Darren Parry to Speak at Wallace Stegner Center Symposium

Indigenous Perspective to Climate and Environment Darren Parry, Former Chairman, Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation; Author of The Bear River Massacre, A Shoshone History The lands and waters that Colonizers first put their eyes on were not “untouched” or ‘wild” as some have recorded, but rather the result of a broad range of Indigenous land and water management techniques. To assume that scientific knowledge […]

JORDAN RIVER WATERSHED E. COLI TMDL Report

Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act (CWA) requires states to develop Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for waters that do not meet water quality standards. The TMDL process establishes allowable loadings of pollutants or other quantifiable parameters for a waterbody. This TMDL addresses the Escherichia coli (E. coli) impairments in fourteen assessment units within the Jordan […]

Vertebrates of the Jordan River Corridor

With increased interest in the critters living along the Jordan River and as one of the Jordan’s longtime amateur zoologists I decided to create a list of the river’s fauna (vertebrates) a while ago. The list includes fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals in that phylogenetic order. The longtime nature-oriented non-profit, the Salt Lake County […]