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Thursday, September 20, 2012 • Issue # 962
Entrada Institute 2013 Artist-In-Residence Award
Leave it to Beavers! A Family Festival in Celebration of Utah’s Beavers! Escalante Petrified Forest State Park, September 21 & 22 ESCALANTE - Please join us for Utah’s first ever Beaver Festival! Help us celebrate Utah’s most useful mammal with a fun, family- friendly event capturing the spirit of one of nature’s most inspiring creatures. Enjoy a variety of activities, includingl ive trapping demonstration, art and photography contests, Pin the Tail on the Beaver game, face painting, scavenger hunts & prizes, live animals from Hogle Zoo, live music, food and drinks! And lots of fascinating information about our furry friends, beavers. Visitors will learn
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all about what makes beavers so special, and so worth restoring. They will also learn useful tricks for living with beaver, including simple, effective, nonlethal ways to protect property, trees, prevent flooding, and at the same time help beaver thrive. Beaver were once incredibly numerous throughout Utah. Many of the high mountain lakes and meadows were created or shaped by their dam building. Their dams moderate runoff, acting as speed bumps against the rush of spring floods and monsoons. They filter sediment and pollutants from water, sending some of it underground to recharge aquifers, cool, and reemerge downstream. Beaver ponds provide habitat diversity for fish, waterfowl, frogs, and many other species, and provide exciting opportunities for fishing, hunting and wildlife viewing. When their ponds fill with sediment, they become lush meadows where deer and elk come to feed and bed down. Five Reasons to come to the 2012 Leave It to Beavers Festival!!! 1. Beavers are of abiding interest to children and adults alike, so it’s a true family festival. 2. We’ll all be able to celebrate Utah beavers with maps of where to find them, photos, art, demonstrations, games, a life-sized beaver lodge model, and more. 3. Lots of people can share what they’ve learned about beaver AND all the other wildlife that congregate among beaver dams, ponds, and willows. 4. Presenters can share what they’ve learned about how to live with beaver and even move beaver families around to better places when beaver have ignored the “Keep Out of Irrigation Ditch” signs! 5. Festivals are fun The Utah Beaver Festival is sponsored by Utah’s Hogle Zoo, The Utah Department of Natural Resources, the U.S. Forest Service, the Grand Canyon Trust, and Boulder Community Alliance. For more information about the Utah Beaver Festival, visit http://www.utahbeaversfestival.org.
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Photo: Brent Stettler
Elk Permits Still Available 205 extra cow elk permits go on sale Sept. 20 SALT LAKE CITY - If you want to hunt elk in Utah this fall, plenty of permits are still available. The Utah Wildlife Board recently approved 205 additional cow elk permits. The permits go on sale at 8 a.m. on Sept. 20 But don’t wait to buy one—they’re going fast. The permits include 205 extra cow elk permits that the Utah Wildlife Board approved on Sept. 12. Judi Tutorow, wildlife licensing coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources, says, “If you want one of these cow elk permits, be at a DWR office or at the nearest hunting license agent location early enough so you’re one of the first people in line. The permits will sell fast.” The DWR’s website— wildlife.utah.gov—is also an option. But if too many people visit the site at once, the site could slow to the point that the permits might be gone before you can get one. The board approved the following permits for the following hunts in southeastern and northern Utah: Central Mountains, Gordon Creek-Price Canyon: 75 Central Mountains, Mohrland-Stump Flat : 100 Morgan-South Rich, Henefer-Echo WMA: 30 The permits were approved to try to protect deer and elk habitat in each of the three areas. In the two areas in south-
eastern Utah, removing more elk will speed the recovery of an area that was burned by a wildfire this past summer. The area provides important habitat for deer and elk in the winter. In northern Utah, dry conditions have affected habitat on the Henefer-Echo Wildlife Management Area. Taking extra elk will reduce the chance that elk damage plants on the WMA. Tutorow reminds you that you can have up to two cow elk permits each year. If you already have a cow elk permit, or two cow elk permits—but you’d rather hunt on one of the units that has additional permits—you can surrender your current cow elk permit for a chance to get one of the additional permits. You must surrender your current cow elk permit before the season the permit was issued for begins. You won’t receive a refund for the permit you surrender. In addition to the cow elk permits the board approved on Sept. 12, a total of 379 cow elk permits that were offered earlier were also available. And bull elk permits are available too. On Sept. 12, more than 4,500 permits to hunt on spike-only units, and more than 4,400 permits to hunt on any-bull units, were still available. For more information call the nearest Division of Wildlife Resources office or the DWR’s Salt Lake City office at 801538-4700.
