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In January, 1947, fruit growers in the Grand Valley were preparing to ship by rail freshly harvested peaches from Palisade to locations around the country. There weren’t any fresh peaches in January, of course. That fruit wouldn’t be ready to harvest for another eight or nine months. But another critical commodity was being harvested that winter and shipped to Grand Junction in preparation for the peach harvest to come. Ice. When harvest time arrived, ice-cooled railroad cars called r...

KSL TV + Show 1 more video Noon: Winter storm advisories issued for storm that could bring Utah mountains over 1 foot of snow KSL TV SALT LAKE CITY — The National Weather Service has issued a pair of winter weather advisories throughout Utah ahead of a storm system that is expected to bring about a foot of snow to mountainous areas across the state by Sunday. The storm is also expected to make travel difficult on freeways and highways in high-elevation areas across...

4:05 Record-breaking wildfires in 2020 turned huge swaths of Western forests into barren burn scars. Those forests store winter snowpack that millions of people rely on for drinking and irrigation water. But with such large and wide-reaching fires, the science on the short-term and long-term effects to the region’s water supplies isn’t well understood.   To understand, and possibly predict what happens after a river’s headwaters goes up in flames, researchers are descending on newly crea...

Vena Wardell Vena Meb Smith Wardell of Rangely, Colorado, passed away peacefully on Dec. 28, 2020, at the age of 96. She was born April 9, 1924, in Riverton, Utah, the first of five children to Clifton and Alma Rasmussen Smith. She was the last surviving member of this family. As a young girl, Vena traveled from Vernal where she attended school, and the Book Cliffs up East Douglas Creek, where her parents and grandpa John Taylor Rasmussen homesteaded. There were many homesteaders in the area br...

GREELEY, Colorado – Record-breaking wildfires in 2020 turned huge swaths of Western forests into barren, sooty scars. Those forests store winter snowpack that millions of people downstream rely on for drinking and irrigation water. But with such large and wide-reaching fires, the science on the short-term and long-term effects to the region’s water supplies isn’t well understood. To understand, and possibly predict, what happens after a river’s headwaters goes up in flames, ...

Record-breaking wildfires in 2020 turned huge swaths of Western forests into barren burn scars. Those forests store winter snowpack that millions of people rely on for drinking and irrigation water. But with such large and wide-reaching fires, the science on the short-term and long-term effects to the region’s water supplies isn’t well understood.

Tue December 29, 2020 - West Edition #1 Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A group of rural counties in Utah has suspended a highway construction project that would run through the Book Cliffs in Grand County. The group — called the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition — unanimously voted to halt the project because of opposition from residents who live in the county where the highway would be built, KUER-FM reported. The 35-mi. (56-km) road was first proposed in the 1980s to move oil ...

4:53   You can find Lee and Debbie Elmgreens ranch at a shrubby fork in the narrow canyons of the Book Cliffs. On a recent fall day the greens have a map of southeastern Utah spread across their dining room table.   Lee Elmgreen is reading a new report by the Bureau of Land Management. Its a 1300 page study of a plan to put a massive road in their backyard.   LEE: The scope of this work included a review of available information. And a one day visual windshield reconnaissance of the project....

Highway project through Book Cliffs in eastern Utah suspended (Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) The Book Cliffs near State Road 45, south of Vernal. By The Associated Press | Updated: Dec. 23, 2020, 12:53 a.m. A group of rural counties in Utah has suspended a highway construction project that would run through the Book Cliffs in Grand County. The group — called the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition — unanimously voted Friday to halt the project because of opposition from residents who...

KZMU News: Monday December 21, 2020 Plans for a 35-mile highway through the Book Cliffs are suspended, after the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition voted to stop their work on an environmental study. Grand County officials have long opposed proposals for the road, raising concerns about the price tag, energy development, and potential harm to the environment. In recent months, both Grand County and a private landowner said they would not relinquish right of ways to build the road. And later,...