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The Dinosaur National Monument was declared a national monument on October 4, 1915.

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Washington School/Vernal Relief Society Hall

Washington School/Vernal LDS Relief Society Hall Constructed in 1895, this structure is a classical building done in the Temple form with the gable end facing the street, with minor Victorian embellishment. It was originally constructed by volunteers of the community for use as a school building – the Washington School, in Vernal’s school district #2. However, the building was only used as a…

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Bridget Fackrell biography: 13 things about Vernal, Utah woman

Bridget Fackrell biography: 13 things about Vernal, Utah woman

Bridget Pauline Elmer Fackrell is a resident of Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, United States. Here are 13 more things about her:

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Lucinda Sewell with her guinea hens.

Uintah County Library Regional History Center

J. Willard Marriott Digital Library

University of Utah

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i was just reading about the nevada test site and, being from southern california and north-central nevada, it was something that i always had knowledge of. i always knew it was there, everyone in carson city/reno knew it was there, i always knew that it... it is what it is (i mean, if the fact that nye county is literally the shape of a mushroom cloud doesn’t tip you off, i can’t help you). people flocked to vegas in the 50s just to see the clouds due north of the valley, for god’s sake. you know that stock footage that you see of the mushroom cloud going up and the house and the forest blowing over and then jerking back as the cloud rises? that’s from operation teapot. yucca flat is the most contaminated place in the continental u.s. from a radiological standpoint: it’s not chernobyl, for sure, but... you know. have lead linings, will travel.

but the one thing i cannot stop thinking about is the sheer amount of fallout from the blasts, specifically as it spread over to st. george in utah: by the way, i checked the map and sherman ranch is weirdly outside of the fallout zone. just for numbers’ sake: 1 rad is harmless (you might feel hot and see a blue light, but that’s about it) where 1000 rad is lethal. 100 - 200 rad is survivable: uintah county, home of sherman ranch, sustained less than 1 rad after the testing (and they’ve been witnessing paranormal activity since the 30s, before the manhattan project even got off the ground so-) but my point is that radioactivity is weirdly complex - just for perspective, it throws me sometimes, someone who’s intimate with nuclear science - especially when given the context of the rocky mountains, and especially when in junction with humanity and evolution. the type of fallout also needs to be accounted for as well, as most of the plutonium and uranium is centered in the ground at the test site: we’re talking iodine-131 and strontium-90, two isotopes that are not necessarily deadly, especially when you account for evolution and adaptation through generations.

i had a friend in high school who was born in blanding, on the eastern side of the state, a couple hundred miles from st. george, although she lived there for a long time. iirc, she was small in comparison to the rest of my friend group in my junior year of high school. what’s even more bizarre is i never really knew about it until after my graduation and i was stalking her page. i remember when the fukushima disaster happened and they were talking about iodine-131 flooding out from the reactor and how it could be potentially dangerous to those within the zone of the plant because we metabolize iodine through our thyroid gland (people who have thyroid issues often have iodized salt in their diets because of how it helps with that gland). i don’t remember kristen having thyroid issues but like i said, she was... small, about 5′ tall and 100 pounds soaking wet, and she was very thin (compared to me, 5′6″ and 165 pounds in my junior year when i met her, and i was relatively thin myself at the time). what makes strontium more sinister than iodine, in my humble more-or-less educated opinion, is it behaves like calcium and it’s absorbed into the bones: i saw her about a month ago before my facebook logout and she still looks very thin even though she’s 26 now. her hair’s different and she’s been wearing more eye makeup, but she still looks exactly the same as she did in 2009.

it’s disconcerting but it’s also interesting to think that you can come from a place with a high rate of horrible diseases - st. george and pretty much all of southern utah has an unsurprisingly massive cancer rate, especially of the thyroid, blood, and bone type - and yet somehow you can skip that and you can have a body that’s a lot stronger than it looks: she was a soccer player and she could run like it was nobody’s business. she looked frail but she was a firecracker, though.

when you read about this stuff, you almost immediately start deconstructing the fears around all things nuclear and you find out that said fear it mostly emanates from a lack of knowledge - just like everything else in existence. it’s not all gamma rays and glowing green: you have a whole set of units of measurement (with apologies to anyone tired of converting the american standards to the metric system). barrels of nuclear waste are nothing like the ones on the simpsons (if anything, they look like actual barrels, not like trash cans you see at the beach). some humans react to it better than others (marie curie’s notes are behind a 1-inch pane of glass lined with lead and yet she mostly walked out of the shed with nothing more than burns on her fingers, and she succumbed to anemia not radiation poisoning). if anything, it’s not green at all: the cherenkov effect is blue light, and radium glows a silvery-white.

