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Show MOUNTAIN TIMES Wild Horse Meat Dixie RENO — An Associated Press investigation into a multi-million dollar program to save wild horses indicates that thousands of the mustangs are being sold to slaughterhouses. The U.S. Wild Horse and Burro program was created 25 years ago to keep the animals from starving to death by capturing and then offering them up for adoption But the Associated Press traced 57 horses captured by the BLM since September that were sold to slaughterhouses. Of them, were 80 percent under 10 years of age. And 25 percent were less than five years old. Tom Pogacnik, director of BLM’s Wild Horse Program admitted that 90 percent of the thousands of animals rounded up each year are sent to slaughter. To Kill Coyotes SALT LAKE CITY — Officials from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources want to hunt and shoot coyotes by helicopter and airplane within wilderness study areas in the Book Cliffs. DWR game managers say the mule deer population has been declining in the Book Cliffs and they argue that coyotes are preying on fawns. Wildlife and wilderness advocates are asking the federal Bureau of Land Management not to approve the plan that would take place on federal lands. The role of predators on deer populations has been blown out of proportion, says Craig Axford, Utah Cougar Coalition. Axford says the deer population would rebound if fewer human hunters were allowed to kill deer in the area. Poaching Official SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Division of Wildlife official who was caught poaching an antelope in Wyoming has been placed on administrative leave. Assistant Director Randy G. Moon and his 19-year-old son were caught killing the antelope without a license in December. They had a license to kill an antelope in Utah. Moon and his son were caught with help from a caller on the Help Stop Poaching Hotline who provided authorities with Moon’s license plate number. Environmental Residential Sales Vacation Rentals RO oe tt eee CL Park City Deer Valley olf Mountain Pork City 801-645-4444 Snowbird/Alta Solitude/Brighton Salt Lake Valley Salt Lake ee Capsules Harvest Only 14 million board feet of timber were sold in the Dixie National Forest in 1995, resulting in the timber-sale program loosing $1.1 million, officials say Only about half of the almost 29 million board feet offered, were sold Revenues fell by $2.4 million from 1994 During the past three years, two near by lumber mills have closed in Fredonia, Ariz. and Panguitch, Utah. Forest officials say the CITY — downturn in tree harvesting could be linked to the closures. Bison Slaughter YELLOWSTONE — The younger Moon was charged in Wyoming with a 9th-degree misdemeanor punishable by a $400 fine Low Cal Water LAS VEGAS — Southern California, which depends on the Colorado River for 70 percent of its water supply has been told to cut back on its dependence of the river. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt warned officials from the Golden State that they should not depend on the Colorado for more water than they are legally entitled to — something California has been doing for years. Babbitt gave Californians one year to come up with a conservation plan. Without such a plan, California should not expect any surplus water beyond 1997, Babbitt said. Southern California also faces the prospect of losing about 13 percent of its water from the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. << Nuke Dump Leaks SAN FRANCISCO — Federal officials are being accused of covering up evidence of radioactive leaks at a Nevada nuclear waste dump in 1994 and ‘95. Foothill The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility say US Geological Survey officials covered up Beatty, Nev site the leaks at the because they feared it would negatively impact plans to build another dump in the California desert. group says The environmental Gordon Eaton, the director of the US Suivey and top Geological other administrators purposely hid the evidence of the radioactive leaks in an effort to keep the Ward Valley, California dump on track. «<q may In a plan to prevent the spread of brucellosis, some 700 Yellowstone Park bison have been shipped to slaughterhouses The park’s interim bison management plan says that bison along the northern park boundary which are in proximity to private cattle herds must be slaughtered to stop the spread of the disease It is feared that brucellosis carried by some bison could spread to cattle However, there is no evidence that livestock have ever acquired the disease from bison Bison follow snowmobile tracks out of the park. Montana River of Stink MIAMI — What some scientists believe may be an underground waterway — an ancient subterranean river — may be a pollution pipeline flowing Bay and the Gulf of into Florida Mexico. Researchers at the University of Miami say the underground river may be bringing phosphorous-rich water from the region of Lake Okeechobee to the gulf. Huge algae colonies are feeding on the phosphorous, strangling normal marine life. The theory, if true, could greatly complicate the task of naturalists who want to draft a plan to restore the South Florida environment. 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