Project and Water News

A FREE screening and discussion of Robert Redford's "Watershed - Exploring A New Water Ethic for the New West" will be held October 4, 2012. Doors open at 6:00 pm admission is free to the public. Screening will be held at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, 2155 West Forest Street, Brigham City, UT.  Screening is sponsored by the 23nd Annual Utah Environmental Education (USEE) Conference.

RSVP to josh@usee.org by Wednesday, October 3rd.

Description: September 17, 2012 - Water Wars in the West? a KUED production "Glen Canyon: A Dam, Water and the West" airing on Wyoming PBS, Sept. 17, 2012 at 9 p.m.

When most people think of hip-hop, they think might of music and dance styles, but Christopher Emdin sees the hip-hop culture as an innovative way to build trust and respect between students and educators.

The Earth Science Photo of the Day shows the causeway that cuts across Great Salt Lake in Utah. The original transcontinental railroad was built to the north of the lake and completed in 1869. In 1904, the Southern Pacific Railroad created a shorter route directly across the lake called the Lucin Cutoff, reducing the distance of the railway by 42 mi (68 km). The original rail was built with a 12 mi (19 km) open trestle in the middle of the lake. This trestle allowed free flow of the brine from the north arm of the lake to the southern portion. However, by the 1950s the trestle became too expensive to maintain and was replaced with an earth-fill causeway.