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6 CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET June 2018 he stresses of everyday life do their best to rob us of simple pleasures like enjoying a glorious sunrise, witnessing a dramatic lightning strike or gazing upon a majestic raptor effortlessly riding the thermals,” says Californianturned-Utahn Paul Marto. "I strive to present vivid photographs that will both inspire and educate. I want my photography to serve as a constant reminder that we are not alone; that life is not all about us; that we can rejuvenate our collective souls with beauty and joy, if we only dare to take our eyes off of ourselves and truly start seeing the amazing world in which we live.”

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SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER DENNIS HINKAMP Hey, Bud.

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ENVIRONEWS AMY BRUNVAND

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK GRETA DEJONG

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DON’T GET ME STARTED JOHN DEJONG

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THEN & NOW: KIDS ORGANIZED TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT LYNNE OLSON We revisit the Hidden Hollow project and some of the 5th and 6th graders. now in their 30s, who made it happen.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING AT BEE FEST GRETA DEJONG Meet some of the exhibitors for CATALYST’s June 16 event.

Marto's work has been highlighted by National Geographic and Audubon Society. He is a regular contributing writer to Extraordinary Vision Outdoor Photography Magazine. His photographs have won numerous photo contests. Red Butte Garden featured his photographs for three weeks last summer and, more recently, they were seen at the West Jordan Arts Council’s Schorr Gallery. ◆ The Art Cottage in Gardner Village sells selected framed and matted prints and a wide selection of his greeting cards. A book of his images, Glorious Nature (Rebel Press, 2017), is available from Amazon. All images are available for purchase; send him an email if you are interested.

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BEE VENOM THERAPY “What I learned in 18 months of stinging myself with bees.

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MEET THE HIVE OWEN PARRY Collective intelligence in action.

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A WINTER PROBLEM WITH YEAR-ROUND SOLUTIONS FAITH RUDEBUSCH Two recent studies correlate winter pollution to short-term health risks along the Wasatch Front.

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BREATHE ASHLEY MILLER Summer ozone, pt. 2.

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YOGA CHARLOTTE BELL Healthy boundaries: The student/teacher relationship—again.

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BOOK REVEW AMY BRUNVAND The Wizard and the Prophet, by Charles C. Mann.

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SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER

June 2018

Hey Bud

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ill ears become vestigial organs or just sort of coat racks for our wired and unwired devices?

It’s hard to say. Everyone already looks at their phones and lovingly caresses them, but their ears are also increasingly tethered to them.

Do you really need a soundtrack to go from the car to the grocery store? Is holding up a phone to your ear and mouth just too hard? Do you want to gesticulate and talk aloud to a person that only you can hear? Does hearing natural sounds seem unnatural to you? Are ear buds and headphones your “do not disturb” sign? I would counter that you are already disturbed.

I’m not old enough for hearing aids, but a little too not young to routinely stick some sound device in, over or around my ears every waking, walking and running moment. Like many of my generation, my hearing is a little impaired from a lifetime of rock concerts and power tools before anyone knew that this would go on your permanent (medical) record.

Granted, stuffing your lateral head holes with tiny speakers is better for everyone around you compared to boom boxes or a stack of Fender amps, but aren’t you shutting yourselves off, too? It’s hard to dance together when everyone’s beat is to a different drummer.

Though I seemingly rant about everything, I really do try to be considerate of other people’s stupid choices. What is the etiquette for interacting with people who have closed off one of their five senses? Whenever I come up to a person wearing ear buds and want to talk to them in real life (IRL) I get this big “humph?!” sigh as they pull them off and look at me like I just pulled them out of a concert they really paid for. I end up acting all mousey and say, “I

BY DENNIS HINKAMP just wanted to ask you a question, it won’t take long; sorry.” But then I think “Really? Don’t real face-toface people get priority? Are ear things some sort of cone of silence, baby on board sign or beautiful border wall that I am supposed to observe?”

What is the common ground and protocol in these real life situations? If I run up behind someone on a trail rockin’ to their ear buds who is either running slower than me (happening less frequently) or walking, I really don’t have many good options for passing. I could yell “hey!” and scare or annoy them. I could tap them on the back and risk getting an elbow to the face. There doesn’t seem to be a demilitarized zone to solve this.

For music, I guess I get it. But for your phone, it makes it appear that you’re walking around talking to the voices in your head, which is sort of what you are doing.

I understand; times change. Not long ago you could watch a competitive marathon and probably count to the 50th finisher before you saw someone with ear buds and a music player. No more, now even the most competitive runners wear them.

I get it if you’re on a treadmill or a spin bike with ear buds because those forms of exercise are only slightly more humane than water boarding. However, can’t you walk across campus or on trails while just enjoying the sounds of wildlife or overheard conversations rather than shuffling along to someone else’s sound track?

I am being a little hypocritical in that I can’t stand the thought of driving more than 10 miles without a good radio station or audio book to get me through it.

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June 2018

ENVIRONEWS

Ten billion bodies—how will they be accommodated? Is the world big enough, rich enough for all these people to flourish? Or have I brought my children into a time of general collapse?

— Charles C. Mann, The Wizard and the Prophet (2018)

San Rafael Swell in danger

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tah’s congressional delegation has introduced yet another terrible public lands bill, this time trying to grab control over Utah’s San Rafael Swell.

In May, Senator Orrin Hatch (R) and Representative John Curtis (RUT-3) introduced “The Emery County Public Land Management Act” which reads like a wish list for the mining industry, motorized recreation and anti-federalist

transfer of public lands movement. One warning sign that this is not a conservation bill is a boast on Curtis’ website that it is “locally driven by Emery County and local stakeholders.” In the double-speak of Utah anti-public lands politics, the word “local” means county government and nobody else. It’s not even inclusive of Curtis’ own district, let alone Utah citizens.

County government is a particularly bad place to locate public lands control because of a lack of accountability to anyone who votes outside that county.

At the core of the bill is a plan to put the State of Utah in charge of Little Wild Horse Canyon and popular hiking areas near Goblin Valley State Park. Utah studied the area as a potential tourism cashcow after a 2013 Republican-orchestrated government shutdown closed Utah’s national parks at the height of the fall tourism season.

While Curtis claims that the bill “converts over 97% of Wilderness Study Areas into Wilderness,” his math is based on a deeply flawed

Inland Port talks fail

Governor Gary Herbert’s promise of a special legislative session to discuss construction of an inland port near Salt lake City has been canceled after negotiations broke down between him and Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski.

Bureau of Land Management wilderness inventory, not on actual wilderness quality lands.

When the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance runs the numbers, things look different.

There are more than 1.5 million acres of BLM and Forest Service land in Emery County with wilderness values (roadless and untrammeled). This bill would only protect 577,986 acres with the boundaries drawn to accommodate mining interests.

In the past, it has been beneficial for Utah to trade out inholdings owned by the state and Institutional Trust Land Administration (SITLA). Not this time. The San Rafael Swell bill has been written so that there is no stakeholder input into such land trades. Worse, the bill allows Emery County to map the travel plan so that the county can claim roads anywhere they choose.

One particularly contentious “road” is the channel of Muddy Creek that flows through the Swell. During a few weeks of

spring runoff you can kayak down it.

Curtis cites the 2009 Washington County Land Use Bill (Public Law 111-1) as a model for this new legislation, and that points the way to a better outcome. Nowadays, the Washington County bill is considered a model for how to solve public land disputes, but it started out just as badly as this one. Due to citizen protest, Senator Bob Bennett (R) and Representative Jim Matheson (D) reworked the Washington County bill and came up with a final bill that was acceptable to everyone.

Instead of misrepresenting a one-sided bill, Curtis and Hatch could do the necessary work to write a more balanced plan for the San Rafael Swell.

Citizen groups working to oppose or reform the San Rafael Swell bill include Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council. ◆ Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. SUWA.ORG

During the 2017 Energy Summit in Uintah County, energy lobbyist Jeff Hartley presented a nightmare vision of an international trading hub including oil pipelines and chemical storage tanks and major manufacturing. Such development would severely worsen Wasatch Front air quality, threaten the Great Salt Lake ecosystem, and pose a risk of toxic spills.

However, there is still a chance to do things right. HEAL Utah suggests that the port could be developed as a zero-emissions demonstration project with energy-efficient buildings and transportation and ecologic preservation for Great Salt Lake wetlands. To accomplish this would require modifying the Inland Port Authority in order to include a stakeholder advisory group for sustainability.

Since Governor Herbert failed to veto the Inland Port, citizens should also demand a public process to gather input before rushing into development.

The port could be developed as a zero-emissions demonstration project with energy-efficient buildings and transportation and ecologic preservation for Great Salt Lake wetlands, suggests HEAL Utah.

A bill passed in the 2018 General Session of the Utah Legislature created an unelected “Inland Port Authority” to usurp development authority for 19,500 acres between Salt Lake City International Airport and Great Salt Lake. The State plans to develop the area as an industrialized energy sacrifice zone.

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an Juan County is using the courts to harass a woman who is a founding member of Friends of Cedar Mesa and former executive director of Great Old Broads for Wilderness (GOB).

Rose Chilcoat and her husband Mark Franklin are accused of trespassing and trying to kill cattle after they closed the gate of a corral located on land owned by the Utah State and Institutional Trust Land Administration (SITLA).

A wildlife camera recorded the gate-closing incident and Zane Odell, the rancher who owns the corral, speculated that the intent was to keep his cows from getting water. A broken fence meant the cows actually had no problem getting a drink.

A trial, originally scheduled to be held in Monticello, Utah, has been moved to Price due to a history of hostility towards the Great Old Broads organization in San Juan County.

In 2005 members of GOB documented an illegally constructed off-road vehicle trail in Recapture Canyon near Blanding, and orchestrated a campaign to close the trail. The Bureau of Land Management did shut down the illegal trail, but Great Old Broads were targeted for intimidation.

In 2007 an unknown person posted signs near Recapture Canyon that read “WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE: Members of Great Old Broads for Wilderness are not allowed in San Juan County Utah by order of the San Juan Sheriff Office and Monticello BLM Office.”

In 2012 a GOB campout in San Juan County was vandalized.

Penniann J. Schumann, JD, LL.M In 2014, a group of protesters affiliated with the militant anti-federalist Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy staged a rally in Blanding. In conjunction with the rally, San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman organized an illegal ATV ride into Recapture Canyon that caused over $300,000 of additional damage.

Lyman was convicted of misdemeanor trespass and conspiracy.

He is now the Republican candidate running for Utah Legislature, House District 73 which he is likely to win.

Currently San Juan County has lawyered up for another lawsuit to claim Recapture Canyon as a county-owned road under RS 2477.

RS 2477 refers to a mining law that allowed construction of highways across federal land until it was repealed in 1976. RS 2477 claims are seen as a potential tool for transfer of public lands and privatization.

As for Chilcoat and Franklin, they say the accusation would be silly if it weren’t so scary. A felony conviction could lead to up to 21 years in prison for closing a gate that was not keeping anything either in or out. ◆ Great Old Broads for Wilderness: GREATOLDBROADS.ORG Friends of Cedar Mesa: FRIENDSOFCEDARMESA.ORG Legal defense fund for Rose Chilcoat and Mark Franklin: YOUCARING.COM/ROSECHILCOATANDMARKFRANKLIN-1086520

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Utah has three years to reduce ozone The U.S. EPA has given Utah three years to reduce ozone pollution on the Wasatch Front and parts of the Uinta Basin or regulators will be forced to draft a plan to regulate activities that create this pollution. While stratospheric ozone blocks harmful ultraviolet rays (a good thing), ground-level ozone causes lung damage and can aggravate asthma.

