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By: W. J. Arabasz, editor The purpose of this document, as originally conceived, was to motivate and guide actions that will reduce losses from future moderate-to-large (magnitude 5.5 to 7.5) earthquakes in Utah, with primary emphasis on Utah's densely populated Wasatch Front region. In...

By: Stewart Aitchison In 1879, 230 settlers in southwestern Utah heeded the call from leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to pull up stakes and move to the distant Sand Juan River country of southeastern Utah. Their six-month-long journey became...

By: Michael Kuhns Michael Kuhns has compiled a comprehensive guide to virtually every native and introduced tree species from the eastern slope of the Rockies west to the Sierra Nevada, and from north-central Oregon, the Salmon River region of Idaho, and Yellowstone south to...

By: Peter Francis Tassoni The Cedar Mesa country is a convoluted land of cliffs, arches, natural bridges, hoodoos, and spires. It is a land of flash floods and extreme temperature that demands much from those who would explore it. It is also an unparalleled...

By: William T. Parry Northern Utah's Wasatch Mountains are popular destinations for outdoor enthusiasts in every season. These mountains rise spectacularly from the relatively flat valley floor to thirteen peaks over 11,000 feet in elevation. An additional nineteen peaks rise more than 10,000 feet...

Ethnologist and historian Thomas Sheridan covers all the major topics of Southwest history: cultures, ethnicity, racism, war, water, mining, ranching, and conservation.

By: Dan Plazak Coal, silver, gold...there is something about the allure of finding hidden treasure that puts a glint in people's eyes - a glint that is sometimes blinding. An American saying, often attributed to Mark Twain, defines a mine as a hole in...

By Robert Cuthbert and Jake Eastham | Recipes by Andy Parle A practical step-by-step guide to dressing, preparing and cooking game, in the field and at home, with over 75 delicious recipes and over 1,000 photographs

By: C. N. Tripp This study incorporates subsurface, surface, structural, and stratigraphic data from the cretaceous Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale, and the Dakota Group into a hydrocarbon exploration model for the Wasatch Plateau and Castle Valley areas. Deposition within a paludal...

By: Scott Sadil Leaving behind a job as a public school teacher, acclaimed writer Scott Sadil (rhymes with cradle)began building Tamalita, a lug-rigged beach yawl suitable for exploring the remote tidewaters of Baja California’s Magdalena Bay. Before he could finish planking his new boat, however, Sadil...

Copublished with the Utah State Historical Society. Affiliated with the Utah Division of State History, Utah Department of Heritage & Arts.Stories of the ordinary people who helped build Salt Lake City emerge from a study of their often humble adobe houses. Rather than focusing...

By: T. H. Morris, J. H. McBride, and W. D. Monn This CD has a 50-page report that discusses the reservoir characteristics of erg-margin sandstones in the Middle Jurassic Entrada Sandstone. The approximate north-south trend of the Entrada erg-margin is mapped and sandstone body...

A Natural History of the Intermountain West: Its Ecological and Evolutionary Story A Natural History of the Intermountain West was written to inform people about the wild world around us, with the idea that we all crave a connection to the natural world to ground...

By: G. E. Christenson and F. X. Ashland, compilers Statewide losses from landslides in 2005 and 2006 likely exceeded $10 million and brought much public and media attention to the risks and challenges of building on hillsides in Utah. Utah has a long history...

By: U.S. Department of Agriculture Who hasn't daydreamed at one time or another about selling produce at a farmer's market, keeping chickens, or planting an orchard of fruit trees? Inside every do-it-yourselfer is a longing for a more independent lifestyle and the satisfaction that...

By: D. D. Gillette and M. C. Hayden The purpose of this report is to provide a preliminary inventory of the paleontological resources within the newly created Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument for two principal reasons. First, in establishing the monument, President Clinton proclaimed the...

By: J. D. Keith, R. D. Dallmeyer, C. S. Kim, and B. J. Kowallis This report documents several new findings concerning the geology and mineral potential of the central East Tintic Mountains, Utah. It documents the occurrence of previously unrecognized Eocene-Oligocene volcanic and intrusive...

By: G. Bemis The purpose of this guide is to provide educators in the Salt Lake Valley with a tool to enhance the teachings of 8th grade earth science. Teachers with a minimal earth science background can use this guide to easily identity local...

By: C. Eisinger The Cedar Valley drainage basin encompasses more than 580 square miles (1,502 km2) in southwestern Utah. Located in the transition zone between the Basin and Range and Colorado Plateau physiographic provinces, the drainage basin includes Cedar Valley, the Hurricane Cliffs, and...

By: C. Eisinger and M. Lowe In Grand County, ground water has been withdrawn primarily from two types of aquifers: fractured rock and unconsolidated deposits. Some of the better water-yielding rock units are grouped together into nine aquifers, including: the Lower Paleozoic aquifer, the...