Water Conservation
'Seeing is believing': Utah senators tour Great Salt Lake as they look at ways to protect it
— Utah state senators and the new Great Salt Lake commissioner toured the lake by airboat, discussing conservation efforts and plans for legislation, including phragmites eradication and pursuing federal funding, ahead…More: ABC 4 , Fox 13 , KSL , KSL All 5 reports
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…