Item Detail
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30370
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English
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Tangible History on Great Salt Lake's Gunnison Island
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Winter 2019
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87
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Illinois Press
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76-85
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Archaeologically, Gunnison Island is the most enigmatic of the Great Salt Lake islands. A lack of both research funding and interest from academic departments and other organizations has limited historical archeology on Gunnison, as it has elsewhere on the Great Salt Lake. Mostly the neglect is due to the island's remoteness and inaccessibility, even though all but one of the islands are managed, wholly or in part, by state and federal agencies. Gunnison Island - connected as it is to Howard Stansbury's surveying expedition. Alfred Lambourne's wintry residence, the late nineteenth-century guano sifting industry - stands out as the crown jewel for historical investigation. The primary reason: Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) management policies since the 1970s prohibit access to the island by any nonsanctioned party and limit staff or affiliated researchers to no more than two or three visits per year. A happy byproduct of these restrictive policies, in place to protect one of the largest American white pelican rookeries in North America, is the preservation of historical and archaeological evidence dating to at least 1850, though there is the potential for much older evidence of humans on the island.
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