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Show { PARK CITY, Utah (AP)—The ‘Sundance Film Festival will remain in Park City at least through 2005. Festival officials have agreed to a ors és ‘ ante ats emer cree ti mma _ four-year contract with the city. . a ¥ eR 4 y The City Council is expected to ratify _ the agreement, ending recent worries that the 10-day January showcase for Tom Bakaly, assistant city manager, said a letter of intent was signed by both | sides late last week. The incentives include space for a Main Street tech- ‘nology center and VIP ski | independent filmmakers might move elsewhere, possibly Salt Lake City. Cannes Film Festival and. not available for comment. — Park City leaders in recent weeks cobbled together a package of incentives aimed at addressing problems » Sundance has had in holding its evergrowing festival in the resort town. _ The incentives include up to - $250,000 in cash and in-kind services toSundance. —| | : “It's a combination of financial arrangements and logistical support,” said Bill Malone, executive director of _ the Park City Chamber of CommerceConvention & Visitors Bureau. A Sundance spokesman referred questions to Nicole Guillemet, co-direc- tor of the festival and vice president of the Sundance Institute, who was at the passes during the festival. ~ It also provides that restaurants will stay open later to accommodate late- night festival crowds, that lodgers will cap room rates at least through 2005 and that the chamber will allow the festival use of its visitor- | | | Film Festival Will Remain In | City Throug f ~ information center. The city will provide eS about $120,000 in staffing, = =~ transportation and police assistance. City Councilman Roger Harlan. The festival has been a Park City fixture for the past 17 years. | _ “A certain ambiance and joie de vivre would have disappeared if the festival would have relocated,” said Sundance administrators say the event brings about $36 million a year to Utah, most of it spent in the Park City area. It attracts about 13,500 out- ofstate visitors and draws another f 7,000 from Utah. : The change in the approach to wild- _A new plan will allow most of the fire has been approved by Utah’s six | state’s national forests to be groomed national forests: Ashley, Dixie, through wildfires and blazes deliber- . Fishlake, Manti-La Sal, Uinta and ately set to clear out excess vegetation ~ Wasatch-Cache. oe that could fuel other fires. : _ The change will have little impact this The Forest Service would monitor fire season, Gardiner said, because it will naturally occurring fires and allow take time to select wildland fire-use some to burn themselves out. areas, make specific plans and train staff. “We sometimes find managing a _ When the plan is finished, all but fire carefully can clean out the excess 900,000 acres of Utah’s 8 million acres vegetation and make the area safer in - of national forests will come under the the future,” said Pam Gardiner, acting _ fire management option, Gardiner said. forest supervisor of the Cache National Forest. Wasatch- Most of the protected areas are in ae A fire triggered BY lightning, for watersheds and the so-called urban ‘interface in northern Utah Wittre resi- large-scale fires in the long run, the prescribed-burn plan has its critics. Craig Axford of the Utah Environmental Congress said allowing natural fires to run their course is often a good option, but using prescribed fires to get rid of undergrowth doesn’t thoroughly address the causes of fuel buildup. “Tf they want to get to the root of the fuel-loading problem, they should decrease the amount of livestock graz- ing on public land,” Axford said. Livestock consume “cool-burning” grasses, resulting in an increase in “hot-burning” woody debris, he said. Wasatch County MAY 14 $1.579 400 N. Main, Heber — MAY21 $1.579 PRICES FOR | REGULAR UNLEADED * . ~ OBSERVED 05/21/01 Watch this space for weekly updates. Trimart/Chevron $1.579 $1.579 Midway Main Street Station Conoco Midway 1.579 => 1.009 $1.549 3080 Rasmussen, P.C. Salt Lake Shatin County ad , Oil/Chevron HOing hk Utah County Pleas } -Walker/Phillips $1.499 | $1.539- | it But while most agree that allowing ’ natural fires to burn results in fewer i supervised but allowed to burn. mii " aT nT nT ey’ TM dential development borders forests. j ~ ‘simply fight them. instance, in an area designated as having “positive values for fire” would be ” SALT LAKE CITY (AP)—The _ National Forest Service is hoping to - manage Utah wildfires rather than “ saben eaeibniainibas Forest Service Adopts New Fire Management Plan e ———— |