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If you’ve walked along the Logan River Golf Course Trail or visited the Rendezvous Dog Park recently, you’ve seen piles of downed trees and probably wondered how tree removal can be beneficial to river restoration. Roots hold soil and prevent erosion, right? That’s not always the case. The crack willows that grow inside the Logan River’s channel are not only a nonnative and invasive species...

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The adaptive ski facility dream is becoming a reality:  construction of the AMK Foundation, BIO-WEST Adaptive Mountain Center for Common Ground Outdoor Activities is underway at Beaver Mountain. For more than 38 years, BIO-WEST has recognized Common Ground as a vital community resource and provided various forms of support, including contributing to the new ski facility. Many employees in the BIO-WEST...

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To better understand how endangered razorback sucker are maintaining a wild population, also called “recruiting,” BIO-WEST biologists assisted the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Utah Division of Wildlife Resources with razorback sucker research on Lake Powell. This cooperative effort is part of a project funded by the US Bureau of Reclamation to determine razorback sucker use of Lake Powell...

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Denbury Pipeline Archaeological Investigation BIO-WEST provided Section 106 permitting assistance for the construction of a pipeline that will traverse Galveston Bay, Texas. Hydrographic survey data were collected along the Galveston Bay portion of the pipeline route and submitted to BIO-WEST for archaeological review. BIO-WEST processed and reviewed the data to determine the presence or absence...

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BIO-WEST is working with Logan City and the US Forest Service to design and construct a parking lot for the Second Dam Recreation Area in Logan Canyon, Utah. Because the parking lot will be adjacent to the Logan Canyon National Scenic Byway, aesthetic considerations were an important element in BIO-WEST’s design. “We are using berms and plants native to Logan Canyon to help screen the parking...

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A project vision, phasing, and implementation plan for a former Salt Lake City rail line received an achievement award from the American Planning Association-Utah Chapter in late October 2015. CRSA’s project team, which included BIO-WEST, developed a Master Plan for the 2.5-mile 9 Line Corridor that runs along 900 South Street between 200 West Street and the Surplus Canal. The corridor provides...

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Bonneville cutthroat trout will be one beneficiary of designated environmental flows in the Blacksmith Fork and Little Bear Rivers, Cache County, Utah, as a result of a project by BIO-WEST, sponsored by The Nature Conservancy, and in partnership with Trout Unlimited, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Cache County, and Utah State University. Both rivers were identified as priorities as part...

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You can do a lot in 1 week. You could go on a diet and lose a few pounds. You could paint your house. You could maybe even learn to dance. Or you could excavate more than 4,200 cubic yards of contaminated soil from a busy auto-repair and tire store in the middle of St. George, Utah. That’s what happened in December 2014 when BIO-WEST was contracted to clean up petroleum contamination from...

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When it rains, it pours, and when it pours BIO-WEST goes golfing. Despite very rainy weather that eventually disrupted the event, BIO-WEST participated in the Ashlin Mae Kleven (AMK) Foundation’s 10th Annual Charity Golf Tournament as a team sponsor. BIO-WEST President Darren Olsen also competed in the tournament, which was held September 15, 2015, at Birch Creek Golf Course in Smithfield, Utah. “BIO-WEST...

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