Ozone is a summer air pollution problem that occurs when vehicle and industrial emissions react with heat. Wildfires increase ozone levels. Commonly available air pollution masks are designed to filter particulates and do not protect against ozone and other gaseous pollutants.

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Judge rules against coal ban A federal judge has ruled that the city of Oakland, California cannot prevent a private company from developing a port for coal export.

In 2016, the Utah Legislature offered to contribute $53 million to the Oakland port in order to export Utah coal to Asia. Utah has also joined a lawsuit trying to force

Washington State to build a coal-export terminal on the Columbia River.

The state’s heavy investment in coal is particularly worrisome because the Trump Administration has re-drawn boundaries of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument to open the possibility of coal mining on the Kaiparowits Plateau. Likewise, a San Rafael Swell bill introduced by Senator Orrin Hatch (R) and John Curtis (R-

ENVIRONEWS

UT-3) has boundaries carefully drawn around coal deposits—this despite that coal mining is becoming less profitable for tax revenues.

In March, the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining signed off on a fee discount for the Sufco Mine on the Wasatch Plateau due to “significant and unique adverse geologic conditions.” Although the State of Utah will lose nearly $19 million in royalty payments, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) claimed that the coal energy would be “wasted” without the massive subsidy.

More fighting over Colorado River water The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts that this year, water from the Colorado River flowing into Lake Powell will be about 46% of average.

Management of Colorado River water is governed by the 1922 Colorado River Compact which vastly overestimated the total amount of water in the system.

Ever since, users of river water can only get their share by taking water away from other water users. In April, the Upper Colorado River Commission (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming) accused Arizona of manipulating the level of

Lake Mead in order to get more water. Under existing rules if Lake Mead drops too low, it will be refilled from Lake Powell. The Central Arizona Project has been keeping Lake Mead levels in a sweet spot in order to maximize the water transfer.

Severe wildfire season expected Low snowpack could mean an intense wildfire season this summer. Information about active fires, fire restrictions, prevention and preparedness is available on the interagency Utah Wildfire Info website.

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Tar sands vigil resumes On June 1 Utah Tar Sands Resistance will begin their 5th year of a protest vigil at PR Springs in the Book Cliffs. The grassroots group is protesting a tar sands strip mine land leased from the State and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA).

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

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BY GRETA DEJONG

first met Lynne Olson in 1990 when she came by the office with an idea for a story: Kids Organized to Protect the Environment (the KOPE Kids Club). We followed KOPE for several years. In this issue, 28 years later, we reflect on the club’s projects that catalyzed meaningful change in our city and check in with the remarkable children, now adults, who made them happen.

In 1989 Lynne, who wrote the story appearing in this issue, was working on her Master Gardener certification, which required her to do some garden-related public service. The recently rebuilt Hawthorne School lacked landscaping. Lynne helped the children in Sheri Sohm's ELP class (in which her daughter Cassie was a 4th grade student) to design a native plant and herb bed and helped find a nursery to supply the plants.

“I enjoyed finding ways to challenge the children’s imaginations and intellect, and was endlessly impressed by their capacity to get things done!” she says. One project led to another. The club was formed. Lynne was invited to other schools to explain how its community problemsolving model could be integrated into regular classroom curricula as well as gifted class programs, spawning KOPE Clubs in other neighborhoods and beyond. They continued for over two decades.

As the teachers who used the KOPE model began to retire, the program faded from most schools. Finally, in 2016, Sheri Sohm, the inspiring teacher who nurtured the first flock of KOPE kids, also retired.

It was a golden age of youthful environmental activism in Salt Lake City.

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Upper-class Twitters

BY JOHN DEJONG

In a recent court case in Manhattan, seven “followers” of Donald Trump's Twitter account sued the President on First Amendment grounds to prevent him from blocking them from his feed.

In arguing the president's case, Trump's lawyers brought an interesting argument— that the First Amendment rights of the seven plaintiffs were trumped, superseded was the word they used, by Trump's First Amendment rights.

The concept of a hierarchy (or lowerarchy, if you will) of free speech rights is logical in a monarchy or oligarchy and necessary in a dictatorship. It's a troubling concept when applied to democracy.

More than troubling, it's absolutely toxic. The German Democratic Republic (East Germans) had that kind of false democracy. The leadership monopolized pubic dis-

course. The STASI were second only to Russia's KGB in brutality and effectiveness of repressing any dissent from the party line. Even when the party line was the ravings of paranoid egomaniacs.

Trump's lawyers also argued that it would “violate the president's associational rights” if he weren't allowed to block any followers he decided were unworthy.

A law professor from Duke University argued that, “if Donald Trump is giving a speech to 100 hand-picked people, and one of them heckles him, he gets to throw that person out.”

If Donald Trump gave a speech to 100 hand-picked people, you can guarantee they paid $10,000 to $100,000 apiece, probably didn't even listen to his speech and would get kicked out only if their checks bounced.

Trump thinks Twitter is a

bully pulpit, when in fact it is a caucus, where everyone gets to say their piece. The cacophony may be deafening, but silencing the quiet, reasonable voices while letting the megaphone-yielding bullies continue their bloviating (to speak at length in a pompous or boastful manner) won't help at all.

The seven weren't Trump followers in the traditional sense, but rather in the sense of bloodhounds following the trail of a miscreant. Not that you need to be a bloodhound to follow the swamp-gas stench of this president and his administration. The baying of the hounds also serves as a warning that mischief is afoot in the land.

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Then and Now: Kids Organized to Protect the Environment In 1990, a group of SLC elementary school students in search of a problem-solving project saved an abandoned gully from being paved over and transformed it into a nature preserve. Their successors began a project that resulted in the Draw at Sugar House. We revisited the KOPE kids’ victories, and checked in with some of those students today.

BY LYNNE OLSON

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alt Lake City first heard of the Kids Organized to Protect our Environment, the KOPE Kids, in 1989. Environmental activists were planning for the 20th anniversary of Earth Day, and students at Jackson Elementary in SLC made headlines by initiating the cleanup of a hazardous waste site near their school.

Inspired by the Jackson kids, students at Hawthorne Elementary agreed to meet every Friday during the summer break to tend their school’s new native plant-and-

“Students learned how to speak in front of groups.

They researched the human history and studied biological ecosystems.” herb garden. While they worked, they considered other ways they could help their neighborhood. The children named their group, Kids Organized to Protect our Environment,” or “KOPE.” The KOPE Kids began their problem-solving career by demonstrating the need for a recycling center in Sugar House. A year later, the 4th, 5th, and 6th graders found an empty lot behind a busy shopping mall, and launched their signature project to create Hidden Hollow Nature Preserve.

Cassie Olson is one of the original group of kids that started the KOPE Club, and one of the group that fell in love with the abandoned field and named it Hidden Hollow.

“We were learning about problem-solving and the brainstorming process. We wanted to encourage everyone to plant gardens

Hidden Hollow model 1993

using native plants.

When we found that beautiful stream with its open land that had been left to go wild, it was wonderful. We imagined we’d found something that no one had ever seen before.” As they learned in doing their research, however, it was once the site of the first Sugar House Park.

Hawthorne’s Extended Learning Program (ELP) teacher, Sheri Sohm, reHawthorne kids with Patricia Johanson and their model of the Draw in 2008 membered the children asking if cleaning up the stream could become their next problem-solving project. “This area of Sugar House had been the dumping site for construction debris for over 50 years,” says Sohm.

“The stream was down in a gully like a mountain stream. The north bank still looks much like it did then, with vegetation growing over construction debris.”

The next year, students learned that developers intended to cover the stream and build big box stores, office buildings and a parking lot over the block.

However, they were convinced the stream could be rehabilitated and would be an asset to the businesses.

Teacher and students brainstormed the problems they might encounter. “The first was building public awareness and community support,” says Sohm. “It looked so bad, and needed so much work that it was difficult for anyone to imagine the potential we saw. The second problem was money.

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Developers, who planned for a shopping center to cover the stream, say the students would never receive enough support or money to accomplish their goals.

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mental value. These became the never receive enough support or money to topics for extended research dur- accomplish their goals. The kids took that as ing the following years. a challenge, and with encouragement from “We integrated the different their teachers and parents, the students fosubject areas and the political cused their efforts on marketing and process into ELP curriculum,” says fundraising.

Sohm. “Students learned how to The KOPE Kids became proficient at public speak in front of groups. They re- relations. Beacon Heights’ 4th, 5th and 6th searched the human history and graders issued a Hidden Hollow media advistudied biological ecosystems.” sory in 1997: “We have a special interest in a “We went back to the Hollow natural open space in Sugar House called with biologists, geologists and sci- Hidden Hollow. We have been promoting entists who helped us discover the restoration and preservation of this area. which plants and animals be- We want to increase awareness of this area longed there,” recalls Cassie. “I was so others will come and enjoy it. We are takastonished to discover how much ing other schools on tours and working with K. Smithee, L. Ploeger, L. Piper, L. Roberts with Gov. Leavitt.1999 wildlife was surviving in the mid- city officials, the Sugar House Park Authority, dle of our neighborhood.”

Sugar House Community Council, UDOT and “We collaborated with people from other schools; government officials; the business community; journalists; donors who saved us at various times; and parents who made time to coach their kids and drive them to meetings,” says Sohm. “It’s hard to describe all the wonderful things Griffin Bullock, Danny Walz (RDA of SLC), Nik Hlady, that came toand Sam Palmer, ‘99, brainstorming for 13th East crossing. coffers. Commercial development brings in gether to preeven the Governor to get a tunnel under tax base. We had no money and didn’t know serve Hidden Hollow.”

In 1991, the KOPE Kids were invited to 1300 East so people can safely cross from anyone with any.”

Washington, DC to accept the President’s Sugar House Park into Hidden Hollow. We The students identified other values for Environmental Youth Award for their accomare working on Recycling cans for trees— the open space; it also had educational, aesplishments.

At the Awards ceremony, Pres. ways others can this barrel now lives on thetic, recreational, historical and environGeorge H. W. Bush said, “Together they learn more about the third floor of the City transformed that unsightly trash heap into a the water, soil, and County Building.

Ribbon cutting at recycling center 1990 nature park, and they gave it a new plants, birds and inname, Hidden Hollow. And sects in Hidden Holtoday, it’s a learning center for low. We are creating other students, a kind of outdoor a web site with a virclassroom. And what you’ve done tual reality field trip, tells other kids that you can make a guide booklet exa difference.” plaining life-cycles, and site markers to Big ideas help people underAlthough developers had stand what to look planned for a shopping center to for as they walk cover the stream, the KOPE Kids around the area.”

KOPE Kids also wanted the City to rezone the learned how to property as a park. When asked to comment on that idea, the devel- apply for grants. opers said the students would They received a city

KOPE clubs organized four Children’s Conferences on Sustainability, providing a forum for student research on endangered species, air and water pollution, and local environmental issues such as feral cats in urban neighborhoods.

Self-Help grant for an iron gate to stop illegal dumping in Hidden Hollow. Initial funding for restoration of the nature park came from Community Development Block Grants. Insofar as Hidden Hollow was located within the Redevelopment Agency’s Sugar House Project Area, the Agency budgeted the necessary funds to plan and complete improvements for the park.

Many more thousands of dollars came from cash and in-kind donations, including a gift from Stephen C. Richards of nearby Granite Furniture Co. He wrote, “I want the KOPE Kids to use this to purchase some good sturdy Brooke Stevens (Anhder) and Katie McKinney (1990).

They are taking inventory of Problems at Hidden Hollow, in preparation for a problem-solving exercise in the classroom, how to prevent vandalism.

benches to put along the creek. Putting them there will give tired old men like me a place to sit and rest.”

