City - Herriman State - UTAH Country - United States
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This is what the hillside behind my subdivision used to look like in August of 2004 . . .
I made this image during the heat of a golden, late-August evening that year. Developers had broken ground about a mile to camera right of this site and I expected that, just as August's end was upon the land, it would soon be the end of this serene scene. Now, this view is only a memory. A new subdivision is under construction immediately to the right of this scene (as in just outside the frame) and they have now broken ground along the bench, behind these trees, with heavy equipment. Only the trees remain, for now . . . Soon, even the trees will be gone and replaced with houses.
One point of interest: the gentle slope you see rising up to meet the mountains (behind the trees) is the shoreline of an ancient lake, Lake Bonneville. This ancient lake covered much of North America’s Great Basin area for several tens-of-thousands of years, covering much of current-day Utah and parts of Idaho and Nevada. Today, there are three large bodied remnants of that ancient lake, The Great Salt Lake, Utah Lake, and Sevier Lake.
Over the next several years, I expect to see houses standing on the hilltops above where the waters of Lake Bonneville used to lap against this ancient shoreline. They’ve already done that across the valley from us – homes all the way up on the mountain top.
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{K:25989} 6/17/2007
