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September 8, 2011 Page 5 Proclamation signed as a CWD precaution The 2011 proclamation estab- lishing guidelines for transporting deer, elk and moose carcasses and carcass parts into and within North Dakota is now in effect as a precau- tion against the possible spread of chronic wasting disease. Hunters harvesting a big game animal in North Dakota deer unit 3F2 cannot transport a carcass con- taining the head and spinal column • outside of the unit unless it's taken directly to a meat processor. The head can be removed from the car- cass and transported outside of the unit if it is to be submitted to a CWD surveillance drop-off location or a licensed taxidermisk I•n addition, hunting big game over bait is prohibited in deer unit 3F2. Bait, in this case, includes grain, seed, mineral, salt, fruit, veg- etable nut, hay or any other natural or manufactured food placed by an individual. Bait does not include agricultural practices, gardens, wildlife food plots, agricultural crops, livestock feeds, fruit or veg- etables in their natural lobation such as apples on or under an apple tree, or unharvested food or vegetables in a garden. Hunters are prohibited from transporting into North Dakota the whole carcass, or certain 'carcass parts, of deer, elk, moose or other members of the cervid family from areas within states and provinces with documented occurrences of CWD in wild populations, or from farmed cervid operations within states and provinces that have had farmed cervids diagnosed with CWD. Only the following portions of the carcass can be transported: • Meat that is cut and wrapped either commercially or privately. • Quarters or other portions of meat with .no part of the spinal col- umn or head attached. • Meat that has been boned out. • Hides with no heads attached. • Clean (no meat or tissue attached) skull plates with antlers attached. • Antlers with no meat or tissue attached. • Upper canine teeth, also known as buglers, whistlers or ivories. • Finished taxidermy heads. Deer disease may be returning Wildlife biologists believe recent reports of white-tailed deer deaths in western North Dakota could indi- cate the presence of epizootic hem- orrhagic disease. Dr. Dan Grove, State Game and Fish Department wildlife veterinar- ian. said the reports have character- istics similar to previous EHD events, though biologists have not yet confirmed the cause of the deer deaths, "Deer losses to EHD occur peri- odically," Grove said. "Sometimes the incidents are isolated and affect few animals, and in other cases the disease is spread over a large geo- graphic region." As of Aug. 30. less than 20 dead deer have been reported to the department in four counties McKenzie. Hettinger, Slope and Golden Valley. Game and Fish is urging bow hunters and elk hunters in the field in early September to report any observations of dead deer. Grove said. and to report locations quickly so biologists can gauge distribution and severity. "To isolate the EHD virus, the animal cannot have been dead for more than 24 hours." he added. Information needed from each report is the species, age, sex and location• "It would be nice if we could get the legal description of the land. or a GPS coordinate, and a photograph if pogsible." Grove said. "At the very least, we will n~ed the number of miles and direction1 from the closest town.'" EHD primarily affects white- tailed deer. and is most noticeable in western North Dakota when high whitetail populations combine with a hot and humid late summer and early fall. Most deer that die from this are infected before the first hard frost, which kills the biting midges that spread the disease. Grove said. • The last time North Dakota had significant deer deaths from EHD was 2005. EHD causes dehydration and a high body temperature, causing deer to seek water prior to death. Other clinical and behavior symp- toms may include respiratory dis- tress: swelling of head. neck, and tongue: lesions on tongue and roof of mouth:, indifference :to humans: and in later stages, hemorrhaging from body orifices. EHD is not a danger to humans. However. hunters should not shoot or consume a deer if il appears sick. Hunters should report any dead deer observations to the Game and Fish Department at ndgf@nd.gov, or (701) 328-6351. Roc Doc By Dr. E. Kirsten Peters Waste from oil fields a topic at symposium DICKINSON - The 16th A~nual North Dakota Solid Waste and Recycling Symposium will be held on Sept. 13-15 at the Ramada - Grand Dakota Lodge & Convention Center in Dickinson.- ...... : ....... Agenda items for 'this sympo- sium include: bus tours, exhibitors from around the region, as well as 20 presentations covering solid waste and recycling topics. The symposium will bring recyclers, solid Waste haulers, public works employees, landfill operators and regulators together to discuss the issues currently facing the solid waste and recycling industries. A range of solid waste related engineering and recycling topics will be presented during the three day symposium. Topics include: rural recycling, recycling glass, master planning of landfills. management of sofid waste from oil and gas wells, screening of waste and knowing what wastes are pro- hibited in municipal solid waste landfills, dealing with .wastes from natural disasters, conducting oil field cleanup and more. Tours during the three-day con- ference will include the city of Dickinson's Landfill and Baler Building, and the Schell Livestock composting site. For those interest- ed in the oil field, there will be a tour of a crude oil and natural gas drilling site. a production and dis- posal site and general overview of oil field activity. M~re than 25 exhibitors Will be present to show their ptOdu~:ts'~s~iwiC~ ~rifl in~tu:sfry equipment to participants. The conference is sponsored by the North Dakota Solid Waste and Recycling Association and co-spon- sored by the North Dakota Department of'Health's Division of Waste Management. Anyone inter- ested in attending the conference please call ¢7011 590-0488 for more information or to register by e-mail ndswra@ndsupernet.com, or see the full agenda at www.ndswra.org. Upland bird numbers decrease North Dakota hunters should expect to see fewer upland game birds this hunting season, according to Aaron Robinson. State Game and Fish Department upland game man- agement biologist. The season for sharp-tailed grouse, ruffed grouse and Hungarian partridge Opens Sept. 10. "Excessive water has affected reproduction in areas, but there will be some areas good for sharptails," Robinson said. "But no doubt birds will be harder to find." The spring sharptail breeding population was down 30 percent from