Legislator wants 2 dams off list
Deseret News November 26, 2001.  N. Utahns press to keep Bear River flowing

Accord reached on Bear River bird refuge
Deseret News September 19, 2001.  The U.S. secretary of the Interior visited Utah to announce a settlement between the federal and state governments involving land surrounding the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.

State, Interior Settle Bird Refuge Dispute
The Salt Lake Tribune September 29, 2001.  After decades of wrangling, a dispute between the U.S. government and Utah has been laid to rest, confirming federal ownership of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.

PacifiCorp Dredge Request Reignites Bear Lake Water Dispute
The Salt Lake Tribune August 12, 2001.  A dormant feud over water in Bear Lake, one that pits farmers and a power company against lakeshore homeowners, is back.

Fighting Honeyville Dam idea
Ogden Standard-Examiner (free registration required) April 30, 2001.  Conservationists, local residents gather to voice concerns

Bear River Council Plans Open House
The Salt Lake Tribune April 23, 2001.  After Dan Miller, Tim Wagner and others kept finding themselves at the same environmental meetings in northern Utah's Cache Valley, they decided it was time to get organized.

Groups Claim Legacy Highway Hides Water Plan
The Salt Lake Tribune February 8, 2001.  Environmentalists on Wednesday charged ... UDOT has sought to hide the possibility that a 33-yard-wide sound berm and trail on the west side of the highway could one day be home to a giant pipeline carrying Bear River water to Salt Lake County.

Treading Water - Will the Bear be Damned?
The Salt Lake Tribune August 27, 2000.  In the near future, Utah's third-largest river could be diverted once more, this time to wind up in the taps and sprinkler systems of Salt Lake County, another 60 miles away.

Bird Refuge Has Own Plan
The Salt Lake Tribune August 27, 2000.  Under the Hyrum Dam proposal, water stored during high spring runoff in Hyrum Reservoir would be released all the way to the bird refuge during the summer when much of the river otherwise is diverted into irrigation canals.

Build a Reservoir Where? We'll See
The Salt Lake Tribune August 27, 2000.  Nieces, nephews and two of her children live nearby and, like Thomphson, would lose their homes built on a green oasis on the west side of the wide, deep river bottoms that teem with osprey, turkey and deer.

U. professors oppose Bear River dam
Deseret News August 15, 2000.  On Tuesday, a group of University of Utah professors announced their opposition to the Bear River project, citing a "Top 10" list of environmental and economic reasons why the dam is not needed.

Jordan Valley District Moves to Acquire Bear River Water
The Salt Lake Tribune June 22, 2000.  Despite overwhelming opposition from residents throughout northern Utah, a Salt Lake County water board on Wednesday approved a budget that could facilitate dams or diversions on the Bear River.

Activists to Protest Bear River Plan at Budget Hearing
The Salt Lake Tribune June 21, 2000.  Environmentalists and others opposed to damming or diverting the Bear River plan to protest at a budget hearing tonight before the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District board.

Utah claims ownership, plans to sue for title to bird refuge
Deseret News June 8, 2000.  Critics say the state just wants to dam Bear River, dry up wetlands

State Has Eyes for Bear River Refuge
The Salt Lake Tribune June 8, 2000.  A gambit by the Utah Attorney General's Office to win state ownership of much of the federal Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge has environmentalists concerned.

ScottishPower allays fears of irrigators
Deseret News March 5.  2000]

Dam put off, but not forever
Ogden Standard-Examiner (free registration required) November 18, 1999.  Farmer Ron Thompson, 52, probably doesn't have to worry about his farm becoming a reservoir. But his daughter will most likely see the day when the Bear River bank-side farm her family has plowed, planted and reaped for 120 years will be under water.

Dam It to Hell
Salt Lake City Weekly November 11, 1999.  The Bear River Dam would ruin prime Utah farmland, displace families and desecrate Native American graves. Why do water districts, and the Legislature, want it anyway?