Mr. Peterson talks about growing up in Hyrum, Utah; his father's ranching and farming operations; working with his families’ sheep ranching operation in Cache National Forest and in Box Elder County. He talks about getting out of the sheep...
Environmental Conditions Inventory and Quality Rating, a working paper, March 1977. This first volume in a four-volume report summarizes environmental conditions of the Bear River Watershed in Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. Work on this project was...
Bear River (Utah-Idaho); Bear River (Utah-Idaho)--Environmental conditions; Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho); Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho)--Environmental conditions
Environmental Conditions Inventory Appendices, a working paper, March 1977. This appendices volume provides tables and descriptions of statistical environmental data and quality ratings discussed in the other three volumes of the Environmental...
Bear River (Utah-Idaho); Bear River (Utah-Idaho)--Environmental conditions; Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho); Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho)--Environmental conditions
Environmental Conditions Projections, a working paper, March 1977. This report written in 1977 forecasts environmental data for the years 1985 and 2020 for the Bear River Watershed. Work on this project was performed between July 1, 1974 and...
Bear River (Utah-Idaho); Bear River (Utah-Idaho)--Environmental conditions; Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho); Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho)--Environmental conditions
Environmental Enhancement Opportunities, a working paper, March 1977. This report describes the opportunities for accelerating programs already contributing to the environmental improvement, suggests other actions for the area, and identifies...
Bear River (Utah-Idaho); Bear River (Utah-Idaho)--Environmental conditions; Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho); Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho)--Environmental conditions
Land Resource Data Working Paper Bear River Basin, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming for the Bear River Basin Cooperative Study, November 1976. Paper describes land use and ownership of the Bear River Basin's 4.8 million acres. Illustrated by black and white...
Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho); Land use -- Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho); Landowners -- Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho)
Summarizes about 22 reports prepared as the result of the cooperative study of the Bear River Basin in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming in the mid-1970s. Describes the Bear River Basin and some of its problems in areas such as economics, recreation,...
Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho)--Statistics; Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho)--Maps; Land use--Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho); Water-supply--Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho); Bear River (Utah-Idaho)--Environmental conditions--Statistics;...
This history of the Bear River Compact describes the negotiations that led to the 1955 Compact and its amended version approved in 1980. In the telling, it gives some background on water rights in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming and relates the...
Bear River Compact--History; Bear River Commission--History; Water rights--Utah; Water rights--Idaho; Water rights--Wyoming; Water resources development--Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho); Bear River (Utah-Idaho); Bear Lake (Utah and Idaho)
Investigates the chemical, physical, and bacteriological quality of the Lower Bear River and its tributaries based on fieldwork done November and December 1955. Provides background data from two earlier reports from 1952 and 1955. Includes map...
Water quality management--Bear River (Utah-Idaho); Factory and trade waste--Research--Idaho--Franklin County; Factory and trade waste--Research--Utah--Cache County; Pollution--Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho); Water--Pollution--Bear River...
A brief biography of Lincoln Ellison written by his daughter Liane with emphasis placed on his seven years as the director of the Great Basin Branch Experiment Station, a Forest Service Service research facility in the Wasatch Mountains above...
Ellison, Lincoln, 1908- ; Great Basin Branch Experiment Station (Utah)--History; Wilderness areas; United States. Forest Service; Forest experiment stations--Utah; Ecologists--Biography; Ellison, Lincoln, 1908---Bibliography;
In her first interview Katherine Gilbert briefly talks about her childhood in Canada and fond memories of outdoor experiences in her youth. She discusses her college education and subsequent jobs and training, and then speaks about influences as an...
Citizens for the Protection of Logan Canyon; Land use--Utah--Logan Canyon; Beaver Mountain (Utah); Canyons--Utah--Cache County--Recreational use; Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.)--Alumni and alumnae; Montreal (Quebec); Laurentian Mountains...
The first interview covers Thad Box’s early years in Texas and his education. The interview was a demonstration of interview techniques by Elaine Thatcher to members of the Land Use Management Oral History Project members, including Brad Cole,...
