i “ 7 3 » N oy {i hs bot 1m The Dallas Post Dallas, PA = Wednesday, November 15, 1989 5 i | Anderson afield By JOHN M. ANDERSON As the duck hunting season gets underway here and across the country, the number of mallards, pintails, and blue- winged teal is at its lowest point in history. The cause of the decline affects people as well as ducks. It affects their pocket- books, their drinking water, their quality of life. To understand this situation, it is necessary to turn back to the retreat of the last glacier, 10,000 years ago. As the glacier melted and retreated northward, huge chunks of ice broke off. These iceburgs weighed enough to make dents in the soil of the Great Plains. As the ice melted, these depressions filled with water, forming what we call prairie potholes. ‘The prairies pothole region extends from Minnesota west to Montana, from Iowa north across the Dakotas into central Mani- toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta; covering some 300,000 square niles. When first settled, the prairie potholes annually pro- duced enough waterfowl to darken the sky. The Indians and white settlers killed a few, but had not effect on the waterfowl resource. Then came the white man's plow and trouble began for the ducks, buffalo, and prairie chick- ens. The plow was followed by the ditching machine, bulldozer and dragline. The prairie farmer figured he was waging some sort of holy war against nature; that those wet spots were the enemy of mankind, so all the people should pay for draining them. Loss of ‘prairie potholes’ has meant fewer ducks Guess what! Engineers in the Army, the Department of Agri- culture, Interior agreed that draining the prairies, at taxpay- ers’ expense, was, indeed, a noble cause! If the farmer did spend his own money to drain his land, it was tax deductible. In other words, we paid him to destroy the great North American water- fowl resource. Furthermore subsidies guaranteed him that, regardless of the market supply and demand, we would pay him a set price per bushel for his corn, wheat, and other grains. When his plow was drawn by horses, if he had a pond in his wheatfield, he plowed around it. Today he can plow it up and contribute to the huge surplus of corn, for which we've run out of storage space, and it's tempo- rarily piled in the streets of some small Minnesota towns. Some ponds and small lakes have not been drained, but in a severe drought, such as 1988, the land is cultivated right to the water's edge. This eliminates all the vegetation in which a duck might hide her nest. Or if there is a narrowstrip of cover, the foxes, skunks, and raccoons comb through it in quest of groceries. : We've been having severe droughts on the prairies for hun- dreds of years, but when the rains came back, so did the ducks. But now, for the first time, due to the loss of vegeta- tion, the land is not in position to bounce back. At long last, the effect on people is being recognized. Presi- dent Bush says, “No net loss of wetlands”. Under pressure from duck hunters and conservation groups such as the National Audubon Society, Congress fi- nally passed the “Swampbuster Act” which says if a landowner drains a pond, he loses his gov- ernment subsidies. Of course, the senators from the Dakotas are howling about this, and some farmers in North Dakota con- tinue to drain and draw subsi- dies, knowing they probably won't get caught. Fifty years ago, there were millions of those tiny reservoirs which caught and held rainwater where it fell. Now the rain goes into the drainage ditch, into the creek, into the river, then into the Mississippi Valley. And every year, somewhere in the Valley, there is a disastrous flood. When the President declares it a “dis- aster area”, who pays for the damage? We do. In addition, those potholes and marshes allowed water to percolate into the soil and re- charge the underground aqui- fers. We are now pumping water out of the underground reser- voirs much faster than it’s being replaced. Parts of the Ogalalla Aquifer, for example, are being pumped out at 10-15 feet per year and being recharged at less than one inch. The ducks that depend on the prairie potholes are in trouble. And, for the same reason, so are you. John M. "Frosty" Anderson was Director of the Wildlife Depart- ment of the National Audubon Society from 1966 until his retire- ment in 1987. Christian book and gift store opens By CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff writer Gifts From Above, a new Chris- tian Book Store, the only one of its kind in the Back Mountain, opened for business following its Grand Opening, Saturday, Nov. 4. The store is located off Route 415, Dallas, on Gerald Avenue. Gifts From Above, owned by w Albert and Roberta Klein, is a . *} Christian Book Store and more, with a wide variety of items for all Christian shoppers. Customers will find a selection of Christian wedding bands, video rentals and in the near future, a room for viewing the videos. There are a multi-variety of Bibles, a music department, a children’s books area as well as cards, stationery and gifts. A popular and unique feature for children is Noah's Ark built by Walter Bartlett, who stopped in one day and volunteered his time to construct the ark as well as the checkout counter. Gifts From Above also has a full line of Sunday School supplies available from pre-school through adults; and all types of novelty items