Holly Strand
Holly is a Communications Specialist for the State of Utah’s Division of Emergency Management. A geographer by training, Holly received her master’s degree from the University of Colorado. She worked 10 years for World Wildlife Fund, helping collect expert knowledge to map and describe conservation priorities in biodiverse regions around the world. Before that, she led specialty tours to northern and eastern Eurasia. Over twenty years of professional work in great places with unique habitats and endemic species has given Holly an appreciation of what’s special within the Utah landscape.
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Rivers and creeks all over the state have been running high with melted snow from the biggest snowpack ever recorded in Utah. 1983 was last time we had anything near this amount of snowmelt fueling our spring runoff. This year, with a historic snowpack, it seems like we should be experiencing more 100-year floods or even 500-year floods. -
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The eyes have it: Eyeshine occurs when light enters the eye and is reflected back through the eye to the light source. The reflection is from a membrane... -
The Bear Facts Old Ephraim: Twelve miles up Logan Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains is his grave. Ephraim was the last grizzly bear seen in Utah. -
Have you been awakened by the sound of the Northern Flicker? It is a large, ant-eating woodpecker found in open woodlands, savannas, and forest edges throughout North America. -
The Great Salt Lake is one of the world's largest shrimp buffets. Here the largest aquatic animals are brine shrimp or “sea monkeys.”
