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

Salt Lake Tribune · 1d ago

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…