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A bill introduced by Sen. Mike Lee, R-UT, to rename Utah s federal courthouse after former Sen. Orrin Hatch was signed into law by President Donald Trump Monday. This story and more in the Tuesday morning news brief.
Tuesday morning, December 22, 2020
State
Federal Courthouse Named For Orrin Hatch
A bill introduced by Sen. Mike Lee, R-UT, to rename Utah s federal courthouse after former Sen. Orrin Hatch was signed into law by President Donald Trump Monday. The courthouse in Salt Lake City will be dubbed the Orrin G. Hatch United States Courthouse. Co-sponsors were Sen. Mitt Romney, R-UT, and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-KY. The 86-year-old Hatch is the longest-serving Republican U.S. Senator in history, first elected to Congress in 1977, and is the longest-serving U.S. Senator from Utah, according to the Orrin Hatch Foundation.
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Recently I saw an article from Smithsonian Magazine about a wildlife overpass in Utah that is getting significant use from a variety of wildlife species much earlier than expected. This is cause for celebration for local wildlife and road authorities in Utah, for certain. It has gotten quite a bit of attention lately because this wildlife overpass has motion sensing cameras, usually called game cameras, trail cams or trap cameras, in place to record numbers and species of animals putting it to use. They put together a brief video and posted it on Facebook, titled Parley’s Canyon Wildlife Overpass 2020. You can watch a montage of creatures trotting across the overpass, some clearly less comfortable than others. Bobcats and coyotes, black bears, deer and moose make their way past the cameras even porcupine and marmots make their way into the frame.