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Don’t let last week’s ample rains fool you. Utah remains dangerously parched with water stores severely depleted, natural habitats stressed and woodlands primed for burning, according to an emergency declaration issued Monday by Gov. Gary…
October 16, 2018
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September 15, 2021
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The Utah juniper is considered the West’s most drought-tolerant and resilient conifer, withstanding even the worst dry spells while nearby pinyon and ponderosa drop their needles and die. So it was with some alarm for Kay Shumway, a retired science…
November 18, 2018
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May 24, 2021
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After one of the hottest and driest summers on record, Utah’s water supplies are so low that agricultural water deliveries have been cut short, stream gauges need to be repositioned to measure paltry flows, young deer and elk are dying and ranchers …
September 11, 2018
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May 27, 2021
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January 11, 2021
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Ken’s Lake in Grand County is barely a puddle of its normal self, currently holding just 20 percent of its 13,000 acre-foot capacity, thanks to seven straight dry years in southern Utah. The level of this reservoir near Moab is expected to…
April 05, 2019
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January 14, 2022
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The creek winding down Emigration Canyon once sustained Mormon pioneers’ inaugural crops planted in the summer of 1847 and helped water the Intermountain West’s first major settlement for decades. In some sense, Salt Lake City owes its existence to …
September 08, 2018
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April 07, 2021
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August 14, 2021
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At this time of year, Blaine Nebeker normally would be watching wheat seed sprout at his dryland farm in San Juan County, getting a jump on next spring’s growing season thanks to monsoonal storms that leave the ground damp and the forage green. But …
November 14, 2017
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May 26, 2021
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Late last fall, some 20 federal scientists toured southeastern Utah, prodding sickly and dead juniper trees, peeling back bark, snapping off branches and digging the dirt around root collars in search of clues to what could be killing the West’s most…
June 25, 2019
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At this time of year, Blaine Nebeker normally would be watching wheat seed sprout at his dryland farm in San Juan County, getting a jump on next spring’s growing season thanks to monsoonal storms that leave the ground damp and the forage green. “It’s …
November 18, 2017
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August 30, 2022
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January 07, 2022
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August 16, 2021
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April 22, 2021
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