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Utah Cutthroat Slam funds 2 important conservation projects to benefit native trout
SALT LAKE CITY — Two new conservation projects geared toward helping Utah’s native cutthroat trout were announced Jan. 18, during an annual Utah Cutthroat Slam meeting. The projects were selected by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and Trout Unlimited — the organizations that started the Utah Cutthroat Slam. Launched in April 2016, the slam is a fishing challenge that requires participants to catch Utah’s four native cutthroat trout subspecies in their native ranges. Roughly $19 of each $20 registration fee goes toward conservation projects for the native species. The first project being funded this year will improve habitat for Bear River cutthroat trout, connecting the stream COURTESY PHOTO channel to the floodplain and increasing stream flows in Mill Creek and CarTwo new conservation projects geared toward helping Utah’s ter Creek, located in Summit County. native cutthroat trout were announced Jan. 18, during an annual Utah Cutthroat Slam meeting. Mill Creek is an important spawning
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and rearing stream for migratory cutthroat trout within the Upper Bear River. $5,000 will go toward funding this project. The second project will fund a cutthroat trout study in Chalk Creek, a tributary to the Weber River. Chalk Creek supports one of the largest contiguous Bonneville cutthroat trout populations still found within its native range. The study will help identify barriers to cutthroat movement within the creek, determine spawning migration patterns and will also determine how water temperature extremes in the summer impact fish movements and survival. $10,000 will be used to fund the study. “Roughly 50 years ago, there were very few cutthroat trout populations in the state,” DWR Sportfish Coordinator Randy Oplinger said. “We have done a ton of restoration work to bring
cutthroat back, and they are now a true conservation success story in Utah. The Utah Cutthroat Slam helps fund projects that continue our restoration of cutthroat trout. Anglers should consider participating in this fun challenge because their registration fee goes directly toward the conservation of cutthroat trout and helps us create better angling opportunities for this important species throughout Utah.” To date, 3,650 people have registered for the slam, and the program has generated more than $67,000 for cutthroat trout restoration in Utah. There have been 890 completions of the slam, with 184 taking place last year and a record 191 completions in 2020. “The success of the Utah Cutthroat Slam shows anglers support conservation efforts that make fishing better and Please see CUTTHROAT SLAM, Page A2
New exhibitions open at Granary Arts Granary Arts is pleased to present new exhibitions:
Hatsubon / Tomiko Jones Hatsubon is a memorial exhibition for the artists’ father and explores the dynamic tension between tradition and performance — the diaphanous space between life and death. The materiality of the work suggests the dualities of the ephemeral and the corporeal, and the pendulous state between longing and release. The ceremony of hatsubon marks the first anniversary of a loved one’s death, held during the yearly ritual of Obon, a Japanese Buddhist custom honoring ancestors. A ritual for the deceased is the sending of a small vessel — shoryobune — to sea. Jones created her own version by splitting, steaming, and bending bamboo into a boat form and skinning it with waxed kozo paper. She sewed yukatta, simple cotton kimonos, and on the dawn of her father’s hatsubon, sent the boat to sea from the shores of Hawai’i in his honor. Hatsubon visits three geographic sites of significance: her father’s birthplace, along a river he grew up on; her mother’s birthplace where they set the boat to sea, and where he is buried; and the place where her parents met, and she was born. Throughout time communities and cultures have sent many of their young ones off to sea to find a better life on the other shore; at the other end of a lifetime, the ocean is home to our many rituals of death, both a vehicle and destination for the final journey of our loved ones. With this exhibition we travel to Jones’ unnamed coast — where the river meets the sea — to ritually set free the spirit and body of her father.
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Lydia Gravis, Distilling the Enigmatic, 2013
tural and geographical terms. Her work considers the twin crises of too much and too little in the age of climate change. Water is ever present, as site of cultural practice, economic imperative, and locus of spiritual belief. A loose mapping that echoes the internal terrain is imaged through photographic works and site-responsive multidisciplinary installations. Her recent project “Hatsubon” is a memorial exhibition in photography and video installation. Jones is an Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and serves on the Board of Directors of the Society for Photographic About the Artist Education. She received her Master Tomiko Jones’ work is linked of Fine Arts in Photography with a to place, exploring transitions in Certificate in Museum Studies from the landscape through social, cul- the University of Arizona in Tuc-
son. She is the recipient of awards including the Center for Photography at Woodstock AIR Program, En Foco New Works Fellowship (New York), 4Culture and CityArtists (Seattle), and Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes (France). Tomiko was an invited Resident Artist at Museé Niépce in Chalon-Sur-Saône, and a Fellow at The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France. www.tomikojonesphoto.com
ternal world as well as the world within. This effort serves as a radical act of sanity, imperative as she navigates the often-overwhelming nature of the contemporary world. As Gravis creates colonies of marks and lines, they become personified in her mind and assume individual behaviors. Can she make them cooperate? Can a line re-write a troubling human narrative? Rather than working from the specific to the abstract, Gravis begins with an abstract essence, like the idea Lydia Gravis / Survival of liminal psychological space, and suggests its specificity through viand Resilience sual language. She uses mark-makDriven by her desire to respond ing and obsessive micro-textures to to the intangible human experi- express the tension between overence, Lydia Gravis creates em- whelming experiences she does not pathic work. She uses mark-making as a way to connect to the exPlease see EXHIBITIONS, Page A2
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