Logging for the railroad reshaped Utah’s streams. A century and a half later, they still haven’t recovered.

A Salt Lake Tribune report examines how 19th-century logging and 'splash dams' used to float railroad ties down Utah's Bear River headwaters for the Transcontinental Railroad permanently altered stream ecosystems, which remain in recovery more than 150 years later.

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