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<title>Restoration Consortium workshops give students unique hands-on experience</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Essence Barnes]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>The ever-changing state of the climate, due to global warming and climate change, has increased interest in restoration sciences. The…</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The ever-changing state of the climate, due to global warming and climate change, has increased interest in restoration sciences. The same is true at USU. The Restoration Consortium, first established at the university in 2017, was created in order to address and promote the recovery of aquatic ecosystems, including streams, rivers and wetlands.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The restoration and protection of these aquatic ecosystems is extremely important to sustaining a healthy environment, not only for plants and animals, but for people and communities.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Dominique Shore was brought on as the Restoration Consortium director in 2022 in response to the growth of the program, its courses and the students interested in environmental restoration.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>“Having cleaner access to water is vital for human economies and our livelihoods as well as all of the reasons that we love living in Utah,” Shore said. “We’re living in a time of pretty extreme drought, and some of these restoration techniques can help keep water on the landscape longer.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>According to Shore, the founding of the Center was driven by the large number of world-class restoration practitioners working under the Watershed Sciences department at USU.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>“We saw a need to get the research that we do here at USU to practitioners and to train that next generation of practitioners,” Shore said.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>One way the program facilitates training a new generation of practitioners is through restoration workshops offered throughout the year to USU graduate students and working professionals.</p>
<p>“The workshops that we’re doing this summer are all based in Logan, so students travel from, really, all over the country to come to Logan and learn from our instructors here these ecosystem restoration techniques,” Shore said.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Some of the workshops apart of this summer series include Sediment Transport for Restoration and Design and Basic Wetland Delineation, both of which are hands-on and take place in the field.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>“We’ll take students out into the field to do pebble counts to see what the average gravel size is and how geomorphologists will look at a river and look at sediment transport problems,” Shore said.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>One of the instructors for the Basic Wetland Delineation workshop is Nate Norman, the owner of Balance Environmental, an environmental consulting company. Norman has been an instructor for this workshop for four to five years, and has been involved with wetland restoration through his company for even longer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>In this workshop, Norman teaches students how the vegetation, soils and hydrology of an area contribute to locating a legal boundary between uplands and wetlands, a line that is often blurry.</p>
<p>It is critical to go through the process of delineation and find this boundary in order to protect the delicate ecosystems inside of wetlands and the services they provide to the environment.</p>
<p>According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, these services include “protecting and improving water quality, providing fish and wildlife habitats, storing floodwaters and maintaining surface water flow during dry periods.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>“If anybody was doing a development or building a house, they would have to make sure that they avoided the wetlands,” Norman said.</p>
<p>The skills these students will be taught to conduct a wetland delineation will include digging up and testing soils and identifying and classifying surrounding vegetation, all of which take place in the field.</p>
<p>“We’re doing just the same kind of things that I do on a daily basis for work,” Norman said. “They’re getting a real life experience on what it is like to do a wetland delineation.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>These workshops offered through the Restoration Consortium are unique in their hands-on aspect and in their material, which prepare students and professionals alike for careers in restoration sciences.</p>
<p>The program includes other types of restoration, such as beaver mimicry, beaver translocation, wetland restoration and sediment transport, all taught by faculty with prior experience or education in those fields.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>“It’s a great opportunity for USU students to become more engaged with what is really going on in the workforce when they leave school,” Shore said. “Giving these people the skills to improve their watersheds on a really broad scale is really powerful.”</p>
