How logging for the railroad reshaped Utah’s streams — and why they still haven’t recovered
More than 150 years later, those waters are still recovering
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mike Fiorelli with Trout Unlimited stands on the remnants of a “splash dam,” once used to build up enough water in the spring to release freshly cut railroad ties from the Bear River headwaters to Evanston Wyoming for the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026.