On September 1999, almost 10 years later, the city marked the official opening of the Hidden Hollow Natural Area with a celebration at which business owners, students, politicians, developers and neighbors pressed their hands into the new cement pathway, acknowledging all those who had made the project a reality. In 2000, Salt Lake City permanently protected Hidden Hollow Preserve through a conservation easement to Utah Open Lands Conservation Association.

In the decade that followed, the KOPE Club expanded to Beacon Heights, M. Lynn Bennion, Lincoln, Parkview, and Oakridge elementary schools. The KOPE Club at Oakridge re-landscaped the schoolyard in a project they

KOPE kid mentors, Mary Dixon, Tom Wharton and Greta deJong helped Kope Kids communicate their vision. called “Naturescaping,” landscaping with native plants to sustain wildlife in the city. At South Kearns Elementary, the “SKOPE Kids” developed a pro-

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In 2000, 11 years later, SLC permanently protected Hidden Hollow Preserve through a conservation easement. gram to protect burrowing owl habitat in a rapidly growing area of Salt Lake County.

Each club was directed by a committed teacher who taught language arts, math and science skills, art and even music through beyond-the-classroom experiences in the real world.

Bennion Kids, packing mail bags at the SLC School District office for delivery to the area's schools.

“The children realized they could use the problem-solving skills they learned in the classroom to identify problems in their community,” said Penny Archibald-Stone, an ELP teacher at M. Lynn Bennion School.

“One problem they [the Hawthorne students] found was that kids don’t get enough good publicity. They decided to publish a newsletter to let people know the great things kids are doing around Salt Lake.”

The Hawthorne Club started writing articles and gathering information from other schools about what they were doing. They designed a logo and named their newsletter “The KOPE Kronical.” During the 1991-92 school year, the Club published nine issues and sent them to schools throughout the Salt Lake City school district.

In 1993, 6th graders at Bennion formed their own branch of KOPE and took over the “Kronical.” The paper was funded by do-

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nations and a Self-Help grant from the city.

By 1998, it had a circulation of 20,000, delivered to every school in the district. The editorial staff hosted annual workshops for student writers and editors, with professional journalists as mentors and advisors.

In addition to the “Kronical” conferences, KOPE clubs organized annual Earth Day celebrations and four Children’s Conferences on Sustainability, which provided a forum for student research on endangered species, air and water pollution, and local environmental issues such as feral cats in urban neighborhoods.

In 1995 and 1996, more than 600 students from public and private schools joined the KOPE Kids in a March for Parks along the Parley’s Trail Corridor to Fairmont Park. They raised funds to benefit Hidden Hollow and for the City’s new “Urban Tree House” Environmental Education Center.

In 2000, a year after KOPE Kids celebrated the dedication of Hidden Hollow, Parkview Elementary students helped design a two-acre open space on the Jordan River called Bend-in-the-River. In a story for the “Kronical,” they wrote about working with the University of Utah Bennion Center and TreeUtah to make the Urban Tree House at the Bend a place “to observe plants and animals, study habitat, learn about predator/prey relationships, and to do art projects.”

Parley’s Trail and the Draw at Sugar House In 1992, Salt Lake City planners had proposed development of a network of parks, greenways and bicycle/pedestrian trails. A map of the Parley’s Creek Corridor showed a trail connection from the mouth of Parley’s Canyon to Hidden Hollow, and mentioned the KOPE Kids as potential Corridor Keepers. Eleven-year old Alex Phillips and other KOPE members presented a case for adopting the Salt Lake City Open Space Master Plan at a public forum at the Utah Museum of Natural History.

Beginning in winter of 1999, Beacon Heights KOPE students met with govern-

L. Ploeger, K. Smithee, E. Smithee, G. Bullock @ 2003 celebration in Hidden Hollow when Patricia Johanson's design for the Draw was selected as the winner of SLC's NEA New Public Works design competition.

ment officials and community leaders to collect information for a project to connect Sugar House Park and Hidden Hollow with a trail crossing at 1300 East St. With their ELP teacher, Coleen Menlove, they identified resource specialists who understood the difficulty of crossing the busy street. They contacted individuals with a special interest in a pedestrian and bicycle connections along the Parley’s Creek corridor, and requested letters of endorsement from groups that supported their efforts. After months of meetings with community representatives, the KOPE Kids resolved that the safest way to cross the street was to dig a tunnel under it.

Sugar House Park Authority President Clark Nielsen wrote a letter of support for the KOPE proposal, saying the plan offered access to the Park from the commercial business district and reconnected the Park to the greater Sugar House area. During a press Alex Phillips 1992 Presentation for Open Space MP

conference at the State Capitol, Beacon Heights “Kronical” reporters Nikola Hlady and Griffin Bullock asked Governor Michael Leavitt for help with their trails project, and he offered them advice on how to gain public support and funding for the pedestrian crossing under 1300 East St. When Salt Lake County completed a Master Plan for Parley’s Creek Corridor Trail, it included recommendations for the 13th East Crossing that incorporated many of the KOPE Kids’ ideas. The government officials and resource specialists who had advised the Beacon Heights students organized themselves into an advocacy group called the Parley’s Rails, Trails and Tunnels (PRATT) Coalition.

In 2003, Salt Lake City’s Planning Director Stephen Goldsmith received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to solicit designs for the 13th East Crossing. The winning design was named “the Draw at Sugar House.”

Environmental artist Patricia Johanson was lead designer for The Draw. Mayor Rocky Anderson honored the design team at a press conference in Hidden Hollow. Alumni of the Beacon Heights’ KOPE Club and their teacher Coleen Menlove were there to celebrate their achievement.

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What’s new in Hidden Hollow?

Greta returns in 2018 to see how the seeds of her mentorship have flourished

• This year, a City Parks and Public Lands program by Outdoor Program Specialist Addison Odum will help empower educators to take their students onto public trails and natural lands. “Classroom Management in the Outdoors” provides the tools teachers need to effectively use Hidden Hollow and the City’s other open spaces as outdoor classrooms.

• Under the direction of Dr. Ty Harrison, a section of Hidden Hollow was replanted last year. Dr. Harrison proposed most of the naturescape models that were installed in the nature preserve in 1999.

Shortly before his death last year, Dr. Ty Harrison chose the plants and grasses for an area bordering Parley’s Creek and Trail that has come to be called “Ty’s Garden.”

• A new generation of volunteers has stepped up as stewards of Hidden Hollow. Many come from nearby businesses and the growing res-

idential community in the heart of Sugar House. Josh Johnson, principal and owner of Blu Group, a Real Estate Collective, brought teams of his associates to clean up and dig weeds in Ty’s Garden this spring. “We enjoy interacting with people,” he said, “and are proud to take on the legacy of people such as Dr. Harrison. It makes us feel good; it’s an expression of our love for each other, the community, and our planet.”

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Lindsay Ploeger with her husband and daughter at the Draw she helped create as a youngster.

Whatever happened to the KOPE Kids?

This summer, Salt Lake County, Salt Lake Alex Phillips (now City, and the PRATT Coalition will announce 38, and a certified arthe completion of the Sego Lily Dam at the borist and landscape Draw in Sugar House Park. In recent years, designer/ planner) the KOPE Kids from Hawthorne School says, “I never realized found a variety of ways to contribute to that how those lessons effort. 5th and 6th graders polished their shaped who I am public-speaking skills to persuade decision- and how I think. I makers to finish the Sego Lily Dam, while often find that when Alex Phillips 4th graders built a three-dimensional colleagues come upon model to help the prospective sponsors a challenging situation, many either don’t grasp the scale of the construction. Patricia proceed without guidance or they reach a Johanson visited the students in their class- conclusion that must be corrected down room to explain the historic narrative that the line. They don’t think critically about it, inspired the monumental artwork. organize their questions, answer what they In 2016, for the final project in their nearly can, and then research the rest. It never oc30-year career of community problem solv- curred to me that maybe they were not ing, the gifted KOPE Kids received public given the opportunity in school to learn recognition from the National Parks Service. those skills.”

Their work is captured in a NPS Nikola Hlady studied Green YouTube video, “Where have all the Urbanism at Pomona College, Sego Lilies Gone?” received an Emerald Necklace In 1995, Julie Malinsky, 12, adFellowship from Amigos De Los dressed then-Mayor Deedee CorRios, and a Masters Degree in radini and City Council about the Urban Planning from USC. He significance of Hidden Hollow. currently works as assistant “Ever since I joined KOPE, we have planner for the City of Clarebeen learning how important it is for mont, CA. Nikola Hlady young people to feel connected to the place Griffin Bullock is currently a resident in where they live,” she said. “When we study Internal medicine at Vanderbilt University its history and traditions, we also learn to Medical Center planning on completing put a high value on our community. That training in cardiology. He graduated from gives us the skill and the power to protect the University of Utah in Chemistry and our neighborhoods, and to protect and im- from the University of Pittsburgh School prove the quality of life we have here.” of Medicine.

Katrina Smithee, BSN, RN, CNOR, spent five years as a nursing assistant before graduating in 2013 from the U of U with a BSN and an honors degree in theatre studies. She has been working ever since as a PeriOperative Nurse in the Clinical Neurosciences Center of the University of Utah. Katrina, Katrina and Erin Smithee who is now 30, credits Mrs. Menlove and others in the Extended Learning and MESA programs for encouraging her achievements. “I live in Sugar House so walk through Hidden Hollow and into Sugar House Park on a regular basis, to picnic or feed the ducks and geese or walk my friends’ dogs. It’s a peaceful little oasis that I am personally grateful for and so happy to have been a part of.”

Lindsay Ploeger now works as a Physical Therapist Assistant in multiple skilled nursing facilities around the valley. She has a 19-month old daughter who loves the outdoors and especially walking around Sugar House Park and looking at all the sites.

Cassie Olson is associate principal cellist at Ballet West, and Cello Faculty at Waterford School. In an interview for Utah Open Lands’ podcast series, “Acres Away,” she said her experiences with the ELP and KOPE programs were very influential.

“They gave me a tangible sense of how a person’s actions could influence a whole community.

Even as children, we could see a direct connection between choices we made and Cassie Olson their consequences for the environment. That is why I try to be ecoconscious in my daily life, and why I feel strongly about current political and environmental issues.

“The ability to solve problems is a skill that I use every day in my life as a teacher and performer,” she says. “With my students, I need to find individualized ways to help them achieve success. Being able to analyze a problem that I see and come up with creative solutions allows me to engage and empower my students.” ◆ Lynne Olson is a free-lance writer and undisciplined gardener.

She enjoys volunteering for the Sugar House Community Council at Hidden Hollow and for the Parley’s Trail Coalition.

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What’s happening at Bee Fest: A Celebration of Pollination!

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BY GRETA DEJONG

aise your glass to pollinators, for they bring you your coffee, tea, tequila and cream (dairy cows eat pollinated alfalfa). Then there’s fruit: Thank pollinators for the apples, pears, mangos, bananas, berries, peaches and pumpkins. And many spices. And chocolate!

While honey bees (of primarily European descent) loom large in our present-day consciousness, they do not have to do all the pollinating alone. The U.S. is home to 4,000 species of native bees as well. And 1,000 of those species live in Utah. Last year Utah State University entomologist Joe Wilson identified 127 different species of native bees in the University of Utah’s Red Butte Garden.

We’re learning more about the critters that hang out in our flower beds and trees as news spreads about the importance of pollinators to our food system. In addition to bees, plants are pollinated by ants, bats, bees, beetles, birds, flies, butterflies, moths and wasps.

But bees, both native and domestiimports, cated remain at the top of the list for doing the heavy lifting.