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<title>Beaver Mountain: A new ski season is upon us</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Stewart]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2022 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>Ski season at Beaver Mountain is starting earlier than ever this year, thanks to the late November and early December…</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span data-contrast="none">Ski season at Beaver Mountain is starting earlier than ever this year, thanks to the late November and early December Utah snow. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Beaver Mountain president, Marge Seeholzer, said Beaver will open Dec. 7 for season pass holders and Dec. 8 for everyone else. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">“We are way excited because this is the earliest opening we’ve had for several years,” Seeholzer said.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">They have not been able to open this early in previous years due to the lack of snow this early on in the season. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Beaver Mountain is a family-owned ski resort in Logan Canyon that originally started in 1939. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Beaver has seen success year after year, but Seeholzer said this year is going to be especially great. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">She said, “The conditions are awesome. We’ve been able to groom the whole mountain already and I think people are really gonna love it. We’re excited.”</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Standing 36 miles from Utah State University, Beaver sees a lot of USU students as well as Logan residents throughout the season. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Seeholzer said one of her favorite things about working at Beaver is the people. She finds it interesting that many of the students and people who ski at Beaver are from all over the states. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">The people who come to Beaver have a love for the resort which offers a full ski school, lessons for beginners, private lessons, rental equipment, a retail and gift store and a cafe.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">For years, Logan residents and USU students have supported this 48-run ski resort. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">USU students are especially fond of the deals they get from Beaver. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">An unlimited daytime student season pass is $450, while a regular non-student pass season is $675. If you purchase a student pass before Nov. 15 the price drops to $375.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">USU junior, Brooke Galbraith, said she thinks so many students ski at Beaver because of the close location to campus, and the great prices. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">USU students who are interested in learning how to ski or snowboard can take classes at Beaver through the university. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Seeholzer said the classes are a fun aspect of Beaver. She said they had roughly 600 students take their classes last season. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Beaver is in the process of organizing a bus system from Logan to their resort, so students don’t have to worry about the transportation aspect. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Seeholzer said they have yet to be successful in setting this up, but are hopeful they will soon. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">She encourages students to carpool with their friends/roommates when they drive through the canyon up to Beaver. The snow conditions can be dangerous for smaller cars at times. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Students can rent their ski/snowboard gear at various shops in Logan, or use the rentals that Beaver provides. </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">People with season passes should pick up their card at the Beaver Mountain office in Logan before heading up.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">If they have a card from a previous season, they need to reload it online to activate it for this current season. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
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<p>-Kate.Stewart@usu.edu</p>
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<title>With great powder comes great responsibility: Beaver Mountain</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Popa]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the air starts to become crisp and the wind chills, many students at Utah State University and Logan residents are preparing for a ski season up at Beaver Mountain in Logan Canyon.</p>
<p>Thirty miles northeast of Logan, the family-owned and -operated ski resort lies on almost 850 acres of land. With over 40 different runs to hit, there’s plenty of slopes for the new and experienced skier and snowboarder.</p>
<p>Each year, “the Beav” averages about 400 inches of snowfall — about a foot per week during ski season — which is about half of what the mountain’s big brother in the south, Park City Mountain, averages in the same time. This coupled with the fact that the resort doesn’t produce snow on their own means the mountain typically opens a few weeks later than many other mountains.</p>
<p>There isn’t a set date on when the resort will open, but Aggies can expect the mountain to open for business sometime in early to mid-December, just in time for an escape from upcoming finals.</p>
<p>While the resort may not be open yet this year, the Beav has a storied history when it comes to skiing, according to the <a href="https://www.skithebeav.com/about-us/mountain-history/">resort’s website</a>. Originally opened in 1939, Beaver Mountain is the oldest, continually-owned ski resort not just in Utah, but the whole U.S.</p>
<p>Just 20 years after buying his first pair of skis, Harold Seeholzer joined the Mt. Logan Ski Club, which was already actively trying to push skiing areas farther and farther up Logan Canyon. By 1939, the canyon was open year-round and the Mt. Logan Ski Club put Beaver Mountain’s first ski tow, built from a car motor and cable, in place.</p>
