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Estimates indicate that visitors and seasonal residents make up more than a quarter of the people in the St. George area on a typical day during peak season.
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A new report from the Bureau of Land Management highlights how a proposed highway through protected land north of St. George could increase wildfire risk and harm endangered desert tortoises.
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Window collisions are a big threat during spring bird migration. New window treatments going up at Zion National Park are part of a movement to reduce glass strikes.
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Eighteen tribes that use Colorado River water sent a list of principles to the federal government as contentious talks about how to share the shrinking supply continue.
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Snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin — which includes Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico — appears to have peaked on April 3, within a few days of the average.
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A new Utah State University study defined large spring rainfall events – and found evidence they’ll be fewer and further between as the climate warms.
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In annual reports sent to Dark Sky International, Utah’s national and state parks list light pollution from development and tourism as the main threat to maintaining their certification.
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USDA planting data shows a warming trend in Utah which means “we could potentially plant some new things in our gardens,” said Red Butte Garden horticulturist Crystal Kim.
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The Biden administration is moving to let conservationists lease government land for restoration. It's part of an effort to make conservation an “equal” to other uses of public lands such as drilling and livestock grazing.
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The START AgriTech event at Utah Tech University focuses on emerging technologies that could help make agriculture more sustainable in dry places.
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The Cliven Bundy family is still grazing cattle on disputed southern Nevada rangeland where armed protesters and federal agents took part in a tense showdown in 2014.
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Nearly 1,800 residents of Panguitch had been on high alert in the days since inspectors discovered an unexpected 60-foot crack in the Panguitch Lake Dam on Monday night.
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The Interior Department rule finalized Friday raises royalty rates for oil drilling by more than one-third, to 16.67%, in accordance with the sweeping 2022 climate law approved by Congress.
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Damage inside Glen Canyon Dam could mean problems with the "river outlet works," a set of small tubes near the bottom of the dam that were originally intended to release excess water when the reservoir is nearing full capacity. The dam allows water to pass through to the Colorado River and Grand Canyon.