Utah
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These most arid states are frivolous in their water use- The direct reason for this is their determination to grow and do things that belong in water rich areas — fight the areas’ natural lack of water or fight some other natural factor.* That’s why they build so many dams, dewater their streams, construct huge…
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Are local people waking up to the fact that energy development in the remote West lacks the water necessary- The attitude of many interior Western politicians is, and generally has been, that they are happy to be a colony for the rest of the country as long as they can be glorified for a few…
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Great Basin Water Network tells the “real reason” why Utah politicians laid down for Las Vegas water steal- The Great Basin Water Network says Utah will give up Snake Valley and state’s air quality to Las Vegas for support of their own urban sprawl pipeline — Lake Powell to St. George, UT. Pat Mulroy (image),…
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. . . and Utah officials had no backbone- This gets more and more disgusting the longer the story goes on. Today’s article in the Salt Lake Tribune has a handy sidebar with links to past articles. Did Utah blink in Snake Valley talks? Water » New documents show Beehive State’s position changed after Nevada’s…
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Utah gets a beaver management plan- Restoring beaver to a creek changes just about everything, mostly for the good, especially if there are no buildings or needed roads near the creek. Story on Utah’s first beaver management plan. Plan looks to use the large rodents as a watershed restoration tool. By Brett Prettyman. The Salt…
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Eight tracts will not be auctioned; 52 studied more, 17 given up to oil and gas interests- Tim DeChristopher’s brave disruption of the December 2008 oil and gas lease auction in Utah has resulted in a new decision by the new Secretary of Interior. Politicians and groups are characterizing it in differing fashions according to…
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This plan to drain the desert aquifer to fuel urban sprawl at Las Vegas is getting pretty contentious- Snake Valley water deal could kill Utahns, state’s top docs warn. Utah Medical Association presses governor to nix the accord with Nevada. By Patty Henetz. The Salt Lake Tribune. Folks have seen the Austrialian dust storms overwhelm…
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Things are finally looking up a bit for the 9-million acre proposal to conserve some of Utah’s finest BLM canyonlands- This bill has been wandering the wilderness for a long time, but now a supporter chairs the important House committee — Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz. The finally got a hearing. Odds against are long because Congress…