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These privileges were granted to existing permit holders, subject to appropriate management by the NPS to encourage the protection of the park’s natural and cultural resource values. CRNP currently operates under Public Law 100446, passed in September of 1988, which extended grazing privileges for the lifetime of the 1971 permit holders and
their children born on or before December 18, 1971. “It is our goal, through this planning effort, to create a cooperative, comprehensive and collaborative public approach that guides NPS managers and our permit holders in the responsible manageCapitol Reef Grazing Cont'd on page 3
Love Utah, Give Utah 2015 Ready, Set, Give! WAYNE COUNTY - On Thursday, March 26, Love Utah, Give Utah will raise money for nonprofits and schools through a single online donation platform, providing a simple way to connect donors to charitable causes. The Entrada Institute and Color Country Animal Welfare will be representative nonprofits from Wayne County this year. This 24-hour online fundraising effort, hosted by the Community Foundation of Utah with the generous support of sponsors, will offer hundreds of nonprofits like us the opportunity to raise service and programming dollars thanks to donors like you. Please join us in celebrat-
Works of Local Furniture Artist Selected for Arizona Exhibit According to the Arts Center, the yearly exhibit “highlights the finest in contemporary crafts from across the country……. and has become a benchmark for innovation and quality” over its 36 years of existence. One of David’s pieces, the rocking chair “Lotus” was also recently chosen for the latest edition of the McGraw Hill higher education textbook “Art Fundamentals” as a design example “which combines ergonomics and aesthetic appeal to create organic furniture that transcends and becomes sculptural form”. David created Sculptured Furniture and exhibited widely in Germany for 24 years before moving back to the United States Sculpted rocking chair "Lotus" by Es- to Escalante in calante Artist David Delthony. 1996. He now maintains his Gallery-Workmitted by artists and craftsmen shop on Hwy. 12, just west of nationwide. In their selec- town. The current exhibit in tion they emphasized objects that embody the “intersection Mesa continues through April between fine art, craft and de- 5th. —Insider sign” and quality in execution. ESCALANTE - David Delthony, Escalante Artist and Woodworker, has had two pieces of his Sculptured Furniture accepted into the “36th Annual Contemporary Crafts” exhibit at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Mesa, AZ. The jurors, Jennifer and Mike Tansey of “Tansey Contemporary” in Santa Fe chose 51 works by 30 artists from 12 states from the 250 pieces sub-
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by Bob Mims,The Salt Lake Tribune GARFIELD CO. - A group of Boy Scouts will not be prosecuted in connection with toppling a tree last year that fell into the path of a motorcyclist, resulting in a fatal southcentral Utah crash. Garfield County Attorney Barry Huntington issued his decision on Wednesday, saying he had determined there was insufficient evidence that the Scouts involved in the Oct. 11, 2014 incident had the “required mental state, intent, or recklessness necessary [under state law] to reasonably convince a judge or jury they committed a crime.” Huntington said that earlier, the U.S. Forest Service had also declined to bring charges against the Scouts, boys 14-17 years of age who were members of a Fruit Heights troop given a USFS permit to cut and gather firewood. Edgar E. Riecke, 69, of Durango, Colo., died at the scene of the accident on Utah’s State Route 12 when he struck the freshly felled aspen at milepost 105.4, about 20 miles south of Torrey and 18 miles north of Boulder. The Utah Highway Patrol initially reported that while the Scouts had a tree-cutting per-
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A Colorado man died Oct. 11, 2014 after a tree fell right in front of him on State Route 12 in Garfield County, according to the Utah Highway Patrol. Boy Scouts responsible for the toppling of the tree will not be charged, according to the Garfield County attorney. mit, they had not marked the roadway with warning signs, cones or flags. Two of the boys had stepped away from the main group and used a bow saw and an ax to cut down the tree that fell into Riecke’s path, according to the UHP. However, Huntington noted that witnesses reported the boys had “tried to stop the tree from falling ... once they realized the tree would fall upon the roadway.