Box, Thadis W.--Interviews; Box, Thadis W.--Family; Utah State University--Faculty--Interviews; Agricultural education--Texas; Logan Canyon (Utah); Recreation--Utah--Logan Canyon; Mormons--Social conditions; Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife...
This survey of potential ecological natural landmarks of the Middle Rocky Mountains was written by Janet L. Johnson and Robert D. Pfister in June 1982. Its primary goals include an analysis of the Middle Rocky Mountains biotic themes and an...
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
In this publication, the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) is used to determine soil losses for rangelands sites and woodland ecosystems. Using the USLE, the gross soil movement that occurs as sheet and rill erosion has been estimated. Other...
Soil erosion -- Utah; Range management -- Utah; Forest conservation -- Utah; Public lands -- Utah; Fire management -- Utah;
Nicholas Welch Crookston Grazing Permits from 1914 to 1925 for grazing cattle (and a few horses) in Logan Canyon, Cache National Forest, Utah. Also includes notification of the Desert-Land Act requirements from 1905 to Nicolas W. Crookston, an...
Grazing--Cache National Forest (Utah and Idaho)--History; Grazing--Utah--Logan Canyon--History; Grazing districts--Cache National Forest (Utah and Idaho)--History; Grazing districts--Utah--Logan Canyon--History; Rangelands--Cache National Forest...
Interview conducted by Barbara Middleton on April 27th 2009 with Thad Box about the bells of Australia and Europe. This is the fourth session in a four-part interview.
A lecture presented by Thad Box given on October 28, 2009 at the USU Merrill-Cazier Library to open the Bells: Connecting Animals, People and Land Exhibit exhibit;
Images of book covers used in the Bells: Connecting Animals, People and Land exhibit at Utah State University. Books included: Andy Adams : His Life and Writings, Western Grazing Grounds and Forest Ranges, Old Deseret Live Stock Company: a...
Annual report of the Extension Work, Agicultural Agent, Weber County, State of Utah, 1947, by A.L. Christiansen, County Agricultural Extension Agent; Curtis L. Willis, Assistant County Agent; Grant M. Esplin, Assistant Agricultural Agent; Maud...
Sheep grazing during the late 1800s led to the deterioration of Logan Canyon. Voiced by Elaine Thatcher. Part of the Stokes Nature Center's podcast series History & Lore of Logan Canyon where each podcast is linked to a specific site in Logan...
Grazing--Environmental aspects--Utah--Logan Canyon; Sheep--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History--19th century; Range management--Utah--Logan Canyon--History; Rangelands--Utah--Logan Canyon;
The interview contains information on Fred Wagner's childhood, moving around the nation, and interest in the outdoors. He discusses his goal to be a rancher and his experience working as a cowboy where he realized his interest in plants and...
Wagner, Frederic H.--Interviews; Wagner, Frederic H.--Career in Wildlife Research; Utah State University. Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife--Faculty--Interviews; Animal populations--Research--Utah; Population biology--Research--Utah; Population...
Panoramic view of range lands near Goldberg, Idaho, showing jack fence and cattle grazing. Blemish in lower left hand corner has been cropped out. See slides 260607 through 260804 for similiar slides taken in this area.
Panoramas -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works; Rangelands -- Pictorial views; Fences -- Pictorial works
Yearbook for Utah State University. Published from 1909-1971 with single issues in 1978 and 1981.
Utah State University--History; Utah State University; Utah State Agricultural College; Agricultural College of Utah; Universities and colleges--Utah; Education, Higher--Utah; USU--Student life; USU--Student publications; USU--Faculty and staff;...
Hearing before the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives Sixty-Sixth Congress Second Session on S. 3016, an act to authorize the disposition of certain grazing lands in the State of Utah held January 5, 6, and 7, 1920.
Public lands -- Utah -- History; Pasture, Right of -- Utah -- History; Grazing -- Utah -- History
Interstate 15 through the Bear River Valley: Administrative Action Final Environmental Impact Statement. This 227 page document presents the environmental, economic and social impacts of constructing I-15 through northern Utah. Also contains...
Roads -- Utah; Express highways -- Utah; Environmental policy -- Utah; Interstate 15; Bear River Valley (Utah-Idaho) -- Environmental conditions
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...