<p>As the operation began to grow and the ski club tried to add more tow lines to the mountain area, the organization wanted to hand off the business to a sole operator, and Seeholzer won the bid in 1945.</p>
<p>Over the next few years, Seeholzer added more tows, including a 1,000-foot rope tow and a 2,700-foot T-bar, as well as a lodge, which is now used as today’s ticket office.</p>
<p>But all of this work needed more hands to be completed. So, Seeholzer and his wife, Luella, put their family to work, including their sons, Loyal and Ted, and daughters, Dixie and Nancy.</p>
<p>As the business grew and skiing at Beaver Mountain became more popular in the early 1960s, the Seeholzer family began working on building the mountain’s first lift, the Little Beaver, and a new lodge. Just a few years later, the bigger and better Poma Lift would also be added to the mountain.</p>
<p>After accomplishing his biggest dream of opening a family ski resort and growing Beaver Mountain into an impressive business, Seeholzer died during a battle with cancer in April of 1968. Almost two years later, a new lift — Harry’s Dream — was built in his honor, adding 50 acres of skiing areas and his son, Ted, took over the business with help from his siblings and their families.</p>
<p>Over the next several decades, the mountain moves from generator power to running electricity, Ted’s children and grandchildren are added to the business, and new lifts are built and old ones redone.</p>
<p>After nearly 50 years of hard work up at Beaver Mountain, Ted Seeholzer died in 2013, passing on the family business to his son, Travis, and son-in-law, Jeff, while their mother and Ted’s wife, Marge, continued to work in the ticket office full-time.</p>
<p>Now, Jeff manages the mountain and Travis is in charge of operations. The two take care of the mountain on their own, doing whatever jobs it takes to keep The Beav running.</p>
<p>Marge still works in the ticket office with both Travis’ and Ted’s wife, finding “renewed joy every season when they see new families arrive and watch new generations make their first tracks on the mountain home they worked so hard to make.”</p>
<p>Avid skier and Beaver frequent Braya Robbins said she is beyond excited to get back on the slopes.</p>
<p>“They have a wide variety of great runs for all levels of skiers, making it perfect for me and my friends to go enjoy the fresh powder or groomed trails all season long,” she said. “Being close to campus, having reasonable rates and providing night skiing as an option makes Beaver unbeatable. Hopefully it will start snowing soon so I can go enjoy the Utah slopes.”</p>
<p>For Aggies wanting to hit the slopes this season, Beaver Mountain offers a discount for students, dropping the price from $675 to $450.</p>
<p>For those who want to just take a day trip up the canyon and can’t ski often, day passes are offered for $60. Beaver also offers gear and equipment packages for skiers and snowboarders without their own.</p>
<p>More information about Beaver Mountain, including updates on snowfall, more rates and pricing information and gear rental can be found on their website: <a href="https://www.skithebeav.com/">skithebeav.com.</a></p>
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<p>-Michael.Popa@usu.edu</p>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harley Barnes]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He gets emotional every time. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s hard not to, given what Bradley Parry knows — given what was lost. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is estimated between 270 to 400 Shoshone men, women and children were killed by the U.S. Army on Jan. 29, 1863. It was the largest mass murder of indigenous people in American history — and yet the Bear River Massacre is largely forgotten, even by people who live in this area. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But Parry’s tribe has made a decision. The Battle of Boa Ogoi will not be forgotten. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The northern band of the Shoshone tribe is working with a team of graduate students at Utah State University to restore the site of the massacre. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The USU team plans to reverse the ecology of the land to what it would have looked like in 1863. The tribe is building a cultural and interpretive center for the public to visit and understand the Shoshone culture.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bradley is the project manager and a tribal councilman with the Northwestern band of the Shoshone nation. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of his jobs involves finding federal grant funding to help continue the project. He often meets with people who come to assess the request for funding. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bradley explains to them what happened on the land. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Lately it’s been really difficult to suppress the emotion,” he said. “What happens is on the drive home I get hit with that wave I’ve been bottling up and it just comes out.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bradley said it is specifically hard on days when he visits the site by himself. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If I go up there by myself I get extremely emotional,” he said. “I feel the need to pray, to honor those people and just sit there in silence.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bradley said the part of the project he is most excited for is the rehabilitation of the natural hot spring and the river channel. He also believes giving recognition to the land will give the spirits of those who were killed peace. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We can basically have a funeral for them for the first time,” he said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bradley said, while he believes the project is a wonderful thing for the Shoshone people and the community, it is difficult to oversee. