ULibraries Research Guides: Red Butte Creek: Federal Government

Federal Agencies

Stream Guage 10172200-- Red Butte Creek at Fort Douglas
U.S. Geological Survey.
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Instantaneous stream gauge data
Red Butte Creek at Fort Douglas near Salt Lake City, Utah (Station 10172200)
This report details one of the approximately 50 stations in the Hydrologic Benchmark
Network (HBN) described in the four-volume U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1173.
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
U.S. Dept of Agriculture Forest Service
EPA in Utah
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Utah is in EPA Region 8.

Research

Government agencies may publish research as technical reports, or as research and reporting.

Bird Communities of Gambel Oak
Leidolf, Andreas, Michael L. Wolfe, and Rosemary L. Pendleton. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-48. Fort Collins, CO: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. (2000).
Water quality and macroinvertebrate communities of Emigration and Red Butte Creeks, Salt Lake County, Utah
Fact Sheet 161-00, USGS (2000).

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Red Butte Canyon Research Natural Area (RNA)

Ehleringer, James R., Lois A. Arnow, Ted Arnow, Irving B. McNulty, and Norman C. Negus. "Red Butte Canyon Research Natural Area: history, flora, geology, climate, and ecology." Great Basin Naturalist 52, no. 2 (1992): 1.

Red Butte Canyon Research Natural Area (RNA)
Natural History of the Red Butte Canyon RNA, including a bibliography of research publications.
Red Butte Creek REDB
National Science Foundation National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).
History of Red Butte Canyon
W. Dee Halverson. Compiled for Red Butte Garden and Arboretum (1995).

June Sucker

In 1992 endangered June Sucker were introduced into Red Butte Reservoir. The June Sucker Recovery Implementation Program has designated Red Butte Reservoir as a primary refuge for fish to be stocked into Utah Lake.

Species Profile, June Sucker (Chasmistes liorus)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Environmental Conservation Online System
June Sucker
Utah Reclamation, Mitigation and Conservation Commission
Red Butte Reservoir Management Plan
Prepared for the June Sucker Recovery Implementation Program 2006

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