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Show PgC 2 - DfCfmber 30. 1007 : Editorial Uintah Basin Standard Turn a dream into resolution a resolution into action 1997 will soon end with the flick of the second hand and a new year 1998 - a year of promise and opportunity will be bom. Taking a look back at what has been lost and what has been gained in our community over the last twelve months makes one thing clear - the way to success or failure lies in resolution and the ability to keep an objective alive. The dream of one individual can have inestimable influence in the lives of others. Now that the beautiful Crossroads Senior Centennial and Community Center stands ready to serve Duchesne Countys residents, imagine the barren ground before. Would there be a spacious, comfortable meeting place for seniors and members of the community to meet for activities and social interaction had a dream not turned into a resolution for action? A resolution is actually making a resolve to meet an objective, or goal. Usually resolutions are made in an elevated emotional state, in that unique moment when one desires a dream to become a reality. Yet, once the resolution is made, the energy behind the decision begins to dissipate if not shared and nurtured by others. The Crossroads Center is the result of a vision that was carried by many, and the idea could have so easily died, evaporating all together if the dream hadnt been vocalized. In each human being there are answers to every conceivable problem that afflicts our communities, and there is also a rival voice within each of us, an antagonist of riched for generations. At the birth of a new year let each one of us resolve to make a positive change in our own lives and in our community today. We all have the answers, let us find them, share them, plan and work at them until our dreams are realized! other children that put on a skit of the Christmas Tree. They had a Missionary couple Rush and Eva Kee ring and play lota of music. They tain Division, only 341,266 acres are available for exploration for oil and gas according to the forest plan. But forest supervisor, Gloria Flora, had just returned from Russia.' ? i 'has 'derided that aha will not Mtav Pastor BiH Roberta leasing anywhere in the forest rewaa over the program. They air gardless of what the forest plan EDITOR'S NOTE- The Uintah Standard Basin and thanked Thalia Clark for being over says. welcomes Where does Ms. Fima derive her encourages opinions from readers int it and trying to get every one out to he form of letters to the editor. Letters practice. authority to override the forest plan may be utilized to express opinions or Juat speaking for myself, I think and close the entire forest to leascomments, to highlight outstanding that everyone no matter what reliing? Listen up. According to PUBservice of an individual or gion should get out and LIC LAND NEWS, a publication other eiyoy organization, or any other worthwhile churches. We all have friend's in dealing with public land issues, "Flopurpose. Letters may not be used to them. ra said in her Record of Decision Cards of Thanks, or to list replace that the public demands no leasing Thank You, sponsors, participants or contributors in the Division because the lands Orinda Gee to a particular event or purpose. provide a huge buffer east of three LETTERS MUST CONTAIN 400 WORDS OR LESS BE TYPED OR nuyor wilderness areas. Manipulation of We are told by both Bureau of WRITTEN LEGIBLY. SIGNED, AND INCLUDE NAME ADDRESS AND land management plan Land Management and Forest SerPHONE NUMBER vice representatives that their OF THE Dear Editor, AUTHOR Letters will be published One of tiie dirty little secrets plana, developed in open public prounless they contain libelous or are their biblea" end that the wilderness debate ia that cesses, behind statements. the We reserve defamatoiy all land decisions are derived from milnot ia about it locking up right to withould a name by request if just the plans. It is through the planiums of acres as designated wilderthe nature of the letter is positive, and process, they say, that democto edit letters. Letters may be ness. We are also proposing, with- ning and fairness are engaged end racy submitted to the Standard office at 268 out realizing it, that many millions the are served. publics S. 200 E, Roosevelt, Utah, 84066 by of additional acres be locked up out- But what caninterests be said of a public the published deadline (normally side the designated wilderness as servant like Gloria Flora who reThursdays at 5:00 p.m.) All letteis buffer zones to protect" the wilderbecome property of the Uintah Basin dictates of her plan. She the jects ness. Citizens should understand then falls in Standard. with strident the magnitude ofthe deception that environmentalleague who not