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KSL TV SALT LAKE CITY It s only April and more than 155 wildfires have already scorched the drought-ridden parts of Utah. Kaitlin Webb, the statewide prevention and fire communications coordinator for the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands said 98% of those fires were human-caused. Only three of those have been natural cause, she explained. It s a troubling continuation of last year s record for human-caused fires: 77% of nearly 1,500 blazes started from things like sparking equipment, target shooting and fireworks. Almost all of Utah is in a severe drought, which means wildfire officials are on alert and preparing for what could be a busy and dangerous fire season. ....
STANSBURY ISLAND, Utah (KUTV) Abandoned buses. Rusty old pieces of heavy equipment. Giant metal pipes and more. Those are just some of the massive pieces of junk that lay on a dry Great Salt Lake bed next to Stansbury Island. Photographer Robin Pendergrast took a photographic tour of what he says is a self-described junk "graveyard. " Pendergrast described what he saw just to the west of Stansbury Island, saying: Saturday, windy, but a perfect. ....
During the first week of June two Stansbury Island Fires scorched more than 13,000 acres. July also an extra busy month for firefighters from Tooele County, Utah and the BLM as they battled to control a flurry of more wildfires. In one week crews battled five wildfires in the county in a three-day span. One fire between SR-138 and Erda Way consumed 9.43 acres. Another fire near Stockton started 15 minutes after the Erda fire and burned 11.7 acres. A third fire along I-80 in the west desert burned 23.4 acres. A fourth fire called the “Poverty Point” fire started at 2:10 p.m. on a Saturday and consumed 308 acres on the south end of Lakeside Mountains. The blaze was caused by an individual discharging a firearm in an area of dry vegetation. Grantsville Fire Department responded with two engines and one water tender, North Tooele Fire Department brought two engines. BLM crews were out in force with four engines. ....
Getting to the remote island in the Great Salt Lake will be the thing, though. Visitors âjust need to take the necessary precautions and be safe. Itâs not easily accessible,â Laura Vernon, spokesperson for the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, or FFSL, said Wednesday. Fremont Island in the Great Salt Lake is shown in this undated photo. Photo supplied, Charles Uibel/Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands News emerged last month that the Palladium Foundation of Salt Lake City, headed by conservationist Jennifer Speers, had bought the island from its private owner. Last Friday, Palladium donated the island to the FFSL, part of the Utah Department of Natural Resources, paving the way to its opening to the public. The Nature Conservancy, or TNC, a global conservation group, holds a conservation easement on the island that will prevent development there in perpetuity, according to a statement on the ....