Outdoors

New north Lake Powell boat ramp at Bullfrog

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is pleased to announce that construction to extend the Bullfrog North boat ramp to reach lower lake levels is beginning this week. The Bullfrog North Ramp is being regraded and permanently extended to the lowest level possible before spring runoff begins (spring...

Wildlife Board keeps trail camera restrictions

During unique appeal hearing, Utah Wildlife Board votes to keep same seasonal trail camera restrictions After voting in January to restrict the use of all trail cameras in the harvest or attempted harvest of big game for several months of the year, the Utah Wildlife Board voted to keep the same...

Climber stewards wrap up season in Indian Creek

Indian Creek, just south of Canyonlands National Park, was busy this Thanksgiving. The Wingate sandstone walls of the canyons in Indian Creek are ideal for crack climbing, a physically intense style of rock climbing that involves jamming appendages into a vertical crack and heaving oneself up the...

Prescribed burns in area successful

While several hundred acres of controlled burns in the Manti-La Sal National Forest may have brought smoky conditions to Monticello in the past week, they are also likely to control the risk of wildfire. Officials in charge of the Shingle Mill Prescribed Burn took advantage of unseasonably warm and...

Closure continues for Cottonwood Bridge on State Highway 95

Construction workers are moving forward with construction to stabilize the Cottonwood Wash Bridge on State Route 95 west of Blanding. The 110-foot bridge is scheduled to reopen Saturday, November 6. The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) urges motorists to stay out of the work zone to...

County is blessed with another wet month

It was another wet and rainy month in San Juan County with August bringing soaking rains to many areas of the county. Monticello and Blanding each received more than 2.5 inches of rain for the month. The precipitation encouraged a splash of green and new growth to a landscape that has struggled...

Flash flood innundates Pack Creek with debris

A filthy, slow-moving wall of soot, mud, and debris washed down the length of Pack Creek through Spanish Valley on July 25 after a monsoon storm hit the Pack Creek burn scar. No one was injured in the slow-motion flash flood, which took several hours to make its way approximately ten miles...

Falling Lake Powell water levels limiting access

Falling water levels in Lake Powell leaves just one motorized entrance at the northern end of the lake. In response to rapidly declining water levels in Lake Powell, the National Park Service has announced immediate work on two projects to extend a launch ramp in the Bullfrog area and rehabilitate...

Walking on water – be kind to our pollinators

In March, we began to see the return of the honeybees. Even though spring had sprung, winter didn’t want to release her hold fully. During the day, the sun warmed the water at the watering stations and the bees were thirsty. However, as the sun began to set, it was becoming usual to find bees...

Nearby lakes to visit on Utah Free Fishing Day

If you’d like to catch a fish in Utah’s beautiful outdoors but you don’t have a fishing license, Free Fishing Day is the perfect opportunity to give it a try. Free Fishing Day will is this Saturday, June 12, and allows anyone to fish at any public waterbody in Utah without a license. It makes...