last year, with numbers falling from west to east. Losses of native prairie and acreage enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program are negatively affecting the sharp-tailed grouse population in North Dakota. Robinson said. In addition, three consecutive harsh winters and a wet. cold spring this year delayed nesting across the state. Hungarian partridge numbers are also down. and more localized, than last year, Robinson said. "Scouting areas will be critical to soccess." he added. "At this time there is not one area that stands out from the rest. The cover is high. so hunters will need to scout and be willing to move to other areas to find localized pockets of birds.'" This spring's statewide ruffed grouse drumming counts took a dip of 15 percent from 2010. The num- ber of drumming males increased almost 13 percent in the Pembina Hills. but the Turtle Mountains showed a 28 percent decrease from last year. The sage grouse and prairie chicken seasons will remain closed in 201 t due to low populations Shooting hours are one-half hour before sunrise to sunset. Sharptails. ruffed grouse and Huns each have a daily limit of three and a possession limit of .12. Hunters. regardless of age, must have a fishing, hunting and furbear- er certificate and general game and habitat license. In addition, hunters age 16 and older need a small game license. A good day for a barbeque Residents attend a barbeque sponsored by St. Joseph's Hospital and Health Center and the Beach Medical Clinic on Aug. 25 in Beach. More than 200 people attended, (Courtesy Photo) Water, water, not quite everywhere Check us out on our new website: lwww, arenawelding,com 109 N When I was a kid I was "born again," a process that involved being fully and totally immersed in water. Much more recently I was on the home stretch of an 8-mile walk in the hot sun when the minister I was walking with kindly poured her drinking water on my hot little head. Seldom does water feel so good as when splashed on an overheating noggin in the summertime. As soon as my hair was sopping wet. l cer- tainly felt born anew. able to com- plete the walk with at least a tiny smidgen of spring in my step. Just a cup or two of water, supplied at the crucial time and applied to best adwmtage, made all the difference in the world. What would you imagine is the largest use of water in the U.S.? We all can guess it's not drinking water itself, nor .we~tting the heads of aging geologists. Would it be what goes on everyday in kitchens for meal preparation'? Or the weekly tr washin= of laundry', Bathrooms and what we do in them'? Perhaps com- mercial carwashes use more water than 5 our home'. Actually, irrigation makes up the most significant use of freshwater in the U.S. In a nutshell, some farmers use a lot of water to grow crops on semi-arid or marginal land Techniques range from flooding fields to using pressurized sprin- klers to anoint crops with much needed artificial rain. There are some slgnilicant draw- backs to irrigation. Freshwater is precious resource, and using so much of it for frothing can be criti- cized as profligate. Beyond that. irrigation can degrade soil. making it saltier over time as water evapo- rates repeatedly in hot and dry regions where nTigation is com- monly practiced. Colors of Health 31 Sims Street, Dickinson ND 58601 701-483-1060 1-866-483-1060 www.colorsofhealthnd.com Vitamins ~ Herbs - Homeopathy Aromatherapy ~ Organic & Gluten Free Products Monday - Friday 8:30-5:30 & Saturday 9-4 But there are two major ideas to keep in mind when it comes to irri- gation. The first is that around the world irrigation truly helps us pro- duce food for the 7 billion mouths we now have to feed on the planet. In various parts of the U.S. we irrigate to grow everything from vegetables to wheat and rice. )~h'~ib~t"/dl"sft[~ in the Union have some measure of irrigated agricul- ture within them. And. as most of us vaguely know but we don't often articulate. American farmers feed us well and also produce enough for many millions of others around the world to whom our harvests are exported. All those facts came to mind recently when I read of a University of Wisconsin study about irr|gation on the global scale. The bottom line of the study is that global irrigation patterns increase farming output substantially. In fact. that increase is almost as great as all of U.S. f'm~- ing output rolled into one sum and we grow a lot of food in this coun- try, so that ain't nothing to sneeze at. Agricultural productivity and irrigation isn't the same everywhere because a little bit of water m a dry field can increase yields much more than more water in a wetter regipn. Interestingly, the Wisconsin researchers believe irrigation around the world is used close to maximum efficiency. In some ways the efficiency of global irr|gation is good news we humans are not being wasteful with respect to a very large chunk of our freshwater resources. But it also means that as population continues to increase, we can't feed more mouths.just by upping our irrigation efficiency. One reason scientists and engi- neers are studying matters like irri- gation is that people have become interested in all tbrms of carbon uptake from the air. If you grow plants, they "mine" carbon dioxide out of the air to build their carbon- rich little selves. A tree locks up this carbon for 3 ears or even centuries to come. By comparison, a crop plant like wheat only temporarily stores carbon, Freshwater is one resource that. like energy, goes into all sorts of our products and activities. It's so much cheaper than gasoline, we normally don't think of it as we go about our daily lives. But it's a limited resource the use of which has sig- nificant environmental impact. What we want to do with it is some- thing we could welt afford to think about more clearly. One thing is evident to me: I want us to always have enough water to pour over the heads of old ladies taking long walks on hot summer mornings Steve Stark Pres~ Theodore Roosevelt Cowboy Poet Rodney Nelson Singer, Songwriter Jesse Veeder Scofield Radio show plus concert: Only $25 For tickets and lodging specials: Radio show will be broadcast live Call 1-800-medora I or statewide on Prairie Public_ Radio A non-broadcast concert Visit www.medora.corn will follow the radio showl. Sponsored by: Basin Electric Power Cooperative I Gate City Bank • ND Farmers Union Save the Golva Post Office The Golva City Council is asking EVERYBODY to come to the Postal CLOSING meeting on Tuesday, Sept., 13 at 1:30 p.m. at the Golva Grade School. We want to show our need to keep the post office here in our city. So let's fill the room to overflowing and show the representative that we do care.