Governor Gary Herbert declared June 18-24, 2018 “Pollinator Week” and CATALYST Magazine kicks off the week with the Bee Fest: A Celebration of Pollination on June 16.

Gov. Herbert encourages "collaborative efforts to protect native Utah pollinator species through habitat conservation, public education about pollinator-friendly rural and urban landscapes, and research." And that’s just what we’re going to do (with a bit of fun mixed in).

Here’s a taste of what’s in store: You’ll find honey for sale from local bee keepers whose girls (for all working bees are female) feast on different flower fare, with some fancy inclusions like Hive Mind Apiary’s sriracha-infused honey. Tom Bench’s Hollow Tree Honey also offers bees-waxed cherry wood honey dippers. Tom, by the way, started the

See you on June 16, 9am-2pm at the Green Team Farm in downtown Salt Lake City!

beehives on the University of Utah campus and is featured in the story on p. 32.

Grand Prismatic Seeds will offer for sale locally grown seeds for 25 species of native and ornamental pollinator plants. They will also have ornamental prickly pear cactus pads that are hardy to Salt Lake County and provide large beautiful blooms once established. The flowers of prickly pear species are especially fun to watch, because the stamens are thigmonastic (sensitive), and actively move toward the bees to cover them in pollen.

Of course we could not have a celebration of pollination without our favorite

pollination pontificator. Planned Parenthood Association of Utah will offer resources and information regarding healthy relationships, safe sex, gender and sexuality, and reproductive justice.

Peter Somers owns Beez Honey and Hives. He’s also Salt Lake County’s Bee Inspector. His shop will offer beekeeping supplies and honey. He will have an observation hive so you can see the bees upclose.

You can also meet USU horticulturist Katie Wagner, an engaging speaker and Bee Fest perennial, with a passion for pollinator plants and bees. Her team from the Master Gardening Program will answer your gardening questions and share info about the program. And we’ll hear from biology professor Joe Wilson, author of The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America's Bees, sharing his extensive knowledge of wild bees.

And every actual and aspiring beekeeper wants to know Joey Caputo, our state apiarist.

You can “ask a beekeeper” for advice at the Wasatch Beekeepers Association’s table.

The festival is at happening Wasatch Community Gardens’ spaand cious well-done Green Team Farm. Chief James farmer Loomis will give ongoing tours of the 1.4 acre plot, which teems with healthy plantlife and progressive projects includ-

ing state-of-the-art composting, chickens, a greenhouse and Hugelkulture beds. The women who work at the farm will conduct a workshop on building bee hotels for carpenter and orchard bees and other insect allies. Materials will be provided.

Owen Parry of the Wasatch Beekeepers Association will conduct a workshop on building swarm traps—how to catch your bees for free (see article, p. 25). A small charge may apply for this workshop.

Al Chubak of Eco Beebox will be there with four or five different types of hives of his own design, including the cute and affordable namesake Eco Beebox —”a beehive with training wheels,” he calls it.

Come hear Jme Bonfiglio of Whole Sun Wellness Mushroom Company, share her many interesting stories about the relationship between pollinators and mushrooms.

Susie Goodspeed of Susie Bee Good Honey at The American Dream Farm sells hotels for garden leaf cutter solitary bees, native blue orchard mason bees, and all things beeswax: balms and salves, candles, carvings and ornaments.

We’re most intrigued by her reusable beeswax food wrap.

Salt Lake City’s Department of Sustainability will offer information and encouragement on reducing the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. We hope to hear about cost-effective and proven natural alternatives that can help you achieve a healthy and beautiful yard without chemicals. You’ll be able to take the Pesticide Free SLC pledge and receive a yard sign, too.

Pollinators of many varieties are attracted to herbs in the garden and landscape. Learn which plants are most beneficial and useful, too, from clinical herbalist, teacher and author Merry Harrison of Millcreek Herbs. Merry will provide a list and be available all day to answer questions.

Yoga instructor Maizy Anderson will offer “bee breath” pranayama breaks throughout the day. Learn the technique that

sounds like a buzzing bee and cultivates slower breaths from the chest, which results in...ahhh...relaxation.

For the literary-minded, there’s the Pollinator Poetry Invitational and Competition, organized by Melissa Bond, herself an award-winning poet (she brought poetry slams to Salt Lake City back in the 1990s. Think you might want to enter? Visit the event website, SLCBEEFEST.COM, for details.

For those who love Halloween, Burning Man, or just playing dressup, there’s the Pollinator Parade and Contest. Fashion your finest butterfly wings, show your hummingbird stuff, be a bat. See details at SLCBEEFEST.COM. Slow Food Utah is hosting a Honey of a Bake Sale, with honeybased delights from premiere bakers around town including past and present Slow Food Utah board members and associates.

Linsey Lesser helps run White Lake Honey Farms and also charms the bees with her ethereal harp playing. If you’ve been to the Winter Farmers Market, you may have heard her play. She will be at the festival, with harp and honey.

Explore the natural world of the beautiful Green Team Farm with Lexi Kaili, citizen science coordinator for the Natural History Museum of Utah, using the free app I-Naturalist. Then Zaia (9) and Ziggy (5) Loomis will lead youngsters on a game of Bee’ngo (Zaia’s invention) where you’ll identify pollinators and their favorite flowers in the garden.

If you’re looking for a landscaper who understands native (bee) culture as well as fine aesthetics, you’ll want to talk to the people at Silver Sage Xeriscape & Design.

Wasatch Cooperative Market will show you how to be part of Salt Lake City’s first true storefront cooperative market, the type of which is common in most cities of our size and culture.

Swaner Nature Preserve will inspire you to head to Park City and learn about the pollinator

projects happening in their 1,200-acre haven.

The preserve nurtures both the ecosystem and the people connected to it.

Meet a jumping spider. Encountering a jumping spider can be a bit disconcerting, if you don’t know what you’re getting into.

Kyle Burdash befriended this common Utah arachnid (whom he named Genifer) and in the process learned a lot. “Jumping spiders are as different from other spiders as we are from other mammals,” he says. They make eye contact. He says you can develop a relationship with them. Meet his jumping friend and see for yourself. Then, next time you see a jumping spider, you’ll know what it is and may make a friend, too. (Caveat: While they may do some pollinating, they also like to eat...bees.)

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For more information on RBMN and profiles of their attorneys, visit RBMN.COM We’re grateful to Wasatch Community Gardens for sharing their garden space with us, as well as the expertise of the inimitable James Loomis (who is also CATALYST’s “Garden Like a Boss” garden writer and famed DJ iloom).

And none of this would be happening without Slow Food Utah’s generous bequeathing of the festival to CATALYST this year. Slow Food Utah, the local wing of an international organization, originated the festival in 2011. Slow Food Utah/USA/International is committed to the expansion of “good, clean and fair food” for all.

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HEALTH

Bee venom therapy

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eople have been stinging themselves with bees for purposes of health since time immemorial. Therapeutic bee stings were used in the times of Galen and Hippocrates. The use of honey, pollen and royal jelly goes back even further, to ancient Egypt. This practic is known, collectively, as apitherapy.

A big contingent of people presently using BVT have chronic Lyme disease, or fibromyalgia or other mystery “garbage can” diagnoses.

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“What I learned in 18 months of stinging myself with bees.” yourself with live bees, or someone else stings you, or you can get bee venom injections from a clinic. Generally the stings are administered following a protocol and hit pain points like joints or near the spine, or various acupuncture points.

Who does it and why?

Historically, it’s been used with great success for joint pain and arthritis, stuff like that. I can attest that it works in that capacity, very well for me personally. A big contingent of people presently using BVT have chronic Lyme disease, or fibromyalgia or other mystery “garbage can” diagnoses. They do it because Western medicine has failed them, and they are looking for any way to get healthy. There is promising evidence that BVT works for many people in these situations.

he practice is primarily DIY, with books, articles and videos readily available over the internet. Recent rising interest has been further flamed by anecdotes of its efficacy in treating Lyme disease, which is increasing across the country as the host ticks expand their range.

The recent death of one woman in Spain who was receiving the treatment through a clinic has also fanned flames of doubt. How safe is bee sting therapy (also called bee venom therapy)? Does it really have redeeming value?

We spoke with a friend of CATALYST (who chooses to remain anonymous) who did DIY bee sting therapy for 18 months. Here’s what she had to say:

How do you do it?

There is a wealth of information about BVT out there on the Internet, and several Facebook support groups. You need to do your own research and take full responsibility for your own wellbeing. BVT in my experience is largely selfadministered because of the liability issues. You can absolutely go into anaphylactic shock from a bee sting, but it’s much rarer than people suppose. Never sting yourself without following a protocol, and you must have an Epi-Pen or other emergency adrenaline shot available.

That’s why that woman died in Spain—the clinic where she went didn’t have an adrenaline shot, and she went into shock and had a stroke while waiting for an ambulance.

CATALYST: What is bee sting therapy?

Bee sting therapy, or bee venom therapy (BVT), is just what it sounds like. You sting

Why is it supposed to work?

My theory is that it revs up your immune and endocrine systems and spurs your body to do a

gigantic cleaning out of cryptic pathogens. More research is needed. But big pharma obviously isn’t too motivated to put money into studies, since bee venom isn’t terribly patentable.

What was your personal experience?

A friend started a BVT protocol for chronic Lyme, and was having good results. I was suffering from chronic fatigue / fibromyalgiatype symptoms for several years, and was at the end of my rope after Western medicine could only offer me pain meds and antidepressants. My friend completely recovered from Lyme.

I was on a protocol of 10 bee stings, every other day. I’m still working through some issues but I felt better on BVT than I had in years before that. I gained a bunch of weight, though.

Some people do gain weight with BVT—it can stimulate the appetite. Some people lose weight. For me, I think it "cut loose" a bunch of stuck stuff, and the weight gain was part of the reaction to that. Everyone who does BVT has a different reaction depending on their individual metabolism. It makes you learn a lot about your body, for sure. But it’s not for everyone, and definitely not for the faint of heart.

Where do you get the bees from?

You can get them for about ten cents a bee in the mail (Google “apitherapy bees” for suppliers), from local beekeepers who might be friendly to your cause, or you can get them off the flowers in your garden during the summer months. BVT shots are available at some clinics but will cost you $50 or more per shot, and in my experience are actually more painful than the live stings. ◆

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Swarming means free bees!

Life in the hive—and what happens when the population gets out of hand

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fter a bee colony has come through a winter really well (not an easy task) and started collecting nectar and pollen, it will grow enough brood till it is time to find a new hive. The queen and half the bees leave the hive en masse, clustering around a tree branch. This is called swarming.

And the swarm season is in full swing right now.

During the first week of swarm season this year, the Wasatch Beekeepers Association swarm coordinator received one to three calls a day— more swarm calls than in all of last year. We can't quite pinpoint why some years are good and others are not, but I'm going to blame the weather; we had a warm, early spring with many nectar-producing flowers in bloom with no late hard freeze.

Here’s how swarms happen: First, scout bees fly around searching for a new home. They are looking for a cavernous space about the volume of a few gallons that smells like bees have lived there before. When we set up a trap to catch a swarm, we use a handful of old honey comb to give it that smell, plus we have a lure of lemongrass oil and pheromone.

Meanwhile, back at the hive, the bees have created some queens cells. I once saw 57 queen cells in one hive which was a little bit extra because there can only be one queen per hive. In fact, after a queen hatches, one of her first jobs is to sting all of the other queen cells with a reusable stinger. If more than one queen does hatch, they will fight to the death, leaving only the one queen.