when i was a freshman in high school, and i took earth science, my teacher brought in pitchblende, uranium ore: i’m not even kidding, it looked like just a regular old rock; little “bubbly” on top, but it looked like a rock straight out of her front yard. i remember she put a geiger counter next to it and it went off, it made that “staticky” noise (it wasn’t like crazy going off, but when you’re holding the counter yourself, it is... somewhat of a sobering moment to hear it). she put a piece of paper over it and the counter kept going; piece of tin foil and it stopped. i remember holding this thing, too: it was about the size of a deck of cards but it had some weight to it (uranium being a heavy metal among other things). it was one of those “oh my god, it’s real” moments, but it was cool, though: i actually held something that was radioactive in my bare hand. it wasn’t very radioactive - for perspective, she told us you could get more radiation from a microwave than you could that little stone but it made a geiger counter go off.

it makes me wonder like... what else the general public is refusing to learn, because this stuff is very fascinating, and it’s a lot closer to home than you think: in the nevada test site tag on here, i’ve come across a few accounts from people who have lived downwind from the site and it’s definitely sobering, especially when you realize that it’s literally right there, about four hours away from you (wind’s blowing the other way but still). on wikipedia, there’s a map of the fallout over the continental u.s. and while the west coast is pretty much spared, there’s this big plume extending from utah over to the plains states and into the great lakes - and yes, p r o f e s s o r, i checked all the links and the sources are credible. stop shaming people for using wikipedia, it’s a legit place to learn new things and fall down rabbit holes, and i think there should be no shame in using it. 

again, you have to take measurements and the isotope types into account, but even though the government has been opaque about all things nuclear, it is imperative that we teach ourselves about it as well. our government has sucked for decades and it’s more than okay to be afraid - hell, i can’t visit the chernobyl tag without seeing a fucking meme about the elephant’s foot and immediately get the heebie-jeebies WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE - but knowledge is power, though, and with said power, the fear loses its grip, and you can better understand these things.

madame curie herself said it is imperative that we look into these things headlong for that reason.

also, i didn’t know this: apparently, in 1970, at yucca flat, when they were testing a bomb 900 feet underground, it cracked the soil and collapsed and the bomb was a dud as a result. but. it instead caught fire (as plutonium is pyrophoric) and shot up a bunch of smoke and ash for several minutes. something like 80 workers were exposed: two of them died... a few years after the fact. but everyone walked away from it. but some of the lighter particles blew into the higher latitudes and wound up inside a cold front and dropped irradiated snow on lassen and sierra counties. it was called “baneberry” although i feel it should’ve been called “operation whoopsie” (plus, when you read about this stuff, your sense of humor is going to darken and twist itself a bit. in terms of sense of humor, you have proctologists at the very top and right behind them are anybody who studies the human reproductive system, i.e. urologists and gynecologists, and then behind them are nuclear scientists. this shit is complex and painfully misunderstood and abused: you’re not only going to expand your mind and understand einstein’s fears and oppenheimer’s sobering moments but you’re going to learn to genuinely laugh once in a while. i mean, the fact the states had two nuclear tests named “little feller” and “nougat”-)

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Dean Wilson Death, Director Of Uintah County School District Passed Away

