by Kevin Berend | Apr 25, 2024 | Newsroom, Science From The Steps
In 2022, over 535,000 cow-calf pairs grazed 22 million acres of public lands in Utah. Those are the facts. How you feel about them is another matter. Some argue that these numbers are too high, that the arid landscapes of the West cannot tolerate such an...
by Kevin Berend | Feb 29, 2024 | Newsroom, Science From The Steps
The third annual Symposium on the Ways of Understanding and Protecting Land and Water Resources in the Grand Staircase-Escalante Region, to be held March 21-23, 2024, will feature an exciting lineup of talks, field trips, workshops, and evening programs that promises...
by Kevin Berend | Aug 29, 2023 | Newsroom, Science From The Steps
Pinyon-juniper woodlands are an iconic landscape of the American west. They can be found at arid mid-elevations, especially on rocky soils or jointed bedrock, and are characterized by an open forest dominated by low, bushy, evergreen junipers and pinyon pines (exact...
by Kevin Berend | May 31, 2023 | Newsroom, Science From The Steps
For large mammals such as elk, mule deer, and pronghorn, migration is a normal seasonal event. Twice per year, herds move according to the weather and the availability of food, following the spring green-up to their summer range in the mountains, then back to...
by Kevin Berend | Apr 26, 2023 | Newsroom, Science From The Steps
In January 2004, after a journey of six months and 47 million miles, NASA’s Opportunity rover finally touched down safely on the surface of Mars. Minutes later, it sent back an astonishing image from its new surroundings, an equatorial region known as the...
by Kevin Berend | Mar 30, 2023 | Newsroom, Science From The Steps
A trio of itchy, bloodsucking, disease-ridden stories of science: 1)Aedes aegyptiis a species of mosquito that inhabits tropical and subtropical regions of the world and is known to transmit yellow fever and Zika virus. In North America it is found primarily in the...
