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Show SEPTEMBER 14,2006 THE GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER GSENM CELEBRATES ITS 1OTH ANNIVERSARY WITH FUN FOR ALL Page 6 UPLAND GAME SEASON IS ALMOST HERE Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) is celebrating 10 years of "Learning from the Land" with a day packed full of fun and learning for all ages. Saturday, September 16th, GSENM why you should, too; Botanist Amber ally tiny. How long will the sun be Cottontail rabbit hunting should be exV isitor Centers in Big Watei\Hughes discusses noxious weeds and around? We'll start with a discussion in cellent across Utah, and chukar partridge Cannonville, Escalante and Kanab, why we don't like them; and Ranger the visitor center followed by some fun hunting should be great in areas that have Utah, are holding free special events Larry Glickman creeps you out with talk stargazing plus some Native American lots of cheatgrass. star stories. Bring a flashlight; Those two hunts are among 13 upopen to the public throughout the day. about bugs. land game hunts that hunters in Utah can All times listed are Mountain Daylight Visitor^Center Open House • Time: 4- no spotlights please. 6 pm Join GSENM staff for light refreshFor directions to any of GSENM's participate in over the next few months. Savings Time. ments as we celebrate our 10th AnniV isitor Centers or additional information, And this season, there's no age limit on Big Water Dinosaur Tracks Field Trip who can participate as long as a young • Time: 8-10 am • GSENM Ranger and versary. Monument scientists and rang- call 435-644-4680. person has passed the state's Hunter Edulocal paleontologist Merle Graffam ers will be available to answer yourquescation course, he or she can buy a license guides adventurers on a search for di- tions. to hunt small game in Utah, regardless of nosaur tracks. High clearance two- Excavations at Tommy Turf • Time: the person's age. wheel drive vehicles are recommended 4:30-5:15 pm • Monument Archaeologist Many of Utah's upland game hunts and please don't forget your sunscreen Matt Zweifel shares secrets uncovered begin Sept. 16. Dean Mitchell, upland at the Tommy Turf Farms excavation and water! game coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources, provides the following preOpen House • Time: 4-6 pm • Join that revealed a single-episode burial of 11 individuals ranging in age from a small view for most of the hunts (a preview GSENM staff for light refreshments as for the pheasant, quail and sharp-tailed child to an elderly adult. we celebrate our 10th Anniversary. grouse hunts will be available in mid-OcKariab Dinosaur Fossils • Time: 1-4 Monument scientists and rangers will be tober): p.m. • Come spend some time with volavailable to answer your questions. Cottontail rabbit hunting will be exOverview of Marine Reptiles from the unteers Dave Cox and Doug Lathrop as cellent across most of Utah this year. Late Cretaceous Period Time: 4:30-5 they prepare real dinosaur fossils found ALL ABOARD! Cottontail populations are entering the pm • Monument Paleontologist Alan Titus on the Monument for future display. upswing in-their 10-year population cycle Our Brace Caboose is now maktalks about field work conducted since Dave and Doug will answer questions in Utah. To find success, cottontail hunting life easier for our patients in 1999 by GSENM and the Museum of and demonstrate the techniques used to ers should focus their efforts on dry, outlying communities: Beaver, Northern Arizona that resulted in the piece together the giants from our past. brushy draws with dense, rank big sageBicknell, Circleville, Delta, recovery of a variety of marine verte- Visitor Center Open House • Time: 4brush. Ephraim, Fillmore, Gunnison, brates including fish, turtles, plesiosaurs 6 pm Join GSENM staff for light refreshNo license is required for jackrabbits. Manti, Milford, Junction, Monroe ments as we celebrate our 10th Anniand even a therizinosaurid dinosaur. Rabbit populations throughout the re-' and Salina. On days we're in the Cannonville • Pioneer Stories of the versary. Monument scientists and ranggion are high, and hunters should