Show Section soils Wednesday July 31 2002 Page! The Herald Journal i Know ' "i tv 5' 'V ' ' safety ' guides for boats ’ jl HA I -t- er! It t !' I Q: Do you have watercraft safety tipi? Answer by Richard Beard Utah State University Extension Agricultural Equipment Specialist Many Utah residents are heading for the nearest lake or dam to beat the summer heat Whether you own some type of watercraft rent one or are going along for the ride keep safety and courtesy in mind Consider these tips Practice defensive boating ' Nationally operator fault has been determined in more than 75 percent of boating accidents Common causes include excessive speed failure to maintain proper lookout carelessness and inexperience About 33 t AS b V ft 'mh : of cita- k tions involve improper bok han- dling This includes collisions Photo eourtesy of excessive speed viola- aflumn V - I The spires of Cedar Breaks reach higher from floor to rim than those of wake areas or obstacle capsizing someone falling overboard and bad weather areexamples of common emergencies Boats are required by tew to :' have safety equipment such as PFDs fire extinguishers ion lizhts audible signaling devices and Sailing devices Keep safety equipment available and in good operating condition Be sure yqu know how to use it Proper equipment and the knowledge of how to use it can make die difference between an emergency that result in a fatality or one mat simj ply becomes an inconvenience File is float dan Notify a responsible person of your boating plan TbH diem when and whpe you are going and the scheduled time of return fo foe event of an acodent or mechanical breakdown a float dan e cohld uve your life It will how qukldysdmeone begins looking for you and the size of the area searched Thei importance of a ' float idan is described in a brochure distributed by the National Bdating Federation "Hefy Take die Search Out of Search ana Rescue” Haves radio or cellular phorie oqboard In the event of an emergency or meduinical problem a radio is die best way to request assistance Assistance calls arp transmitted to Channel 16whichia die channel mniitored for search0-anrescue Often the closest ' Bryce Canyon Cedar Breaks is also higher n on Daeaven rotor® operating in restricted areas and reckless or careless operations on die water Further drugs or alcohol have been involved in 33 percent of all tearing fatalities and thu jumps to 50 percent When only nighttime accidents are examined Wear a lifejacket Boating accidents can occur without warning! Seventy-fiv- e percent of those who drown Into&er acciden tswould have survived had they worn a personal flotation device (PFD) Utah few requires that boats have a prop- eriy sized US Coast Guard approved PFD tea each person aboard With few exceptions all individuals being towed in die water operating a personal watercraft 12 years of age or younger and white wafer rafting are required by few to wear a PFD Be smart about propeller operation When swimmers are in die water always turn the engine off- ' Watch for swimmers Boat operators and passengers should scan the water surface for floating obstacles and swimmers and be prepared to slow and change direction if neces- sary Often swimmers are found in areas where they shouldn’t be such as harbors launch ramps docks near stationera boats and in areas marked with So swimming” Plan for emergencies midi better-know- auntil in JR Allred elevation ear® and in Cedar City than the Shakespeare Festival By JR Allred trail to a small peak and a higher-angtrusions out from rock mass shaped lode at some of the surrouhd-in- g something like the fins on a 1959 Cadillac They and the other cliffs area For a closer look more and slopes are dotted with hardy serious hikers take the five bristlecone pine the oldest trees in ' hike up Ibylor Creek past two old the area They say it is a wonder cabins to Double Arch Alcove Or 14- -' take die more strenuous they grow at all occurring as they they do in thin soil and thin air with little miter to Kolob Arch described in the brochure as “possibly the world’s water and fierce wind but one arch” specimen on die plateau is largest some 1600 years old and some in Cedar Breaks National Monument is a biglittle sister to Bryce Canyon other southwestern states are much National Park Big because its multiolder than that drive of the upper On a colored rock formations reach higher can from rim to floor and the whole stop at four over- country you ' looks elevadifferent feet that is in 200Q give perspectives higher thing of the Cedar Breaks amphitheater don Little because its acreage is and the less if is a national monument ver-cloudscape that intensifies the yariety of the fend- -' sus a national park and it is relativescape For a closer look there are ly little known In fact when park ' e hiking trails ranger Troy Hunt gave a - Color in the amphitheater is suplecture he began “Congratulations ' on finding us We’re well hidden and plied by the combinations