Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday April 17 2004 Utah & The Wes I Julander snow survey supervisor Tor the US Natural Resources Conservation Service said to expect water-us- e restrictions with the only question being whether they will be voluntary or mandato' ry He told a meeting of the State Drought Committee on Thursday that by the start of Prices Effective April 1 6--1 Nevertheless “It's getting right down to time” Julander said Cary Peterson the Utah commissioner of agriculture and food said the improved soil moisture “bodes well for the rangelands and the general have to buy and truck hay The warm spring has Mormon crickets hatching out earlier than usual About 30000 acres need to be sprayed right away in eastern Millard County near Fillmore Meadow and Kanosh Peterson said environment" Millard County has declared However some cattle herds a pending disaster if the crickcould be down more than SO ets aren't controlled he said percent compared with levels This is only the start of an in 1996-9- 7 could' cattle Range infestation thatcould hit other be reduced too but not as areas he said badly though ranchers will the month between 30 percent and 60 percent of the snow-pac- k was gone and without adding much to the reservoir Dry unseasonably warm weather caused much of the snowpack to dissipate: It either evaporated or soaked into the soil instead of going into reservoirs The one positive aspect of that is that the ground is now 60 to 70 percent saturated so more of the remaining runoff may make it to the reservoirs grim-reap- R er RENO Nev (AP)— There is evidence to support a more 90-da- areas m Coca Cola Products 2 Liter - sion ' “We felt like' we made a very strong 'case in favor of listing and certainly one That threat has spurred APphoto sage grouse is pictured displaying his plumage to attract a female in this undated file photo from the Colorado Division of Wildlife Sage grouse also inhabit portions of northern Utah 1 1 s - Snssi--- ' 8 7--’ f: play - ' ' house fire that SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A started when the girl and her brother killed a girl ' were playing with a lighter investigators said Friday son Dominie Tricia Curran was able to save her 3:year-ol- d from the fire Thursday but her daughter’s body was fdund in a ' bedroom in the basement The child Nicole Curran died from smoke inhalation 7 injuries according to a statement by the Salt Lake City Fire Department Investigators say after probing the scene and talking to the boy the fire began when the two children were playing with a lighter and lit some laundry on fire It was unclear which of the : V children started the fire Tricia Curran remained in LDS hospital Friday for severe emotional distress Her son was unharmed in the fire and was being cared for by his grandmother :: The fire' staged in the basement and firefighters found heavy fire and smoke coming from the basement when they arrived said Scott Freitag fire department spokesman The blaze was burning through tlx floor joists and firefighters fast-movi- : ' : sagebrush habitat brought on by both natural causes such as fire and human intrusion Diebert said a big concern in Idaho is the cheatgrass which has infested areas after sagebrush is burned by wild- -' fires A consideration in Wyoming is gas and oil development taking up habitat : were not able to get into the basement until the fire was ' trolled he said The home was a total loss &PR6M DRESSES 5 FAIffl Powdered or Brown Sugar 2 con- id western-Famil- iSSmak man who allegedlSALT LAKE CITY (AP) --7 A io he with poison-lace- d tins admitted that had out police y’ put pie tuna has been arrested for'investigalion into the deaths of four cats in his neighborhood The man was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Thursday for investigation of animal cruelty a class A misdemeanor About 5:20 am a resident leaving for work found his cat dead on the ground police detective Dwayne Baird said The man spotted two more dead cals police were called and a fourth dead cat was found Police noticed a pie tin with tuna in ' a neighbor's driveway and saw the man throwing other pie tins into die trash can Baird said The man told police he mixed poison with the tuna fish and purposely left it in his driveway because he didn’t like cats Baird said : KSIWIlC MUSlb soundfactory Is ACTtVEWEAR Modest Farms Our I 1 Goal Is Promoting Music the KSM Sound Factory SO W400 : : 10 Ip Granulated Valuable Coupon up Ixplret tt W tf vmmmmm 753-681-3 '1- I With the Purchase of any 3 boxes of: I an will iimium araWim am tamwe b k FmMaauaisli7NMei(mv2iK uuaini ' UMtlftrCuftonir ' vwianwnniaemiGMenirnMinaiMFoorta' l N Sugar western Family ' in Cache" Valley KSM Music & V an improvisationai songwriter and one of KSM Music's most creative students She has bean studying guitar with KSM Music teacher Todd Millovich for the last 5 months and has already recorded two inf her spontaneous compositions Coats '43575212290 ciant Man arrested in SLC cat deaths Women's Sportswear Hf dot Mmhtmlhe 'Ns Cniit Csnh m Clesrttsct Item 24 oz mm ‘ Regan Stuart - 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ISsJ pgrJ' ( : 1 FASHIONS i out” Henry said those plans will be taken into account as the agency proceeds with its study She added that the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife a group of state wildlife agencies is also' preparing a report on the status of sage grouse that will be included in the final review That report should be com-- ‘ pletcd by May she said In brief ' tr ') vtol'tfMtSafr i Lighter play blamed for fatal Salt Lake City fire ' Si'-- “I have been expecting and preparing for today's announcement from the Fish and Wildlife Service since December” he said “It is a routine and predictable step in the old way of doing Endangered Species Act business “Fortunately however Idaho arid other Western states have already begun to open a new way forward for sage grouse so we need not simply wait for the routine process to A male Gunnison million sage grouse inhabited a broad area of the western United States and Canada when Lewis and Clark first noted the birds in 1 80S Today their numbers are estimated at 140000 to 250000 over states Their decline is blamedon-losand fragmentation of strong enough to pass the 90- day review" he said ' Pat Diebert a service biologist in Cheyenne Wyo said some research suggests sage grouse populations may have declined as much as 86 percent over the last century Experts think as many as 2 ' many states including Neva-d- a to try to avoid the restrictions by devising their own plans to protect the bird US Sen Michael Crapo noted Idaho has already been hard at work to bolster the sage grouse population DC-base- '" 72 “We're very concerned the of this habitat may be threatening this species in one way or another” Diebert said But experts add that there are other perils that threatened sage grouse including predators and drought ' A federal listing could result in strict land use and other regulatory restrictions some fear could harm local economies especially in rural 1 ' JSaSafil loss thorough study to determine if sage grouse across the West are in need of listing under the Endangered Species Act the US Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday The' service announced its y finding on three petitions filed over the past two years from various ' ' groups who claim the large birds found 1 Western states are in jeopardy of going extinct “This is really just a first step in the process” said Sharon Rose a spokeswoman’ with the Fish and Wildlife Service in Denver Mary Henry assistant regional director of ecological services for the service said the positive finding means the agency will solicit more research and study actions already being taken to protect the bint before issuing a final ruling on a listing' by early next year Mark Salvo of the American Lands Alliance a Washington d conservation group involved in the petition filing said he was not sur- prised by the agency's conclu- ' aiBaa fAI R I K EftTI PJ LVA1 Cl E M Grouse a step closer to protection so-call-ed A5 I Wafteir tasttriictiiioDiis expecSedl SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Randy Julander summed up Utah’s water outlook with:-“It’ugly and getting worse" —: ' : 555 Logan Iist (435)755-510- 0 (435) 75(M)258-Hiinnac- v AprM 17 7004 - L ® M I pSH '‘iEjJSa : : Tiro Comimiciit liicatimis: V 7 Smitlificld 850SiHiili v : 1 (435) (435) 1400 North ATMT LS ON Ol'R WEBSITE Maui 563-625- T:w ktymtirkihlmftoin : |