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Show Page 4 The Gunnison Valley Gazette The Outdoor Report See California condors If you arrive at the right spot in southern Utah early enough, you might see some of the largest and rarest birds in the world soaring directly over your head. On June 20, the Division of Wildlife Resources will host its annual California condor viewing event. Dubbed “The Day of the Condor,” the free event runs from 8 a.m. to noon at an area 21 miles north of Virgin in southwestern Utah. Those who were at the event by 8 a.m. last year were treated to the sight of nearly 20 condors soaring in the sky above them. To reach the viewing site, take Route 9 to Virgin. Then turn off Route 9 at the Kolob Reservoir turnoff in Virgin, and travel north through Zion National Park. The viewing site is 21 miles from Virgin near Kolob Reservoir. After you’ve traveled 21 miles, look for DWR officers directing cars into a parking area on the south side of the road. Biologists from the DWR, the National Park Service and the Peregrine Fund will be available to answer your questions. Free information about condors will also be available. Zion National Park will not charge an entrance fee on June 20. After seeing the condors, you might want to consider spending the rest of the day at the park. “Condor activity in Utah has increased dramatically over the past five years,” says Keith Day, regional sensitive species biologist for the DWR. “It’s not unusual to see 24 birds in Utah in the summer months, but 54 condors were here one day last August. “That’s very exciting when you consider how rare this bird is,” Day says. “Of the 320 California condors in the world, just over half are free flying, and only half of those are found in Utah and Arizona. “That means on any given day, you have the potential of seeing one-sixth of the world’s wild population of California condors right here in southern Utah.” The California condor is the largest flying bird in the Northern Hemisphere. Its body is about 4 to 5 feet long from head to tail. That makes the bird impressive to see, even when it isn’t flying. With a wingspan of about 9 feet, and weighing between Into all the World Photo Courtesy Lynn Chamberlain 16 and 23 pounds, they’re especially impressive in flight. Adults are a dull black with white coloring under their wings. Their bald heads are covered with yellow, orange and red skin. Young condors have a black head and don’t have the white underwings the adults have. But they’re about the same size as the adults. They’re just as impressive to see on the ground or in the air. Condors usually reach maturity when they’re 6 to 7 years old. When they reach that age, they choose a mate. They’ll remain with that mate for the rest of their life. Condors usually lay a single egg on the floor of a small cave or crevice on the side of a cliff. Both parents help incubate the egg. It takes about 56 days for the egg to hatch. After the egg hatches, the young condor will remain in its cave for about two to three months. Then it will venture out, but it won’t fledge (take its first flight) until it’s five or six months old. The young condor’s parents will take care of it for a full year, and sometimes even longer. Because of their devotion to their young, the condor pair may nest every two years instead of every year. For more information about the Day of the Condor viewing event, call the DWR’s Southern Region office at (435) 865-6100. 528-5001 The Outdoor Report is Sponsored by: Hwy 89 Northeast of Gunnison Open Monday - Saturday The First Word and Last Name in Log Homes! Think Satterwhite for Log Homes, Rough Lumber, Timbers, Animal Bedding and Firewood THIS FATHER’S DAY GET HIM SOMETHING RELIABLE KM 56 RC-E Model Shown $239.95 KM 55 R KOMBISYSTEM One Powerhead. Multiple Attachments. 19995 $ Powerhead Only Line Trimmer $99.95 Blower $139.95 separately) allow you Cultivator $169.95 CURVED SHAFT FREE TRIMMER ATTACHMENT With purchase of any KM powerhead and one blower attachment . 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Now getting on an airplane is just another ride,” says Jared. The time is going way too fast for him, he’d like to extend for another six months! Jared is the son of Russ and Leda Stoker of Gunnison. Into the World sponsored by The all Scouting Newsis is Sponsored by ACE Paints Sporting Goods Whirpool Appliances 528-7513 435 South Main • Gunnison The Blonde Blaze Presents Gunnison Valley Gross-out Vote for your favorite contestant: Tom Sorensen • Keith James • Jared Anderson • Loni Hammond • Russell Otten • Clark Bown Cast your vote with your cash!!! The guy who collects the most money will be the winner and will get to perform the “Grossest Gross-out” at the Relay for Life on June 26th at the GVHS track. Polling Places: GIC, Gunnison Bank, Hermansen Mill and Ace Hardware Fundraiser for the American Cancer Society “Cutting losses” can be more painful than you think Why do stock prices fall? Various factors are involved, but in a nutshell, prices drop when more people want to sell stocks than buy them. Conversely, the more people who buy a particular stock, the faster that stock’s price will rise. If you’ve studied basic economics and the law of supply and demand, you’ve already got a pretty clear sense of why stock prices move the way they do. And yet, while the process sounds fairly logical, the behavior of many investors isn’t — which gives you some good investment opportunities right now. To understand why so many investors have acted in a way that may be counter-productive, let’s look at consumer behavior in another context. Suppose a hypothetical couple, Mike and Mary Ann, bought a house five years ago for $200,000. They liked everything about the house, and it was the right size to meet their family’s needs for many years to come. However, the sharp decline in the housing market has caused Mike and Mary Ann such concern that they decide to sell their house, even though they can only get $160,000 for it. By selling now, they reason, they can avoid further drops, and when the market stabilizes, they can buy another house in the same neighborhood. To sum up: Mike and Mary Ann took a $40,000 loss on a house they didn’t even need to sell. In essence, they were betting that the housing market, against all historical evidence, would not recover enough to compensate them for staying put. Most people would question the rationality of this type of behavior. Yet many of these same people do the same thing when it comes to investments. Specifically, over the past year and a half, they have sold investments — even quality investments — that still met their needs for growth, income or a combination of both. And when they’ve sold these investments, they’ve taken losses — sometimes, big losses. Just like Mike and Mary Ann, they thought they must sell now to avoid bigger setbacks later. Don’t make that mistake. If you weren’t planning on selling your investments before the market decline, why sell them now, when you’ll just be locking in a loss? Many successful investors hold the same investments for 20, 30 or 40 years — in fact, sometimes they pass these investments on to their children, who also hold them for decades. Are you so sure that your investments, which may indeed have declined 40 percent or more over the past couple of years, won’t recover those losses and climb to new heights in the years ahead? You may someday need to sell, but do so for the right reasons — a change in your goals, a need to rebalance your portfolio or a fundamental change in the companies in which you’ve invested. In the meantime, not only should you hold on to the investments that still meet your needs, but you should also consider adding new investments while the price is so low. The more shares you own, the better your financial position will be when the market turns around. This type of behavior takes patience, discipline and faith in our markets. But over the past century, the investors who have demonstrated these traits have been well rewarded — and there’s no reason you can’t attain the same results. This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor. IT’S BETTER TO REVIEW YOUR ANNUITY THAN RETHINK YOUR RETIREMENT . If you own an annuity, it just makes sense to review it every now and then. That’s why we offer complimentary annuity reviews. Then you can make sure your annuity stays in sync with your goals. Plus, there may be features your current annuity simply doesn’t offer. So regardless of where you purchased your annuity, call your local financial advisor to schedule your complimentary review. 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