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USFS seeks input PRICE—Visitors to the Manti-La Sal National Forest now have an opportunity to tell the Forest Service how they recreate on the Forest. Surveyors with the National Visitor Use Monitoring Program began interviewing people at forest recreation sites and along forest service roads October 1, 2020. These surveys will be ongoing, across the entire forest through September 2021. They will gather information about visitors’ experience on the national forest. All information is confidential and the survey is voluntary. Interviewers are hoping many visitors will pull over for an interview. The surveyors can be easily recognized by their signs saying “Traffic Survey Ahead.” The information is useful for forest planning and local community tourism planning. It provides national forest managers with an estimate of how many people actually recreate
on National Forest System lands and what activities they engage in while there. The basic interview lasts about eight minutes. Visitors will be asked where they recreated on the forest, how many people they traveled with, how long they were on the forest, what other recreation sites they visited while on the forest and how satisfied they were with the facilities and services provided. About one-third of visitors will be asked to complete a second confidential survey asking about recreation spending during their trip. Once the survey information is compiled and analyzed it is made available to the public through the internet. Information collected in the study is used by a variety of individuals and organizations, including members of Congress. It is important for surveyors to talk to local people using the forest as
Fairview man’s hunting privileges suspended
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well as out-of-area visitors, so that all types of visitors are represented in the study. Even if visitors answer survey questions once, they can be surveyed each time they visit the forest. This allows surveyors to collect
additional information about visitors’ recreational activities. For more information about the National Visitor User Monitoring program, see https://www.fs.usda. gov/about-agency/nvum.
YW beautify Shep’s Grill & Market reopens welcome sign garden BY GLORIA ALBRECHET
The Mt. Pleasant City Council would like thank the 6th Ward Young Women’s Organization for planting and caring for the flower garden located at the south state street welcome sign. The flowers in full bloom along with the American, Utah, and City Flags make the welcome sign very inviting. Their efforts to help beautify our city is greatly appreciated.
FOUNTAIN GREEN--On September third Shep’s Grill & Market re-opened for business in Fountain Green under new ownership. Husband-and-wife team Jenni James and Jason Sabey, who have lived in Fountain Green for five years along with their blended family of eleven children, saw an opportunity to create the dream of a lifetime in Fountain Green after Shep’s former owner Cheryl Shepard shut her doors on July 31. “We can do this,” James recalls telling her husband, and so they did. With James’ love of authentic food and the craft of cooking and Sabey’s experience in business management at a national big box store, the two set out on a journey with Shep’s Grill and Market. With the support of their children the couple owns, manages, and “does everything” at Shep’s. Sabey’s children are not new to the
PHOTO BY GLORIA ALBRECHET
On September third Shep’s Grill & Market re-opened for business in Fountain Green under new ownership. food service business. They worked with their dad at Del Taco in American Fork before the family opened Shep’s. James, who has authored 50 award-winning best-selling books and several screenplays, has been busy working on a new menu for the grill. It is now ready to be viewed on Facebook and can be printed for quick reference. She proudly shares that all their menu items are made with real ingredients, like local honey from Mt. Pleasant, and from original
recipes. Her son Tanner takes credit for some of the best culinary combinations, like his five-star Honey Mustard Chicken Sandwich, which is served with lettuce, slices of tomato and a secret ingredient. James does all the baking, offering daily fresh baked treats, a perfect combination with a cup of herbal tea from the Tea Bar. October 1 was the launch of Shep’s new menu of four hand crafted Buffalo BurgPlease see SHEP’S, Page A6
Sunder Creek Farms—a family affair BY GLORIA ALBRECHT AND MARY CURTIS
CHESTER—Hidden on SR117, between Spring City and Chester, is a farm that many from Sanpete have become familiar with the past few years—especially this time of year. For the third consecutive year the Sunder Creek Farm Pumpkin Patch has opened to the public with attractions for the whole family. The venue opened Saturday, Sept 26 and the Sunderland family is inviting everyone to join the fun. If you look it up on the map application on your cell phone the address is a little tricky to find. About half way between Highway 89 and Chester, on the north side of the road, there is an old pickup truck with a sign pointing the way under an arched entry. Of course there are plenty of pumpkins for sale, but that is only the beginning. Kids of all ages will love the fun of riding the barrel train, playing in the corn maze,
patch fourteen family members work at any given time, starting with owner Scott Sunderland and on down to grandkids, nieces, and nephews. But after nearly 40 years of farming in Sanpete County, Sunderland and his family are working on a succession plan that has been four years in the making. Sunderland’s daughter Jenna Madsen and her husband are inheriting the farm from her father, and her young children are already showing an interest in the farm life. “I love that I was raised here, and I want to have that lifestyle for my PHOTO BY KEN HANSEN children,” she said. She and Jaylene Durfey, Gunnison, and her children and grandchildren from Gunnison and her husband Brett Madsen Santaquin. “My daughter and her husband … discovered pumpkin patch 3 years ago and will continue the family’s have been coming back every year,” she said. “I was so excited to see Joy Sunderland and heritage at Sunderland Farms. visit with her about how her sons’ families had created all these fun ideas. I had come to The Pumpkin Patch is the her farm years ago when I was in the Miss Dairy Queen Royalty … What a wonderful place they have created for a fun family activity. brainchild of Jenna, who wanted to give people a place on the straw slide or on the and plenty of colorful photo bine with a slide attached to to have family fun while straw climbing tower—even a opportunities are all included it is waiting for kids to climb spending time on the farm. In haunted house. These, along for a small entry fee. Every all over it. addition to pumpkins for sale, with yard games like pump- year there is a new feature, Sunder Creek Farms is a kin checkers or the corn pit and this year a for-real com- family affair. At the pumpkin Please see SUNDER CREEK, Page A6
Salt Lake City—A Fairview man had his bear and cougar pursuit and hunting privileges suspended recently after the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources’ monthly hearing on Sept. 1. The administrative wildlife license-suspension process is separate and distinct from the criminal prosecution process conducted by the courts. The specific process for administrative license suspension is provided in Utah statute and Utah Administrative Rule. These regulations clarify which violations qualify for potential wildlife license suspension. License-suspension hearings are typically held at the Utah Department of Natural Resources building in Salt Lake City on the first Tuesday of each month and are open to the public. However, due to COVID-19, the September hearing was held via telephone, in order to follow social distancing guidelines. During the hearing, a hearing officer, appointed by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources director, receives the details of the case and then determines whether the individual’s hunting or fishing license or various privileges will be suspended. For a hunting or fishing license to be suspended, the hearing officer must conclude that the person intentionally, knowingly or recklessly violated a suspension-qualifying law. The lengths of various suspensions are established by the Utah Legislature and are based on the designated class of crime. If the crime is determined to be a class C misdemeanor, the suspension is one year. For a class B, it’s three years. For a class A misdemeanor, it’s five years, and for a felony, it’s a seven-year suspension. However, those suspension lengths can be doubled for two reasons: if your license was already suspended at the time of the crime or if the crime involves a trophy animal. The Fairview man pleaded guilty in Duchesne’s 8th District Court of attempted wanton destruction of protected wildlife. The hearing officer ruled that the case warrants a four-year suspension of privileges for pursuing or harvesting bears or cougars for the Fairview man, beginning Sept. 25. DWR conservation officers were first notified of the incident when they received a tip on Sept. 3, 2019, reporting that a black bear had been illegally harvested using an unregistered bait station. The individual who reported the incident led a DWR officer to the site of the illegal harvest on private property near Argyle Canyon in Duchesne County. Please see SUSPENDED, Page A6
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