Resources

Land

References
  1. National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2017.
  2. B. Armstrong, C. Crandall, E. Curtis, and K. Robbins. Utah County Agricultural Toolbox. Envision Utah.
  3. C. Woodhouse et al. A 1,200-year perspective of 21st century drought in southwestern North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:50.
  4. D. McAvoy et al. A new Utah forest insect pest: Balsam woolly adelgid. Utah Forest Facts NR/FF/035.
  5. S. Germain, J. Lutz. Shared friends counterbalance shared enemies in old forests. Ecology 102:11.
  6. Furniss et al. Crowding, climate, and the case for social distancing among trees. Ecological Applications.
  7. J. Lutz et al. Global importance of large-diameter trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27:7.
  8. D. Stoner et al. Distribution of competition potential between native ungulates and free-roaming equids on western rangelands. Journal of Wildlife Management 85:6.
  9. E. Diamond-Falk. The Economic Contributions of Hunting, Fishing, and Wildlife-Watching on BLM Lands. Pew Charitable Trusts 2018.
  10. National Agricultural Statistics Service.
  11. K. Davies et al. Fall-winter grazing after fire in annual grass-invaded sagebrush steppe reduced annuals and increased a native bunchgrass. Rangeland Ecology and Management 77:1-8.
  12. C. Riginos et al. Potential for post-fire recovery of Greater Sage-grouse habitat. Ecosphere 10:e02870.

Water

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References
  1. Aggie Air
  2. Center for Colorado River Studies
  3. Center for Water Efficient Landscaping
  4. Civil and Environmental Engineering
  5. College of Applied Sciences
  6. College of Engineering
  7. Environment and Society
  8. Interdisciplinary Water Science and Education
  9. Institute for Natural Systems Engineering
  10. Logan River Observatory
  11. Plants, Soils, & Climate
  12. S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources
  13. Utah Center for Hydrologics Information
  14. Utah Center for Water Resources Research
  15. USU Extension Water Impacts
  16. USU Extension Water Quality
  17. Utah Water Research Lab
  18. Watershed Sciences
 

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Air

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Other Issues to Address
  • The effect of increasing market penetration of electric vehicles to increase air quality.
References
  1. EPA Utah nonattainment/maintenance status for each county by year for all criteria pollutants. Green Book, National Area and County-Level Multi-Pollutant Information.
  2. UDAQ. All Criteria Pollution Yearly Quicklook Summary Reports. Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Air Quality, Utah Air Monitoring Program, Data Archive.
  3. UDAQ. Uinta Basin. Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Air Quality.

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Outdoor Recreation

References
  1. J.W. Smith & A.B. Miller. The state of outdoor recreation in Utah: 2020 key statistics and recommendations for policy, management, and promotion. Logan, UT: Institute of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, Utah State University.
  2. J.W. Smith, A.B. Miller & Y. Leung, Y. -F. 2019 outlook and analysis letter: The vital statistics of America’s state park systems. Logan, UT: Institute of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, Utah State University.

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Cross-Cutting Issues

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Other Issues to Address
  • Development of geothermal resources.
  • Understanding the remaining amount of Utah's agricultural land on a county-level.
  • Development and adoption of economic water optimization practices, soilhealth strategies, and fossil fuelemission reductions.
References
  1. W.A. Wurtsbaugh, C. Miller, S.E. Null, P. Wilcock, M. Hahnenberger, F. Howe. Impacts of Water Development on Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch Front. Logan, UT: Quinney College of Natural Resources.
  2. Utah Division of Natural Resources. Bear River Development.
  3. U.S. Congress. Bear River Compact as amended. In: Congress US, editor. Public Law 96-189. Washington D.C.
  4. Bioeconomics I. Economic significance of the Great Salt Lake to the State of Utah. Great Salt Lake Advisory Council (Activities), Salt Lake City, Utah.
  5. S.M. Skiles, D.H. Mallia, A.G. Hallar, J.C. Lin, A. Lambert, R. Petersen, et al. Implications of a shrinking Great Salt Lake for dust on snow deposition in the Wasatch Mountains, UT, as informed by a source to sink case study from the 13–14 April 2017 dust event. Environmental Research Letters, 13(12): 124031.
  6. T.D. Hawkes, S.D. Sandall SD. HCR010 Concurrent resolution to address declining water levels of the Great Salt Lake, Utah State Legislature.
  7. J. Reese. Utah legislature looks to USU for water conservation.
  8. J. Iwamoto, T.D. Hawkes. S.B. 26 Water banking amendments, Utah State Legislature.
  9. C. York, E. Goharian, S.J. Burian. Impacts of large-scale stormwater green infrastructure implementation and climate variability on receiving water response in the Salt Lake City area. American Journal of Environmental Science, 11: 278.
  10. Office of the Legislative Auditor General. A performance audit of projections of Utah’s water needs. Report to the Utah Legislature Number 2015-01, 82 p.
  11. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 2017 Census of agriculture Utah state profile.
  12. J.T. Abatzoglou, and A.P. Williams. Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, 11770–11775.
  13. P.E. Higuera, B. N. Shuman, and K. D. Wolf. Rocky Mountain subalpine forests now burning more than any time in recent millennia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(25): e2103135118.

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