BY OWEN PARRY The hive creates this queen cell by feeding the larva (a legless and featureless white grub) about 10 times as much as a normal worker egg. After the virgin queen hatches, her reproductive organs and wings mature for a few

They cluster together and create heat by flexing their muscles without moving their wings. The bees can keep the center of the cluster 92 degrees all winter long.

more days. Then she is able to fly. Hopefully the weather is good, for she will do mating flights for a few days, mating between 15 and 50 times.

The only job of a male bee, called a drone, is to mate. When he does his thing, he ex-

plodes. Part of his guts go back to the hive with the queen, where the worker bees clean her off and send her out again. The goal is to fill up her spermatheca with enough sperm to last her entire life life (one to five years). In a few days, she will start laying up to her weight in eggs each day, 2,000 eggs. Over the next five days, each egg gets visited around 1,300 times and fed 750 of those visits to grow enough to pupate into a worker bee.

When a worker bee first hatches, she becomes a nurse bee for a few days, then a guard bee, and then forager bee for the rest of her life—which is only about six weeks, as her wings wear out at that point.

The forager bee brings in nectar which is then passed from bee to bee, each adding enzymes. Then it is evaporated into honey in the honey cells and capped with wax. Usually there’s plenty of honey to support the hive and share—with a bear or, more likely nowadays, a beekeeper.

The honey provides the energy for the bees to survive through the winter. They cluster together and create heat by flexing their muscles without moving their wings. They can keep the center of the cluster 92 degrees all winter long.

As beekeepers, we try to give our bees the best habitat and the greatest opportunity to collect the all the nectar they need to transform into one of our favorite sweet treats, honey.

But back to the swarm: If you have an empty hive and want to get some bees for free, make a swarm trap. If you build it and position it well, there’s a one in 10 chance they will come.

It’s pretty simple: I use a pressed cardboard flower pot with plywood over the top to keep out the weather. Some old honey comb to give it that smell, plus lemongrass oil and pheromone go inside.

Come to Bee Fest on June 16 and I will help you make your own swarm trap and teach you how to use it—and what to do with it once you’ve caught your bees. ◆ Owen Parry is the vice-president and former president of the Wasatch Beekepers Assnociation. He has kept bees for nine years. He tends the hive at Krishna Temple.

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June 2018

A winter problem with year-round solutions Two recent studies correlate winter air pollution to short-term health risks along the Wasatch Front

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e’ve long known the hazards of a lifetime spent breathing polluted air, but the short-term health effects of pollution spikes are murkier. Two recent studies cast the Wasatch Front as a natural laboratory to uncover links between respiratory infections and air pollution. They highlight the short-term risks of breathing contaminated air, especially for the old and very young.

“Every January or February, Primary Children’s Hospital seems to fill up with cases of RSV [respiratory syncytial virus],” says Dr. Benjamin Horne, Director of Cardiovascular and Genetic Epidemiology at Intermountain Medical Center (IMC) Heart Institute. After a conversation with a colleague, Horne says, “we wanted to see if there was an association between the timing of RSV and air pollution resulting from inversions,” especially in young children. RSV and influenza are among the viruses that can lead to acute lower respiratory infections in children, sometimes with serious complications.

The health consequences of poor air quality had been on more than a few minds at IMC: Unbeknownst to Horne, another researcher

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just down the hall was asking whether air pollution is connected to rates of pneumonia in older adults.

The pair of papers, published in April, add to the growing body of evidence linking a variety of maladies with air pollution. The researchers drew on past medical records from Intermountain Healthcare and contemporaneous air quality reports from EPA weather stations. Both teams found that spikes in the smallest class of air pollutants—fine particulate matter—correlated with the timing of acute lower respiratory infections.

Risk factors Horne’s study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, found that more children, adults and babies were diagnosed with acute lower respiratory infections one to four weeks following an inversion. Every time fine particulate matter (PM2.5) went up 10 micrograms per cubic meter, a person’s odds of seeking treatment increased 15-23%.

The researchers found that people were more likely to seek medical treatment for respiratory infections even when air quality was categorized

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The second study, published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society, found that more adults of all ages were treated for pneumonia within a week of poor air quality, with a particularly strong association for those over 65 years old. Lead author Cheryl Pirozzi, a pulmonary physician and researcher at the Department of Internal Medicine, says that every time PM2.5 increased 10 micrograms per cubic meter, odds of getting pneumonia in adults over the age of 65 increased by 35% and odds of death in the hospital increased by 50%. Pirozzi also linked winter nitrogen dioxide and summer ozone pollution to increased risk of pneumonia, although the effect was weaker than that of PM2.5.

“If you think of a typical inversion air pollution episode, the PM2.5 will often go higher than the EPA’s ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’’ range,” Pirozzi explains. “So older adults would be approximately two-and-a-half times more likely to get pneumonia, two-and-a-half times more likely to be hospitalized with severe pneumonia requiring ICU admission, and about three times more likely to die from pneumonia in the hospital.”

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Pirozzi’s team extrapolates that if PM2.5 always remained in the EPA’s “good” air quality rating (below 12 micrograms per cubic meter), there would be approximately 100 fewer hospitalizations for pneumonia in the seven hospitals studied, saving $476,000 to $807,000 in medical costs each year. Since these hospitals serve roughly half the population of the Wasatch Front, Pirozzi estimates that lowering 2.5PM air pollution could save $1.6 million in medical costs for the region.

Pollutants don’t cause the initial viral or bacterial infection, Horne emphasizes. And while both studies found strong correlations between air pollution and respiratory diseases, neither can show causation. “This was an epidemiologic study,” says Horne. “It doesn’t tell us what the causes are per se, [only] that there’s a very strong association” between air pollution and acute lower respiratory infections.

“They are two very important studies,” says Daniel Mendoza, a postdoctoral fellow at the Pulmonary Division of the School of Medicine and the Department of Atmospheric Sciences who was not involved with the research.

“There could be further work done to more finely resolve spatial exposure differences. What’s really powerful here,” he adds, “is that we’re looking at a large population, looking at lower levels of pollution and their associations with disease outcomes. And while [these findings] are relevant, as they are local, they can be replicated in other areas that don't have our high pollutant levels.”

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What can we do?

As cold weather settles in, we’ll remind you to wash your hands, keep them away from eyes, nose and mouth to discourage viral or bacterial infections from spreading, stay indoors if you are among the most vulnerable, consider installing a HEPA filter and wear a good filter mask when going outdoors.

But some solutions to the problem of PM2.5s involve year-round engagement: For instance: 1. If you smoke, start quitting now; this includes e-cigarettes.

2. If you have a fireplace or wood stove, plan on limiting its use or invest in a gas appliance.

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MORONI FOR PRESIDENT

Follows the campaign of Moroni Benally, a young, gay, Mormon as he campaigns for the presidency of the Navajo Nation.

Official Selection: 2018 Big Sky Film Festival Saturday | June 2 | 4pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME

Errol Morris profiles one of the mostfascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.

Winner: Documentary Grand Jury Prize–1991 Sundance Film Festival Tuesday | June 12 | 7pm Post-film The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC discussion TBA

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3. Pay attention to the maintenance schedule of your vehicle or consider acquiring a more fuel-efficient vehicle (especially if your current ride is diesel).

4. Support expansion of public transportation and bicycle infrastructure (and use them).

5. Voice an opinion on regional projects that increase fine particulate matter.

6. Learn about and vote for candidates who support air quality legislation, armed with knowledge from reports such as these.

“These are important studies for us here on the Wasatch Front,” says Pirozzi, “because it’s local data—it’s about the air we’re breathing. These studies show real risks for our community, and they show that air pollution is a real public hazard here in Utah.” ◆ Faith Rudebusch is a biologist and the author of the edible gardening blog, SLATEMOUNTAINGARDEN.COM. She lives in Pocatello, Idaho.

BEHIND THE CURTAIN: Todrick Hall

YouTube sensation Todrick Hall launches a full-scale musical on being black, gay, and relentlessly creative: Straight Outta Oz. Sunday | June 3 | 4pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

THANK YOU FOR THE RAIN

A violent storm throws together a Kenyan farmer and a Norwegian filmmaker to fight for global climate awareness.

Winner: Best Cinematography and Ethos Jury Prize, SIMA Social Impact Media Awards Tuesday | June 19 | 7pm Post-film discussion TBA The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

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OUT OF MY HEAD

A filmmaker, seeking treatment for her daughter’s migraine attacks, discovers a mysterious and misunderstood neurological disease.

Official Selection: 2018 MoMA Doc Fortnight Tuesday | June 26 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

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DIGGING THROUGH THE DARKNESS: The 5 Browns Story

A remarkable story, from triumphant musical career to the revelation that all three sisters were sexually abused by their father.

Wednesday | June 6 | 7pm Rose Wagner 138 W 300 S, SLC

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BEUYS

An exhilarating chronicle of Joseph Beuys, his art and ideas, who thirty years after his death still feels like a visionary.

Official Selection: 2017 Berlin International Film Festival, 2017 CPH:DOX Wednesday | June 27 | 7pm UMFA 410 Campus Center Dr, SLC

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BREATHE

Summer ozone, pt. 2 Last month we learned about summer air pollution and what we can do to reduce emissions that lead to ozone formation. Here’s how the EPA is helping Utah meet goals for cleaner air.

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BY ASHLEY MILLER

zone pollution has increased in several Utah counties in recent years.

By just how much was announced by the EPA last month.

The EPA designates non-attainment areas when regions fail to maintain the national standards, and then gives the state a series of deadlines that the Division of Air Quality must meet.

Reviewing air quality data from 2014-2016, the EPA found that Salt Lake and Davis counties, as well as parts of Weber, Tooele, Utah, Uintah and Duchesne counties periodically have too much ozone in the air and have officially designated these areas as Marginal Non-Attainment, meaning these areas exceeded the new ozone standard by a small margin.

The air quality standard for ozone set by the EPA was dropped from 75 ppb to 70 ppb in October 2015 after many scientific studies suggested the average healthy adult would begin to suffer adverse health effects when exposed to ozone greater than 72 ppb. Other air quality advocates throughout the country said 65 ppb was a better number for protecting public health. Regardless, local air quality groups, Breathe Utah included, agree the new standard will result in better health for Utahns, even if a lower standard could have had much greater impacts.

A marginal designation is the least stringent classification for a non-attainment area and does not require the state to submit a formal State Implementation Plan, or SIP. It gives the state three years to

come up with ways to meet the standard.

Though Utah failed to meet the new lower standard by even a small margin, the Division of Air Quality remains confident that they are on a good path to meet the standard by the 2021 deadline based on what is already planned to show compliance with the other pollution problem, PM2.5.

This is one of the benefits of a SIP. When Utah had to do a SIP for PM10 in the late 1980s, the controls put into play greatly reduced PM2.5, though we aren’t out of the woods with that one just yet.

The Division will continue to take steps to address ozone pollution in the state. Recently, the Air Quality Board approved new rules to limit volatile organic compounds, (VOC), emissions, a big contributor to the formation of ozone. Tier 3 vehicle standards and Tier 3 fuels will also aid to reduce the formation of ozone.

The hot and dry summer months pose a problem for the Wasatch Front when it comes to ozone. But, unlike the Wasatch Front, ozone also forms during the winter in the Uinta Basin. This wintertime formation of ozone is believed to be connected to the oil and gas extraction industry.

The recently adopted rules for small oil and gas operations in the Uinta Basin and stronger Leak Detection and Repair will help reduce the emissions that lead to ozone formation in the Basin. ◆

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Ashley Miller, J.D., is the program and policy director for Breathe Utah. She is a member of the state’s Air Quality Policy Advisory Board and is also on the Salt Lake County Health Department Environmental Quality Advisory Commission.

