is allowed For now and for trips through May hikers can call rangers a month ahead at a designated for Subway from magazine articles and word of mouth” Gilles said “All the publicity got people interested and it just started to snowball” The number of hikers per day is still limited to 50 a restriction adopted in 1998 For trips starting in June 40 of those spots will be awarded by It can take a full lottery leaving 10 for walk-in- s to hike the miles and in out 95 of the Subday way Flash floods are a hazard as log jams attest The Subway hasn’t had a single recorded drowning but in 1992 a hiker who rappelled into the canyon by a difficult route slipped and died park spokesman Ron Terry said time — 1 pm — to make a reservation But junder that system the rangers’ phones rang off die hook and the $3 permits were snapped up at a furious pace That was unfair to others who were not as quick on the telephone draw or got busy signals said backcountry ranger Marcia CHltes Two years ago Zion became the first national park outside Alaska to ban nearly all cars from its most popular section and introduce a bus shuttle One of the nation’s most crowded parks it gets about 25 million visits a year most of them to Zion Canyon But more people are visiting the park’s northwestern appendage the Kolob region v “The Subway has received a lot of publicity On the Net: Zion National Park's Subway: ' Utah forest research 31 orRmeachamsisnacom Waterfowl outing The Bridgerland Audubon Society will host an outing Saturday to the Amalga Bairenssewage lagoons to see returning waterfowl The Amalga Barrens are famous for their shallow ponds which attract tadpoles aquatic invertebrates and the critters that feed on diem If die weather doesn’t cooperate we’ll go to the Logan sewage lagoons instead Trip leaves from the parking lot behind the Logan Fire Station (SO E 130 North) at 9 am and will return by lunch For information call Kieth Archibald or Dick Hurrcn (433) 732-82- 38 734-26- 53 Island ride The Bridgerland Back Country Horsemen will host a ride at Antelope Island on Saturday morning Members will meet at 7:30 am in die puking lot of the Cache Vfclley Afena to carpooL The cost to enter the gate at Antelope Island is $7 per vehicle Bring a lunch since the nde will last about four hours For information about this ride or membership call Reed at or Diane at 243-49- 245-618- Mitch MascaroHeraW Journal - 80 The Logan Forestry Sciences Laboratory on the Utah State University campus has been targeted for closure by officials trying to free up funding for new grams Below Kay Lain) a chemist at the lab prepares a solution which will be used to analyze soil samples for the presence of selenium: pro- - 1 Wildlife meeting The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources will take ideas for Utah’s 2003 and 2004 big game seasons from the public at Northern Regional Advisory Committee meeting at 6 ' pm Much 27 at the Brigham City Center N 300 24 West Community Officials will also take input about proposed limited entry permit num-be- n for Utah’s 2002 Big Game Draw and changes to big game plans ' Those who can’t attend may provide comments by contacting North-o-n Region RAC chairperson Ernie Perkins at 3087 Maxine Dt Layton UT 84040-765(801) (home) (801) (work) ' 544-51- 9 393-23- Cuts would eliminate studies on aspen regeneration pine beetle By Lance Rrazter outdoors edttor E: local forestry experts could soon be out of work The Logan Forestry Science Laboratory and its annual budget of $879000 have been targeted by regional Forest Service leaden struggling td dear the way for $378 million in new iniUativesproposed by the Bush Administration The proposals currently being discussed on Capitol Hill include a $204 million federal data base a $5 million software program and a $5 million bioenergy 23 37 se poaching The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is seeking information on those responsible for die killing of two pregnant cow moose near ' Causey Reservoir larch 4 5 Anyone who observed any unusual activity in this area on these dates is encouraged to call the DWR’s Ogden 0 office at (801) or the DWR’s Help Stop Poaching Hotline at 1 (3337) The DWR is offering a reward -- lbeagency’s budget will actually increase from $2413 million in 2002 to $24318 mil lion in 2003 but to wedge in the new programs officials say they