A Tradition of Horse Racing: The Marshall's of Panguitch Steve Marshall's grandfather Earl stood just a hair under five feet tall. Born and raised in Panguitch, Utah, he and his brothers would occasionally ride their horses into the Arizona Strip where they would run wild mustangs into a box canyon, rope and tie them head to tail, breaking them on the way back to sell. Steve says Earl wasn't the cowboy his three brothers were but was definitely the right the size, riding at least one race on the old track at Panguitch Lake around 1910. Asked where he finished he said "back in the dirt." Jockeying really wasn't what he wanted to do but he stayed involved with race horses in one capacity or another for the rest of his life. Earl's son, Steve's dad, Monte, rode Shetland ponies from the time he was big enough to walk and rode his first race when he was twelve. During the Thirties and early Forties, Monte followed the racing circuit getting better all the time, winning with Rob Dickinson's “Bonnie Band Big Sis” at Panguitch, then in the summer of 1938 he rode "catch weights" meaning you didn't have to weigh a certain amount. These "bush tracks" or "bull rings” were half-mile tracks known for their flat turns and rough surfaces. The owners paid $5 to ride and $10 to win, “but they didn't always pay ya." And Monte loved it all, riding horses in Utah, Nevada, Arizona and Montana, following the racing circuit as a member of the Utah Thoroughbred Racing Association. The summer of 1939, at the quarter mile, riding “Skippa”, a thoroughbred, Monte
won five races in nine days at Panguitch and Richfield. He then went on to Reno and Elko for his first experience on a recognized race track winning with “Miss Circle”. Now in the big time, he rode with Mel Lewis who was third leading rider in the nation and Steve Brooks, who later won the Kentucky Derby on “Ponder' in 1949. A jockey friend told Monte, ''you're in a dangerous occupation. You never know when a horse goes down what might happen." Monte's good friend, Herb Blackner, a jockey from Beaver, became leading rider at Caliente, Mexico and Del Mar, but had gone down in a four horse pile-up at the age of
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TORREY – The National Park Service (NPS) has begun development of a plan for the management of livestock grazing and trailing within Capitol Reef National Park (CRNP) and is seeking public input. Following discussions with agency experts, including our cooperators, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Richfield Field Office, the State of Utah Public Lands Policy Coordination Office, Emery County, Garfield County and Wayne County, the NPS is now initiating public scoping for a livestock grazing and trailing management plan and environmental impact statement (EIS), in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Public scoping is the first step to involving the public in the planning process. Scoping provides opportunities for identifying public concerns early and focusing the analysis on the important issues. Grazing and cattle trailing on public lands has a long history in the Capitol Reef area and on allotments inside what became park boundaries. When Congress established Capitol Reef as a National Park in 1971, it recognized that grazing and trailing were valid existing uses and provided for livestock grazing and trailing to continue with conditions on park lands, with an eventual phase-out of grazing.
Garfield County Attorney Won’t Charge Boy Scouts in Fatal Tree-toppling Case
In his memorandum addressed to the Utah Attorney General’s Office, Huntington said that during his five-month review of the case, all law enforcement agencies — including the county sheriff’s office, UHP and the Forest Service — recommended against prosecution “as the incident was a tragic accident.” This article appeared in the March 11 edition of The Salt Lake Tribune. Reprinted with permission.
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21 and hadn't survived. Skinny Lewis knew Monte could make it as a jockey but advised him, "get yourself back home and into college; they can't take that away from you." Monte did just that, earning a degree in pharmacy at Idaho State. He married Cleo Tebbs, then enlisted in the Navy for the next three years. He moved
with his wife and two boys back to Panguitch in 1949 and immediately bought a thoroughbred broodmare, “Lant Si” from George Marshall of Minersville. Monte's sons, Steve, Tom and Dan all eventually got inHorse Racing Cont'd on page 7
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In a 1979 photo, Steve Marshall, owner & trainer, holds Buster, in the winner's circle at St. George. Steve's son, Sam Marshall, sits in front of jockey Kirk Peterson,.
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