Wild About Utah

It turns out that Utah is home to numerous species of live snails, but the shells we see beside Bear Lake have been there for nearly 10,000 years! They’ve lasted this long because they’re preserved by the calcium chemistry of a lake.

It turns out that Utah is home to numerous species of live snails, but the shells we see beside Bear Lake have been there for nearly 10,000 years! They’ve lasted this long because they’re preserved by the calcium chemistry of a lake.

Winged Bullets of Beauty: Their agility is beyond imagination, capturing their prey with a gaping maw while flying at maximum speed, winged bullets ripping through the air.

A piano in the gazebo strikes the first chords and the May Queen and her entourage step around the corner of the church and onto the green.

The Canyon, like there is no other. It’s a place we go to get away from, or get into, it.

This year marks the 15th anniversary of Wild About Utah! We’ll talk with four of the contributors: Shannon Rhodes, Patrick Kelly, Jack Greene and Mary Heers.

Jack Greene writes, "I consider tree squirrels to be on par with many primates for intelligence and agility. Those who have bird feeders may agree with me as they vainly attempt to thwart squirrel’s from invading their feeders."

This world, this here, this beautiful now, I choose and choose nowhere else, because today I see beavers, and grasshoppers, and eagles and get to wonder when the ducks will again fly south.

Did you know that Mormon crickets are not crickets, grasshoppers or cicadas, but large shield-backed katydids that walk or hop rather than fly?

As your summer progresses and perhaps you find yourself in need of a sigh of relief from woe, leave your flashlights, glowing rectangles and worries inside.