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Range & Rimrock BASIN IN THIS ISSUE Celebrating 35 Years in Utah n page 5 RANGE & RIMROCK Spanish Cows on the Range n page 7 n FALL 2019 NEWSLETTER n UTAH CHAPTER 90 Miles of River Restored page 9 1 BASIN, RANGE & RIMROCK / FALL 2019 Conservation Corner Board of Trustees Chair: Richard Denman Putting Stormwater to Work Jennifer Speers Jeff Edison TNC has teamed Don Garner Vice Chair: Mary Garner up with the city Christopher Robinson George Handley of Kaysville Hank Hemingway to collect Honorary Co-Chairs: Hank Lamb stormwater Spencer Eccles Linda Leckman run-off and use David Gardner Kathryn Lindquist wetlands as a Check it Out: Nature All Around Us Jake Garn Nalini Nadkarni Photo: © Gary Crandall Carolyn Tanner Irish Jonathan Nielsen natural water TNC is proud to celebrate with The Natural History Walker Wallace Maunsel Pearce filtration system — a win-win for people Museum of Utah as it marks its 50th anniversary, Ellen Rossi and birds at the Great Salt Lake. “With new and we’re helping to sponsor the homegrown Trustees: Miguel Rovira Fanny Blauer Kevin Steiner technology built into the structure, I’ll be special exhibition, Nature All Around Us. Nature is able to manage the depth and flow of water Jim Clark Geoff Swindle thriving right under our noses in Utah’s cities and Kristine Crandall LaVarr Webb going into the new wildlife-friendly basins,” towns, and this immersive exhibit will introduce John D’Arcy Katy Welkie explains Chris Brown, TNC Utah’s director of you to hidden worlds in familiar places! Learn Tim Dee Rachel Whipple stewardship. “This will help enhance wildlife more: nhmu.utah.edu/nature. Stephen E. Denkers habitat while filtering and cleaning the water on its way to the Great Salt Lake.” Kestrel Cam Craze The kestrels at the Great Lasting Results Sunny Skies & Energy Savings Salt Lake have headed Thanks to south for the season, but Utah Private Lands Protection funding this past spring they put on provided by a memorable show for web Number of Projects. 191 Rocky Mountain cam viewers. A whopping Acres Protected ...........938,459 Power Blue 245,000 people tuned in Sky Renewable to watch our kestrel nest Utah Public Lands Protection Photo: © Mike Kolendrianos/TNC Energy Photo: © Richard Barry box cam. You can still customers, TNC was able to install two solar read about the amazing avian drama and watch a Number of Projects. 40 panel arrays to supply 100% of our energy highlight reel at: nature.org/kestrels. And get ready Acres Protected ............130,063 use at both the Great Salt Lake Shorelands for next season—we hope to see kestrels in action Preserve and the Legacy Nature Preserve. again in spring 2020! Total Acres Protected . 1,068,522 The solar installations also offset an Total Utah Membership . 7,710 estimated 24 tons of CO2 per year. COVER Great Blue Heron. © Gary Crandall VISIT THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN UTAH AT NATURE.ORG/UTAH 2 Remembering Norma Matheson Friend to All, Public Servant, Conservationist By Dave Livermore, Utah State Director protection of natural areas. Her efforts Norma found these stories always. Over helped establish a number of preserves the years I listened to many of them and including at the Great Salt Lake, at the appreciated each one. “Let me tell you, Dugout Ranch, along the Strawberry River, Dave,” she would say, or “that reminds me and in Washington County. Her favorite place of…,” and she would be off. Through her was the Matheson Wetlands Preserve, named telling, I experienced trips she took with in honor of her husband, Scott, in 1991. Scott, dinners she had with Bruce Babbitt, Norma was a giant in our community conversations with Bill Clinton, and the in part because of her connections, but memory of her father, an obstetrician, mostly because of her grace. Her warmth working late in the delivery room. There and caring personality made everyone were only two types of people in Norma’s © Stuart Ruckman Photography she met feel at ease. She made time for world: friends and people she hadn’t met Norma Matheson “paupers and princes” alike. She had a yet. We were all so fortunate to have known special political insight, not only due to and worked with her for so long. “We make a living by what we get. her time as First Lady, but also because she Other than time spent in nature, I We make a life by what we give.” understood and cared for people. She also can’t claim to be a religious person, but I cared deeply about the West and western do find certain passages in the Bible very Sir Winston Churchill voices. Wallace Stegner was one of her moving. One is Corinthians 13: “And now favorites. In 1991, when Wally spoke at abide faith, hope, love, these three; but IN JULY, WITH NORMA MATHESON’s pASSING, the dedication of the Matheson Preserve, the greatest of these is love.” Love defined The Nature