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[ad_1] It is December, and in case you are now not in a position for the vacations but, Utah's nationwide parks certain are.As parks transition to wintry weather, hours of operations are converting, as are the introduced facilities. There also are closures and allow adjustments, so you should definitely take a look at the park's web page to grasp sooner than you move.Here is the previous two weeks in Utah nationwide park information:Within the information:First:Zion National Park shuttles are closed for the season as park approaches record 5M visitorsZion Nationwide Park has formally parked their shuttles for the season remaining weekend however will reopen for Christmas and New Yr's.2d:Man dead in Zion National Park canyoneering incident above Emerald Pools, two rescuedA Sunday seek and rescue in Zion led to a fatality in Lots Canyon whilst two canyoneers have been rescued. 3rd:Meet the new mayors-elect of Utah's national park gateway townsThe Spectrum spoke with the brand new mayors-elect of gateway-towns Moab, Springdale and Torrey to be told extra about them and gauge their positions at the present problems dealing with their nationwide park.Fourth:Self-driving shuttle buses at national parks? Public lands look to improve visitors' experienceFinal month, Inner Secretary Deb Haaland and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg mentioned they'd "take a look at probably the most latest and maximum leading edge trip applied sciences on public lands and give a boost to guests' tourism revel in."Inbox:The Utah Lacking and Murdered Indigenous Girls and Women job power met on Nov. 20 to hear the tales of the ones suffering from the epidemic. The overall recording of the consultation is at the Utah Legislature's website.Extra:Utah activists, leader discuss missing and murdered Indigenous people on annual remembrance dayThat very same week, Charles F. “Chuck” Sams III was once showed because the Director of the Nationwide Park Provider and is the primary Local American to carry the place of job. The location has been vacant because the Obama management.Additionally, Inner Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday officially declared “squaw” a derogatory time period throughout remaining month's Tribal Countries Summit for Local American Heritage Month. Removing of the phrase was once thought to be on this yr's Utah legislative consultation as neatly.Extra:Bill to change offensively named places advances in Utah Legislature, Paiutes in supportGarfield County held its inaugural "Absolute best of Garfield County" awards by way of "highlighting native companies servicing Bryce Canyon Nation." Winners have been introduced on Bryce Canyon Nation's Twitter and in a press release.The Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in northern Utah entered right into a Tribal Historical Preservation settlement with the Division of the Inner remaining month, transferring some preservation tasks to the tribe.Glen Canyon Nationwide Sport Space and Lake Powell are maintaining a "Brown Trout Bonanza" to regulate the fish inhabitants beginning on Wednesday and during the finish of January, awarding money prizes as much as $500 for the biggest and maximum brown trout stuck plus bonuses.Social media:Rangers at Arches National Park found an illegal camp full of 150 pounds of trash in mid-November and asked for applicants for the seasonal backcountry ranger team to help with this and other assignments in the park.Bryce Canyon National Park announced new changes to campground reservations, backcountry permits and dump station fees last weekend, so check the park's website before making plans!Capitol Reef National Park posted an educational snippet about their unique Waterpocket Fold.Canyonlands National Park posted about the desert plants that grow in the park that ancient Native Americans used to eat.Zion posted about Pipe Spring National Monument, about 60 miles away from the park, and it's rich history.Town meetings:No local governments discussed public lands matters these past two weeks.

The upcoming town meetings for the next two weeks are:St. George City Council meets on Dec. 2 at 5 p.m.Bryce Canyon City Council meets Dec. 7 at 10 a.m.San Juan County Commission meets Dec. 7 at 11 a.m.Grand County and Washington County Commissions meet Dec. 7 at 4 p.m.Springdale Town Council meets Dec. 8 at 5 p.m.Rockville Town Council meets Dec. 8 at 6 p.m.Tropic Town Council meets Dec. 9 at 6 p.m.Torrey Town Council meets Dec. 9 at 6:30 p.m.Iron County Commission meets Dec. 13 at 9 a.m.Garfield County Commission meets Dec. 13 at 10 a.m.Kane County Commission meets Dec. 14 at 10 a.m.Washington County Commission meets Dec. 14 at 1:30 p.m.Moab City Council meets Dec. 14 at 7 p.m.Weather forecast:According to the National Weather Service, Arches, Canyonlands and Capitol Reef should be clear and in the mid-50s. Bryce Canyon should be in the low 50s and clear. Zion should be in the low 70s and clear.K. Sophie Will is the National Parks Reporter for The Spectrum & Daily News through the Report for America initiative by The GroundTruth Project. Follow her on Twitter at @ksophiewill or electronic mail her at kswill@thespectrum.com. Donate to Record for The usa to toughen her paintings here. [ad_2] #Utah #nationwide #parks #transition #seasonal #operations

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U.S. Daily Snowfall Records Tied/Broken 12/12/22

Anchorage, Alaska: 1' 2.02" (previous record 1' 0.99" 1998)

Unincorporated Copper River Census Area, Alaska: 1' 10.01" (previous record 2.01" 1987)

Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska: 5.98" (previous record 5.59" 2013)