extremist! is being foisted upon them by envidemand huge wilderness tracts We should ronmental extremists. A graphic only but who also demand huge defacto example is playing out in the forests wilderness tracts outside all wilderness of Idaho and Montana. to protect the wilderness. Dear Editor, The Rocky Mountain Division of Ms. Flora's decision has zero leMy family and I attended the the Lewie end Clark National For-- , but this does not matter. gitimacy Christmas Program put on by the eat in Montana ia a 777,537 acre She total support from her eiyoys Church lies Dee. on tract that Baptist adjacent to three boss, Forest Service Saturday, Director and 1 20 at p.m. at the Old Blue Buildmajor designated wilderness areas Clinton Mike Dombeck. appointee, Bob the ing. It was really good. There were the Marshall, including 9 young children that sang alot of Great Bear and a wilderness called According to PUBLIC LAND NEWS, Dombeck "lauded Flora's ongs, waa led and conducted by Scapegoat Of the three quarter decision in an October 2 letter to all J ames Wheeler. There were several million acne in the Rocky Moun- - Forest Service employees." "This is true conservation leadership he is quoting aa saying. Not quite Mr. Dombeck. This ia the tyranny of pedal interest factions that the (USPS Periodical pomp paid ai Rooaevek mi Dudmae. Utrfi founders of this country warned us PttMithed weekly at 268 & 200 ' of more than two hundred E, Rooscvek. Ut 84066-- 09 years POSTMASTER: and-Walle- appreciate denominations (lintah Basin Standard Inc. 646-90- 3 1 Send address chanftt to the Uintah Bain Sundird at 268 S. 200 ERooteveh. Utah 84066-310- 9 OFFICE HOURS: 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Mandqr,9K)0a.m. to 5:00 pm Tuesday thni Friday. Phone Foe 7224140 DEADLINES: For all Newt, Legal Notices, Oamificd: A Advertising. the Deadline is Thursday 5 pa. PUBLISHER: Craig Arffcy EDITOR: LezheE Whiting ADVERTISING: Michelle Robots OFFICE MANAGER: Ttncy Womack PRODUCTION: '' Wrifcn; Aldon Radicle, ChoylMechani. Dixie Brown aid WmiChapooae Production; Colette Ashby. Bowie Parish, Kim Ames KadynMeyensnd CORRESPONDENTS: ROOSEVELT-Tr- a Hsrmston ALTAMONT-- ; BLUEBELL-Sha- m Lee Loenscher 6; HANNA - They Roberts 84S-54- 1 7; LAPOINT-Malen- e McChne s MONTWELL-NotaNd- ; aa 3534544; MYT0N-Spencer 3534528; WHITEROaCS-VininisFeimso4584; DUCHESNE - Orinda Gee TRIDELL -- Lonm McKee 353- - n Rates: I Clip and Send to:Subscription In the Uintah Basin I I Uintah Basin Standard 1 Yr. $20 2 Yr. $32 I I 268 S. 200 E. Out ofthe Uintah Basin I I Roosevelt, Utah 84066-310- 9 1 Yr. $32 2 Yr. $52 - I I Address I City I I ' Zip4 VmammmMJuil!!7iDb1" I "j ago. The oil and gas industry is challenging Ms. Floras decision but the process is long and costly. However the industry challenge is decided, environmental extremists will have won. Ifthe industry should ultimately prevail and cause the leasable portion of the forest to be reopened, they will have pent many millions of dollars. Time will be lost and the price of exploration will have escalated. Companies will become discouraged and leave for less hostile environs. Other forest managers will pick up the gambit and apply it in their areas if for no other reason than to win favor with their boss. Similar tactics an already showing up in Colorado and in the Moab district of BLM. Public land managers in these areas are subtly and sometimes not so subtly manipulating the rules and even their own plans to discourage exploration on lands near wilderness and on lands proposed for wilderness designation by environmentalists. If special interest manipulation ofland management plans and agency complicity in such manipulation anti-indust- ry j- - -- sorts - that aborts dreams before they are bom. We all share feelings of apprehension and thats the first hurdle to overcome - to continue to value the original goal even when the feeling about it has changed. Those who dream, who speak their ideas - who set goals and work to achieve them -affect not only their lives but the lives of others forever! Resolutions are not for the weak willed, because once a goal is set it takes consistent planning and effort to achieve, and each individual goal comes with certain trade-off- s or costs. Our community has moved forward because of resolutions and stagnated due to the lack of them. Sometimes resolutions are uttered yet never achieved, such as the idea to clean and beautify the gulch that runs through Roosevelt City. Several proposals have been made in the last decade, and each has died successively. Two resolutions have recently been made for the welfare of our children, the construction of a Childrens Justice Center, which is just nearing completion and the proposed USU Uintah Basin branch campus expansion is another. When resolutions are kept by individuals