In 1996, staff with Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) and the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) launched a project to classify and describe plant communities occurring at DPG. The goal of the project was to use field data to...
This thirty-four page report, Forest Resources of Northern Utah Ecoregions, was written by Renee A. O'Brien. It presents forest resources information such as major species, biomass, growth, mortality, habitat types, ownership, and land use...
Forests and forestry -- Utah; Ecosystem management -- Utah
Improving Drought Management in the West: The Role of Mitigation and Preparedness. By Donald Wilhite, Director National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska. The purpose of this report to the Commission is to provide an overview and...
Droughts -- West (U.S.) -- Management; Drought forecasting -- West (U.S.)
Climate Variability, Climate Change, and Western Water by Kathleen A. Miller is a 54 page report to the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission submitted September 1997. The first section of this report describes the present distribution...
Climatic changes -- West (U.S.); Water Resources development -- West (U.S.); Water-supply -- West (U.S.)
This seventh edition of Climate of Salt Lake City, Utah, February 1998, was compiled by William J. Alder, Laurence S. Nierenberg, Sean T. Buchanan, William Cope (retired), James A. Cisco, Craig C. Schmidt, Alexander R. Smith (retired0, Wilbur E....
Climatology -- Observations; Salt Lake City (Utah) -- Climate
This four page report looks at climate change and its effects, with special focus on Utah which is at the intersection of four unique regions: the basin and range country of the Great Basin, the alpine peaks of the Rocky Mountains, the canyon...
Climatic changes -- Utah; Greenhouse gases -- United States; Global temperature changes
Report by Jerold F. Lazenby of the Bureau of Reclamation in cooperation with the Glen Canyon Environmental Studies. In 1985 continuous streamflow data was collected between Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Mead to calibrate the hydrologic computer model...
Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.); Streamflow -- Arizona -- Glen Canyon Dam
Describes socieconomic conditions and statistics of the Paradox Basin region in Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah, including the communities of Moab, Monticello, and Blanding.
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground--Utah; Utah--Statistics
This report presents the species and abundance of phytoplankton in the
25 lakes sampled by the National Eutrophication Survey in the state of
Utah, along with results from the calculation of several commonly used
biological indices of water quality...
Phytoplankton -- Utah; Water quality -- Utah; Limnology -- Utah
Report of impacts to riparian or streamside vegetation at eight study plots along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park following the June 3 to August 11, 1983 high water releases from Glen Canyon Dam compared using very large scale...
Riparian plants -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Riparian plants -- Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.); Riparian plants -- Effect of floods on -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Riparian plants -- Effect of floods on -- Grand Canyon National Park...
Lake Powell is the principal reservoir of the Colorado River storage project. It is located on the Colorado River and tributaries in northern Arizona and southeastern Utah. The reservoir extends 186 miles up the Colorado River from the Glen Canyon...
