Elevate, Inspire, and Inform the Cedar Valley Community
Discover the wild side of Cedar Valley. From animal sightings and conservation efforts to coexisting with nature in growing neighborhoods, we explore how wildlife and humans share the landscape.
On August 31st, the Eagle Mountain Nature and Wildlife Alliance invited officials to tour Eagle Mountain and get a look at the open space it has to offer. The tour included a trip to the top of Turtle Hill where they could view Hidden and Cedar Valleys. Representative Ben McAdams discussed the visit on his…
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The US Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is looking at making an area located along Highway 73 in Tooele County and the Cedar Valley near Eagle Mountain a special use area. They are currently doing an Environmental Assessment with a project name of Fivemile Pass Special Area Designation. “The Bureau of…
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The Kestrels will be getting some additional help this nesting season in Eagle Mountain. Two sponsors have teamed up with Hawkwatch International to provide an internship that will be able to help with the monitoring of the Eagle Mountain Kestrel Project nesting boxes. Tyson Foods and Ames Construction have both donated money and resources to…
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On Saturday 2/24/2020 Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation released a Barn Owl in Eagle Mountain that was hit by a car in early February in the Magna Utah area. Their Facebook page documents the recovery of this Barn Owl. February 5th, 2020 – “Yesterday we admitted this male Barn owl from the Salt Lake valley area….
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If you live in Eagle Mountain, or travel through Eagle Mountain, it will not take you long to see some of the diverse wildlife that call it and the Cedar Valley home. The current Mayor of Eagle Mountain, Tom Westmoreland, had started the process of trying to identify a wildlife corridor. A group of Eagle…
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Over the last few years we have joined with the Eagle Mountain Kestrel Project and have been providing bandwidth and electricity to the Eagle Mountain Kestrel Cam. The last two years have given us some pretty good footage and some insight in what happens inside the nesting boxes for Kestrels in Eagle Mountain. With the…
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In 2016 the rabbit population in Eagle Mountain exploded. Eagle Mountain Blvd was called by some as “slaughter road” because of the number of rabbits that were hit and killed nightly. During January 2016 the Eagle Mountain Citizens Facebook page had several people ask about the number of rabbits that were killed on the side…
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“In October 1852 a young man by the name of Eli Bennett in search of his dream of finding pasture land for his cattle and a place for a ranch entered what is now called Cedar Valley.” Cedar Valley contains the west side of Eagle Mountain know as Eagle Mountain City Center, Cedar Fort and…
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