have to drop some field research including studies on pine bee-- ' ties and aspen tree protection specialties of die Logan lab: Tweaking the budget is an annual challenge according tq John Ibliver deputy st tion director for the Rocky Mountain Research Station based in Fort Collins ' 476-276- ’ t y " Bison sale v Beginning at 7 ajm Saturday Antelope Island State Park wiU sell approximately 150 head of bison V Twelve ofthe bison for salewere part of die Wfestem Experience ht Soldier HoUowAVasatch Mountain State Park dining the2Q02 Olympic Winter Gaines Calvesyeariings and bison iue available at $055lb live weightmature open cows are available for $045lb live weight bred cows are Available for too” The initiatives reflect the new administra- don’s emphasis on expanding forest inventory and analysis work and at the same time create a quandary for those in the research branch ofthe Forest Service which faces a 15 percent reduction The Logan lab has been downsized more than once but this is the first time it has faced elimination Some lab employees say die cuts don’t make sense v “You can’t cut everything else so that you can analyze data and then have nobody to collect the data” said Barbara Bentz head of the pine beetle program at the Logan lab which opened in 1964 “A lot of people don’t realize there might be no more bark beetle or aspen research” “It’s sort of a catch-22- ” agreed lab direc- tor Dale Bartos “We are gathering : : also in Jackson Hole hatchery i agerKerry Grande said Whirling disease attacks the card- lage of young fish particularly in the head and spine Infected fish develop ablack tail and deformed spine mid sometimes swim in end Jra circles ' ’ Rainbow trout are the most vul-neraMe but all trout species seem to have some level of susceptibility Game and Fiph officials said parasite that causes whirling disease has been found in young trout in a creekon western Vtyoming’sr ' National Elk Refogo 5 vSdpe Fisheries Chief Mike Stone $500IperimimakvU'ii V'’ ? said whirling disease does not seem' About 30 cutdiroat trout of vary- Interested parties may call (801) !: fo havesevOrely affected toy fish ing sizes woe collected from Flat ' f 550165 beginning March 23 at 7 v Creek during a routine inspection r populMions in doming so far ain Animalsmust be transported “We full are not yet sure of the to Oct 45 Fish pathologists at the v j live frqm the island or Antelope we this infection but will extent River of die detected Madison and in Fish wesd Gam Dut-iTotiung 4 Uand staff will assist with transport continue to keep thepuWc ipformed ment laboratory made the diagnosis of Yellowstone NatiodaI Pariin for an additional fee of $20' Antelope V 1994The disease hssbeen found at as we learn more” belaid Isjand Sfate Park managers reduce' 1 ’ 18 fidi Rob Gipson fish supervisor in more least in at 380 than sites were infected between All the r' had size each year in order to keep '( fishsaid the teste do not show state Jackson 3 inchei 6 and river Montana long: drainages bison numbers within die carrying arid has been Rekidte Trere negatiyefor similar: that said officials eries diseaselpu taken hold and of the island whirling to preserve capacity detected in nearly pvp dozen pther Vt tfiere in Flat Greek tests on cutthroat trout at die Jack- 7 the quality Of the island rangelands have many years di populaar son NatkmallHatchery which is states for aD wildlife A ' -! turn estimates for Flat Creek that will allow us to better determine - J t ! : n- v-- : i V t : ':-r J ! - ' I Utke : C -- " potential impacts” he said “Flat Creek will be sampled again this fallj tomouitor the population and v degree of infection” Game and Fish officials say peo- pie should help prevent the spread of whirling diseaseipores by washing' mud frmn boatstrailers waders and! float tubes before leaving a river or w Kr See LAB on C12 Whirling disease fou nd at Jackson elk refuge ‘ : v r V-- l important - two-year-o- ld i Colo but this year is unusual because ofthe sweeping additions ' “All our programsare important and we would prefer to maintain them” Toliver said “At the same time the new initiatives are - '! v Anglers are also urged not to move water mud fish or fish parts from one river basin to another and not to tiirow fish beads skeletonaor mitrails into any body of water! 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