2023 Spring Runoff Information and Resources from the JRC
2023 Spring Runoff Information and Resources from the JRC With a record breaking snowpack this year, our waterways are already flowing at higher than average rates, and flooding, mudslides and other damage is already taking place. State, county and local agencies are working around the clock to prevent and mitigate the impacts to property […]
Tish Burroker Reflects on Her Years of Service to the Jordan River Commission
“When I retired in 2014 I finally had a chance to reconnect with the community in which I lived. I started walking the Jordan River Trail and was dismayed to find that the wetland ponds I had once enjoyed were dry and full of weeds. More invasive weeds filled the nearby properties, and the City […]
March Blueprint Jordan River Focus: Community Development
What does development along the Jordan River look like? How can we do better than we have in the past? One constant in this world is change, and the Jordan River corridor is no exception. Development along the river is continually taking shape. The parkway currently has a mixture of projects that range from rehabilitation […]
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 […]