and communities lives are en- -- i ia not enough to incense the public then consider the legalistic Resources is stating that the North Slope Elk Herd is at or above North Slope Population Objectives ia because their are no natural predators to thin the herds. The State of Utah has already all but eliminated the Mountain Lion from the North Slope, whats next? Healthy wolves have never seriously iqjured a human being in North America and ifyou dont want deer in your back yard eating your rose bushes or elk in your hay stacks then large predators ere a must to balance nature in the Uintas and the High Uintas Wilderness! A compensation fund would certainly take care of any rouge predators who tray into the ranchers herd and create losses. According to wildlife biologists, wolves prefer wild game to livestock. Wolves restore the balance of nature and predators are a needed component in our forest ecosystem. Unregulated herds are much stronger and healthier when there are wolves present to remove the old, injured and rick members of 'the herd Withdut wolves;'-Vdyote- s a he may not be completely ed, open about hie beliefs. Is your child learning to accept all sexual lifestyles, to believe in socialism, to reject parental authority and traditional morality? You wont know unless you yourself are informed. Every parent should learn how to compere traditional values with those taught today in an increasing number of classroom. Sincerely, Ruth Lehenbauer brinkmanship these people are ing with the law. In 1980, a U.S. District Court derision held that neither the BLM nor the Forest Service could withhold land from oil and gaa leasing to protect wilderness values without requesting and receiving permission from congress. Flora has neither requested nor has she been granted such authority from congress. There are several lessons here that the public must heed. First and Dr. Tom foremost, federal wilderness is costly in itself in terms of lost economic opportunity. But designating wilDr. Thomas Hawkes has been derness ia only the beginning and at St. Marks Hospital hospitalized not the end of a process. Aa Me. after being flown by life flight from Flora has demonstrated, many more Ashley Valley medical Center. He is millions of acres are destined to be currently in critical condition. Dr. locked up outride designated wilHawkes has been battling Vietnam derness at the hands of agency and related injuries for over three War environmental activists. Second, decades. He and his family moved federal public servants, each of to Vernal to set up hie practice nearwhom have sworn an oath to uphold ly five years ago and quickly the constitution and the laws ofthe United not above ere ", States, caving to special interest factions and be- bwsiqxqtujateai2j(jnttBii6rbagiiio The family vW,YWfyon4'lo coming petty tyrants in their own displace dr eliminate smaller pred- know how much they appreciate ators such aa bobcats and lynx. right. In 1995, ranchers in Montana the show of love and support for Dr. Wayne Hunt Hawkes. Dr. Hawkee Office will reported wolves were responsible remain open and hie staff available for only one out of every 43,000 livestock loses. Far more die from if you need access to your medical recode. Ifyou need immediate follosickness, disease end old age than w-up, is or you have an emergency, by predators. More than 100 wolves contact another physician. Dear Editor, please reside in northwestern Montana and In response to the letter from Mr. in some cases, the wolf packs were Karl Shisler (Uintah Basin Stanresiding only 10 miles from the dard, Dec. 12, 1997), please allow ranches themselves. Mr. Shisler me once again to set the record tick with the facts before mouthing straight offto the public and trying to create Karl Shisler obviously thinks like the misconception that wolves are Senator Craig ofIdaho in that GovMecham fonged, evil 17th century maraud- By Cheryl ernment control and political deriers. The Grey Wolfand Grizzly Bear sion making can be successful in A pedestrian was struck on U.S. are coming whether you like it or improving the quality and condinot and I dont think man can stop Highway 40 near a Howdys Hill tion of the National Forest environTop Lounge in Uintah County early the natural migration. ment. He is so wrong. Political ded-rio- n for allowing me to Christmas morning. Thank you Andrew R. Norton, 34, was apmaking does not make for revoice the true ride of this issue. sponsible stewardship in the use intoxicated and confused parently Sincerely, and management of our National as to his where about when he Allen Williams Forests. wondered onto the roadway at apThe Feds have no rationale based proximately 4 a. m. on December 25. on concepts ofsound forest manageNorton was hit by 1994 GMC ment or well thought out public pickup truck driven