Conservancy lost one of its closest he gave Norma his notes. She had them Norma’s life: love of people, love of places, friends and supporters. Norma served on our Utah framed and considered his words among love of nature. When we see a sunset at Chapter Board for 23 years, including six years as her prized possessions. the Shorelands Preserve, hear the sound co-chair. Like her husband Scott, Norma believed In her talk at the Quinney College of of water in Indian Creek, or watch a heron deeply in TNC’s cause and worked tirelessly to Law this fall, Jane Goodall described that glide over the Matheson Preserve we will help protect Utah’s special places. the way to win over skeptics to the cause think of her. Rest in peace, Norma. In our Leading TNC through four capital campaigns, of conservation is not to criticize, but work, your legacy of caring—for people and Norma was an eloquent spokesperson for the to “find stories that touch their hearts.” for the natural world—will live on. 3 BASIN, RANGE & RIMROCK / FALL 2019 TNC’s legacy in Utah spans more than one million acres of protected land, including special places like the Tanner Ranch in Box Elder County. VISIT THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN UTAH AT NATURE.ORG/UTAH 4 A Special Anniversary for TNC in Utah THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, TNC TOOK A the Great Basin: “I saw Utah’s potential. There A commitment to science and innovation has leap of faith and bought 1,192 acres of wetlands are so many valuable natural areas here, and I enabled TNC to adapt, continually delivering at the Great Salt Lake. That purchase launched a was struck by the powerful connection Utahns outcomes more effectively and at larger scales. journey marked by innovation, partnership and have to the land.” Livermore’s early assessment Science drove our creation of Utah’s first a deep commitment to protecting Utah’s lands was accurate. Over the years, Utahns from sensitive species database, it guided our efforts and waters. Thanks to partners and supporters, diverse backgrounds—different geographies, to help establish the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve we are creating a lasting legacy for future political parties and faith affiliations—have to protect desert tortoise, and it helped us generations. Today, with more than one million found common ground in caring about establish the Canyonlands Research Center to acres of private and public land protected the natural world and embracing TNC’s study climate change. Science also propels TNC statewide, we are pausing to reflect with awe collaborative approach to conservation. tools like Conservation Action Planning and and gratitude on how far we’ve come. Getting Utahns to work together for 35 Landscape Conservation Forecasting, which help Back in 1984, Utah looked different. years has paid off in spades. First, places such our partners—especially public land managers— There were 1.5 million fewer residents. Norm as the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve, the enhance the way they care for millions of acres. Bangerter was governor and Ronald Reagan Dugout Ranch, the Scott M. Matheson Wetlands Many of our exciting new initiatives, such as a was re-elected to a second term as president. Preserve, and others, have been ground- nursery for razorback suckers at the Matheson The Great Salt Lake was threatened and breaking acquisitions—each saving critical Preserve, or creative water sharing projects on taken for granted. Rare species like the desert landscapes from imminent threats. In addition, the Virgin and Price Rivers, rely on TNC’s unique tortoise, Utah prairie dog and greater sage lands have been protected with conservation ability to meld science, policy expertise and grouse had little to no protection. There was easements such as 6,700 acres at the Selman lasting partnerships. no preserve along the Colorado River in Utah, Ranch in northern Utah, 2,700 acres on Kanarra “It’s humbling to grasp all that we’ve no conservation efforts in place for rivers like Mountain near Zion National Park, and 10,000 accomplished, thanks to our supporters, the Strawberry, the Virgin or the Escalante. acres of greater sage-grouse habitat in a partners and volunteers,” says Livermore. “A Conservation easements were a novel concept, partnership with ranchers near Grouse Creek in lot keeps me up at night about the future of and the prospect of environmentalists and northwest Utah. our planet, but I’m inspired by the momentum ranchers working together seemed unlikely. “The challenges we face are changing,” we’ve helped create here in Utah. These past 35 Dave Livermore, TNC’s Utah state director, Livermore notes. “Often, protecting land isn’t years have been a rewarding prologue for the was there in the beginning, working for TNC in enough.
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