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Utah’s Red Butte Creek is a perennial stream that flows out of Red Butte Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains and then through Salt Lake City to the Jordan River. Its water quality and surrounding natural habitat have been protected since 1890, first by the United States Army and later by the U.S. Forest Service, which in 1969 declared it a Research Natural Area. Consequently, the creek area has been preserved as one of the most pristine riparian corridors in the intermountain western United States. In recent years, however, both natural and human-caused events have threatened the ecological balance of this biologically rich ecosystem. |