Consisting of four volumes, this environmental assessment of the Bear River Basin provides projections and a summary report in the first volume (57 pages); an inventory and quality rating summary report of conditions as they existed at time of the...
Environmental impact analysis -- Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho); Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho) -- Environmental conditions
This reports on a study looking at one aspect of pinyon-juniper land management, converting woodlands to grasslands. The study was done jointly with the Bureau of Land Management and the Geological Survey to look at land treatment practices in the...
Juniper -- West (U.S.); Land use -- West (U.S.); Pinyon pines -- West (U.S.); Public lands -- Utah -- Management
A collection of four essays on the historical nature of the rugged land and the progress of the of the Lower Dolores River Valley in southwestern Colorado. The essays also discuss historical events and themes that come from within the valley. The...
Report by Richard B. Hunter and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, to monitor for a five year period the flora and fauna at the Nevada Test Site.
This environmental assessment considers the effects of a proposed new plan for fire management in the six National Forests in Utah (Ashley, Dixie, Fishlake, Manti-La Sal, Uinta, Wasatch-Cache). This digital copy was made from the print report...
Fire managment -- Utah; Forest fires -- Utah -- Prevention and control; Forest reserves -- Utah -- Management
Study on the cattle industry in Canyonlands National Park. The intention of the study is to trace the history of the cattle industry as it was done in the park. The study is divided into three sections: 1) discussion of the open range cattle...
Canyonlands National Park (Utah); Cattle -- Utah -- Canyonlands National Park
The existing Glendale Reservoir on Worm Creek would be enlarged from its present capacity of 5,800 acre-feet to 23,000 acre-feet. Water would be brought to the reservoir from Cub River through an enlargement of the Cub-Worm Canal and from Mink...
Water resources development -- Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho); Irrigation -- Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho); Irrigation projects -- Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho);
This Environmental Impact Statement EIS has been prepared in response to the proposed Master Development Plan Update MDP submitted by Solitude Mountain Resort. Six alternatives are evaluated in this EIS, for consideration by the Forest Service. The...
Forest management -- Cache National Forest (Utah and Idaho); Forest management -- Wasatch National Forest (Utah and Wyo.); Forest reserves -- Recreational use -- Utah; Mountain resorts -- Environmental aspects -- Cache National Forest (Utah and...
Mr. Garth Baxter talks about his career in the Forest Service, then later as ranching on his family’s land. He discusses his family history in the Cache Valley, as well as his family history in ranching. Mrs. Maydene Baxter talks about her...
Baxter, Garth--Interviews; Baxter, Maydene--Interviews; Cattle ranching; United States. Forest Service; Teton National Forest (Wyo.); Humboldt National Forest (Nev.); Bridger National Forest (Wyo.); Challis National Forest (Idaho); Range...
Brothers, Jay and Blaine Tanner, speak about growing up on a ranch in Grouse Creek, Utah; buying their grandfather’s ranch property, and ranching together, with their brother Brent, as adults. Interviewed by Randy Williams on November 8, 2010 at...
Mr. Weston talks about his family history and how his ancestors came to settle in Rich County, Utah. He discusses his family ranch and how it’s been divided among family members over the generations. He also talks about his childhood through...
Mr. Jay Wilde talks about his life living and working on and with the land, and with cattle. He discusses his views on land management, including aforestation, intensive grazing (Allan Savory method). He talks about his cooperation with the Forest...
Wilde, Jay--Interviews; Cattle ranching; Ranchings, Pasture, Right of; Pasture animals; Range management; Grazing; Rivers--Effect of grazing on; Rangelands; Riparian areas--Management; Ecosystem management; Riparian ecology; United States. Forest...
Transcription of the diary of Albert F. Potter, former associate chief of the U.S. Forest Service, describing his activities to survey possible forest reserves in Utah, (beginning with the Cache County area), and noting the conditions of Utah...
Potter, Albert F. (Albert Franklin), 1859-1944; Cache National Forest (Utah and Idaho)--History; Forest reserves--Utah--History; Grazing--Utah--History; Forests and forestry--Utah--History;