by William policy guidelines. Their derisions Denison, 50, of Salt Lake City, acare based entirely on political clout cording to Utah Highway Petrol ft bias. Maximizing game manageTrooper, Merv Gustin. ment and cattle glaring is for from Dear Editor: Norton waa transported by amThe more we hear about teach- bulance to the Uintah Brain Mediresponsible stewardship of our National Forests. ing values in the schools, the more cal Center then air lifted to the The Wolf an Grizzly Bear are an we should worry about who is teach- University of Utah Hospital, where intrinsic part of the total wildering them. Values are a natural by- he is listed in fair condition. ness and ecosystem balance missGustin said the accident could product of academic learning; they are seen in the teacher's character have been more eerioue but Denison ing from the Uintaha. The 1964 WildemeeeAct& 1976 Federal Land and classroom presentation. They sew Norton in time enough to hit Policy ft Management Act mandates are found in textbooks, in baric as- his brakes and slow his vehicle conpreservation of the land and the sumptions, in the lessons ofhistory . siderably before striking the man. wildlife that live there. Mr. Shisler Should schools devote special classes to teaching values? What about you have in fact exaggerated the facts here! Your bizarre misreprethe role ofhome and church in passsentation of the facts are a reflecing values on to our children? tion ofthe likes ofMet Johnson who John Leo, writing in U.S. News (NAPS) Americans are rating believes in expanding the budget ft World Report (July 21, 1997), but are they cooking healthier, deficit by subsidizing new logging noted the unwillingness of some healthier? roads to encourage logging and timcollege students to judge" cultures ber sales in the 2nd district of rural that engage in killing or cruelty. Cooking remains the number Utah. The students felt that if people be- one cause oif residential fires in the The Wolf as well as the Grizzly lieve it is right, their behavior is UJL Robert Holding, President of waa selectively removed by man and justified. Such mistaken values are the Association of Home Appliance now must be replaced by man. Man Manufacturers (AHAM) says, the result of public school somehow seems to think he can do a which trachea that all "Americana can dramatically better job than Mother Nature, and cultures have the right to be the reduce the risk of cooking fires by yet look what the 1934 Taylor Grazway they ere, and thus they are no following a few simple, precautionbetter or worse than any other. Our ary measures. ing Act has done to our public lands. The Uintas are among the moat children are rapidly losing their A Keep an eye on whats cooking abused by overgrazing in the entire and stay in the kitchen. understanding of right and wrong, National Forest System througha condition that bodes disaster for Inattention is the primary cause of out the United States. Who pays for America and for your family. residential cooking fires. this destruction, certainly not the Making laws to face schools to AWear abort or close-fittin- g rancher! The outrageously low free teach the values we want our chilsleeves while cooking. Loose dren to assimilate will not do the clothing ia more likely to catch charged to graze livestock on public lands doesn't benefit anyone but job. Noah Webster raid, "It is much ' fire. the livestock producer, but meaneasier to introduce an effectual sys- jgxWetch children closely in the while the livestock devour and stomp tem for preserving morale, than to kitchen. When they're old the life out of our finest land. Then correct by penal statute the ill ef- enough, teach them safe cooking the elk and deer are forced to seek fects of a bad system. We need to be practices. out alternative sources of forage . able to choose our childs teacher Keep cooking auriaae dean and free of food and grease build-uand text bocks. We need to underduring the win termonths. They raid stand the teachers own perspeo-tive- e Move items such aa pot holders, your hay stacks (which stand and rot before even the livestock can on history, principles of (lish towels, curtains and benefit) and again you complain. dom, and moral behavior. We need aprons away from cooking curfaces. Are you ever satisfied? to know hie true convictions; if ha Alf flare-u- p happena in your A large predator base would put himself is a product of todays liberkitchen wiUf the house deer and elk herds in check. The al training, he may not fully realize immediaU how his own views have been affect local exact very reason the Division of Wildlife Hawkes hospitalized cMi-nutait- ;! Management of forest a concern Pedestrian struck near bar on hilltop Parents must be informed about teachers values Keep An Eye On What's Cooking multi-culturalia- m, p. i |