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Regreening of Cache Valley: Logging, Grazing, and Irrigation

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Logging, Grazing, and Irrigation

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Cattle and sheep grazing together in the Cache National Forest
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, A-board historical photograph collection, 1817-1984, USU_ABoard1)

From 1860 to 1890, the population of Cache Valley grew quickly. The increasing number of settlers transformed the landscape to meet their needs and make profits in the national economy. They plowed under valley grasslands to plant fields of crops. To water their fields, they built sophisticated irrigation systems that diverted mountain streams from their natural course. In the mountains, entire forests were removed to provide lumber for the expanding community and railroad industry. And by 1890, the livestock boom in the West brought thousands of cattle and sheep to the area, creating overgrazing problems on the Bear River Range. The sources contained in this section highlight these issues and more.

Logging

SCABOOK042No047.pdf
“History of Timber Resource Use in the Development of Cache Valley, Utah” [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Book Collections, 042.047)
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“Story of Native Timber and Shrubs” [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Unprocessed Manuscript Collection, 0491 Box 001 Folder 29)
SCAFILEMSS0042.pdf
Series of newspaper articles telling the story of sawmills in Cache County [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, File Manuscripts, File MSS 42)

Grazing

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Grazing permit for cattle and horses [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Unprocessed Manuscript Collection, 0491 Box 001 Folder 05)
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Crookston grazing permits [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Crookston family papers, Coll MSS 71 Box 2, Fd. 13)
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Grazing in the Intermountain Region, data from M. Stewart Marriott [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Unprocessed Manuscript Collection, 0491 Box 001, Fd. 26-001)
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Grazing in the Intermountain Region, data from Henry Peterson [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Unprocessed Manuscript Collection, 0491, Box 001, Fd. 26-007)
SCAMSS0491Bx001Fd26-010.pdf
Grazing in the Intermountain Region, data from William Sorensen [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Unprocessed Manuscript Collection, 0491, Box 001, Fd. 26-010)
SCAMSS0491Bx001Fd21-016.pdf
“The Cache Grazing Resources” [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Unprocessed Manuscript Collection, 0491, Box 001, Fd. 21-016)
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“A History of Grazing in Logan Canyon” [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, General Book Collection, 378p2-En36)

Irrigation

SCA1973Wren-RScott.pdf
“A History of Water Resources Development in the Bear River Basin of Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming” [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, USU Theses and Dissertations, TC 423.6.W74X 1973)
SCABOOK042No038.pdf
“Nature’s Second Course: Water Culture in the Mormon Communities of Cache Valley, Utah, 1860–1916” [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Book Collections, 042, No. 038)
SCAMSS0491Bx001Fd21-011.pdf
“The Cache Water Supply” [click to enlarge; click again to browse all pages]
(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Scott Bushman Collection Collection, 0491, Box 001, Fd. 21-011)