LOA weather Dana Waggoner, Nick Reznick and Nate Waggoner enjoying their time on the mountaing during the BCHU White Creek ride. ESCALANTE - The Canyon Country Chapter of BCHU held another group ride on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 12. The ride started at the White Creek Trailhead above the reservoir on North Creek Road and followed the trail up to Griffin Top. Nate Waggoner, who is Chapter president, hosted this ride and was able to give a brief history of the cabins up there. Everyone enjoyed themselves and, as always, it was a beautiful day to be on the mountain. —Gwendolyn Zeta
TORREY - The Entrada Institute will award $1000 to a writer or artist to support work that encourages dialogue and discovery about the natural treasures and peoples of the Colorado Plateau. Applications for the Entrada 2013 Artistin-Residence stipend are due by October 10, 2012. The Entrada Institute, a nonprofit organization from Torrey, Utah, has a two-fold mission: to support artists, writers, humanities scholars, and earth and social scientists in their development of new works, and to promote understanding and appreciation of the natural, historical, and cultural heritage of the Colorado Plateau. In addition to the artist-in-residence program, Entrada funds scholarships to Wayne High School students and presents a series of Saturday evening events during the summers in Torrey, Utah. Entrada has awarded the annual artist-in-residence grant to artists and writers working on a variety of projects for over a decade. In 2012, Dr. Marden Pond, a
the Wind.” The 2011 stipend went to noted art historian Dr. Will South to write an essay for publication about the life and art of the late artist V. Douglas Snow. If you are interested in applying for the Entrada 2013 Artist-in-Residence award, please send a non-returnable portfolio of your work and a letter or email that describes your proposed project and demonstrates how it supports Entrada’s mission. Submit applications by October 10, 2012, to: Kirtly Jones 3798 E Sunnydale Lane Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 Kirtly.jones@hsc.utah.edu
World Alzheimer’s Action Day Comes to Utah
by Chris Thomas, Utah News Connection ST. GEORGE - This Sat- in their care? What role do urday, September 22, is World they want to play in their fuAlzheimer’s Action Day. In ture legacy? How do they want Utah, caregivers will hear people to remember them?” from experts at a free Memory Conference participants Loss Awareness Conference will learn how to distinguish and town hall meeting in St. normal forgetfulness from George. They’ll discuss re- more serious conditions. Acsearch and therapy techniques cording to Dr. Hammers, the for people with Alzheimer’s best medical advice for predisease and other forms of de- venting memory loss is the mentia. same as for maintaining a At the University of healthy lifestyle overall. Utah’s Center for Alzheimer’s “Physical activity; cogniCare, Imaging and Research, tive or thinking engagement Dr. Dustin Hammers says and stimulation; social stimuthey’re participating in drug lation; an appropriate diet. trials and doing research with Some of the critical pieces in people at different stages of terms of prevention at the curmemory loss. One key to cop- rent time are very easy to do ing with Alzheimer’s, he says, and very inexpensive to do.” is encouraging families to not Co-sponsors AARP Utah ignore the signs and symp- and the Alzheimer’s Assotoms. ciation say they’ll share what “Alzheimer’s disease and they learn from caregivers at dementia are medical illness- the event with Utah’s Congreses, and it’s important that as a sional delegation. They hope it community we break through prompts more federal support the stigma that exists about for research, and for families people being diagnosed.” coping with Alzheimer’s and Dr. Hammers, a neuro- other forms of dementia. psychologist, is the conferThe conference is 8:30 ence keynote speaker. He says a.m., Sat., Sept. 22 at Dixie the prospect of an Alzheimer’s State College School of Nursdiagnosis is understandably ing, 1526 E. Medical Dr., St. scary, so people often put off George. It is free to the public; seeing a doctor, although it call 435-628-8626 for inforis the first step that can allow mation. them, and their family, to plan In addition to the conferfor the future and line up the ence, there’s been a charitable support they need. Walk to End Alzheimer’s in “There’s actually a lot Utah scheduled every weekof information to be gathered end this month. This Saturday from getting a diagnosis like (Sept. 22), it’s in Logan, and that, including allowing the the following Saturday (Sept. individual himself to consider, 29) in Provo. what role do they want to play Wayne Phone: 435-836-2622 Garfield Phone: 435-676-2621 Fax 1-888-370-8546 PO BOX 105, Escalante, Utah 84726 snapshot@live.com
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