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Jun. 3: Behind The Curtain: Todrick Hall (film) @ The City Library. 4p. A documentary on Hall launching his own original musical about being gay and black in America. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Jun. 3: Big Gay Brunch @ The Leonardo. 12-2p. Annual brunch after Pride Parade. $15. THELEONARDO.ORG Jun. 3: Sunday Series/Mindful Yoga Collective @ Great Basin Chiropractic.

10-11:30a. MINDFULYOGACOLLECTIVE.COM Jun. 3: First Sunday Mindfulness Group/Mindful Yoga Collective @ Great Basin Chiropractic. 7-8:30p.

MINDFULYOGACOLLECTIVE.COM Jun. 7: Okkervil River @ The State Room. 8-11p. W/ Star Rover. Presented

by KRCL. 21+. $28. THESTATEROOM.COM Jun. 1: George Winston @ The State Room. 8p. Folk pianist from Montana.

Support Crossroads Urban Center by bringing a donation of canned food to the concert. 21+. $35. THESTATEROOM.COM Jun. 1-3: Ogden Music Festival @ Fort Buenaventura Park. Fri 6-11p Sat 1211p Sun 12-9p. $75-$106. OFOAM.ORG Jun. 2: 2nd Annual Utah Healthy Food Expo @ SLC and Gallivan Center 10a-6p. Food, samples and guest speakers. $3. HEALTHYFOODUTAH.COM

Jun. 2: National Learn to Row Day @ Great Salt Lake Marina. 8-11a. Learn rowing through land-based techniques and on-the-water activities.

13+. Free. GSLR.ORG Jun. 2-3: Utah Pride Festival @ Washington Square. Sat. 1-11p Sun. 11a7p. Pride parade, 5k charity run, marches, rallies & more. $4-$60. UTAHPRIDECENTER.ORG Jun. 3: Sunday Writing Sessions @ Cucina. 12:30p-3p. The Avenues Writing Circle: low-key sessions give writers dedicated time to work in a group setting. Free.

Jun. 4: Puddles Pity Party @ The State Room. 7p. The ‘Sad Clown with the Golden Voice’ performs heartfelt anthems. 21+. $40. THESTATEROOM.COM Jun. 4: Xavier Rudd @ The Depot. 7p.

21+. $25-$28 adv/DOS. REGGAERISEUP.COM Jun. 4: Family Night @ Red Butte Garden. 6-8p. Traditional Irish dancing with Rinceoiri Don Spraoi Irish Dancers. $7-$14. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG Jun. 6: Open Studio for Adults @ UMFA. 6-7p. Drop-in to try Sumi-e ink painting. Free. UMFA.UTAH.EDU Jun. 6: The 5 Browns Story: Digging Through The Darkness (film) @ Rose Wagner. 7p. The story of sibling pianists, RSVP required. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

Jun. 7: The Flaming Lips @ Ogden Amphitheater. 5-10p. w/ B|_ank. $10.

OGDENTWILIGHT.COM Jun. 7: Rumi Poetry @ Golden Braid Books. 7p. Free. Hear Rasoul Shams read selections from his most recent translations of Rumi poems. GOLDENBRAIDBOOKS.COM Jun. 8: Venture Out! For Pure Adrenalin @ Canyon Rim Park. 6p-10p. A night of outdoor recreation clinics, live music, a movie under the stars, and food trucks for the whole family.

Free. VENTUREOUT.ORG Jun. 8: Trivia Night @ The Leonardo.

7-10p. Science, pop culture, current events, and art history trivia. RSVP required. Free. THELEONARDO.ORG

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Jun. 10: South West Side Cell Meeting w/ SLC Air Protectors @ 2881 W 5700 S. 4:30-5:30p. Potluck and meeting to build strong communities that work together for a healthy future. All welcome.

Free. SLCAIRPROTECTORS.ORG Jun. 11: Dr. Dog @ The Depot. 7p. W/ (Sandy) Alex G. Presented by KRCL. 21+. $26-28. THEDEPOT.COM Jun. 11-17: $0 Adoption Fees on Cats @ Best Friends Utah. Mon-Sat 11a-7p Sun 11a-4p. Offer applies to cats 4 months and older. Free. BESTFRIENDSUTAH.ORG Jun. 12: A Brief History of Time @ The City Library.

7p. The story of Stephen Hawking’s life, presented

by NHMU and The City Library. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Jun. 8: 10th Annual Ready To Hatch @ Tracy Aviary.

6:30-10:30p. Evening of cocktails, gourmet dining, and avian friends. $100-$250. TRACYAVIARY.ORG

Jun. 12: Thunder and Rain @ RYE Diner. 6p. Dinner and drinks served during set, not included in ticket price. $10. THUNDERANDRAINMUSIC.COM

Jun. 9: Opening Day of the Downtown Farmers Market @ Pioneer Park. 8a.-2p. Free. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG

Jun. 13: Craft Beer Cocktails w/ Ketos Brewing @ The Gateway Mall. 6:30p-8:30p. A night of beetthemed workshops presented by Craft Lake City.

21+. $55. CRAFTLAKECITY.COM

Jun. 9: Heart & Soul Music Stroll @ 1530 E 2700 S. 3-8p. 39 bands, food trucks and raffle. Free. HEARTSOUL.ORG Jun. 9: Soul On Fire Expo @ Karen Gail Miller Conference Center. 11a-5p. Discover products, services & classes that light your soul on fire. $5. SOULONFIREEXPO.COM Jun. 9: Caroline Rose @ Urban Lounge. 8-11p. w/ Cardioid. $11-$13. THEURBANLOUNGESLC.COM Jun. 9: Dead Floyd @ The State Room. 9p. A celebration of rock and roll bands The Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd. 21+. $13. THESTATEROOM.COM Jun. 10: Sunday Morning Yoga @ Red Butte Garden. 9-10a. Yoga in the garden intended for all levels. $15. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG Jun. 10: Second Sunday REstore Class @ Mindful Yoga Collective at Great Basin Chiropractic. 5-7p.

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Jun. 13: Craft Workshop: Collagraph Prints @ NHMU. 6:30-8:30p. Taught by Anna Hansen, presented by Craft Lake City. $30. NHMU.UTAH.EDU Jun. 13: Tomato Pruning & Trellising @ Grateful Tomato Garden 6-8p. Hands-on workshop on techniques for trellising and caging tomatoes. $20.

WASATCHGARDENS.ORG Jun. 14: The Bee // I Do / I Don’t @ Metro Music Hall 6-10p. Competitive storytelling about engagements & weddings, marriage & break-ups, separation & divorce. 21+. $15. THEBEESLC.ORG

Jun. 16: Bee Fest @ Green Team Farm. 9a-2p.

CATALYST Magazine, Slow Food Utah, and Wasatch Community Gardens presents A Celebration of Pollination; bees, butterflies, birds and other pollinators – and the flowers they love. Workshops, experts, arts and crafts, plant sale, bake sale, pollinator costume contest, and more! Free. SLCBEEFEST.COM Jun. 14: Little Dragon @ Ogden Amphitheater. 510p. w/ Com Truise & Ugly Boys. $10. OGDENT WILIGHT.COM Jun. 15: The Gallivan Center’s 25th Anniversary Concert @ The Gallivan Center. 7:30p. w/ John Batiste & Philip Kuehn Orchestra.

Free. THEGALLIVANCENTER.COM Jun. 15-16: HolistiCon @ Mountain America Expo Center. Fri: 10a-6p. Sat: 9a-6p. Convention of holistic resources, services, and products. $10. SLHOLISTICCON.COM Jun. 15-17: Gem Faire @ Mountain America Expo Center. Fri: 10a-6p. Sat: 10a-6p. Sun: 10a-5p. Classes & demos, jewelry repair, largest selection, new vendors. $7. GEMFAIRE.COM

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Jun. 15: Trixie Mattel @ The Depot.

7p. An evening of music, comedy and drag. All ages. $35-$50. DEPOTSLC.COM Jun. 16: Utah Blues Festival @ Gallivan Center. 11:30a-10:30p. $35-$88.

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Jun. 21: Bonobo @ Ogden Amphitheater. 5-10p. w/ Slow Magic + Mooninite. $10. OGDENTWILIGHT.COM Jun. 21-24: Utah Arts Festival @ Library Square. 12-11p. $8-$15. UAF.ORG Jun. 22-24: Bonanza Campout @ Rivers Edge, Heber. w/ Halsey, Wiz Khalifa, ZHU, Local Natives, Phantogram, Moontaxi and more. $70$350. BONANZACAMPOUT.COM Jun. 22: Free Kittens: A Stand Up Comedy Show @ The Urban Lounge.

6p. 21+. Free. THEURBANLOUNGESLC.COM

Jun. 16: Westside Festival 2018 @ Sugar Space Arts Warehouse. 11a-9p.

Art, food, and music. Free. RESTORENORTHTEMPLE.COM Jun. 20: Nicki Bluhm @ The State Room. 7p. 21+. $24. THESTATEROOM.COM Jun. 21: Liberty Laughs & Libations with Tig Notaro @ Eccles Theater.

6:30-9:30p. Planned Parenthood Action Council of Utah presents this night of laughter and music by Pixie & The Partygrass Boys. $50-$75. PPACUTAH.ORG

Jun. 23: Granogi Fest @ Electric Park.

10a-6p. Outdoor festival w/ yoga, meditation, outdoor adventure, healthy living exhibitors, and kids activities. $33. GRANOGI.COM Jun. 23: 2018 Urban Garden & Farm Tour @ Wasatch Community Gardens. 10a-2p. Self-guided tour to raise awareness and share ideas about urban gardening. $10-$15.

WASATCHGARDENS.ORG Jun. 24: Sunday Series/Mindful Yoga Collective @ Great Basin Chiropractic.

10-11:30a. MINDFULYOGACOLLECTIVE.COM Jun. 26: Out of My Head @ The City Library. 7p. A mother tries to understand her daughter’s migraine attacks. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

Jun. 19: Thank You For The Rain @ The City Library. 7p. Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, captures the life of his family and their neighbors. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Jun. 26: Natural Area Tour @ Red Butte Garden. 6-8p. Walk with one of our horticulturalists for an intimate look at the area. Registration required. $12-$14. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG Jun. 27: BEUYS Screening @ UMFA. 7p. A look into Joseph Beuys’ life.

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Jun. 28: Metronomy and Cold Wars Kids @ Ogden Amphitheater. 5-10p. w/ Sleepy Passenger. $10. OGDENT WILIGHT.COM Jun. 28-30: HELD Doula Training.

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Jun. 30: HawkWatch @ NHMU. 12-2p.

Observe live raptors and learn from experts. Free with admission.

NHMU.UTAH.EDU Jun. 30: Storytelling For Grownups @ Vitalize Community Studio. 1-5p.

Workshop of compelling storytelling presented by The Bee. Free. THEBEESLC.ORG Jun. 30: Fantastic Negrito @ Urban Lounge. 8-11p. Presented

by Live Nation. 21+. $13-$15.

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YOGA

June 2018

Healthy boundaries The teacher-student relationship—again

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t seems to happen with alarming regularity that a spiritual teacher is exposed (no pun intended) for having misused his position to take advantage of students’ trust. Most recently, the yoga social media and blogging worlds are debating the inappropriate “adjustments” perpetrated by K. Patabhi Jois.

Like B.K.S. Iyengar, T.K.V. Desikachar and Indra

The yoga community is divided as to the actual damage caused by inappropriate behavior on the part of a teacher.

Devi, Jois was a direct student of T. Krishnamacharya, often considered to be the progenitor of modern yoga. The style of yoga he developed, Ashtanga, a fast-moving, athletic form of practice, is the inspiration for much of today’s popular, flow-based yoga.

