The present study was undertaken to investigate the diatom flora of a major river in northern Utah, to determine the diatom species present, and to illustrate them in a manner useful for future diatom researchers in the intermountain region. It is hoped that this work will aid in algal productivity, ecological, and taxonomic studies of Rocky Mountain streams and rivers.

The effort here, compiled over a nearly three-year period, is simply to encourage reporters of the mass media, those recorders of instant history on a daily basis, to take the time to put down in print somewhere the memories of old-timers everywhere. While centered in Corinne, Utah, the last rabble-rousing boomtown along the first transcontinental railroad to span the United States, this work is a collection of feature articles, laced with anecdotes and perhaps tall tales, of the type old-timers are eager to tell. It is a renegade mixture of oral and written histories and probably breaks most of the rules of structures research, but it attempts to add a little color, a little life, between the cold letters chiseled into cemetery headstones. If these stories are not put down for generations yet to come to read, to ponder and possibly to enjoy, they will be buried -- quite literally -- forever. Whether these stories are true or have been "blossomed" by retelling over the years is not the question here. Such stories add a perspective, and may haps a better understanding, to the dusty and often dry dates recited by children in elementary school. In this regard, these children will grow up, wed and work, and they will have their stories to tell, hopefully before they, too, die.

As our society becomes more complex, it follows that the laws governing this society become more numerous and more complicated. Problems arise relative to local, state, and federal control, necessitating further interpretation and ultimately new laws. Th e areas where legal confusion is most obvious are those subject to control by all levels of government: local, state, and federal.

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The purpose of this paper is to discover any trend developing in youth participation in junior livestock shows in Utah and to identify the factors which affect youth participation. Junior livestock show records and 4-H enrollment figures from Cache and Box Elder Counties and the State of Utah, were studied to obtain necessary statistical information. A survey was constructed and issued to former and present 4-H members. Economic theory was employed in order to compare the survey data and participation statistics. The paper is divided into three major parts: similarities and differences between the Cache and Box Elder County Fair Junior Livestock Shows, age group comparisons, and other comparisons, in that order.

The objectives of this study are: l. To determine the adequacy of markets for paper products. 2. To identify and quantify the costs of the factors affecting pulp and paper production. The available information indicates that adequate markets exist for paper produced in Utah. Chemicals, water, labor, and power are available at costs low enough not to prohibit pulp and paper production. An adequate, low priced supply of wood could be purchased from the United States Forest Service. Intermountain and national paper markets would enable a paper producer in Utah to take advantage of lower comparative transportation costs.

Water development and allocation have been among the most important problems Utah has had to face throughout the past 117 years of development . When Utah's first white settlers, the Mormon pioneers, entered Salt Lake Valley in July of 1847, little met their eyes to entice their stay. The earth was so parched and dry that they were unable to scratch the surface with their plows. Less than two hours after their arrival members of the party began digging ditches and building dams to irrigate and soften the earth so they could begin plowing.

The attitudes of selected university professors and students in Utah toward labor unions were obtained through the medium of a questionnaire. Most students and professors favored anti-trust laws for unions, were against the abolishment of the right-to-work law, and were evenly divided in their feelings concerning the settlement of strikes by compulsory arbitration. A majority of students and professors were against an increase in overtime pay and a shorter work week. Students favored and professors opposed a raise in the minimum wage. Professors and students anticipated growth in union membership as a percentage of the labor force. Except for professors of Civil Engineering at Utah State University and Brigham Young University, all groups favored organized labor. Students and professors of Economics showed the strongest opinion in favor of unions. The summarized responses showed that 76.9 percent of all groups favored organized labor.

Conserving biodiversity in the current global ecological crisis requires a robust understanding of a multitude of abiotic and biotic processes operating at spatial and temporal scales that are nearly impossible to study on a human timescale and are therefore poorly understood. However, fossil data preserve a vast archive of information on past ecosystems and how they have changed through time. My PhD research is composed of three studies that look at biogeogaphic distribution, ecosystem structure, and trends in richness and diversity. Identifying organisms to the species level is a common practice in ecology when conducting community analyses. However, when species-level identification is not feasible, higher level taxonomic identifications are used as surrogates. This study tests the validity of supraspecific identifications for vertebrates in regional biogeography studies, using the recorded occurrences of terrestrial and aquatic taxa from 16 national parks on the Colorado Plateau and culling the data set based on a series of taphonomic processes to generated fossil assemblages. Changes in community structure as a result of increased magnitude and/or frequency of perturbations have been well documented in terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Unfortunately, the long-term effects of sea-level rise on vertebrate communities in coastal habitats are poorly understood and difficult to study on a human time scale. This study examines the long term effects of relative sea-level change on coastal plain ecosystems of the Belly River Group (Campanian) in southern Alberta using microvertebrate fossils. Most Cretaceous freshwater deposits in North America produce only a couple of articulated fish skeletons. Because of this preservational bias many workers suggested that freshwater teleosts were largely absent from North America until the Eocene or later. Late Cretaceous fish assemblages are of particular interest, because these assemblages undergo a major compositional change. Pre-Cretaceous fish assemblages are dominated by non-teleosts, while Paleogene assemblages are dominated by teleosts that are members of extant families. This study provides a first approach in characterizing long-term trends in richness and the distribution of Late Cretaceous, nonmarine actinopterygians of the Western Interior of North America.

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