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Video Courtesy of Scott G. Winterton, The Deseret News
On June 14, 2008 High Country Estates, Phase I residents hosted an open house and horseback tour of a community bridle path that has been treated with a fuel reduction project. Questions and concerns were addressed along the trail and in the living room.
On May 28, 2008 Salt Lake County Mayor Peter M. Corroon and West Desert District BLM Manager Glenn Carpenter announced the Memorandum of Understanding to cooperatively develop and manage the 4,000 acres of public land held by both agencies in the Rose, Yellow Fork and Butterfield Canyon areas.
The area will be master planned for non-motorized recreation, wildlife habitat and as a natural open space preserve benefitting all the residents of Salt Lake County. more information
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The SLFO is located in the northwest corner of Utah. Much of this area is part of the Great Basin region, a place of isolated mountain ranges separated by wide sweeping sagebrush flats.
This area is also a land of illusions, floating islands and vanishing water mirages. Almost touching the Utah-Nevada borders are the Bonneville Salt Flats, a unique plain of almost- pure, white salt. This geological oddity is one of the only places in the United States where one can see the curvature of the earth over dry land. Just south of the Salt Flats lies the Pony Express Trail where horse riders risked their lives delivering the mail in 1860 and 1861. [more]
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