Wednesday, May 2, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5 ; ott McC" Tit WITHC? ^ U L 5T0f SAME li Vou' attlemen, tortoise fight over control of Utah land United Press International JBALT LAKE CITY — It’s cattlemen vs. the tortoise ■he latest version of the old asluoned range war of the l' West. jThe cattle ranchers are 4iWti up against preserva- lists in the battle for sparse letation in southwest Utah, ighting over the question of C lich is more threatened — le Desert Tortoise or the rattle industry. .■The land where the battle G Han is a 35-square-mile de- p •, grt known as the Beaver • 51 ei> Bin Slope where, since 1980, the tortoise as a federally des- w , ’Bated threatened species, . . a f B been guaranteed its share in stress thtfr i 8 i,ncSsskills |preservationists i UnUy » l - |on g tortoise n inembe jBh-dome brown shell, gray ' we f*es and yellow limb sock- ime diing ets j las become an unfamiliar say with the its eryone else sight amid the sagebrush 1 15 where it has lived for more is Out ISM* 12,000 years. other sodttBg ecause l j ie tortoise is threatened, cattlemen each »ar must pull their herds off onew iwbBo federally owned range in MeschKiuBjch to leave behind spring torol p vegetation that is critical nou- was unusiLyj s | irnenl {- or tortoises emerg- i new chap j n g wea k from hibernation ■ 10 ’ afid preparing to breed. The •aid. “Whan® mester will; mbership ; a year cattle cannot graze the land again until October. Ranchers say they grud gingly have accepted the Bu reau of Land Management dictum so far, but they fear any further push to revive the tortoise population could force them off the land alto gether and threaten them with financial extinction. “There’s a chance that 30 “It's mostly a lot of mis understanding and a lot of hype, ” — Wildlife Resources spokesman. cattlemen could be knocked out of business who have car ried on fine operations for generations,” said Rep. James Hansen, R-Utah, whose dis trict encompasses the range- land. “The Desert Tortoise and the cattlemen have lived com patibly since the 1880s,” he said, “and I doubt the cattle men are any threat to them now. My guess is that a bigger threat is that every kid in the county has a string tied around one’s neck.” Wildlife Service Director Robert Jantzen has agreed to review the process by which the Desert Tortoise joined a growing list of animals con sidered threatened. Wildlife Service spokeswo man Megan Durham said Jantzen agreed to the review at the request of Hansen. Hansen is concerned about the influence of the Desert Tortoise Council, a preserva tionist group dedicated to the tortoise’s survival. “The thing that ticked me off is that the Fish and Wild life Service gave the Desert Tortoise Council the contract to study whether the Desert Tortoise should be placed on the threatened species list,” Hansen said. “It raises suspi cion about the impartiality of the decision.” Durham confirmed that the Desert Tortoise Council studied the tortoise popula tion, but she said the Fish and Wildlife Service also solicited and received information from cattlemen, university bi ologists, zoologists and oth ers. “We want to be responsive to the congressman and see if there is a conflict of inter ests,” she said. “The listing of the species has been contro versial all the way along. Many people feel that eco nomics is more important than the survival of the spe cies.” Mike Coffeen of the Utah Division of Wildlife Re sources said listing the tor toise as a threatened species has not interfered with cattle grazing. “The cattlemen protest, but they pull their cattle off the range early,”he said. “It’s “There’s a chance that 30 cattlemen could be knocked out of business who have carried on fine operations for gen erations,” — Rep. James Hen sen. mostly a lot of misunder standing and a lot of hype.” Robert Benton, a biologist for the Fish and Wildlife Service, said the proposed plan to revive the tortoise population would not forbid or further limit cattle grazing. The draft has yet to be sent to Washington for approval. Louisiana wants to bring Lucas to trial for killings United Press International BENTON, La. — Confessed mass killer Henry Lee Lucas was indicted Tuesday in the strangulation of a northwest Louisiana woman and the stab bing death of an unidentified female hitchhiker. A Busier Parish grand jury indicted Lucas, 48, after hear ing evidence from interviews with the condemned killer last week. Lucas reportedly con fessed to the slayings and con firmed information investiga tors had gathered in the crimes, said Bossier-Webster District Attorney Henry Brown. Lucas claims to have killed 360 people while drifting around the country. He has been sentenced to death and prison terms of 75 years and life for slayings in Texas, and has been charged with slayings in several states. Lucas, 48, was indicted for First-degree murder in the 1978 death of Dolly Dement, 48, of Coushatta. 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