including children and adults tee shirts. There is a reading space with tables and chairs for the children to sit and look through books after NOAH'S ARK - Roberta Klein, Nathaniel Klein and Walter Bartlett stand in front of the ark that is the centerpiece for Gifts from Above, a new Christian bookstore in Dallas. (Photo by C.M. Denmon) going through the ark. Gifts From Above will be open Monday through Saturday. Church improvements to be dedicated New entrance steps and a walk at the Idetown United Methodist Church will be dedicated on No- vember 19 by the Rev. Michael Shambora. The project was com- sletely funded by donations from amily members of the late Mrs. VMiaude E. Antrim and Raymond Davenport. Willis. and Loy Ide of Oakhill, detown and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph \ntrim, Jr. of Wellsboro, Pa., are lonating the new entrance to the + 'hurch in memory of the late Mrs. Antrim. memory of her late husband, Ray- Mrs. Gertruce Davenport of mond Davenport. Walton Place, Harveys Lake, is donating the new entranceway in The Idetown church will note its 125th anniversary in 1990. Last day to miss KT tax penalty Kingston Township Tax Collec- tor, Janice Castellani, reminds residents that 1989 School Dis- trict tax bills will be collected at Face Value until Wednesday, Nov. 15. After that all bills will be due at Penalty Value with final collections for the year being made Friday, December 15. ~ Christmas Gift Ideas iy | Nt LOG CARRIERS & GLOVES DELEUR’S . \(7 1 beF INC. R.D. 1, Kunkle Dallas, PA LIFE SAVING- Margaret Davis instructs a CPR class at her Dallas Home on Sunday evening. Nine | people were certified in the life-saving procedure. Davis is trying to send a message to the public to “get certified”. Persons CPR Certified at this classes were Mildred Fowler, Frank Ide, Debbie Ide, James W. Davis Jr., Tina Davis, Teddy Hughes Jr., and Dallas Borough Police Officers James Martin and Billy Norris. Recertified was Laura Tracy. (Photo by Scott A. Davis) Dallas instructor stresses learning CPR When a human being's heart and breathing stop, the person is experiencing what is known as cardiac arrest. Contrary to popu- lar belief, however, this person is not immediately clinically dead. When an individual goes into cardiac arrest, an internal time clock begins to tick away, each tick brings that person closer to irre- versible, clinical death. Although a person could theo- retically be revived if medical at- tention is provided within 10 min- utes, according to Pennsylvania Emergency Medical Services, for a person to revive without consider- able brain damage, steps must be taken within four minutes. The action that needs tobe taken are collectively known as Cardio- pulmonary Resucitaion, better known as CPR. In the Back Mountain, the aver- age response time for an ambu- lance to arrive on the scene of an emergency is five to ten minutes. That may be too late for a cardiac arrest victim. If a witness to cardiac arrest could begin CPR immediately, the sufferer’s chance of survival is dra- matically increased. That is the message volunteer CPR instructor Margaret Davis of Dallas is trying to send to the public. Davis is an Emergency Medical Technician who runs with the Kingston Township Volunteer Ambulance. She runs over 400 emergency ambulance calls every year. Earlier this year, she became a CPR instructor. “There is no reason that anyone does not know CPR,” Davis said . Monday. “That is how easy it is.” She explained that if more people would learn how to perform CPR, many more people would survive cardiac arrest. “I think the public is very aware of CPR,” Davis stressed. “I think more people would do CPR if they were more educated about such things as contracting diseases.” Davis said that when she gives a CPR class, “there are always a few students who fear blowing into the mannequin (used to simulate a cardiac arrest patient) because they fear they will contract a disease from a previous student.” Davis said there is no need to worry about disease transmission. “People are not aware that after each session, the mannequins are taken apart and cleaned inside and out,” she pointed out. Davis also said she believes more people would learn CPR if more training sessions were made avail- able to the public. “It is important to make the public aware that there are local instructors willing to hold CPR classes,” Davis said. She explained that anyone wishing to contact alocal instructor can do so by calling the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross. Davis thinks CPR “should be a requirement in Junior and Senior high schools.” She said that lower grade level students may not be physically capable of performing CPR. She explained that although young children can be taught how to perform CPR, their smaller bodies may not be strong enough to do the necessary chest com- pressions. : Davis said the public should know that CPR classes do not have to be formal. “You can set up an informal class through instructors. You do not need a group,” she said. Davis has performed training ses- sions involving one student in the past. She said a session could | involve one student to over 25 students. The average class length for CPR, according to Davis, could be from four hours to three days depend- ing on how indepth the class wants to go. The basic CPR class is on evening. 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