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: 7.99" (also 7.99" 1940)

Kaibab National Forest, Arizona: 6.5" (previous record 4.02" 1992)

Walnut Canyon National Monument, Arizona: 5" (previous record 4.02" 1993)

Mt. Hamilton summit, California: 2.52" (previous record 1.5" 1994)

San Bernardino National Forest, California: 2.52" (previous record 2.01" 2011)

Thompson, Connecticut: 2.99" (also 2.99" 1986)

Unincorporated Ada County, Idaho: 0.98" (also 0.98" 1972)

Boise, Idaho: 3.31" (previous record 3.11" 1994)

Howe, Idaho: 10" (previous record 4.02" 1935)

Idaho Falls, Idaho: 3.5" (previous record 2.01" 2018)

Mackay, Idaho: 5" (previous record 2.8" 1910)

Unincorporated Power County, Idaho: 3.58" (previous record 2.52" 1993)

Alberton, Montana: 2.01" (previous record 1.61" 2015)

Unincorporated Beaverhead County, Montana: 2.01" (previous record 1.69" 1983)

Unincorporated Chouteau County, Montana: 3.19" (previous record 2.01" 2010)

Shelby, Montana: 2.01" (previous record 1.5" 2011)

Unincorporated Teton County, Montana: 3.82" (previous record 2.72" 1972)

Unincorporated Toole County, Montana: 5.39" (previous record 4.02" 1958)

Unincorporated Toole County, Montana: 2.52" (previous record 2.01" 2020)

Great Basin National Park, Nevada: 2.99" (also 2.99" 2020)

Troy, New York: 5.59" (previous record 5.51" 1970)

Unincorporated Deschutes County, Oregon: 2.99" (previous record 0" 2021)

Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge, Oregon: 5.12" (previous record 5" 2000)

Unincorporated Jefferson County, Oregon: 7.01" (previous record 2.99" 1972)

Joseph, Oregon: 6.3" (previous record 5.98" 1916)

Mahoning Township, Pennsylvania: 0.98" (also 0.98" 2016)

Alpine, Utah: 5.98" (also 5.98" 1993)

Altamont, Utah: 5" (previous record 2.99" 1975)

Cache National Forest, Utah: 11.61" (previous record 7.01" 1984)

Unincorporated Iron County, Utah: 7.52" (previous record 0" 2021)

Kanab, Utah: 2.99" (also 2.99" 1992)

Randolph, Utah: 4.02" (previous record 1.5" 2020)

Roosevelt, Utah: 2.52" (previous record 2.01" 1975)

Unincorporated San Juan County, Utah: 3.82" (previous record 3.5" 2020)

Unincorporated Uintah County, Utah: 4.02" (previous record 0.98" 1971)

Woodruff, Utah: 2.52" (previous record 2.01" 1975)

Republic, Washington: 7.99" (previous record 5.31" 2001)

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Utah Cops Make Huge Breakthrough in Army Vet’s Murder, Woman’s Rape

Utah Cops Make Huge Breakthrough in Army Vet’s Murder, Woman’s Rape

Uintah County Sheriff’s Department A month after being honorably discharged from the U.S. Army, Greg Dahl Nickell took his sister’s college roommate out on a date. The pair drove to the top of a scenic overlook not far from Vernal, Utah, where a man walked up to their car and rapped on the window. The stranger told Nickell there’d been an accident, and he needed help. Then he pulled out a gun and…

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I traveled to Fantasy Canyon about 27 miles south of Vernal, in Uintah County, Utah. Even though the area is only about 10 acres in size, it contains some of the most unusual geologic features in the world. As I explored the area I felt eyes looking at me which made the hair on the back of neck stand straight up! I knew I was not alone! I slowly turned around to see who or what was watching me. Slowly I turned to see many eyes emerging from the from the walls of the canyon, they were devils from the underworld made of stone. It totally freaked me out. #explore #adventure #photography #RonBrownphoto #picoftheday #wanderlust #rockfaces #Vernal #FantasyCanyon #RockArt #Culture #devil #Mystery #Scary #Southwest #Stone #Halloween #Remote #RockDevils #Utah #adventure (at Fantasy Canyon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkWX1AlPRSa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Dinosaur National Monument, UT (No. 6)

Twenty-three rock layers are exposed at the monument. These rock layers are remnants of extinct ecosystems spanning nearly a billion years, from ancient seas, to plains where dinosaurs roamed, to Sahara-like deserts that were home to tiny, early mammals.

