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Show OCTOBER | 24TH _ Sate Hours ANNUAL | | PARK: CITY | | | | S 1996 SOUNDING FRIDAY Public Lands Trampled By Livestock Industry SATURDAY 10:00 A.M. - 5:00 PM. som + nr To Check 10:00 a.M.- 2:00PM. Equipment In, gyre tT The High K 4:00 - 9:00 p.m Editor: To Pick Up Equipment, Nature Conservancy and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to com- The | S A p as # Come | | | y | SALE)~< N D . 2” AND 3” A ' 1996 Ke SCHOOL and even industries, on BLM SALT the Cliffs Conservation face of opposition and Forest the West, Service lands damaging the ecosystem at ridiculously cheap fees. EQuiPMENT We pay federal employees to + monitor BLM and Forest Service lands to supposedly keep grazing at Anp Ciotuine!! a level which resource Saturday & Sunday: $2 el protect the for the future, yet as I tray- across cattle will Utah’s public destruction on lands, I see a frightening scale, My family and I hiked a popular Park City THE of lawsuits from extractive especially large ranching throughout * Kids under 12 are free Highway 248 struggles corporations, demonstrate the damaging grip cattlemen hold on our public lands. We allow cattle grazing THis YEAR 30% More New DMISSION recent plete the Book Initiative in the 649-8749 i Friday Night $5 PARK CITY High p.m. For More Information, Please Call: : NoveMBER 1°, HIGH The — Sunday ~ 3:00 - 5:00 aor | To School ' A LAKE BOARD 10:00 p.m. - 1:00 A.M. ACTING COMPANY soil was the ubiquitous cowpies. beautiful and delicate plants flourished. This hike included cows laying in the river, two dead fouling the waters as they decayed, while sending an overpowering stench into the air. Not easily deterred, we struck out for the Gooseberry Drainage area in the Manti-LaSal National Forest in July. But shortly into our hike, we discovered we had once again stum- - December dirt awaited us on our quickly aborted attempt at a weekend hike. And, 1 of course, cowpies at every step. An imagined White House meeting between Nixon and Kissinger the night before the President's resignation made this an off-Broadway sensation last year. Don’t miss this remarkable play by Utah playwright Russell Lees. FOR Thursdays, 7:30 pm Fridays & Saturdays 8 pm Sundays 2 pm & 7pm Salt Lake Acting Co. 168 W. 500 N. cattle had the only thing stomach. Yet as Lake, we growing thistles, struck the we found cows Clark’s flowers and grasses crude fences kept at least most the of the livestock because in cowpies right at the Our Mountains LaSal couldn't approached wherever out. I say most, apparently we stepped lake’s hike edge. led us along stream sides denuded and trampled by cows, with the ever present cowpies everywhere, including, yes, you guessed it, right in the stream. You enough. can’t purify that water are too tough on the livestock industry. Their support of the Public Rangelands 1996, shows Management they envision Act of a West where livestock grazing is the preeminent use of our public lands, maintained with subsidies and artificially low grazing fees. Our only hope is to let our senators know we will not tolerate this short-sighted view of land manage- ment without regard for the future, and 2nd to elect Ross Anderson to the Congressiopal District seat in Washington to fight to protect and restore what is left of our precious public ecosystems. — Martin and Anne Steitz bled into another one of the Forest Service’s “carefully managed” grazing areas. Cattle, flies, thistles, mud and Nixon By Russell Lees 23 The weedy ion navigate, October mistake. only inflicted by grazing cows: mention Nixon's Big again, and the pulverized dirt yielded Our Republican congresspersons feel they have to protect us from those nasty feds, who in their opin- Yet, next to the trail, on rocky slopes, where the cows could not Hi . Weer hike to Clark’s Lake in the LaSal Mountains east of Moab in August. route on BLM land along the San Rafael river in May, and were shocked at the wanton damage pulverized and compacted along the river, precious few grasses remained where the cows could get to them, and the weeds proliferated, not to PRESENTS Inspired to again strike out in search of healthy ecosystems on public land in Utah, we attempted to Subsequent time spent in the Fish Lake National Forest, just west of Fish Lake, showed us that the desolate landscape we had just suffered through in the Gooseberry Drainage TICKETS 4 Bernard DeVoto wasn't the natural state of affairs, for here we found at least some forest Trimble’s and “The Tribe of Benny,” in your August issue. — Julia Peery Parker meadow by landscapes marauding with grasses and flowers. PAGE Essay on Editor: Thank meled 355-ARTS Lauding Trimble’s untram- cattle, filled you for printing beautifully written Stephen essay |