Jacob Klopfenstein
Freelance Reporter
Rose Smith, Sageland Collaborative stream ecologist, talks about a beaver dam analog in Corner Canyon Creek in Draper on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. The structures were built to raise the water table and create a more conducive habitat for native riparian and wetland vegetation.Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
Rose Smith, Sageland Collaborative stream ecologist, talks about a beaver dam analog in Corner Canyon Creek in Draper on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. The structures were built to raise the water table and create a more conducive habitat for native riparian and wetland vegetation.Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
About five years ago, Willy Stockman’s home on the bank of Emigration Creek became a wildlife hot spot. In the summers of 2017 and 2018, elk, coyotes and turkeys started showing up in her backyard whe...
Sageland Collaborative executive director Josh Wood, left and Sageland Collaborative ecologist, Janice Gardner, scope out shorebirds at Timpie Waterfowl Management Area in Tooele County Aug. 12. (Jacob Klopfenstein)
TIMPIE SPRINGS, Tooele County — Off of I-80 in Tooele County and past a mountain of salt from a nearby Cargill plant is Timpie Springs Waterfowl Management Area. It's here that Sageland Collaborative...