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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, February 6-8, 2019 A-9 The Park Record Feeding soils: A climate solution W AY WE WERE Miner feat: Surviving a 1,300-foot fall SARA JO DICKENS, PHD Ecology Bridge LLC With carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases on the rise, reduced carbon emissions won’t be enough to address climate change. We need to pull carbon rich greenhouse gases from the air and put carbon back into the ground through carbon sequestration. Carbon sequestration captures carbon dioxide from the air through photosynthesis and stores it in plants and soils. Soils are the largest potential carbon sinks on the planet, however, sixty to eighty percent of the world’s soil carbon stores have been lost in the last 150 years. To restore this lost soil carbon, researchers and ranchers are exploring carbon sequestration through holistic/high intensity rotational grazing. This practice uses higher numbers of livestock on small sections of land for short time periods. Rapid movement of livestock evenly grazes plants, leaves hoof imprints that capture rainwater, breaks down and pushes MAHALA RUDDELL PARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM, HIMES-BUCK DIGITAL COLLECTION Park City Museum Elwin Maxim was in a lift like the one pictured when it fell 1,300 feet in 1918. Miraculously, he survived. In a remarkable feat of survival, on May 17, 1918, Elwin Stuart Maxim fell 1,300 feet down a shaft in a broken cage at the Ontario Mine and lived to walk away. At around 8:00 that Friday evening, Maxim “had occasion to go down the shaft,” as reported by The Park Record. Seeing a double cage with an empty lower and upper deck, he boarded the top level and signaled to descend. Some four hundred feel down, “from some as yet unexplained reason the cable broke and the cage with its living freight went crashing down the shaft.” As the cage fell, it caught on the side of the shaft, “slightly checking the descent but tearing away immediately.” At the 1,700 foot level, the runaway cage encountered an obstruction, striking it with enough force to break, but catching enough to stop falling further down the shaft. Maxim somehow had enough wherewithal to recognize what was happening the second it started. Though he’d been standing on the edge of the cage at the beginning of the descent, as soon as the cable broke, he dropped to his hands and knees at the bottom of the car. Even as the cage came to a crashing halt, he was not thrown from his position. Jim McDonald, a fellow miner, was at the 1700 level when the cage landed. Upon hearing the crash, he initially thought a loaded ore car had fallen into the shaft and ducked back for safety. When the cage stopped, however, he realized what had happened and rushed to help Maxim from the car. After his 1918 fall, Maxim was “not a bit anxious for another such ride,” but continued working in mining. Having moved to Park City around the turn of the century, he had served as foreman and shift boss at many mines including the Daly West, Keystone, New Quincy, and others before starting at the Ontario. However, on account of his deteriorating health, Maxim was forced to retire from the industry by the 1920s. Always involved in civics, fraternal orders, and local politics, in 1923, Maxim became the Park City Justice of the Peace. His tenure came in the midst of Prohibition and many of his cases featured “soft drink parlors” doubling as illegal saloons. By the mid-1920s, it was clear across the country that the “Great Experiment” of banning the sale, manufacture, and consumption of liquor was a failing one. Maxim often imposed relatively lenient sentences on the defendants who appeared before him, a sometimes controversial but never outright detested move. Though dedicated to his job and well-loved in the community, Maxim continued to deal with health issues. In February 1925, he died of “the insidious disease, miner’s consumption,” or silicosis, at 46. He left behind a wife and son. uneaten plant parts and seeds into the ground where nutrient cycling is increases and seeds can germinate and livestock waste returns nutrients to the ground. These changes drive greater plant diversity and soil microbe activity (the fungi, bacteria and soil critters that cycle nutrients) and increased soil carbon, nutrient concentrations and water holding capacity. Researchers estimate global soil restoration could sequester a third of global carbon emissions annually. Livestock are just one answer. DIY: While livestock aren’t in every backyard, we can find alternative ways to increase soil carbon. Mow or weed whip yards, evenly cutting plants, leaving clippings in place. Add compost to feed the soils, reduce water and fertilizer needs and increase soil carbon. Whether we’re a farm, business or individual, we can be creative with ways to sequester carbon. Recycle Utah, your community non-profit drop-off recycling center, provides these weekly tips. Visit their website for more information – www. recycleutah.org. Hogle Zoo polar bear breaks a leg ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY – A zoo in Salt Lake City says a 500-pound polar bear has broken her right front leg and will undergo surgery Monday. Hogle Zoo officials said Friday that 3-year-old Nora apparently broke the humerus bone on the night of Jan. 23, presumably from what the officials called “roughhouse play.” According to zoo officials, Nora was unwilling move the next morning and that zoo officials were finally able to take X-rays on last Sunday and determine that the leg was broken. 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