expect mobile office, our office phone ers will be available to answer your quesa good to excellent season. Upper Paria Lecture/Field Trip is forwarded to us, sonve can still Important: The DWR reminds cottontail Time: 1-4 pm Ranger Jean Hall begins tions. be reached. rabbit hunters that it's illegal to harvest her program with stories of Pioneer life From Research to Education: A Case pygmy rabbits in Utah. The pygmy rabbit on and around what is now Grand Study • Time: 4:30-5 pm • Carolyn 1-888-BRACEME has been petitioned for listing under the Staircas-Escalante Rational Monument; Shelton, the Monument's Interpretation federal Endangered Species Act. Pygmy 150 E 200 N • Richfield, UT then leads everyone on an expedition to and Environmental Education Coordinarabbits closely resemble cottontail rabbits the historic settlements that dotted the tor, talks about how the four visitor cenand are easily confused as juvenile cotrange in the late 1800's and early 1900's. ters surrounding GSENM provide a tontail rabbits. Pygmy rabbits can be High clearance two-wheel drive vehicles foundation for environmental educations found in the same habitats as cottontail are recommended. Some walking in studies, and are based upon research, rabbits. sand is required so wear sturdy shoes studies and natural, cultural, and historic Information to help hunters tell the difSttulia & Ati G and bring water. resources on the Monument. ference between cottontail rabbits and pygmy rabbits is available at Visitor Center Open House • Time: 4- Why Ecological Research? • Time: 5wildlife.utah.gov/habitat/pdf/ 6 pm • Join GSENM staff for light re- 5:30 pm • U.S. Geological Survey scipygmy rabbit.pdf. freshments as we celebrate our 10th An- entist Mark Miller discusses the past and For a challenge and enjoyable surfuture of ecological research on the niversary. Monument scientists and roundings, hunters can try for the snowMonument, and how such research rerangers will be available to answer your shoe hare. Pine forests interspersed with lates to sustaining the health, diversity, questions. aspen, and alder are home to snowshoe Southern Utah Oral History Project: and productivity of our public lands for hares in Utah. When the snow falls, hares use and enjoyment of present and fuCapturing Chronicles kturn completely white except for theirORIGINALS AND PRINTS Time: 4:30-5:30 pm While GSENM is ture generations." eyes, which remain coal black. Look for ALSO FEATURING OTHER known for its unique beauty and rough Kane County Cowboy Campfire • movement at the base of trees and shrubs NOTED LOCAL ARTISTS qualities, the Euro-American pioneers Time: 7:30-8:30 pm • "Unsaddle your to locate hares when snow has covered WALLACE LEE, the ground. who settled the region and continue to pony, grab your harmonica and join LYNN GRIFFIN, sustain themselves here are as unique Ranger/Wrangler Bonnie Jo for some Throughout Utah, hunter pressure is RANDSOM OWENS and rugged as the land itself. Join old time fun singin' around the campvery light for snowshoe hares. Hunter sucVALERIE ORELEMANN, cess is predicted to be fair to good deMarsha Holland, Utah Division of State fire". ELODIEMCGUIRK, pending on the mountain range hunted. History, as she talks about efforts to pre- Astronomy Night Viewing: What NEUCILEYARDLEY Snowshoe hares are confined mostly serve the cultural history of small towns Galileo saw in 1609 • Time: 8:30-10 to north-central and northern Utah. In 63 N. Main, Panguitch here in Southern Utah through an Oral pm • Join Mike Satter for a primer on southern Utah, snowshoe hares are found 435-676-2895 History Program. backyard astronomy covering constelin the high country in Garfield and Wayne Vedahale@yahoo.com Escalante Science Potpourri • Time: lations, planets, stars, galaxies, star cluscounties. With some scouting effort, Noon-4 pm • Once every hour starting ters and the occasional space rock. Bring this ad and receive snowshoe hare hunting should be good at noon, GSENM Ecologist Kim Ander- Learn how distances are measured and a 10% Discount in areas where snowshoe hares are tradison talks about why he likes lichens and see why the solar system is really, retionally found. VEDA HALE |
