The Utah High School Clean Air Marketing Contest announced the winners of this year’s competition on Feb. 10 at a ceremony at Utah State’s University’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. tinyurl.com/bdewbuzj

Jordan Smith, director of the Institute of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism discusses the first-ever Outdoor Recreation Strategic Plan at Utah's state capitol building. tinyurl.com/57rhz927

Congratulations to Dr. Gustavo Ovando-Montejo for being nominated as the 2024 QCNR Teacher of the Year!

For the first time, Wasatch County cities are joining in the Utah Wellbeing Project, a survey conducted by Dr. Courtney Flint of ENVS at USU. The survey asks people about their personal wellbeing and how they think their city is doing. tinyurl.com/m55uet2j

Emily Wilkins & Jordan Smith's recent research in Yellowstone National Park estimated that recreation visits to the park produce just over one megaton of carbon emissions per year (about the weight of a grand piano). tinyurl.com/jbk8399m

Courtney Flint, recently addressed Cache Valley residents on emotions, connection and nature at Stokes Nature Center's first Nature Conversation. tinyurl.com/2njpc86e

Jacob Landcaster will graduate this spring with a B.S. in ENVS and is planning to pursue a career with the U.S. Forest Service as a wildland firefighter. tinyurl.com/4yc3xmc2

Moab Grown’s Shiree Duncan worked with Roslyn McCann of ENVS to produce the 2024 Moab Local Food Guide, funded through Moab Grown merchandise sales, USU Extension Sustainability, participating restaurants, and a Synergy Company grant. tinyurl.com/397nxnhz

Ros McCann, ENVS professor and sustainable communities specialist, recently interviewed on an Indonesian podcast on Engaging Communities for a Better Earth.- podcast episode title “How to be happier by living sustainably.” youtu.be/0wWnF94HW2w?si…

This week, the Moab Sun News reached out to local experts, including ENVS Professor and Sustainable Communities extension specialist Ros McCann, to report on efforts to mitigate future floods and how property owners can protect themselves tinyurl.com/3nakjwxd

Learn about Cuckoo Bees with Mark Brunson on Wild About Utah! upr.org/show/wild-abou…

A recent study, led by researchers from universities across the U.S., including Peter Howe of ENVS, shows that 85 percent of youth are worried about climate change! tinyurl.com/22j8d8dw

Dr. Chris Monz and team, along with agencies from Pitkin County to Glenwood Springs are collaborating on a regional recreation, conservation planning effort. tinyurl.com/4bjeryw7

Ongoing research from Brooke Osborne of ENVS is helping land managers to better understand how biocrust cover, community composition, and function might shift with the changing climate. tinyurl.com/3krmype5

In a recent study conducted by Drs. Brian Richter an Christopher Lant, of ENVS found that the crop used to feed dairy and beef cows uses the vast majority of agricultural water that would otherwise replenish the largest saline lake in the nation. tinyurl.com/n3ndkvna

See the winners of this year's Clean air marketing contest! The contest was created in 2015 by USU professors Roslynn Brain McCann of ENVS Ediwn Stafford of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. tinyurl.com/5n7sb2jm

An upcoming screening of the Beaver Believers documentary at the Ogden Nature Center, followed by an engaging Q&A panel discussion. The filmmaker (ENVS's very own) Sarah Koenigsberg will be joining, along with local wildlife biologists and restoration professionals.

Not everyone gets popular when it looks like society might be collapsing, but Joseph Tainter does! People from around the world track down this #USU expert to ask the same question: Is this it? tinyurl.com/4yyc9bz9

Congratulations to Bryn Watkins who recently won the 'Best paper submitted by a Master's Student' award at this year's International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR) Conference!

Anna Miller of ENVS, and colleagues from the U of U and federal agencies have explored ways that signs, brochures and other messaging mediums, employed by managers in bear country, might become more effective at reducing the risks of human-bear conflicts tinyurl.com/wmddbsv6