Think Water Utah

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  Erosion Control Efforts in Willard Canyon

  Why would a bunch of young men from New York have spent the summer of 1933 digging ditches in Utah's Willard Canyon?
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  Flash Floods Devastate Willard

  Utah has had some memorable floods over the last hundred years. A 1923 flash flood left the northern Utah town of Willard completely under water.
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  John Muir in Utah

  Naturalist John Muir found himself in Salt Lake City in the late 1800s. Muir was attracted by the dazzling landscape of the Great Salt Lake and Oquirrh Mountains, and wrote effusively about Utah's scenery.
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  The Serracino Expedition

  Persistent tales about a lost Spanish colony piqued the interest of Jose Rafael Serracino. Like many explorers before him, he was inspired to put together a search party and leave Santa Fe to explore the West.
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  T. H. Jefferson's Map

  A mysterious traveler, T.H. Jefferson published a map of the California Trail in 1849. The map contained valuable information about the waterless stretch of desert west of the Great Salt Lake.
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  How Antelope Island Got Its Name

  Antelope Island was named by the famous American explorer John Charles Fremont during his travels around the Great Salt Lake.
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  Logan Canyon Place Names

  Place names can make an interesting study for anyone interested in local and regional history. Two locations in northern Utah's Logan Canyon illustrate.
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  Artesian Park

  Ogden Valley's Artesian Park contained wells that provided fresh water to the growing population of the city.
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  The Electrification of Daggett County

  Daggett County, home to the hydro-electric juggernaut Flaming Gorge Dam, did not receive electricity until well into the 20th century.
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  Twenty Wells

  A site near present-day Grantsville provided temporary relief to the Donner party before their dangerous push across the Great Salt Lake Desert.
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  The Lucin Cutoff

  The hundred-mile-long Lucin Cutoff was engineered using earth and wood to allow trains to cross the Great Salt Lake.
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  The City of Corinne

  A steamboat called City of Corinne has been called the "most imposing boat that has ever sailed the Great Salt Lake."
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  Building Flaming Gorge

  Controversy over public lands has a long history in Utah. The construction of Flaming Gorge Dam was met with resistance, and opinions over the finished product were mixed.
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  The Thistle Mudslide

  A giant landslide in April 1983 obliterated the tiny town of Thistle in Utah County.
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  Settling Bluff

  Learn about the harrowing expedition that settled the tiny San Juan County community of Bluff!
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  The Strawberry Valley Project

  A federal project diverted water promised to the Ute Tribe into southern Utah County. This water grab harmed Ute claims to land in the Uintah Basin.
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  The Escalante-Dominguez Expedition

  In 1776, the same year the Declaration of Independence was signed, a group of Spanish explorers entered present-day Utah Valley. Led by two Franciscan friars named Silvestre Velez de Escalante and Francisco Dominguez, the expedition was launched to find a northern path from New Mexico to one of Spain's newest colonies, California.