Several states, including Minnesota, New Hampshire, Washington, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming stock tiger muskies.

* fishing for tiger muskie in Utah

Nomia melanderi can be found in tremendous numbers in certain parts of the United States west of the Great Plains, for example, in Utah and central Washington.

The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.

In this respect the Dead Sea is similar to the Great Salt Lake in Utah in the United States.

Image: GreatGalleryedit. jpg | Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE

Halophiles can be found anywhere with a concentration of salt five times greater than the salt concentration of the ocean, such as the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Owens Lake in California, the Dead Sea, and in evaporation ponds.

In the 1920s and 1930s Mormons began migrating out of Utah, a trend hurried by the Great Depression, as Mormons looked for work wherever they could find it.

* Antelope Island, Utah, becomes a peninsula when waters are low, on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake

The route did not pass through the two biggest cities in the Great American Desert — Denver, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah.

Between Echo, Utah and Wells, Nevada, Interstate 80 passes through the larger Salt Lake City and passes along the south shore of the Great Salt Lake.

Mono Lake has the second largest nesting population of California gulls, Larus californicus, second only to the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

In April 1859, an expedition of U. S. Corp of Topographical Engineers led by Captain James H. Simpson left Camp Floyd ( Utah ) to establish an army supply route across the Great Basin to the eastern slope of the Sierras.

Location of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

The Great Salt Lake ( Arapaho: Niicóo ' ówu ' ), located in the northern part of the U. S. state of Utah, is the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere, and the fourth-largest terminal lake in the world.

It covered much of present-day Utah and small portions of Idaho and Nevada during the Pleistocene Epoch, more commonly known as the Great Ice Age, between 32, 000 and 14, 000 years ago.

With the change in climate, the remaining lake began drying up, leaving the Great Salt Lake, Utah Lake, Sevier Lake, & Rush Lake as remnants.

The Jordan flows from the north part of Utah Lake into the southeast corner of the Great Salt Lake.

This species occurs in Utah today, though apparently no longer on the islands of the Great Salt Lake.

The Jordan River flows through the city and is a drainage of Utah Lake that empties into the Great Salt Lake.

Sheep graze on BLM land in Snake Valley ( Great Basin ) | Snake Valley, Utah.

These are Parley's Canyon leading to Summit County to the east ( as well as to Morgan County to the northeast via more remote Little Dell Canyon ), the space between the Salt Lake Anticline and the Great Salt Lake leading into Davis County to the north, the Point of the Mountain and adjacent Jordan Narrows leading to Utah County to the south, and a space ( known as Garfield ) between the Oquirrh Mountains and the Great Salt Lake leading to Tooele County to the west.

Weber County () is a county located in the U. S. state of Utah, occupying a stretch of the Wasatch Front, part of the eastern shores of Great Salt Lake, and much of the rugged Wasatch Mountains.

* The Central Washington University and Western Washington University football teams joined with Dixie State College of Utah, Humboldt State University, and Western Oregon University to reform the Great Northwest Athletic Conference football division.

When they reached Salt Lake City, Utah, instead of taking the rough and desolate Lincoln Highway around the south end of the Salt Lake Desert, they took the even more rough and more desolate " non-Lincoln " route around the north end of the Great Salt Lake.

Yellowstone National Park has a mountainside containing obsidian located between Mammoth Hot Springs and the Norris Geyser Basin, and deposits can be found in many other western U. S. states including Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

These explorers came to the area sometime after Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, who in 1776, crossed northern Utah through the Uintah Basin.

Within North America, there are northern pike populations in Illinois, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Montana, Maryland, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Indiana, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, Iowa, Utah, Northern New Mexico and Arizona, Colorado, New York, Idaho, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Québec ( pike are rare in British Columbia and east coast provinces ), Alaska, the Ohio Valley, the upper Mississippi River and its tributaries, the Great Lakes Basin and surrounding states, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and parts of Oklahoma.

Duchesne city is located just west of the junction of the Strawberry and Duchesne rivers in the Uintah Basin of northeastern Utah.

Roosevelt has become the county's educational center with Union High School, Uintah Basin Applied Technology College, and Utah State University's Uintah Basin Regional Campus all located there.

North Snyderville Basin is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Summit County, Utah, United States.

South Snyderville Basin is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Summit County, Utah, United States.

The Great Basin desert covers most of Nevada and over half of Utah, as well as parts of California, Idaho, and Oregon.

The Great Basin Desert is defined as the desert lands in Nevada, Western Utah, as well as Southeastern Oregon and Southern Idaho.

In the Great Basin of western Utah and through most of Nevada, many of the blocks exhibit deformed structures involving folds and faults of relatively ancient ( Jurassic ) date.

Kodachrome was the subject of Paul Simon's song " Kodachrome ", and Kodachrome Basin State Park in Utah was named after it, becoming the only park named for a brand of film.

It has been found in the Torrejonian ( Paleocene )- age beds in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Utah.

1981 ) was found in Puercan ( Lower Paleocene ) San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Utah ( USA ).

Great Basin National Park is a United States National Park established in 1986, located in east-central Nevada near the Utah border.

* Great Basin bristlecone pine Pinus longaeva in Utah, Nevada and eastern California

Sheep out to pasture in arid Snake Valley ( Great Basin ) | Snake Valley, near the border of Utah and Nevada

Since 1990, black-footed ferrets have been reintroduced to the following sites: Shirley Basin, Wyoming ; UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge and Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Montana ; Conata Basin / Badlands, Buffalo Gap National Grassland, and the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota ; Aubrey Valley, Arizona ; Wolf Creek, Colorado ; Coyote Basin, straddling Colorado and Utah ; and northern Chihuahua, Mexico.

In the United States, these distinctive intermontane basins occur principally in the central Rocky Mountains from Colorado and Utah ( Uinta Basin ) to Montana and are best developed in Wyoming, with the Big Horn, Powder River, and Wind River being the largest.