For years, photos and videos of Jois’s intimate adjustments of women and forceful adjustments of all students have made the rounds in social media. But until a few of his senior students came forward recently with their own stories of years-long impropriety, the images didn’t seem to gain much traction.

I taught at a Southern California center where Jois taught a three-week workshop in the early 1990s.

Students were all abuzz about the injuries they’d sustained due to his forceful adjustments. One woman told me everyone in the workshop had been injured, and that this was a good thing. She believed that the injuries were helping the students advance spiritually.

Why inappropriate behavior hurts yoga The yoga community is divided as to the actual damage caused by inappropriate behavior

BY CHARLOTTE BELL on the part of a teacher. Should we look the other way and trust that all parties involved were consenting adults?

Fifteen years ago I learned that a well-known married teacher I’d worked with had been sleeping with young female students. I had enjoyed his workshops and learned some valuable techniques from him, and I liked him as a person. The news made me feel sad.

Then the rationalizations began. I didn’t want to judge. After all, as a college student and party girl in the ’70s I’d not always behaved intelligently in matters of relationship. Who was I to judge?

Despite my rationalizations, the issue kept bothering me.

A question of power The relationship between a person in a position of authority and the person over whom they have authority is not an even one. The power differential between teacher and student gives teachers greater influence and persuasive power over students, and can cause students to trust a teacher’s motives and actions implicitly whether or not such trust is deserved.

Inherent in practice is the idea that in order to find freedom, one must surrender to the practice and to the teachings—and sometimes, to the teacher. The student may feel—or be made to feel—that setting boundaries will hinder her growth. Therefore, it is incumbent upon the teacher to set healthy boundaries.

When an admired teacher’s impropriety is exposed, his students will often rally around him, and as is often done in the larger culture, they question the veracity of the victims.

Women who have committed themselves to a particular teacher are hesitant to come forward for fear of being ostracized from a community they’ve come to rely on.

Fame does not have to distort our understanding of ourselves. Many world-renowned

teachers have remained humble in the face of fame—think Thich Nhat Hanh and the Dalai Lama. But when it does, an inflated sense of importance can make it easier to rationalize unskillful, even harmful, behavior.

Our responsibility to yoga Teachers have a responsibility to yoga to represent the practice with the integrity it deserves. Famous teachers, who represent yoga to tens of thousands of students, and to many people outside the yoga world as well, have an even greater responsibility to represent the practice honorably.

When Anusara Yoga’s founder’s misbehavior was uncovered years ago, YogaDork—the blog that originally brought the allegations into the open—was roundly vilified by John Friend’s fans for “damaging yoga” through gossip and rumors. But it is not the reporting of teacher misbehavior that damages yoga’s reputation. It is teacher misbehavior itself that damages yoga’s image. If yoga’s quest is for truth, transparency is essential, no matter how unsettling.

Teachers have a responsibility to represent yoga as a whole, not just asana, the physical practice. Engaging in inappropriate sexual relationships with students or giving inappropriate adjustments violates brahmacharya (wise use of sexual energy) at the very least. Injurious adjustments violate ahimsa (non-harming).

These principles are the foundation of yoga.

Each time an issue such as this comes to light is an opportunity for self-reflection in the yoga community. (Isn’t self-reflection what it’s all about, after all?) What tends to tempt us to act outside our integrity—money, sex, fame, or something else? How can we shift our perspective to make our students’ wellbeing more important than our desires? And how can we, as students, keep our starry-eyed admiration in check so that we don’t become enablers to misbehaving teachers?

I don’t have the answers. The key is to keep questioning, and to look squarely at the issue when it arises, because it most certainly will. ◆ Charlotte Bell has been practicing yoga since 1982. She is the author of several yoga-related books and founder of Mindful Yoga Collective in Salt Lake City. CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM

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HEALTH & BODYWORK ACUPUNCTURE Keith Stevens Acupuncture 3/19

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SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 12/18

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APOTHECARY Natural Law Apothecary 1/19

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BOOKS

The Wizard and the Prophet

Two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions to shape tomorrow’s world

by Charles C. Mann. Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. 598 pp. ISBN 978-0307961693. $29.

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REVIEWED BY AMY BRUNVAND

ike so many of us, Charles Mann is trying not to succumb to despair over the environmental state of the world. He has just held his new baby daughter for the first time, but instead of dreaming about her happy future, the thought pops into his head, “When my daughter is my age, almost 10 billion people will be walking the earth. How is that going to work?”

True believers can change the world, but they can also be blinded by their own passions.

How, indeed? There are two major ideas.

“Prophets” believe that in order to thrive people need to stop squandering the gifts of the Earth and learn how to live within ecological limits.

William Vogt (Denver Public Library, Western History Photographic Collections)

Norman Borlaug (1914-2009) Nobel Prize 1970 “Wizards,” on the other hand, think limits don’t matter because we can science our way out of problems.

A third, far less optimistic possibility is that human nature offers no alternative story. At some point our species will exceed the carrying capacity of our planet and suffer a population collapse.

Mann works his way through the implications of these ideas by examining the life work of two visionaries, each driven by his own moral calling.

Norman Borlaug (1914-2009), “the Wizard,” won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his role in founding the Green Revolution. Borlaug approached the problem of human hunger with a direct and obvious solution—bigger harvests. He developed new breeds of high-yield wheat and introduced industrialized agriculture in developing counties. The result was to ward off immediate famine.

But there were unintended consequences: nitrogen and pesticide pollution, soil degradation, water mismanagement; small farmers were forced off the land and unfamiliar food was culturally disruptive. The Green Revolution fell under social criticism. But

Borlaug responded, “Wouldn’t you rather have these for problems than the kind of hunger we had in 1968?”

William Vogt (1902-1968), “the Prophet,” was a fanatic birder and population-control advocate. His influential book, The Road to Survival (1948), describes the ecologic damage caused by human population beyond the land’s carrying capacity.

Vogt was involved in the early days of the Audubon Society, Planned Parenthood and World Wildlife Fund. Like Borlaug, Vogt developed his ideas around agricultural fertilizer. In the days before synthetic fertilizer, he was hired by a company in Peru that sold seabird guano.

The company wanted to increase the supply, but Vogt concluded that it was not possible to inflate bird populations beyond carrying capacity. The best humans could do would be to preserve optimal ecological conditions for birds.

Adopting the viewpoints of Vogt (recognition of limits) vs. Borlaug (technological optimism), Mann argues with himself over the best approach to contemporary environmental wicked problems. Like a particularly skilled high school debater, he argues first the Prophet side and then the Wizard side, steadfastly refusing to pick a side: “On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I think Vogt was correct. On Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, I go for Borlaug and on Sunday, I don’t know.”

The approach may sound wishy-washy, but this fascinating book is anything but. The question of how to create a sustainable future for humankind is real and urgent and deserves nuanced consideration. True believers can change the world, but they can also be blinded by their own passions.

Ultimately, Mann’s shifting perspective offers a way to think through some very tough environmental problems. “It is terrible to suppose that we could get so many other things right and get this one wrong,” Mann writes, “to have the imagination to see our potential end but not have the cultural resources to avoid it.” ◆ Amy Brunvand is the University of Utah Marriott Library’s librarian for the university’s Office of Sustainability. She also writes CATALYST’s EnviroNews column.

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ENERGY HEALING Kristen Dalzen, LMT 12/18

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STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Carol Lessinger, GCTP9/18--

801.580.9484, 1390 S. 1100 E., SLC. “Movement is Life, without Movement, Life is unthinkable,” Moshe Feldenkrais. Carol trained personally with Dr. Feldenkrais and has over 30 years experience. When you work with her, you can expect your movement to be more comfortable, less painful & more aware. Offering private sessions & classes.

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303.726.6667, 466 S. 500 E., SLC. Helping athletes, dancers, musicians, children and people of all types with chronic pain, autoimmune conditions, arthritis, injuries & stress. Leighann's 7 years of education make her the only practitioner in Utah certified in Feldenkrais®, Rolfing® Structural Integration and Pilates. Providing comprehensive care for lasting results.

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Agua Alma Aquatic Bodywork 5/18 801.891.5695. Mary Cain, LMT, YA

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Healing Mountain Massage School 11/18 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. (enter off 500 E.). All people seek balance in their lives…balance and meaningful expression. Massage is a

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NUTRITION Sustainable Diets 2/19

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After a functional nutrition assessment, Teri recommends a food-based individualized treatment approach that includes: a diet plan, functional foods, nutrition improvement, supplements and testing if needed, and lifestyle changes. She specializes in behavior change and guides/coaches you through making the lifestyle/ habit changes needed to lose weight, change diet, reach optimal health.

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YOGA THERAPY Deva Healing Center, A Sanctuary for Women 6/18 928.899.9939. Heal chronic pain, de-

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To book, call or e-mail Bri@devahealingcenter.org. Located in Murray. www.DEVAHEALINGCENTER.ORG

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ENTERTAINMENT Utah Film Center 801.746.7000, 122

Main Street, SLC. A non-profit continually striving to bring community together through film.

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VOICE COACH Stacey Cole 6/18

801.808.9249. Voice training for singing, speaking, and accent modification. Individual and group sessions with Stacey Cole, licensed speechlanguage pathologist and Fitzmaurice Voicework® teacher. Holistic approach. Free the breath, body and voice. Check out singing workhops and drop-in choirs in the “events” section of WWW.VOICECOACHSLC.COM

WEALTH MANAGEMENT Harrington Wealth Services DA 2/19

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SLC campus: 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. Cedar City campus: 435.586.8222, 297 N. Cove Dr., Cedar City. Morning & evening programs.

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DANCE RDT Dance Center Community School

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MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 12/18

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MEDITATION PRACTICES Anna Zumwalt: Meditation & HypnotherapyFOG

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Rumi Teachings 5/19

Good poetry enriches our culture and nourishes our soul. Rumi Poetry Club (founded in 2007) celebrates spiritual poetry of Rumi and other masters as a form of meditation. Free meetings first Tuesday (7p) of month at Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 E., SLC. WWW.RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM

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YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell DA 1/19

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YOGA STUDIOS Centered City Yoga 12/18

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Mountain Yoga—Sandy 3/19

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PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Nick Stark 6/18

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PSYCHOTHERAPY & PERSONAL GROWTH THERAPY/COUNSELING Big Heart Healing, Dr. Paul Thielking

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Healing Pathways Therapy Center 2/19

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Integrated counseling and medical services for anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship, life adjustment

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YOUTH ACTION

Collaboration, innovation and sustainability The University of Utah’s Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund

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bout 150,000 honey bees living in a dozen hives call the University of Utah home. You’ll find them in the rooftop garden just off the third floor of the Marriott Library and also on a fourth floor balcony of the Olpin Union Building, where visitors to the Crimson Room restaurant can observe the bees through a locked sliding-glass door.

It’s a buzzing community, started in 2012, that came about through an important program called the Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund (SCIF) which, over the last 10 years, has pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into innovative, ecological student-led projects around campus.

The Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund was proposed by ASUU (Associated Students of the U of U) in 2008 as a way of increasing sustainable infrastructure on campus. It’s entirely student-funded, with $2.50 from each student’s tuition going to the program.

The fund furthers the plan to make the campus a “Living, Learning Laboratory” where students gain real world experience, collaborate across various departments and create change. Candidates for funding, explains Emerson Andrews, SCIF coordinator, are projects “which maximize impact, remediate a problem and collaborate between multiple departments.”

