Show Section Friday April 302004 The Herald Journal Pagel Outdoors report archery shoot 3-- D Cache Archers will sponsor their annual Bridgerland Classic super shoot Saturday and Sunday at Hardware Ranch with both a trophy fun shoot and money round available Registration times for the money round will be am both days Trophy shoot will be 9 am to 3 pm am Sunday Saturday and from Lunch will be available For informa1 tion call Brad Hobbs at 3-- D Local ATV 30 riders seek new outlets 8--11 243-674- Mountain ride Cache Veloists will host a ride to Little Mountain on Saturday The group will ride to Clarks ton and return via Trenton starting at 10 am Ride leader is Bob Jardine 752- 2253 43-mi- ' le By Lance Frazier outdoors editor H — Floyd Powell teaches how to ride ATVs What he youngsters can’t give them much instruction on is where to ride The majority of legal trails in Cache Valley cannot be accessed directly from city limits since ATVs are not allowed on pub- lie streets So the 12 students iri Powell's “Know Before You Go” training course last Saturday will have to find someone to transport them to a Forest Service road unless they have permission to ride on private property “Actually in the Logan area we don’t have that good of trails” Powell SFW banquet Sportsman for Fish and Wildlife would like to remind all ticket hold- ers that our annual fundraising banquet is this Saturday May 1 at the Logan Recreational Center Social Hour starts at S pm with dinner and auction at 6:30 pm We arc sold out and no tickets will be available at the door We have over $200000 in merchandise and hunts for this banquet Call Cody Johnson 232-24- state-sponsor- ed 17 off-ro- ad said' Pack clinic Bridegerland Back Country Horseman are holding their fifth annual Pack Clinic from 9 ajh to 3 pm May 8 at USU Indoor Horse Arena 1500 N 600 East Logan Use of horses and mules in the backcountry along with the most common hitches used by the recreational or profes-sional packer will be taught This is a hands on clinic that provides an opportunity to learn the skills and equipment of a packer A Dutch oven lunch is incliuled Cost $20 Call Travis Sparks at : 243-46- 93 Bear Lake cabins Bear Lake Sails concessionaire at Bear Lake State Park offers five new cabins for rent beginning May 31 at Rendezvous Beach Cabins are avail- able for $69 without linens and $89 with linens per night Accommoda- tions include one double bed two setsof bunk beds table chairs heat electricity and outdoor barbeque Restroom facilities are available at Big Creek Campground The cabins are open May 1 through Oct 31 For information call or visit wwwbearlakecom Eli LuceraHerald A new guidebook pub- fished by the Idaho State Journal gives away some of the best secrets in one of the world’s best places to cast a fly for wild trout “Stream Dreams: A Fly Fisher’s Guide to Eastern Idaho’s Small Water” by fly fisher and newspaperman Chris trout Hunt shares 21 streams It is available for $1495 through April after which time the price will be $1995The book is 1 available by calling (208) fiy-fishi- By Lance Frazier outdoors editor ' ay '” ' 232-416- 'oratwwwpocatelloshopscom: Archery champs i Dakota Sinclair of Mendon took first place in the South Coast Cham-pionship tournament in Capistrano Calif- last weekend He shot in the men’s Senior recurve division against international competition Dakota won with a scorc of 1223 qualifying him to compete for a position on the US Olympic Archery team in Ohio in June Dakota has been competing nationally for one year and is ranked 10th in the Junior division Clarke and Barrett Sinclair also competed in the South Coast Championships n Clarke won the Cadet recurve ruid Barrett placed 3rd in the Cub recurve divisionClarke also " placed 3rd in the Men’s division Overall Elimination round: - V v : " divi-sio- - : - - Didyouknow RogteteredOHVamayoolybal fproperty IWlnnimi ivitti Hansen wanted to leave a legacy in Northern Utah and it appears he has v Although the former Congress- -' man's proposal to fund a 567- mile motorized trail system failed in 2002 the Shoshone Trail is now on the map or at least on a rough draft pf a map The original plan hals been trimmed to around 200 miles mostly in Cache County and some of the sections no longer tie together but the system is now official “We’re implementing the trail” i District Ranger Rob Cruz' sard : ownert consent '' 7 J- - lnNWIrlMI CHEYENNE Wyo (AP) — Wyoming wa$ filing siut last week against the federal government saying it violated the state’s constitutional rights in rejecting a plan to take over management of gray wolves rcintro-duce- d to the Northern Rockies Attorney General fat