of iron we like it that way so don’t tell any- 'and ' one” Quickly admitting he was jokmanganese in the rock making red full-tijob is yellow and purple layers accented ing Hunt whose k of the bristle- being a communications professor at with the the College of Eastern Utah went on cones Color on the rim is even more varied in the spring and summer to give us reasons why visitors wildflower season when blossoms should be finding Cedar Breaks ° scatter among the eyergreens shmbs more often' and meadows of the 10000 foot Hunt explained ProfessorRanger rock that hoodoos are See Cedar ooBlO columns white fins are narrow pro le he big draw in Cedar City this time of yeaf is me Utah Shakespearean Festival and a good draw it is But diere are other places to play besides on die stage and between performances there are some good draws just a few minutes offstage Take Cedar Breaks for example Only about a half hour from the festival theaters is this heroic sized rock amphitheater for staging nature’s'' performances starring fins and hoodoos bristlecones and rolling clouds ' Or take Kolob Canyons for another example It too is only half an hour from Cedar City but is also a gem of scenic wonder Kolob is part of Zion National Park but is connected to the main park only by trails lb see it by road you exit just south of Cedar City and take a spectacular loop drive The drive is the easy way and well worth the hour or less that it takes even with plenty of viewing stops At the top of the drive there’s a good overlook s picnic area and a short plus-mi- le deep-root- free-standi- ng five-mi- le ever-movi-ng rim-sid- less-kno- 1--15 : five-mi- le : ’ ng green-blac- ed Main attraction The Utah Shakespearean Fasti- val Is running six plays through Aug 31 Shakespeare’s As You Like K Othello and Cymbellne play in the outdoor Adams Theater The Randall L Jones Theater (Indoors) ' is the setting for Harvey Hay Fever and llan of La Mancha There is also a fall season running Sept 19 dirough Oct 19 with performances of I Held Ham-l- et TWolfUi Night and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown For performance times and ticket Information and orders phone the box office at 1BOQPLAYTiX or visit the web- - siteatwwwbardorg For information about muse- urns scenic attractions elc contact the Iron County Iburism and Convention Bureau P O Bax 1007 581 North Main Cedar CHy UT 84720 or telephone 354-48or vteit ScenicSouther- - ‘ r - 49 e free-standi- ng j! r t- on-boa- rd Africa unites to systmns deter-min- d tat £ of livestock Transmitted by tsetse flies— small: brown btaodsiickipg creatures with men- probes diat sink acingly long needle-lik-e backs of animals — Gendiis the ipto scourge of farmers living in Ethiopia’s Aftican lowlands an 36 other countries "7 r “If I lose these four oxenT’m'going to have to use a hand hoe to cultivate and will not have enough to feed my family i l will ' loM everything I have” Worku arid the skuIJs and bones iff cattfe that sucqimbed toGendi scattered a few yards away i the farmers in this river valley I15 V ' mitesTsouthwest of Addis Ababa don’t know it yet but a plan has been developed ' bydie Cganization of African Unity to mHiiitu tha twlM flv TIwhnirat imnnrtwill come from the Viennataed Interna- - V'J sub-Sahar- an ! ” Tse and TrypanosomosisEradi-catio- n African Campaign known as PATTEC to coordinate and mobilize Aftican govern- - ' ments to become involved in a project to release millions of mate tsetse flies steril- ized by gamma radiation into edareasinabidtostop themfiom reproducing Female tsetse only qate once in their life span of 80 days storing die sperm in dieir abdomen They can then produce one egg evefy nine fays having up to 10 iring and targets — Under the initiative sheets of dodi soaked in an insecticide and denoted to attract tsetse — will also be' used to kill the fly 'Iii August a project to release sterile males in Mali is supposed to begin and later this year a plant diat will be able to ' breed arid sterilize tsetse mates is expected to be completed in Ethiopia That would !: enable the release of I nulliod per wrick in this Iforai of Africa cduntiy within dye next two to three years said John KabayoPAT- ' TEC’s regional coordinator tsetse-infes- t- di ! 1 tional Atomic Energy Agency and UN' agencies will provide financial aid yem the OAU et up the Pan-- GHIBEVAlXEY Ethiopia AP)— The fanner tenderiy strokes his small brown cow next to a wooden hut in rural Ethiopia as he explains that foe emaefetedbeast a key source of his income — will soon be vv 'dead'The heifer and three more of Worku ’fegegne’s nine cattleare suffering fiom MGendin'or bovine tiypanogpmosis a dis-ease that attacks the blood and nervous ‘ tns -- ’ 'APpHob are suffering from bovine itf- panoeomosis a disease that attacks the blood and nervous system of BvestocKIn Ghlie VMey Ethiopia last month Worku Tagegne Explains how Ns cows - See SPECIALIST on B2 n Z:0 a 'See TSETSE on B2 1 f 'V s' ' |