By PATTY HENETZ, Salt Lake Tribune

Walking, swimming, biking and arthritis-specific exercise programs can reduce pain, improve function and delay disability. Yet for some reason, a large number of those diagnosed with the condition don't exercise vigorously or even moderately.

They were warned, but they didn't listen.
Now, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management must deal with a federal judge's finding that the agency failed to properly consider potential damage to air quality and ancient rock art before selling oil and gas leases on sensitive public lands in Utah.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Anasazi ruins in southeastern Utah appear to take a back seat to hikers, cyclists and off-roaders in a just-released long-term federal land-management plan for 1.8 million acres -- a move critics warn could erase the legacies of ancient native cultures.

SNOWBIRD, Utah -- Ambitious plans for the 100th birthday of the nation's national parks will include more attention to a wider swath of citizens, especially youngsters, people over 65 and racial minorities.

BEAVER, Utah -- Hikers and campers don't need to walk in terror of black bears, but they should know they're around and how to get along with them, Utah wildlife and federal forest officials say.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Geothermal energy is clean, runs 24 hours a day and could be providing millions of people with electricity in Utah and the West. So what's the holdup?

The white-tailed prairie dog and the greater sage grouse once again are under review for endangered-species protection, as a federal agency continues to clean up after a Bush administration appointee who flagrantly meddled with scientific findings.

Lake Mead has a good chance of drying up by 2021 if water officials don't change the way they manage the Colorado River, researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have concluded. The report, "When will Lake Mead go dry?" says the Nevada reservoir and its upstream neighbor, Lake Powell, could drop so low gravity won't be able to move water downstream.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Avian cholera is killing eared grebes and, evidently, ducks and gulls on the Great Salt Lake in what is becoming an all-too-regular event on the important migratory-bird flyway.