SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Twenty years ago, June suckers were well on their way to oblivion due to Utahns’ use of Utah Lake as a place to dump pollution and stock with sport fish and other nonnatives. Few noticed the disappearance of the June sucker, regarded as a trash fish, until it was almost too late, . A large-bodied, long-lived fish that serves as an indicator of overall ecological health, June suckers naturally occur only in Utah’s namesake lake and its tributaries where they had been unable to successfully spawn for decades because of historic channel dredging. Today, though, these...…SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Twenty years ago, June suckers were well on their way to oblivion due to Utahns’ use of Utah Lake as a place to dump pollution and stock with sport fish and other nonnatives. Few noticed the disappearance of the June sucker, regarded as a trash fish, until it was almost too late, . A large-bodied, long-lived fish that serves as an indicator of overall ecological health, June suckers naturally occur only in Utah’s namesake lake and its tributaries where they had been unable to successfully spawn for decades because of historic channel dredging. Today, though, these...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-bears-utah-environment-dc66fa599c0868ccc34458467562ff1aClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-bears-utah-environment-dc66fa599c0868ccc34458467562ff1aClick to copyRelated topicsSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — With Joe Biden’s capture of the White House comes the likelihood that Utah’s two big national monuments will be restored to their original boundaries, reopening yet another front in the West’s public lands wars.Just as President Donald Trump invoked the Antiquities Act to cut 2 million acres from the Bears Ears and...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-bears-utah-environment-dc66fa599c0868ccc34458467562ff1aClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-bears-utah-environment-dc66fa599c0868ccc34458467562ff1aClick to copyRelated topicsSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — With Joe Biden’s capture of the White House comes the likelihood that Utah’s two big national monuments will be restored to their original boundaries, reopening yet another front in the West’s public lands wars.Just as President Donald Trump invoked the Antiquities Act to cut 2 million acres from the Bears Ears and...WW…

(Scott Sommerdorf | Tribune file photo) In this July 14, 2016, file photo, then state Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, speaks with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell after she attended a public meeting with the San Juan County Commissioners in Monticello, about the proposed Bear Ears National Monument. Noel earlier this year won a civil stalking injunction against a critic who views the court action as a gag order of sorts.If anyone is used to confrontational politics, it’s Mike Noel.Utah’s most strident public lands firebrand got into more than his share of people’s faces during his 16-year tenure in...…(Scott Sommerdorf | Tribune file photo) In this July 14, 2016, file photo, then state Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, speaks with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell after she attended a public meeting with the San Juan County Commissioners in Monticello, about the proposed Bear Ears National Monument. Noel earlier this year won a civil stalking injunction against a critic who views the court action as a gag order of sorts.If anyone is used to confrontational politics, it’s Mike Noel.Utah’s most strident public lands firebrand got into more than his share of people’s faces during his 16-year tenure in...WW…

(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) This Dec. 28, 2016, file photo shows the two buttes that make up the namesake for Utah's Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. When President-elect Joe Biden takes office, he is expected to restore the monument to its original size, along with the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.With Joe Biden’s capture of the White House comes the likelihood that Utah’s two big national monuments will be restored to their original boundaries, reopening yet another front in the West’s public lands wars.Just as President Donald Trump invoked...…(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) This Dec. 28, 2016, file photo shows the two buttes that make up the namesake for Utah's Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. When President-elect Joe Biden takes office, he is expected to restore the monument to its original size, along with the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.With Joe Biden’s capture of the White House comes the likelihood that Utah’s two big national monuments will be restored to their original boundaries, reopening yet another front in the West’s public lands wars.Just as President Donald Trump invoked...WW…

(Brian Maffly | Tribune file photo) Pump jacks pull up hydrocarbons in the Three Rivers oil field southwest of Vernal, near Pelican Lake and the Green River, pictured on June 14, 2019. An environmental review of a proposed $1.4 billion oil railway in the Uinta Basin says it would impact wildlife habitat.A proposed oil-hauling railroad would degrade up to 10,000 acres of wildlife habitat in northeastern Utah, potentially disrupting migration corridors and ruining wetlands, according to a new draft environmental review.The federal Surface Transportation Board is reviewing the Uinta Basin...…(Brian Maffly | Tribune file photo) Pump jacks pull up hydrocarbons in the Three Rivers oil field southwest of Vernal, near Pelican Lake and the Green River, pictured on June 14, 2019. An environmental review of a proposed $1.4 billion oil railway in the Uinta Basin says it would impact wildlife habitat.A proposed oil-hauling railroad would degrade up to 10,000 acres of wildlife habitat in northeastern Utah, potentially disrupting migration corridors and ruining wetlands, according to a new draft environmental review.The federal Surface Transportation Board is reviewing the Uinta Basin...WW…