Crank planned to file a complaiht against the US Fish ami Wildlife Service in US District Courtin Cheyenne In the suit the state will allege that Fish and Wildlife violated the federal Administrative Procedures Act by ' ' 7 rejecting the plan and also usurped Wyoming’s constitutional rights under ’ the 10th Amendment which guaran- tees state sovereignty Crank said: “When Fish and Wildlife comes in ' - Off-Highw- ay None of the segments are on ' State Parks property but Thomp- son said his office got involved to “provide more riding opportunities for our registered owners” ' and because “Congressman Hansen has some loyal friends here in the State Parks Department”" “The operation of the trail sys- tern itself is up to the Forest Service” Thompson said “We will cooperate with law enforcement but we won't be out there on the trail contacting people” TJiat chore will fall tothe Forest Service but Cruz said so far managing the system has not been a burden Rangers are erecting a sign every mile along the route and putting together a new map that features the trail On the Logan district the nearest access points are Millville Canyon and Temple Fork “It’s not like we're putting an extraordinary amount of time into getting it off the ground” Cruz Said noting that it will take several years to set up the system ' Opponents say the trail should: n’t exist The Ogden Chapter of v the Sierra Club has appealed the' plan arguing that the Forest didn’t take public comment or study the environmental impacts Jim Catlin of the Wild Utah Project calls the trail’s sikL n den appearance “kind of sneaky politics” Ser-vi- ce '' end-ru- See TRAIL on C2 over wolf i! V- No federal funding was approved so for this year the rangers will get by on $39000 from the State Parks and Recreation Department’s Vehicle Program funded by ATV registration fees The Forest Service Bureau oif Land Management Utah State Parks Division of Wildlife Resources and Cache and Rich counties signed an interagency agreement to manage and promote the trail the bulk of ' which lies on federal land Bill Thompson the assistant OHV coordinator for State Parks designed the original Shoshone Trail system at Hansen’s request and later reworked the system to remove all stretches that were not already open to motorized use : V operated oh ptoHc lands icadsS and trafls that are desfgn&ed open to OHVtrseor on private : I : Facts about the outdoors See NEW on C2 Shoshone Trail open on existing roads Fishing book ' a group of students around the Hyrum ATV course during a Know Riley Parkinson 9 of Logan leads Before You Go class last Saturday f - Journal Some riders sneak onto private land or leave legal trails to climb sidehills Local rangers have said that illegal roads probably outnumber legal roads on the Logan Ranger District and the multitude of unauthorized trails in the backcountry has drawn a backlash Many a farmer’s field on the valley’s east bench is riddled with trails made by unauthorized ATVs or motorcycles especially where hills provide opportunities to climb but Powell said he thinks ridos are starting to be more respectful “I think it’s getting better” he said “The older generation of parents are realizing that if you start a rogue trail you may only ride it once but two days later another person goes Up and soon you have a fullblown trail” In his class Powell urged riders to get written permission from landowners to ride on private property and reminded students that “a trail has to be marked open in order to ride on it” In other words if there's no sign authorizing ATV travel the trail is closed Most of the students in Saturday's class said they had access to farmland to ride - ' and says we don't like your plan and they demand Of the Legislature the need to enact a different plan we : believe that goes too far constitution-allyhe said While litigation was a last resort1 Freudenthal said the time had come to ' protect the interests of Wyoming out- fitters ranchers and othergroups AltlKHigh plans from Idaho and Montana were approved the agency in January rejected Wyoming’s proposal prompting immediate threats of litiga-tioiL The main point of contention hi Wyoming’s plan is a classification that would allow wolves to be shot virtually on sight outside of Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks and adja-cewilderness areas ’’ fj I- AP Me photo' A gray wolf is seen in this nt i undated photo from the US Fish & Wildlife Service Last week Wyoming was filing suit against the federal government saying it violated the state’s constitutional righto in rejecting a plan to taka over mam agement of gray wolves reintroduced to the Northern Rockies : |