Fall 2016 - River Issue

Tree-tunnel-running on the Jordan River at 1150 South in Salt Lake City.|Cotton floats on the Jordan River on Salt Lake City’s west side.|Old-growth wild iris forest on the bank of the Jordan River on Salt Lake City’s west side.|||

Experience the magic of The Jordan River

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Frequently Asked Questions about Voting

Volunteer “neighborhood naturalists” and Open Space Lands Program Manager Lewis Kogan take an inventory of wildlife during a “bioblitz” at the Fife Wetlands Preserve near 900 S. 1100 W.|This snowy egret was spotted at the Fife Wetlands Preserve in May.|||

Citizen scientists help take inventory of wildlife

Students, teachers and artists-in-residence explore the riparian fringe of the river near Northwest Middle School. They learned to differentiate between native and invasive plant species, and how native species benefit essential animal life and how invasive species crowd out the native plants.|A moment of reflection on a foot bridge over the Jordan River.|Students gather at the base of a classic native 100-year-old Fremont Cottonwood tree along the Jordan River Parkway Trail near Northwest Middle School. They learned about how the tree is critical to a healthy riparian ecosystem.|Students were taught to use journaling as a tool for studying the river. They took notes, wrote observations, and poems, taped leafs and clippings from river wetland plants, drew pictures and added photographs to their journals.|||

ReAwakened Beauty: The Past, Present, and Future of the Jordan River

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Our Disappearing Ribbon of Nature

From left to right: Glendale Griffin 9-year-olds Mone Tu'upo, Fehoko Satini and Isi Fehoko play with a football after a Saturday game in Jordan Park in September.|||

Homegrown football little league serves Glendale for 2nd year

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Group fosters stewardship of Jordan River

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Commission gets things done along the Jordan River

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Salt Lake Regional Athletic Complex: Worth the cost?

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Nature in the City Plan

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Project underway to ‘daylight’ three creeks entering Jordan River

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Making the Jordan River beautiful

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Utah Development Academy: not your average soccer club

Photo Caption: Rare sage thrasher visits the Fife Preserve.|||

If you build it, what will come?

River Encounters