(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune via AP) In this Sept. 8, 2015, file photo, a natural gas rig pumps away in the foreground of the coal-fired Huntington Power Plant west of Huntington, Utah. A 20-year plan by Utah's largest electricity provider stipulating that it will not add pollution-control systems to its coal power plants has received criticism from some in the state who say it means continued regional haze, including around national parks. The federal Environmental Protection Agency now says expensive new pollution controls are not needed.Federal environmental officials have...…(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune via AP) In this Sept. 8, 2015, file photo, a natural gas rig pumps away in the foreground of the coal-fired Huntington Power Plant west of Huntington, Utah. A 20-year plan by Utah's largest electricity provider stipulating that it will not add pollution-control systems to its coal power plants has received criticism from some in the state who say it means continued regional haze, including around national parks. The federal Environmental Protection Agency now says expensive new pollution controls are not needed.Federal environmental officials have...WW…

(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Deputy director of the Bureau of Land Management, William Perry Pendley talks talk about wild horses, recreation and other issues the BLM is dealing with in Utah during a Sept. 2, 2020, Salt Lake Tribune interview. At the time he had been serving as the agency's acting head for more than a year, but in a Sept. 25 ruling, a Montana-based federal judge held that Pendley's continued leadership of the BLM violated the law.Under over the past year, the Bureau of Land Management has finalized decisions affecting coal mining, oil and gas development, wild horse...…(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Deputy director of the Bureau of Land Management, William Perry Pendley talks talk about wild horses, recreation and other issues the BLM is dealing with in Utah during a Sept. 2, 2020, Salt Lake Tribune interview. At the time he had been serving as the agency's acting head for more than a year, but in a Sept. 25 ruling, a Montana-based federal judge held that Pendley's continued leadership of the BLM violated the law.Under over the past year, the Bureau of Land Management has finalized decisions affecting coal mining, oil and gas development, wild horse...WW…

(Chris Detrick | Tribune file photo) A technician installs solar panels on top of a home in Salt Lake City in 2016. The Utah Public Service Commission is beginning a two-week hearing that likely will determine the future of rooftop solar in Utah because it will decide the value of the credits solar-users receive in selling excess power to the state's regulated electric utility, Rocky Mountain Power.A two-week hearing starting Tuesday before the could result in a “make-or-break” ruling for the rooftop solar industry in one of the nation’s sunniest states.The three-member PSC panel is...…(Chris Detrick | Tribune file photo) A technician installs solar panels on top of a home in Salt Lake City in 2016. The Utah Public Service Commission is beginning a two-week hearing that likely will determine the future of rooftop solar in Utah because it will decide the value of the credits solar-users receive in selling excess power to the state's regulated electric utility, Rocky Mountain Power.A two-week hearing starting Tuesday before the could result in a “make-or-break” ruling for the rooftop solar industry in one of the nation’s sunniest states.The three-member PSC panel is...WW…

(Brian Maffly | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Division of Wildlife Resources biologist Dale Fonken inserts a microchip into a June sucker caught in Red Butte Reservoir on Sept. 15, 2020. State officials maintain a population of the endangered fish in the reservoir in Red Butte Canyon outside Salt Lake City. Every September biologists relocate several hundred to the sucker's native Utah LakeBuilt in 1930 to capture water for a military installation at the mouth of a Wasatch Front canyon, Red Butte Reservoir has been harnessed for a new purpose, the rescue of Utah’s disappearing native fish.The...…(Brian Maffly | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Division of Wildlife Resources biologist Dale Fonken inserts a microchip into a June sucker caught in Red Butte Reservoir on Sept. 15, 2020. State officials maintain a population of the endangered fish in the reservoir in Red Butte Canyon outside Salt Lake City. Every September biologists relocate several hundred to the sucker's native Utah LakeBuilt in 1930 to capture water for a military installation at the mouth of a Wasatch Front canyon, Red Butte Reservoir has been harnessed for a new purpose, the rescue of Utah’s disappearing native fish.The...WW…

So much water has been pumped from under Utah’s Cedar Valley over the years that the ground is sinking by as much as 1.2 inches a year, leaving cracks on the valley floor.This is because the and other providers annually remove at least 7,000 more acre-feet from these aquifers than nature can replenish. So the of wells and pipelines that would extract water from under Beaver County’s Pine Valley, a place that gets less than eight inches of rain, and move it 66 miles to Cedar City.Thus opens the next battle in a long-running dispute between the two southwest Utah counties over precious water...…So much water has been pumped from under Utah’s Cedar Valley over the years that the ground is sinking by as much as 1.2 inches a year, leaving cracks on the valley floor.This is because the and other providers annually remove at least 7,000 more acre-feet from these aquifers than nature can replenish. So the of wells and pipelines that would extract water from under Beaver County’s Pine Valley, a place that gets less than eight inches of rain, and move it 66 miles to Cedar City.Thus opens the next battle in a long-running dispute between the two southwest Utah counties over precious water...WW…