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Forest Service may cut fees, but no changes yet in Top of Utah areas

Standard-Examiner staff McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 6:26pm

OGDEN — A court decision in Arizona means the U.S. Forest Service may reduce or eliminate recreation fees in some of its forests, but there are no changes yet in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache, which covers most of the Top of Utah.

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Speaker: Utah on better quake footing than Ore.

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 6:08pm

OGDEN -- Utah is famous as earthquake country, with the Wasatch Mountains serving as an obvious natural marker for the fault line that built them hundreds of millions of years ago.

The earthquake potential of western Oregon was a much better-kept secret until the past decade or two, said Scott F. Burns, a geology professor at Portland State University.

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Wasatch set for pilot watershed protection program

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, August 1, 2011 - 8:38am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah's Wasatch Mountains have been selected as one of five areas in the country for a pilot project using public-private partnerships for watershed protection.

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