The campus beehives started with a $1,800 SCIF grant awarded to Thomas Bench (BS ’13) who, already a bee enthusiast who maintained a bee hive as a hobby, saw the campus as an ideal place to install hives, teach beekeeping, increase the pollinator populations and educate his fellow students on the critical ecological role held by bees. Today, powered by two additional grants from SCIF, the University’s hives have expanded. The program is

BY ANNA ALBERTSEN now entirely self-sufficient, supported by income from beekeeping class fees and the sale of the hives’ honey.

Last month an ambitious multi-departmental team received funding for an innovative solution to a critical infrastructure problem. Facilities managers have been struggling with water damage in a campus building— water has been draining from uphill and through the foundation. Students will remediate the problem by installing a pollinator garden. Rerouting the water through a plant-dense area will reduce run-off, resolving the flooding issue naturally. Sustainability, Engineering, Biology, Art, Architecture and Sociology departments are working together to create a functional space with native plants that will support a healthy ecosystem.

When it comes to moving projects from idea to action, Emerson Andrews’ role as coordinator is critical. He acts as a bridge between students and department heads. It’s work he says he truly enjoys. “I can help students feel empowered to utilize campus resources and leverage sustainability at the University,” explains Andrews, a longtime environmentalist.

A committee of eight, including students and staff of various departments, vote on which projects to support. So far, 149 projects have received funding with $900,000 given in total. The largest award, $84,000, was to improve heating and cooling in Kingsbury Hall. SCIF has funded other sustainable infra-

structure projects such as solar panels, energyefficient light bulbs and waste separation recycling stations.

Funding for sustainability education and awareness on campus has covered the purchase of educational films, environmental sociology surveys and ‘lights off’ stickers above switches.

SCIF also provides funding for environmentally conscious ‘ARTivism’ (art+activism) such as The Dying Spirit in the Salt Flats which speaks to the erosion and destruction of the Salt Flats as well as working phenology groups that film ecology on campus.

Jennifer Follstad Shah, assistant professor for the Sustainability program, is encouraging her students to acquire SCIF skills via her capstone classes. Seniors are required to identify a sustainability-related issue, develop an idea and propose a solution to SCIF or another community partner. “[Creating a proposal] makes students more aware about the process—how projects go from a concept to implementation,” says Shah. “It’s important for students to have hands-on experience with interdisciplinary, collaborative projects because that is something many leaving this major will be a part of in the future.”

Through their work as mentors in this program, Andrews and Shah both say that, in addition to the projects’ specific outcomes, their day-to-day communications have expanded across departments, and they as well as the students feel a stronger sense of community on campus and their place within it. ◆

From “lights off” stickers to solar panels, 149 projects totaling $900,000 have received funding.

Anna Albertsen studies mycology, cares deeply about the environment and enjoys being a helpful and inspiring part of her community.

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METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH

June 2018: The world needs you.

Now.

BY SUZANNE WAGNER

Osho Zen Tarot: Fighting, Slowing Down, Past Lives Medicine Cards: Skunk, Butterfly, Coyote Mayan Oracle: Dreamer and Dreamed, Organic Balance, Etznab Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Empress, Six of Disks, Emperor Aleister Crowley Deck: The Aeon, Ace of Cups, Prince of Wands Healing Earth Tarot: Eight of Pipes, Eight of Crystals, Lovers Words of Truth: Seeing, Intention, Receiving

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his month, situations may feel strangely familiar. Perhaps we are bumping into a global time warp where past patterns are emerging through our DNA and delivering lessons that, in the past, were not completed properly.

You are being asked to reshape your world.

Not to suit your own obvious desires but from a more selfless place; because the world needs your help now.

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world rather than the suffering of its people.

People, after all, create most of the suffering.

But now, those terrible choices put this planet and its ability to support life in peril. It’s no longer about what you want but what serves all inhabitants of this incredible place.

Some people may grasp like a small child who throws a temper tantrum because it wants something it cannot have. Those on that level are about to get some tough lessons because we are now way past that type of selfish narcissism. And that is a good thing.

Humanity is waking up to the horrible truth that we have been trying to avoid. But that genie is out of the box and it is not going back in. So now we have to deal with the consequences of our own genetic choices, idiosyncrasies and belief systems.

Yes, you have been tricked and lied to. Yes, you knew better and now you have to awaken from a delusion that was more vast and complex than you wanted to realize. And yes, there is a huge transformation that will happen because of it.

You see with newly opened eyes. Those eyes may hurt because you’ve never used this particular “insight.” Your intention is redefining itself and you can see that certain shallow belief systems that had a positive intention now appear hollow and empty. And you are receiving a type of energetic transmission that is shifting the very core of your identity.

This causes a fighting response in some who are so stressed as they strive to have some control over the chaos. They react emotionally in order to feel heard.

Others respond by slowing way down. They drop into observation mode. They simplify and choose to not take on the emotional drama of

June 2018 CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET 43 others. They recognize that the only choice is to “know thyself” and to act only from a place of grounded clarity.

Both choices are based on what you need to be working on at this time to bring yourself into a more awakened place. When the mind tortures you, you are in a cage made of your own fears. It is always good to remind yourself to step beyond the egocentric patterns that you attached to as a reflection of your real self and recognize that the mind will always attempt to make a fool out of you, one way or the other. That is why you cannot trust the mind. It will eternally bend and twist circumstances in ways that makes you feel bad about yourself.

It is time to see the game your mind plays and have calm discernment over the ups and downs that the mind prefers to use to keep you off center. There is a deep love within every living thing. This is the energy that keeps this planet spinning on its axis. That love is so profound that if you have ever touched that place inside, you cannot ever look at anything the same way again afterwards.

You are such a powerful love that you can shift the reality quickly if you choose to move beyond the mind’s games and into becoming a voice of reason and understanding, love and compassion, truth and integrity. This world is screaming for all of those essential qualities from each of you. And you know it.

So now it is time to do something about that knowing. This planet needs you to move past fear and do what you know needs to be done.

It is not about living and dying; it is about surviving or thriving. ◆ Suzanne Wagner is the author of books and CDs on the tarot and creator of the Wild Women app. She lives in California, but visits Utah frequently. SUZWAGNER.COM

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June 2018

A monthly compendium of random wisdom for the natural world and beyond

URBAN ALMANAC June 8 Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) has many good qualities. It’s the favorite food of many butterfly larvae. It can remediate certain heavy metals from soil. It reduces swelling and improves hay fever symptoms, according to folk medicine. And the leaves are up to 25% protein, too.

June 9 Free Fishing Day in Utah. Did you know Utah has delicious wild salmon? Kokanee salmon are, essentially, landlocked Pacific sockeye salmon, found in our deep water reservoirs.

June 10 Bumble bees vibrate their burley flight muscles to shake pollen loose from flowers. Flying bees build up an electrostatic charge, which discharges when they land on grounded flowers, and spreads the pollen they are carrying.

June 11 Ladybugs lay infertile eggs along with the fertile ones to give hatching larvae something to eat.

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June 12 Consider naming your house. (This is not a practice exclusively for British novels.)

For instance, CATALYST dwells in Big Pink.

Friends live at Casa Vida, the Avant Garden and China Blue.

June 13 NEW MOON: 1:43 pm. Set an intention today! Keep it positive and aim for the short term.

June 14 The collective environmental factors— the microclimate and the microbes in the soil and air—that give cheeses, wines, chile peppers and maybe even your own tomatoes their distinctive flavors is called terroir.

June 9th is “Free Fishing Day’ in Utah. Max Mottonen fishing Millcreek

June 1 Sunrise: 5:58am. Sunset: 8:52pm. Mike, the Headless Chicken Day. Mike, a Wyandotte chicken from Fruita, Colorado, survived a botched butchering job and went on to became a well-traveled, highly paid celebrity before meeting an accidental death in a Phoenix hotel room 18 months later.

all listed in Fritz Kollman’s May CATALYST story, “Grow Your Own Habitat.” Bring on the pollinators!

June 2 In honor of the 50th anniversary of the National Trails System today, take a hike!

Sacred datura Watercress June 3 At last month’s Red Butte Garden plant sale we bought two kinds of asclepius (milkweed); a fern bush; two sacred daturas and numerous beardtongues (penstemon) —

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June 4 Though not native, these easy annuals are pollinator-friendly: alyssum, cosmos, calendula, zinnia, sunflower.

June 5 It’s not too early to start thinking about pets and fireworks.

Are your critters’ tags and microchips current? Might they benefit from a calming flower remedy or cannabis-related product (available at local pet shops)?

June 6 Caterpillar comes from the Latin catta pilosa, meaning hairy cat. The Greek word for butterfly is psyche, which means soul.

June 7 Skip the double marigolds and overly ruffled petunias to attract pollinators. They have been so altered by plant breeders that they no longer produce nectar or pollen.

June 15 Occupy your front yard. Haul a few chairs to the porch or lawn, and a table upon which to set your book and beverage. Entertain a guest or chat with a family member. Say, “Hi”, to passersby.

June 16 Today is CATALYST’s Bee Fest: A Celebration of Pollination! 9am-2pm. See back cover.

June 17 Writing exercise: List three places and/or objects you associate with your father.

Describe each, using at least three senses.

June 18 Start a jar of rumtopf (fruit preserved in alcohol) now

for Christmas giving.

Fresh fruit + sugar + rum or bourbon. Add to it throughout the season.

Taste after three months. The longer it sits, the better.

HTTPS://BIT.LY/2IPCI6V June 19 Plants with bitter flavors have a cooling effect. Add endive, escarole, watercress and dandelion to your salads this month.

June 20 There’s still time to plant a garden! Vegetables: beans, beets, carrots, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, kale, kohlrabi, melons, peppers, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes and turnips. Flowers: bachelor buttons, cosmos, dahlias, gladiola, marigolds, morning glory, sunflowers and zinnias. Plant successions of radishes, carrots and snap beans every two weeks, through July.

June 21 Summer Solstice: at 4:07am in Salt Lake City.

Daylight is 5 hours, 51 minutes longer today than on the December Solstice.

June 22 The Tropic of Cancer is a circle marking the latitude where the sun is directly overhead at the moment of the summer solstice.

The Tropic of Capricorn marks same for the winter solstice. When those latitudes were named 2,000 years ago, the sun was in the constellation of Cancer during the summer solstice and Capricorn during the winter solstice. Hence, the names. But over time, as Earth’s axis of rotation has shifted, the sun is now in Taurus during the summer solstice and Sagitarrius at the winter one.

June 23 Today’s maximum temperature was 101 °F in 2012; the minimum was 39 °F in 1907.

June 24: Midsummer Day. This is a good time to go outside, sit still, and hope to see a fairy (or, as they pre-

fer, faerie). Or maybe just (re)read Peter Pan. You can also create a fairy garden; the things you can do with pebbles, marbles, sticks, stumps and moss!

June 25 What to do with eucalyptus oil: Put some on your socks (but not your favorite socks because it might stain) to ward off mosquitoes. For a cooling soak, add four drops each of eucalyptus and peppermint to a tub full of lukewarm water.

June 26 When using a fly swatter, aim an inch and a half from the fly’s back; flies jump up and back when they take off.

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June 27 10:53am FULL MOON, called the Strawberry Moon. Buy strawberries at the Farmers Market this week.

June 28 Keep pinching the basil for bushy plants! Once white flowers appear, its leafy days are limited.

June 29 Have fun finding tessellations in the world around us — chain link fences, MC Escher art, houndstooth suits, sunflowers, honey combs, pine cones.

June 30 Sunrise 5:59 am. Sunset 9:02 pm. Commonly known as shooting stars, meteors (or meteoroids) are space particles that burn up with a flash of light when they enter the Earth's atmosphere.

Whatever might land on Earth is called a meteorite. ◆

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