The rock layers at Dinosaur make up one of the most complete stratigraphic columns exposed within the National Park System.

With the exception of the Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian, all of the geologic periods are represented in the Dinosaur area. Almost all of the rocks exposed in the area are sedimentary and range in age from Precambrian (about 1,100 million years ago) to Miocene (about 25 to 10 million year ago).

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Legacy Park

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Jury finds Uintah High School teacher guilty of sex crimes involving student

Jury finds Uintah High School teacher guilty of sex crimes involving student

A jury on Friday found former Uintah High teacher Rodd Repsher guilty of multiple sex crimes against a student. (Uintah County Jail) Estimated reading time: 2-3 minutes VERNAL — A jury on Friday found a former Uintah High School teacher guilty of multiple sex crimes involving a student while employed as a teacher. After a four-day trial, Rodd Adam Repsher, 36, of Vernal, was found guilty of four…

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Looking northwest, serpentine entry ramp and Administrative Wing - Quarry Visitor Center, U.S. Highway 40, 8 miles north of Jensen, Jensen, Uintah County, UT

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Quarry Visitor Center at Dinosaur National Monument Uinta Mountains - Uintah County, Utah, USA; 1956-58

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via “Informes de la Construcción: Volume 13, 128" (1961)

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[ad_1] A person who police say painted his face just like the notorious Joker was once arrested and booked into the Uintah County Prison, in Vernal on Monday. (Uintah County Sheriff's Administrative center) Estimated learn time: 2-3 minsVERNAL — A person who police say painted his face just like the Joker, broke right into a Vernal house and tried to kill the house owner, was once arrested Monday.Jonathan Tyler Clark, 24, was once booked into the Uintah County Prison for investigation of tried homicide, trespassing, ownership of a weapon through a limited individual and intoxication.Monday night time, police say Clark went to an condo close to 1300 West Major Side road searching for a person."It was once described that Johnathan Clark had his face painted just like the Joker and had one thing in his pocket, unknown if it was once a weapon," in keeping with a police affidavit.Police discovered Clark close to 200 North and 1100 West and famous he had "white face paint, inexperienced face paint close to the highest of his face and in his hair, and pink face paint within the type of a grin, very similar to the Joker," the affidavit states.When officials requested Clark why he was once on the sufferer's area, he mentioned he was once going to kill him, in keeping with the the affidavit. When police requested, 'why?' "Jonathan spoke back through pronouncing, 'As a result of he referred to as me names,'" in keeping with the affidavit.Officials discovered a folding knife in Clark's pocket. In addition they famous his speech was once slurred and he swayed as he stood, the affidavit states. Clark instructed the officials he had just lately used medication."Jonathan reported on a scale of 1 to ten of intoxication he was once a 9," in keeping with the affidavit.When police later puzzled Clark a 2nd time, he mentioned that the alleged sufferer had referred to as him a pedophile and "this made Jonathan mad (and) vengeful. At this level, Jonathan got here up with a plan to kill the sufferer," the affidavit states.Police realized that Clark first went to the sufferer's area on Sunday and entered the condo via an unlocked door, in keeping with a police affidavit. The supposed sufferer was once no longer house however his roommate was once. The roommate, "after a while," was once in a position to get Clark to go away, the affidavit states. Nobody was once injured.Clark mentioned he stole a knife from a neighborhood Walmart and supposed to stab the sufferer, painted his face just like the Joker and returned to the condo Monday night time, in keeping with the affidavit. To start with, he attempted to damage into the sufferer's window. When he was once unsuccessful, he merely waited at the porch till anyone arrived with a flashlight and instructed him to go away."Jonathan mentioned he was once going to kill any person who were given in his manner of seeking to kill the sufferer this night. Jonathan additionally mentioned if he was once out of prison he would attempt to kill the sufferer day after today," the affidavit states.In 2019, Clark was once convicted of sexual exploitation of a minor and working in destructive fabrics to a minor and was once required to check in with the Utah Intercourse Wrongdoer and Kidnap Registry. The registry indexed Clark on its web page on Tuesday as "non-compliant."×Extra tales you'll be interested by [ad_2] #Utah #guy #paints #face #Joker #arrested #suspicion #tried #homicide