Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday September Q 152002 — A5 Utah Church could lease Wolff SALT LAKE CITY (AP)— The gray wolf — eliminated from Utah by ranchers more than 70 years ago — appears to be back Federal wildlife experts say a lone wolf likely ventured deep into the state this summer roaming the hills south of Logan for about a month 'Die news will delight conservationists and others who regard wolves a federally protected endangered species as a key element of America's wild heritage and an important component of a healthy Martin’s Cove site SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — With chances waning that the US Senate willapprove the sale of Martin’s Cove in Wyoming to the IDS Church federal land managers are now tease considering a long-terfor the church which considers the site sacred Bureau of Land Management officials say teasing Martin’s Cove to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da-y Saints is one of several alternatives being considered after three years of negotiating a land exchange between the agency and the church broke down last year The possible deal was reported in a copyright story in The Salt Lake Tribune on Saturday Many Mormons consider the batten draw along the Sweetwater River west of Casper sacred ground because it is believed to be the burial ground of several British Mormon converts who died en route to Salt Lake City in an 1856 snowstorm Utah Rep Jim Hansen and other LDS members of Congress sponsored a bill that won unanimous House approval in June It would have sold 940 acres of BLM land at the site to the church but opposition by Wyoming's two senators is likely to doom the measure Recently BLM bosses in Washington asked the agency’s Wyoming field office to draft a possible lease of Martin’s Cove A copy of that draft tease obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune states the land would be managed by the m on prowD church “to interpret and protect the cultural resources of this nationally significant his- toric site” soiwtilhi otf spotted July 7 by a Chilean sheepherder working on private property south of Hardware Ranch about 25 miles southeast of Logan The animal was feeding on a lamb carcass but fled when it saw the sheepherder There remains a chance however it was a wolf-do-g hybrid Craig McLaughlin who coordinates the mammals program for the Utah Division of Wtydlife Service's wolf recovery program told The Salt Lake Tribune in a copyright ' story published Saturday Most of the lambs suffered crushed skulls an injury coyotes do not inflict on prey this size Biologists have predicted The draft tease is part of for years that wolves which ongoing internal disaissions regularly roam 300 to 500 among BLM officials about miles from their home even- ways to resolve die church’s tually would move into Utah desire to oversee developOnce absent from the lower ment public use and educa4$ states wolf populations tion at the cove and the in have been agency’s intent to protect the Wyoming Idaho and Monhistorical integrity of the site tana They are more abundant ecosystem: “This tease should be semi But this wolf is suspected of in Canada and Alaska in the context that we have Several unconfirmed wolf killing more than a dozen had a lot of consideration on have been reported lambs during its sojourn in sightings possible solutions to a longfact likely to put in Utah in recent years but Utah a standing issue and this is one this summer’s events offer the ranchers on alert of the options considered” most compelling evidence to wolf a was it “I’d say said Celia Boddington public date that the wolf has finally is very little doubt There affairs specialist for BLM returned Ed Bangs coordinaabout it” A spokesman for the LDS A wolf-lik- e creature was the US Fish and tor of Church said the church has ' had no discussions with BLM about teasing Martin’s Cove and remains committed to seeing the land conveyed to church ownership wU “The church has an outstanding track record for being m l9masA fa mfrfflri if good stewards over its properties and for allowing public access” said Lloyd Larsen of Attorney Jeffery BAdir Lander Wyo president of the Olson & Hoggm'PC LDS Riverton Stake and the Presenting: designated church spokesman for Important Legal Issues Planning for the project Wyoming senators Mike This seminar uM 6e at 7fl0 pm 'Wednesday SeptemhrlA 2002 Enzi and Craig Thomas have at Lagan fyjiondtfospitat Classroom ftyp 4 opposed the Hansen legislation contending that selling & For more information call federally owned site on the National Register of Histone : Places to a religious Organization would seta bad preceFUNERAL HOME dent Thomas issued a 563-56752-32statement Friday saying he 400 162 long-ternot East North Logan would support a tease of Martin's Cove to the ATmditwn of Trust Since 194S Wildlife was skeptical the lambs succumbed to a wild wolf Absent a body said McLaughlin “it’s a very difficult call to make" The animal is believed to have returned in August to its home pack most likely in 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