Show C2 —The Herald journal Logan Utah Friday December 26 2003 ores SMGTVD VOGTS YAKIMA Wash (AP) Light thee darkness Light then darkness The sun beamed down on Brian $ali one second and : ' was gone the next Over and 'over again he’ saw light then darkness as he and his snow- mobile tumbled down the side of an Oregpn mountain five V ' smart” K -- : yeirsagoWhen the whirling stopped Salt was buried in several feet of snow the victim of an - : avalancheSali had not checked : avalanche conditions and he' didn't have an electronic res : cue beacon He now has a healthy respect for the sheer power of near the Alpental Ski Area seductive and alluring to peoeast of Snoqualmie Pass a 7 ple at times of really high hazV week after she was buried jn a ard” he said “When ' slide while she was snowshoe-- 1 avahmches are at their most ' unstable yop have beautiful ing with afriend on the Snow Lake Trail blankets of powder that pep-- ' "It is sort of a wake-u- p pie love to ski in ride in It call " said Paul Baugher draws you in and belies ' just ' ' director of the Northwest the dangers that are incrcasO t Avalanche Institute based in 7ing” Once you’re caught and Enqmclaw 'This year we’ve already had double the aver- completely buried your -chances of surviving are one and we’re just at thq ' 'age out of three beginning of die winter sea- " : son “That’s pretty grim” he All backcountry enthusiasts said That’s why the training ' ' should be trained (Q recognize becomes the foundation to the dangers take steps to preeverything” ' One people should heed the vent a tragedy and know what' to do should an avalanche1 warnings Most fatalities up occur Baugher said 7 to 80 percent occur when the “An avalanche is more: ratings for avalanche danger are considerable ormoderate — deaths that could easily bp avoided Baugher said And everyone who enjoys the hackpountry should pack the necessary equipment 'including electronic rescue beacons and probes ' In two of the three deaths this month including a snow- ' “It’s a lesson a kit of people should be told every year They forget about the safety factors" he said “I preach to people now to be snow '' 'The lesson is even more salient as the holidays ' approach and jnore people head to the backcountry for a little exercise and fun in their free time Many will disregard the dangers Washington state averages ' ‘ ' 15 avalanche-relate- : deaths d ' jpej 'winter season Already ' three people died this month in separate avalanches in the Cascades in Washington state In the latest case the body of Carol Greene 38 of Seat- tie was recovered Saturday - snow'- ' ‘i' ' : ' j " ' '' “Every year when we get a of snow in a short period time of people in these big sleds go anywhere They don’t think that the snow doesn’t have a base yet It’s hot even frozen to the base yet” he : lot i ' last-wee- ' st J - - ''' A "AP photo ' Brian Sali from Moxee wash shown last week still has the stick that his friends used to find his body after he was caught hi an avalanche while snowmoblling near Paulina Mountaki In Oregon In deaths this 1988 Three people have died from avalanche-relate- d month in Washington the early moments of the roughly 20 minutes he was buried “When it stopped the amount of pressure against' ' mobiler who died in every square inch of my body was unbelievable I couldn’t' the Wenatchee National For-ethe victims were not wear-- - even move my toes in my boots or my fingers in the lin- -' ing beacons Baugher saidA ' ing of my 'gloves the com- beacon won’t prevent an ' : paction was so intense” Sali avalanche but will improve said Tt was darker with my the chances of a rescue And ' an understanding of avalanch- -' eyes open than with my eyes ' shut” es can go a long way he said ' What people fail to realize' understand to need r “People Sali said is the prce with thatTn virtually every which an avalanche compress- - ' avalanche accident the the snow making it physir ' es avalanche itself is triggered by cally impossible to move: the victim or a member of the ' victim’s And like many others Sali party” Baugher said and his friends were unpre- - v this belief that have AP photo someone just happened to be 7 pared for the backcountry: no beacon or transceiver ho in the wrong place at the shovels and no probes His ' The area of the avalanche that claimed the life of snowmohiler Corey McDougaU is seen just below Jhe -- mage line of Navaiho Peak last week west of BKewett Pass Wash It appears as textured snow at mid- - wrong time It’s not like that' Triends used a broken tree as a at all”' 7 probe tp locate him Sali remembers intensely 7' center proceeding to the lower righLMcDougalTs body was found under about 8 to 10 feet of snow The - ''' ' 1 ’ - ’ : - ‘ ' tracks on the hillside to the left were made by McDotigaH and other snowmobilers with him Refuge m proves bi rd ha b itat Armed ' said ' Sali regained consciousness : ’while still on the mountain and was rushed by helicopter to a hospital He was unin- - ' jured Now he still enjoys snow sports with his family ' ' — but he takes time to pre- '7-- ' pare : “I’ll ride in the same quits -but I te2chmy girls to be 7 snow smart instead” he said '7 “You can enjoy the recreation by doing limited things and still have the same amount of - : ’ fun’’ ’ s- OntheNet:- - Avalanche cente'rs: : http:wwwavalancheorg i For example there was the game wardens he has to use his head man who had a mule den : ' with his son’s tag on it but his: “Iff to a go hunting camp J ACKSbN Wyo (AP) — The National Elk ing cat tails which ducks use for shelter son lives in Iowa The guy at night where they have too The refuge ponds are an important wintering Continued from Cl Refuge is working to improve its habitat for claimed heliad all the tags many elk and they jtart habitat for tr umpeter swans and staging habitat waterfowl but on the kitchen table jaid ' ' mouthing off I’ll come baick for diicks in the spring and fall ' “We’re just glad some peo--' : and accidentally The refuge hais replaced two water Control grabbed the : : at 6 in the morning when : the the able of are control to three Officials added on third a structures and depths refuge wrong one But he had several they4 re sober”h6 said “You ponds jby adjusting flows through culverts from hatcto see tags on him including his ponds spokesman Jim Griffin said The cost : ' ' turn that situation to your was about $3S000: financed primarily through the springs feeding the ponds j meat go to waste” and each one wds daughter’s ' ' : Bruce Smith Favor’" wildlife Unlimited Senior Ducks donations to saidr biologist Then he paid a visit to a in a plastic bag labeled with Griffin said the equipment will help create 7 the old water control structures were awkward 7 for Another fact a life of fanrKT whose hay bales the name-' picire vegetation for ducksuand trumpeter swans making control of water levels difficult: “The wcre fynp nvaged by deer gmne warden especially in a Glines later discovered ' new systems will create a much better habitat' to feed on because it will allow the refuge to rural aTOa is that you some- has a program thaTrives V three elk that had been slaugh for the waterfowl” Smith said '' lemporarily drain the ponds drying out the soil "times have to ticket people fencing to landownere who - terpd at the same spot where 7 "Cole said control systems on five other and reducing anaerobic activity from bacteria allow public hunting andthe' the hunter So he set you know Glines has had to the north in end of be ihe refuge mdy Cole said a gradual Wildlife biologist farmer needed just a few'moreabout investigating tryingto - ponds do thal se veral times in his 13 r change in water levels will also increase stand' placed in the future to build the deer fence see if he had a good case : posts years in Ennis '' I ' When it comes to game yio-Late in theafternoon Giines I write “When a ticket I ' lations Glines said they gencut into the confiscated deer’s fwant people to say thank you fall into two Bonneville Cutthroat trout rz ' 'from insects and disease for a bullet ' when I 'shoulder erally categories looking give it to them ' The first are those hunters ' should suffetno ill effects-v Qartersaid that could be matched to the 7 I trirat them with dig- -' because ’ : who make honest mistakes: ' : The project which Scott He didn’i find the bullet'' ' Evelyn Sibbernsen a 7' 7 ' gun ' '" he I'"' nity” said - and takq responsibility for biit said the case' can still be v forester with the Lbgan" :: ' :'' hopes to initiate in the siijn- Tliore afternoon words Continued from Cl ' meroir fall of 2004 will take their'actions ' resolved with more investiga- Ranger District emphasized ' " v turned viola-V prophetic when the The clear-second type of board feet As pro : that “this won't be a : 7 ' v31million tion’1 ' on ranch the erupted allow the tions are the blatant H would also wardens clumps of trees for : cut’’ and Scott called it “a however Gante pored alsorely " ' the goshawk and others" killers They’re the people selective timber harvest of 7 heavily on hunters to tum in ' ' After calming everyone down development of two miles of said reduce' Glines explained to the will ‘This who just want to shoot some Scott new road which Scott said mature spruce" poachers Glines said he 7 ' aniafterwards hunters that they woe well I fake would more thensk of infestation by be closed and timber harvest few a “If s a '7 catches a thing They'D unlucky people ' develbeetles and comScott is mals than can use added timber few or across the property line and Scott and a sale” dumb help sprure seeking public they opes really but by and large most cases the landowner could have are cracked from a tip them all ticketed for multiple ' If it was up tome to catch charges Scott said the targeted tree : - on the Sinks Rtiad two or ' choices The other options are: they’re killers and they’re out ' them dl they 7 Shane Chatrind a member ' take no action or cut smaller: three every year" V' 7 7 wmikfa t get caught he said 0f 7 stands near the Bear Lake 7 three years after this harvest who' was not : ' ' Summit arc overgrown and won’t notice a difference’' “It’s despicable and it gives groups of trees and avoid Youharetorclyonpeople citedWthany violatiohs said : Carier agreed that the foiresl ' sbuildingany newidadby hunters a bad name” Glines Game wardens have to be thinning would ajlow more h? d been told by a US Fbr- said ‘They have no intention light to reach the ground and i is stressed but said officials accessing the area via the competent in investigating 7 v est Service ' are hot taking action bn the employee that the crimes But Glines said just as encdiirage seedlings to grow existing Sinks Road 7 of obeying the law They’re ' hillside was ' public taiul But A Forest Service analysis Written comment may be out to get critters and noth- 'primary' cause: grazjng important is the ability to 7 7 quellrel the showed summer quickly last that submitted to: WasatchCache plines relate to people ignore the science ing’soing to stop them” “They ' National Forest 8226 Federal he back talk And '' the four “indicator" wildlife livestock the role got ranch of that Glines’ reeardina Those arc the people imposing Deqnte ' in Holden s — State: South 123 create said he’s agree to ' these to impacted warden tq Glines a pcitcntially Building manager specif helping game physical presence — beaver'1: ticket only the two whb had Street Salt Lake City UT ‘thickets’ that they claim-arand likes busting He’s caught a by the project elk-:snowshoe hare goshawk and ' 84128 Attn: Bear Hodges II few already this year —r he said like all ' subjecting the 'forest to risk pounds 7 : : : ! : ' v ! 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