Journey through Utah's varied habitats, from arid deserts to alpine peaks, and meet the fascinating wildlife that calls this state home.
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Three Worlds Collide in One State
This series, Wild Spaces Wild Lives, explores Utah's ecosystems and the creatures that inhabit them — from salt flats to thirteen-thousand-foot peaks.
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Utah's Henry Mountains Bison Herd
The Henry Mountains in southern Utah shelter one of only two genetically pure herds of American bison in the entire country.
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Survival Experts of Utah's Red Rock
Desert bighorn sheep can go for days without drinking water, pulling moisture from the plants they eat and storing it with a specialized metabolism that most mammals…
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Millions of Wings Over Salt Water
Every autumn, roughly ten million birds descend on the Great Salt Lake, making it the most important shorebird staging area in the Western Hemisphere.
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Utah's Stealthy Hunters of the Night
Mountain lions in Utah maintain some of the largest home ranges of any in North America, with a single male patrolling up to four hundred square miles of terrain.
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Utah's Tiny Species Fighting for Survival
The June Sucker exists nowhere else on Earth except Utah Lake, and by the 1980s, fewer than a thousand remained.
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Surviving Utah's Fifty Degree Swings
Utah's temperature can swing over a hundred degrees between summer peaks and winter lows, and the animals that thrive here have developed some remarkable strategies to…
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