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This is my heritage. These are my people,” he said. “Nothing about this is easy.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Darren Parry, a chairman of the Northwestern band of the Shoshone nation, and Bradley’s cousin, also said the massacred Shoshone never received a proper burial. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It was so cold that the ground was frozen and none of the bodies were buried,” he said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Darren grew up listening to his grandmother tell stories of her own grandpa who survived the massacre as a 12-year-old boy. Restoring the land of the Battle of Boa Ogoi means everything to him. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s us being able to tell our stories from our unique perspective,” he said. “And when you give people a voice, especially marginalized communities, a voice is really powerful. It goes towards reconciliation and forgiveness.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Will Munger, a graduate student at USU, is helping with the project. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We’re looking at mimicking beaver activity, potentially reintroducing beaver,” he said. “But really focused on restoring the important plants and animals.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Munger is on the climate adaptation science team working to restore the habitat. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We started with this amazing ethnobotany,” Munger said. “Then my team thinks up how to make these plants, that are so important to the Shoshone, resilient in the face of challenges like climate change.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He said the daunting task was made easier with help from ethnobotanical records from a tribal historian, Mae Timbimboo Parry.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mae was a record keeper for the Shoshone who kept detailed descriptions of plants and animals. She was also Darren and Bradley’s grandmother. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“She went to notoriously evil boarding schools where they were whipped and tortured for speaking their native language,” Parry said of his grandmother. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mae earned an English degree from LDS Business College. She began writing down an oral history of stories from Shoshone tribe members. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parry said usually Shoshone history is passed on orally, but because of his grandmother, the tribe has recorded stories, as well as a plant diary. He said it was his grandmother who took him to the site of the massacre every year and helped him understand the magnitude of what happened there. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“She told me once as a child, ‘one day you will have to make them listen’,” he said. “Without her, I’m not sure where we would be as a tribe.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lindsay Capito is on the climate adaptation team along with Munger, and has a background in watershed science. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Part of restoring the site to what it was like 150 years ago includes getting rid of the Russian olive trees that have grown in the area, as well as reintroducing native species of birds and beavers back into the area. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Capito used a beaver restoration assessment tool to provide the tribe with a recommendation of which areas can sustain a beaver population on the river. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before she started her role in the project, Capito attended meetings and history classes with Darren. She said learning about the massacre was a shocking and sad experience.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s almost like two massacres,” she said. “The first being this horrible injustice over a hundred years ago, and the second being 100 years of pouring salt in the wound by not allowing this story to be told.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Shoshone tribe, along with the climate adaptation team, is excited to see what the future holds for the site. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We want people to understand that we’re here,” Bradley said. “We are one tribe of many. And this is our story.”</span></p>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Miranda Lorenc]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>A couple of big storms hit Utah this President’s Day weekend. With all the new powder covering the slopes, some…</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>A couple of big storms hit Utah this President’s Day weekend. With all the new powder covering the slopes, some areas have received nearly four feet of snow. Here is the updated snow pack as of Feb 19.</div>
<h4><b>Alta</b>:<b> </b>21”</h4>
<h4><b>Beaver</b>:<b> </b>19”</h4>
<h4><b>Brian Head: </b>22”</h4>
<h4><b>Brighton</b>: 21”</h4>
<h4><b>Cherry Peak</b>: 20″</h4>
<h4><b>Deer Valley:</b> 18”</h4>
<h4><b>Nordic Valley</b>: 7″</h4>
<h4><b>Park City Mountain</b>: 18”</h4>
<h4><b>Powder Mountain</b>: 17”</h4>
<h4><b>Snowbasin</b>: 14″</h4>
<h4><b>Snowbird</b>: 23″</h4>
<h4><b>Solitude</b>: 18″</h4>
<h4><b>Sundance</b>: 12”</h4>
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<p id="caption-attachment-22021377" class="wp-caption-text">Park City Mountain, powder, storm, skiing<br />February 19, 2018<br />Models: Zack, Camilla, Ben<br />Photo Credit: Dan Campbell<br />Instagram: @dancampbellphoto<br />dan@dancampbellphotography.com<br />435-901-8830</p></div>
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